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Unhinged Vitriolic Speech

silverfaun — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:39:12 GMT

This disgusting swan song from a Green was lauded on here as a milestone and a rival to Gillards misplaced misogyny rant.

The people who support this type of hate speech are not indicitive of the wider Australian people and to applaud this type of hate is appalling.

I will stand up to this type of thing and so will the majority of Australians. This person is not fit to be in parliament and he should be rejected wholeheartedly by everyone, which he will be come the WA re election, and good riddance to him and his ilk:

SPORTING dark suit and speaking in a calm, measured tone, Scott Ludlam is the acceptable face of the Greens.

He has spoken out previously against the “people’s revolt” against the carbon tax that sparked the “Ditch the Witch” nastiness.

Ludlam’s style is the antithesis of histrionics such as the current appalling rock concert concoctions of a fake prime ministerial beheading.

This week the West Australian senator rose to a near-empty chamber and delivered a prepared speech without raising his voice and with no one around to interject. Later, the 7 1/2-minute speech went viral on YouTube, a hit with the young Green Left crowd, attracting 400,000 hits within a few days.

But forget the style of the speech; it merely disguised a message that was divisive, vindictive and in the end subversive.

“We want our country back,” he said, just six months after a federal election. This is a senator who, with his colleagues, holds the balance of power in the Senate on about 10 per cent of the vote.

Yet he told supporters they were somehow disenfranchised.

Ludlam spoke of “predator capitalism” and a “murderous horror unfolding on Manus Island” as he launched an attack on the Prime Minister and his government. He suggested Abbott treated WA as a “caricatured redneck backwater” and that it was “kind of revolting” that the Prime Minister consulted with “mining billionaires and media oligarchs on the other side of the world”.

Ludlam provided no serious evidence or justification for his slurs. He even talked about Abbott - who I first met 20 years ago through a mutual gay friend and who has been publicly loving and supportive of his gay sister - as “waving (his) homophobia in people’s faces”.

We know the Greens are a party of protest but this invective was simply hateful.

“Prime Minister,” said Ludlam, “you are welcome to take your heartless and racist exploitation of people’s fears and ram it as far from Western Australia as your taxpayer-funded travel entitlements can take you.”

So Ludlam used the Senate to denigrate a freshly elected Prime Minister who is implementing his agenda - to the extent that he isn't blocked by Ludlam’s party - as racist, cynically manipulative, heartless and exploitative.

On what evidence?

This vitriol is subversive because it suggests a democratic government has somehow stolen the country. If Ludlam and his supporters want their “country back” surely the way to do it is through fair-minded criticism and a viable alternative.

Re: Unhinged Vitriolic Speech

polksaladallie — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:52:03 GMT

Apt title.

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freakiness — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:56:49 GMT

Ooh, lookie here. Chris Kenny is becoming unhinged because Scott Ludlam made a fool of him on twitter and refused to be interviewed by him after Kenny called him vile.

BTW, Chris Kenny wrote the trashy article in the OP.

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para-sights — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:03:57 GMT

Yeah I knew it was Mr. Kenny,. There's definitely some vitriol showing, but from which side of the story.....

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lakeland27 — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:07:49 GMT

the speech was aimed at the unhinged.

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poddster — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:13:35 GMT

It was and is nothing more than a swan song

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debra9275 — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:15:43 GMT

yeah, it was a pretty good speech, well written and very calmly executed.

wasn't there another thread about this yesterday?

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silverfaun — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:31:51 GMT

Def his swan song and good riddance to this type of hate speech and innuendo to suit this poor excuse of a man as truth, but only as he sees it.

I'm appalled that anybody could support this type of hate and smear but hey, that's just me.

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lakeland27 — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:37:22 GMT

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silverfaun — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:43:28 GMT

He's just another one, along with his fellow travellers of the left, that can't come to grips with the reality that they have been comprehensibly rejected along with their policies.

Just can't get over it, bemused and bewildered that he's not wanted or desired by the wider community. Frantic to become relevant. nobody listening.

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poddster — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:43:48 GMT

As appalling as it is, the response is what is to be expected from the unaware and lackluster denizens of the left listing Green/Labor sinking vessel. All the rodents jumped overboard after the election but the rusted-on are scurrying around and squeaking in an ear piercing shrill tone until the Labor rust bucket gurgles into oblivion.

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silverfaun — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:49:27 GMT

@poddster wrote:
As appalling as it is, the response is what is to be expected from the unaware and lackluster denizens of the left listing Green/Labor sinking vessel. All the rodents jumped overboard after the election but the rusted-on are scurrying around and squeaking in an ear piercing shrill tone until the Labor rust bucket gurgles into oblivion.

Well put and so apt. We have been subjected to the wrath and anger since they lost.

They are furious and riven with anger and flock to anybody who shares their fury and has a platform to articulate their hate speech.

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izabsmiling — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:51:21 GMT

@polksaladallie wrote:
Apt title.

and fanfare to follow

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poddster — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:57:35 GMT

The fanfare is yet to come, after the WA senate election 🙂

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silverfaun — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:01:42 GMT

I really don't care as long as luddite ludlum is despatched and even if he manages to scrape back in the Greens are doomed, finished, and not before time.

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catsnknots — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:14:20 GMT

Did anyone read the praise that Abbott got from many people... his sister, Mundine, the man that was in the army and transitioned into a woman with the full support of Abbott, the man that met Abbott through his gay friend that was very good friends with Abbott before his death (apparently Abbott was very distressed at this mans passing)

If seems that Tony Abbott is very good friends with many gay men and women and in fact does a hell of a lot for the indigenous community.

So all of that rubbish that Ludlam spewed out cannot be backed up...

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poddster — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:25:18 GMT

Shhhhhh !! don't tell the party faithful that.

Ludlum is an asset to conservatism, every time he opens his mouth the Labor/Green coalition drop a point or two 🙂

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lakeland27 — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:31:39 GMT

abotts gay friendly routine is as genuine as his indigenous routine. its a pitch to those who aren't engaged . a claytons empathy.

genuine empathy would see action. move to allow his sister to marry as she wishes for one. if he's such a friend he'd grant them what they really want rather than pay lip service . fake.

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poddster — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:42:12 GMT

LL how come you are under the misconception that Abbott can "grant" anything, he is just the elected representative of the majority of voters and not some God to grant wishes. unlike the previous 3(2) PMs who thought that they were the anointed deity and acted accordingly

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poddster — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:46:19 GMT

Their every attempt to turn water into wine was a dismal failure, and instead of wine they only managed to transform water into an odorous lumpy brown thick liquid