MAY
2018
LIVE
EXPORTS.
The live exports of sheep, goats and cattle to
Muslim countries are for the holy "Festival of
Sacrifice" which happens at a variable date in
August/September. This barbaric festival
celebrates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice
his son (there is argument about which son).
God instead allowed him to sacrifice and
eat a goat. The sacrifice is live at the
table and the sacrifice involves cutting the
throat of the conscious sacrificial animal and
allowing it to bleed to death in front of the
participants
New Zealand declines to export live animals for
slaughter overseas. I would like to have
our government follow their example.
And while we are at it, perhaps we could ban the
killing of domestic food animals except on
licensed premises.
PRESIDENTIAL
LIAR?.
The president has
lied. About a whore
who cost $130k for one
f**k. She doesn't
look worth more than about
$80. Oh gosh. The
Donald must be impeached!
No mention of Clinton or
Kennedy. Men and
women have been telling
lies since Adam and Eve
about their sexual
activity.
Personally I am
unsympathetic to those in
the FBI who have pursued
this matter. Their
motivation appears to be
more political than
legal. I am
sympathetic to the man who
was pilloried for probably
the commonest lie between
adults. (Second
commonest lie might well
be "a claim to having sex
with someone with whom one
did not").
ASSANGE.
The US is, in my
opinion, responsible for
lifting the world out of
the dark ages. It
was able to do this
because it has a system
of democratic government
and a constitution with
amendments that allows
it's citizens to comment
without fear on matters
relevant to
government. This
has allowed business and
technology to advance at
a pace which Kings and
Kaisers prohibited.
Unfortunately for Julian
Assange, he is not a US
citizen. If he can
be brought before a US
court, it is unlikely
that he can plead first
amendment defense.
I had hoped that Trump
might have been able to
pardon Assange after his
election.
Regrettably the FBI
investigation of Trump
has put a hold on that.
JUSTIFIED
KIDNAP?
An early version of
the online edition of
"The Weekend
Australian" (5th May
2018) carried the
report of a mother of
twins who had after
four years of freedom
had been caught in
Taree with the twin
daughters she had
kidnapped.
In that early version
it was noted that she
had kidnapped her
children after a
police investigation.
The mother had complained
about an unsatisfactory police
investigation, and a complaint lodged with
the Crime and Misconduct Commission
eventually resulted in a finding in March
2016 that the investigation had been
'inadequate' and 'unprofessional'.
As a result of the findings,
one officer left the police force and
others were retrained.
However, by the time the
findings were released Mrs Watter and
the children were missing.
Several inquiries have been
underway since she and the twins
disappeared in 2014.
Friends of the mother and
children, who can't be named to protect
their identity, have supported Mrs
Watter since her disappearance.
National domestic violence
helpline: 1800 737 732 or 1800RESPECT.
In an emergency call triple-zero.
The online
version of "The
Australian" allows
subscribers to make
comments. I
wrote in the reader's
comments of the online
edition that it might
be that "the woman
may have kidnapped
the children after
the police
improperly
exonerated the
father of an abuse
complaint that she
made."
I checked a few hours
later and found that
my comment had been
redacted and the
report changed.
The above quoted
mention of police
being disciplined and
the child abuse
officer details had
been removed.
WTF? Who is this
father person who is
able to suppress a
report in "The
Australian"? In
one of the reader's
comments there was a
note that the father
had not got custody
after the arrest, but
that the mother's
parents had been
granted custody.
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