Well said andrew i say, they donw want equallity they want something for nothing as usual..
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SO THIS is what reconciliation looks like on Australia Day, after so many concessions over so many useless years.
Reconciliation means Prime Minister Julia Gillard being trapped by furious Aboriginal protesters inside a Canberra building yesterday for half an hour.
It means Gillard and guests at the Australia Day function being heckled and abused as racists.
It means Gillard, fear on her face, being monstered and falling in the melee as police rushed her to her car for safety, one shoe lost in the crowd.
It means Opposition Leader Tony Abbott also being bundled into Gillard's car to protect him from assault.
It means protesters trying to block the car with its terrified occupants.
It means them fighting police and vilely abusing them.
Yet here are some concessions we've made to a reconciliation movement that now destroys the cause it preaches.
We've allowed a shambolic Aboriginal tent embassy to despoil public space in Canberra for 40 years, when we wouldn't tolerate a (non-Aboriginal) Occupy Melbourne protest for 40 days.
We've formally apologised to stolen generations despite not being able to identify even 10 of the tens of thousands of Aboriginal children said to have been stolen just to breed out the colour.
We've held Sorry Days and marched over bridges.
We've (quite properly) granted Aborigines land rights, and also rights to block mining projects of huge economic benefit to all Australians.
We've spent billions to try to lift Aborigines out of poverty, even if an absurd fear of seeming mean has stopped us from doing what's most needed.
We hold welcome-to-the-country ceremonies and pay respects to Aboriginal elders at government and sporting events to show our good hearts.
We've introduced what seems to me apartheid justice, with Koorie Courts, and had judges show extraordinary leniency to Aboriginal offenders on the grounds of their culture. (Even yesterday, ACT police assured reporters that none of those behind yesterday's riot would be arrested.)
And now we have a government-formed committee of experts recommending new clauses in the Constitution to recognise Aborigines as a race with prior claim to this country, and offering special protections for their culture and their feelings.
Some of these things you may well support. Some you may not, because they seem to you purely tokenistic moves likely to divide us on the grounds of race, and to leave no one but activists better off.
Whatever. But ask: After all these changes hailed by the Left, why this disgraceful riot yesterday?
Why did the Prime Minister have to run for her life? Why all this fury? Protesters yesterday blamed Tony Abbott - but of course. He'd said the tent embassy perhaps should move on since a lot has changed for the better since it was set up - a perfectly rational opinion that any citizen should be free to express without needing police protection.
Indeed, all of us - me included - should be freer to speak about these matters without fear of either physical or legal attack. And this article shouldn't have needed such cautious vetting by lawyers.
Yet one of the protesters, Michael Anderson, yesterday told the crowd that what Abbott had said amounted to inciting racial riots. Which some of the others promptly made a self-fulfilling claim by staging exactly that.
This is not reconciliation. This is instead a warning that the wrong path has been taken, leading us to deeper divisions, entrenched by laws, and with dissent punished in courts or on the streets. It means each concession, no matter how extreme, is feeding a hunger for yet more.
Let's learn from yesterday's shame and say no. No to the race-baiters. No to laws dividing us by race. No to those who want to shut down debate on all this.
And let's say yes to judging each other not by the colour of our skin or the race of our ancestors, but by the content of our character. As individuals.
That means the reconciliation movement must end. It's just too dangerous. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/day-of-shame-shows-why-we-must-stop-this-racial-charade/story-e6frfifx-1226254760404
