This week the question has been firmly put. Should there be more Nazis on television or less, or for the grammar pedants out there, fuhrer?
All right. That’s a really bad joke. The point is that so many people including journalists have got this horribly wrong.
Cotterill needs to be confronted, subjected to scrutiny and forensically cross-examined.
What to call him then? The media has cobbled together several terms, all of them fairly unhelpful, including activist, patriot and ultra-right wing extremist. On Channel 7 he was described as one member of a group who were planning to put “a neighbourhood watch group together”.
Let’s start with what he is. Mr Cottrell is a violent criminal, having been convicted of arson, stalking, aggravated burglary, trafficking in steroids and breaching interventions orders. He added racial vilification to his rap sheet earlier this year.
Full column here.
Mr Insider, whilst the name of Hitler is being mentioned do we think he or Stalin was the greater tyrant? I go for Stalin as he had so many of his own people killed.
Not sure their relative “greatness” should be determined by the number of people they were responsible for killing HB. They were both cruel and oppressive rulers, as was Mao, Pol Pot and many others. Even our old mate’s “Kimmie” has reportedly liquidated a few of his own folk.
Indeed, Carl most certainly no “greatness” was just using that word and a measure of infamy. Note all the murderous tyrants come from Communist or Dictator led countries. Fidel Castro another shocker. We are indeed fortunate to live in a Democracy and to have POTUS Trump steering the world’s no1 in that area. Cheers
Stalin wins hands and feet down. Just from memory, Joe disposed of 20million
of his own…SAD CAFE.
Wellll, old Adolph comes out tops in Blofeld’s analysis. Well done Henry.
Question Henry. Have you ever done any serious research into these matters or are you just content to regurgitate cold war propaganda? Do you ever study anything, just for instance who armed and aided the resistance to Stalins Russia? I’m just curious, do you know anything about the history of the Russian revolution at all?
Cheers.
Glasses needed I see for you Mr. Baptiste’ read again, I clearly said STALIN was my tip for the greater tyrant. Do keep up old chap. Cheers
Well that would make Hitler “tops” over, or better than, Stalin, by your reckoning wouldn’t it? Pay attention you silly boy.
Response knocked back.
Your “look over there” deflections has no place when discussing such tyrants JB. It doesn’t diminish the enormity of the outrage one iota me old mate.
What the hell…………. ? There is no attempt at a deflection or reducing any outrage, it is merely questioning the commonly held belief of the enormity. Population statistics would be a good place to start.
Could you be outraged at the current 25 odd million children dying of preventable causes every single year Carl?
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As if it weren’t in enough trouble the Anglican church in Tasmania seems to be hammering the last nails into its coffin – only problem being there may not be a graveyard to put it in.
This because Bishop Condie has decided to sell 75 rural churches in order to raise $20 million, 25% of which will be reserved to pay out victims of clerical sexual abuse.
Rural communities are outraged. In these little towns generations of families may be buried in the local churchyard and the living had plans to join their ancestors in due course.
Charles Wooley has written a very good article this week and writes; “These are indeed dark days for the church. It has abused children in its care and now it will make country congregations pay for the sins of the clergy. It might even look like the church is socialising its guilt while privatising its profits”
It is ludicrous to penalise these small towns who probably have more attendees per capita of their population than the grand churches in Hobart where just a handful of elderly faithful can be found attending services.
Every year I get a note in my letterbox asking for a donation so that the floodlight can be kept on at night in the fancy Anglican church behind me. It has always annoyed me – even more so now. The sale of just that one grand church with its fancy manse sitting on prime real estate would bring half the required funds.
I dare say the Rector drives the latest set of wheels too, Boadicea. Give the bastards nothing I say. Cheers
HB, you are spot on. The “assistant pastor” is my neighbour, whilst the head honcho lives in the beautiful large manse on the church property round the corner.
Anyway, the assistant, my neighbour, acquired a really fancy new car the other day. Top of the range Toyota turbo something or other. Looks a bit like a spaceship.
I was manually shifting a ton of logs from the footpath to my property when he strolled past. No offer of help. Bah humbug, I silently thought. Not very Christian.
Anyway the new car was right there. I couldn’t help myself – “gosh , company car?” I said cheerily. He looked suitably sheepish. If the dear old parishioners saw him sailing along in that I get the feeling they would be very unimpressed. Especially now, seeing their churches sold off.
What were the logs doing on the footpath? Were they your logs or were you pilfering them?
Settle down Boady, some of your yarns are taking on a certain redolent hue……………………
Nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia, JB.
Not stolen- new wood supplier who will only tip them out onto the footpath rather than stand in the tray and throw them over like his predecessor used to do. It was certainly a morning’s hard yakka. From footpath over the gate and then uplift again to the woodshed out the back. One by one 🙁
Keeps a girl fit at least
It took all morning to shift a ton of wood? You are either ninety or the woodshed is a kilometre out the back or that’s a morning of indolence not hard yakka.
Logs on the footpath? It is Tasmania tho.
Do you think his ‘JC’ would approve of the outright theft of parishioner donations?
No ‘help thy neighbour’ also?
Imo not a Christian at all.
Does a rector live in a rectum?
No, rectum is the collective for a group of rectors.
Don’t give a cent Boa & if everyone gave them nothing they might have to sell it. More highrise apartments? YUK
No sympathy whatsoever for the congregations.
The blokes a sad dill, why on earth would anyone want to interview him at all?
The problem with sad dills old bean is that sometimes they have just enough arse about face information to make them dangerous. Your young protege Dismayed is a case in point.
Your obsession and inferiority complex about me has left you unable to see anything clearly and jumping at every imagined shadow you create. If I respond any further you will again claim to be a victim of some sort of abuse. You continue to fail this Nation just as you continue to project your own failings. No Surprises.
And exactly what information arse about or otherwise do you think this idiot has that could be of any importance Razor?
The question was loaded, if the interviewer was so meek doesn’t that raise a question about the motivation for giving him time?
All God’s lonely heart club conspiracy theorists deserve to be heard, Jean. Chillax and get progressive, dude.
Is that right? Well Milton if that is what you believe you’d better get active in pushing for more air time for “conspiracy theorists” then. I’ll wager the serious well educated senior military personnel who know exactly what they are talking about wont get one minute! Chillax? There’s too many useless Pollyannas sitting on their dates on the sidelines already.
(Go on, ask me exactly who I am talking about, you know you want to.)
On the matter of free speech, Timor-Leste and totalitarianism, it seems as though witness K encountered an ethical dilemma. He seemingly had to choose between what appear to be two possible moral imperatives, both of which may have been unacceptable to him. That is, do your job and don’t blab. I doubt that ASIS’s MO would be dissimilar to most other foreign intelligence agencies. Its a murky business model at best.
Its worth noting that the now Member for Dennison was confronted with a similar situation some years ago and he did the right thing.
Possibly some posts not showing up now, Mr. Insider, you can see they are there when you post something but after refreshing the post no longer there? Some more fine-tuning of your Blog-machine perhaps needed. Cheers
Blair Cottrell who is he doubt many have heard of him or even care.
Reminds me of Dave Cotter who played on the wing for Newtown.
These human beings are disgusting.
Lock them up, torture them then throw away the key.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/09/poachers-caught-video-killing-shrieking-bear-cubs-alaska-troopers-say/953109002/
Good article. I don’t have Sky and like most people had never heard of Cottrell before this week. Banning and/or censoring him only raises his profile and it probably goes some way to inflating his ego. I read that he is violent and threatening thug and that is best left to the police and the courts. But agree with Jack and would love to see and hear his shaky ”ideology” or ”philosophy” subjected to clinical scrutiny. It would present as the kind of high farce best enjoyed with popcorn and a bag of rotten tomatoes by your side. Let these types shame themselves, no one does it better.
You could very easily put t. abbott’s name in where this cottrel dudes name is and many other cons and not much would change. Again any scrutiny on many of the cons in parliament would reveal the shame you speak of. That why the ABC has been blatantly attacked by this government. No surprises.
Oh brother…. you really do need help Dismayed, and soon.
Be interesting to know what the viewing figures are for SKY before and after 6 pm, it’s a bit of a Gollum/Sméagol “thing” going on there.
I had never heard of Blair Cottrell before all this fuss blew up, a bit of a Streisand effect resulting in publicity he could only dream of, but why no fuss when he was on the ABC or Ch 7?
Skye is interesting. On the day it is fairly balanced. Then as soon as the sun goes down
they wheel out the hardest of right wingers, climate deniers, Muslim haters…people like
Credlin, Bolt, Kenny. It gets quite scary after 6pm. Probably trying to catch up to USA Fox.
A token Richo is in the mix who like Latham has changed his stripes.
Don’t tell me you’re another one BASSY, who is afraid of the dark as well as an alternative view on matters political/social. And as for Richo changing his stripes, you obviously don’t follow him too closely on SKY.
I agree Blair Cottrell should have appeared. I’d have loved to have seen Leigh Sales, Kerry O’Brien or the late Mike Carlton interview him.
That’s just it. It was a terrible interview. Soft as butter.
When did Mike Carlton die? Or did you mean Mark Colvin
Whoops I meant Richard Carlton Penny but you get the drift…….