{"id":3719,"date":"2009-06-25T05:45:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T19:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2009-06-25T05:45:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T19:45:37","slug":"theres-good-news-and-then-theres-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=3719","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s good news&#8230; and then there&#8217;s bad news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>First, <em>The Good News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>1. Paul Mullett has maintained his integrity and had all charges against him dropped: &#8220;FORMER police union chief Paul Mullett will walk from the Supreme Court free of criminal accusations today when perjury charges against him are withdrawn, in a massive blow to the Office of Police Integrity&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/all-mullett-charges-to-be-dropped-20090624-cwsc.html\">All Mullett charges to be dropped<\/a>, Selma Milovanovic, <em>The Age<\/em>, June 25, 2009). The lesson: Don&#8217;t mess with the Mullett.<\/p>\n<p>2. In news that will bring a smile to the face of Mick Armstrong, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/2497386\/Cops-foil-anarchists-helping-asylum-seekers-storming-Channel-Tunnel.html\">Cops foil anarchists helping asylum seekers storming Channel Tunnel<\/a> says <em>The Sun<\/em> (UK): &#8220;The \u201cNo Borders\u201d activists, who come from all over Europe \u2014 including BRITAIN \u2014 have threatened to rip down fences to help migrants across.&#8221; Welsh football hooligans belonging to the terrorist cell &#8216;noborderswales&#8217; have taken their cues from <a href=\"http:\/\/hopinewsfromiran.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/21\/natarsid-natarsid-mah-hameh-bah-ham-hastim-another-day-of-defiance-in-iran\/\">Iranian terrorists<\/a> and are busy <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/noborderswales\">twittering<\/a> about their evil schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The wreckers.<\/p>\n<p>3. In the Czech Republic, Czech police are pressing charges against Roma, but not nutzis, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romea.cz\/english\/index.php?id=detail&#038;detail=2007_1257\">some foreign news source<\/a>: &#8216;One Roma man who will be in court tomorrow yelled the following at Lucie \u0160l\u00e9grov\u00e1, a DS member who regularly participates in neo-Nazi events: \u201cWhat are you doing here? What are you doing here? Get out of here, you dirty Czech cunt! Why are you playing at being a fascist?\u201d The DS provocateurs subsequently left the housing estate.&#8217; On the other hand: &#8216;Local non-Roma residents openly supported the attack on the Roma and yelled racist insults at them such as \u201cblack fuckers\u201d or \u201cblack swine\u201d, which according to the state prosecutor is not a crime.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hurrah!<\/em> for free speech!<\/p>\n<p>4. In that bog of ignorance known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/national-news\/fur-flies-as-clothes-king-sneers-at-bog-irish-429085.html\">Ireland<\/a>, members of the Romanian\/Hungarian fascist groupuscule known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollow-hill.com\/sabina\/2009\/04\/portrait_of_the_terrorist_as_a.html\">&#8216;Szekler Legion&#8217;<\/a> have been kicking arse and taking names on behalf of the caring sharing community known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shellguilty.com\/\">$hell<\/a> (<em>see also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/royaldutchshellplc.com\/2009\/05\/05\/fascist-group-worked-as-shell-guards\/\">Fascist group worked as Shell guards<\/a>, John Donovan, Royal Dutch Shell plc .com, May 5, 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Now, <em>The Bad News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>1. Only three Aryan Warriors attended a protest in defence of the right of a proud White Canadian to educate her daughter to appreciate <em>Time<\/em> magazine&#8217;s 1933 &#8216;Man of the Year&#8217;: &#8220;The rally was intended to show support for the mother of two children seized by CFS after the daughter was sent to school with Nazi symbols inked on her body&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/local\/protest-by-alleged-neo-nazi-group-fizzles-48997016.html\">Protest by alleged neo-Nazi group fizzles<\/a>, Lindor Reynolds, <em>Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, June 24, 2009). Protest organiser Paul Fromm toured Australia in 2005, the outspoken Freedom Actionist addressing the League of Rights and the Australia First Party.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.timeinc.net\/time\/magazine\/archive\/covers\/1933\/1101330313_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. With CIA sponsorship, right-wing elements in Venezuela are continuing to undermine the reputation of <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=2113\">Dear President Ch\u00e1vez<\/a>, to discredit the Big Ideas of philosophical superstars, and to hamper t-shirt sales in Australia by continuing to publish their antiquated views, most recently by way of an interview with criminal elements from Spain: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anarkismo.net\/article\/13548\">Interview with <em>El Libertario<\/em> (Venezuela \u2013 June 2009)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. &#8220;Figures cited in a federal parliamentary estimates hearing this week revealed that about 3000 Australians had their phone calls intercepted every year&#8221; &#8212; what about the other 21,000,000?!? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianit.news.com.au\/story\/0,24897,25555119-5013044,00.html\">ASIO bugs 3000 calls a year<\/a>, Natalie O&#8217;Brien, <em>The Australian<\/em>, May 29, 2009).<\/p>\n<p>4. Rod Coronado is not in prison. He should be. He is a <strong>TERRORIST<\/strong>. Now he is the subject of a book. Written by a <strong>TERRORIST SYMPATHISER<\/strong> named Dean Kuipers. For further disgusting details, <em>see<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/stclair06192009.html\">Firebrand: Rod Coronado&#8217;s Flame War<\/a>, Jeffrey St. Clair, <em>Counterpunch<\/em>, June 19&#8211;21, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Outta here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheesh. First, The Good News: 1. 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