Chaytor jailed for 18 months

Fwir, a surprisingly high percentage of them were volunteers. Not too
shabby a deal on paper - work a bit for the Man to pay for the passage,
get a 100 acres free and carry on as a farmer. For many of the skilled
and displaced unemployed farm workers it must have seemed very tempting.
Problem was, the land was shit, the natives didn't like it and nothing
would grow. Took them ages to get it together and there were a couple of
periods where the whole venture looked like being abandoned.

I don't know whether Aussies tracing their roots are pleased or
disappointed to discover that ggggggggg Uncle Archie was a villain or a
worker.

 

Yeahbut the natives were few and far between and easily dealt with

 

<fx: reaches for stopwatch...>

 

It frequently gets mentioned here, but I just didn't get on with it when
it was published. Perhaps I'll try again.

 

Hmm, not so sure about that aspect, although there were many cases where
the SO would volunteer rather than break up the family.

 

The trend has historically been the reverse.

<http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging1.html>

 

No it was introduced as a cheap means of clearing and securing the land
for large scale farming and industrial enterprise which even to this day
is based on the principle of my bollox are bigger than yours because my
ancestors razed more acres than yours did. I am sure if you look on the
title deeds of all the huge estates down under it will read like a roll
call for the house of lords.


..

 

It's my understanding that transportation was a seventeenth-century
phenomenon. The Age of Englightenment is generally considered to have
begun around the eighteenth century, with the American and French
revolutions.

--
des
'Sex without love is an empty experience. But as empty experiences go,
it's one of the best'
(Woody Allen)
<http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/>

 

Yep, but you don't really think he'll do the standard rate shirley?

If not 4 months, 5 at the most.

 

So in Desneyland I can tunnel into a bank and empty it of all its contents
and walk around free coz it wasn't violent.

Get the **** out of here!

Of course you are.

 

All the absolutely worst offences are personally "non-violent", including
organising genocide and starting illegal wars. Or have I misunderstood you?

(> But then, when it comes to humanism and societal progress, I'm about

This is a parody of self-parody, isn't it?)

 

No, I don't think so. Well, not *complete* baloney. There is a real
risk of fuelling a "them and us" attitude among the, err, sort of
person I could so easily have been. At least now I wait and see what
counter arguments there may be.

Our version of democracy ain't perfect but it could be a whole lot
worse, especially if it collapses under a drift of cynicism, distrust
and inertia.

 

If I understood this case it was all defaults. Pretty much the
equivalent of leaving the door open with the key in the lock.

 

Well, that took longer than I'd anticipated...

You really want to get into it? Only I'm sort of sensitive to the sight of
blood...

--
des
'If the Arabs laid down their weapons today there would be no more
violence. If the Jews laid down their weapons today, there would be no
more Israel ...'
<http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/>

 

Ideally, yes.

Yes, I am. Your children and grandchildren (and probably their
grandchildren etc...) will be dead and buried, but the day will come when
people will look on imprisonment the same way we now look on slavery: with
horror.

That I see further than any of you isn't (or shouldn't be) a surprise to
anyone anymore.

--
des
'Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never
voted for President. One hopes it is the same half'
(Gore Vidal (1925 - ))
<http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/>

 

It has always been 'the British way': give a little, and shut the plebs up.

These trials and convictions have very little to do with 'justice needs to
be seen to be done' and a lot to do with banging up a few folk so that the
furore around the expenses scandal will die down, and the Establishment can
get back to doing what it does best: fucking you all up the back passage.

Your 'version of democracy' is going to collapse, anyway - built as it is
on the iniquitous and fundamentally evil system that is capitalism.

--
des
'If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I
wouldn't be a bit surprised'
(Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967))
<http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/>

 

Yes and they keep giving and they keep giving and they never learn and so
they never stop and so they still have to keep on giving and giving and
little by little it all changes hands until they have nothing left to give
and we have all the bullets and then the bloodletting can begin.

 

On Jan 10, 5:20 pm, des wrote

O see the grasp on world history remains tenuous.

 

It's probably a thread this newsgroup could do without, and I don't
really have time. I'm happy to agree to differ (or to agree, if
necessary, since I'm still not sure I understood you correctly).

 

I always thought that most of them, once their sentence was served,
chose to stay there.