What is a Jesuit jamboree?

[donnashuggy]

Is it something that we should be concerned about?

[i-need-a-martini]

So what does it stand for in your eyes martini..... ????????  Please do tell us..... 

Perhaps if you had seen the blue Eureka Flag sitting side by side with the Swastika in apartment windows in the Shire during the Cronulla riots then you will have half an idea of what it stands for.

Just because a symbol has an honourable history doesn't make it appropriate for contemporary use. The Swastika is an excellent example of this. The Eureka is in the same category.

If this country is so ugly then you can leave..... and what is ugly about this country anyway? 

What is ugly is attitudes that go with that flag and those people that misappropriate it's use it for their own sick purposes.

Trade unionists (and indeed communists) use the flag for it's original intended meaning. As you are not a trade unionist (and are vehemently opposed to unions) and have a vile opposition to communiism and all it stands for, then I can assume that you are appropriating the flag for it's, ahem, 'patriotic' connotations in the same way that the skin head rioters in Cronulla used it.

That is showing shameful disrespect for those Australians who originally protested under that flag.

[para-sights]

Unfortunately this flag has the same connotations in contemporary society as the American Rebel flag does. Long gone is the original context and now is generally used as the adopted symbol for racists and bigots who have forgotten the origins of it's use. Personally I don't mind either flag if they are used for less nefarious purposes.

[icyfroth]

What is ugly is attitudes that go with that flag and those people that misappropriate it's use it for their own sick purposes.

The only ugly attitudes here I see here are the in responses the OP is getting. Bit of the old pot/kettle if you ask me.

[freakiness]

Perhaps if you had seen the blue Eureka Flag sitting side by side with the Swastika in apartment windows in the Shire during the Cronulla riots then you will have half an idea of what it stands for.

Perhaps the poster owned that window

[kengillard]

I'd remove the flag as my id Nero.....stirring up too much shoot!

[icyfroth]

It's certainly bringing out some true colours.

[not_an_eloi]

self-interest parties are reportin' my posts to get my opinion removed off this board

i'll take that matter up with the mods. shortly.

say, nero, are you a spokes'person' for australia first party, that (misused) flag is their symbol also

B-)

[i-need-a-martini]

The only ugly attitudes here I see here are the in responses the OP is getting. Bit of the old pot/kettle if you ask me.

I couldn't give 2 hoots about the responses to the OP. In fact I haven't even read them - the flag is the only I saw. So I'm not even sure why you think my comments about attitudes has any kettle/pot connotations.

[azureline**]

did I misunderstand icy's post... or did you?

[icyfroth]

"I couldn't give 2 hoots about the responses to the OP. In fact I haven't even read them - the flag is the only I saw. So I'm not even sure why you think my comments about attitudes has any kettle/pot connotations."

Seeing you didn't bother to read the other responses, martini, I can see why you think my comment was exclusively to you.

Try looking at the bigger picture sometimes, you may be surprised at what you see.