Student Walkout - Sept 5th (3 Viewers)

[blah101]

Went to a war which killed hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children on false pretenses, doctored intelligence.



Um it got to about 1000 at the height of it. Anyway if you were there you'd know even though it was only a small number, our spirit gave us the voice of many more.

ignorance, u state u know of the conditions in iraq at the present time. ur a joke mate come back to the discussion when u have some prior knowlegde of the situation

 

[williams180]

Went to a war which killed hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children on false pretenses, doctored intelligence.



Um it got to about 1000 at the height of it. Anyway if you were there you'd know even though it was only a small number, our spirit gave us the voice of many more.

fuck ure spirit i dont give a shit neither does anyone with anysay in this country or any other country so please find something more constructive to do
JH AND GB both heroes
I LOVE APEC - one of the truly great conferences

 

[imanewbie]

ignorance, u state u know of the conditions in iraq at the present time. ur a joke mate

Its current state is between fucked and royally fucked. Id rather find myself naked in the middle of a field of rose bushes than anywhere in iraq.

fuck ure spirit i dont give a shit neither does anyone with anysay in this country or any other country so please find something more constructive to do
JH AND GB both heroes
I LOVE APEC - one of the truly great conferences

We'll make you give a shit, you can't ignore us forever, you couldn't in the vietnam war and you can't now. The protestors are the heros and that is the way history will remember them. John Howard and George Bush will be remembered as the last fascist leaders nations ever had.

 

[blah101]

Its current state is between fucked and royally fucked. Id rather find myself naked in the middle of a field of rose bushes than anywhere in iraq.



We'll make you give a shit, you can't ignore us forever, you couldn't in the vietnam war and you can't now. The protestors are the heros and that is the way history will remember them. John Howard and George Bush will be remembered as the last fascist leaders nations ever had.

mate u are the biggest piece of shit i know my ucle is currently the CO of all Australian SAS squads in iraq at the present time so stfu and go like naked in ur bed of roses homo

 

[imanewbie]

mate u are the biggest piece of shit i know my ucle is currently the CO of all Australian SAS squads in iraq at the present time so stfu and go like naked in ur bed of roses homo

Your uncle will be put on trial for participating in the war crimes too. It's no excuse to say you were following orders.

 

[blah101]

i doubt u even have the cranial capacity to understand the process of a war crimes trial homo

 

[imanewbie]

Why do you have a problem with homos? Me and my girlfriend are quite proud of our love and we dont care what you say. I can more than understand the process of a war crimes trial, especially in the case of these iraq war monsters, we don't need to spend time deliberating..... THEY'RE GUILTY JUST HANG THEM.

 

[williams180]

Your uncle will be put on trial for participating in the war crimes too. It's no excuse to say you were following orders.

u make me sick having the capacity to tell someone their uncle will be put up for war trials when they are a loyal citizen and should be regarded as a hero of this country. You say that bush and howard are fascist i mean please u need to get real u fucking hippy. And you then said u were gay dont even get me started on homos u should have no rights and i love JH for his actions towards those issues. Fucking protestors

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

u make me sick having the capacity to tell someone their uncle will be put up for war trials when they are a loyal citizen and should be regarded as a hero of this country. You say that bush and howard are fascist i mean please u need to get real u fucking hippy. And you then said u were gay dont even get me started on homos u should have no rights and i love JH for his actions towards those issues. Fucking protestors

 

[withoutaface]

Apparently there were a bunch of protesting school kids in Iron Maiden shirts. Now besides the fact that the band's named after Margaret Thatcher, the frontman is a well known supporter of the Tories.

GG faggots.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

Go back to losing elections, jerk.

 

[withoutaface]

Now here's someone who's repeated a few times:

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

At least he still cares I suppose.

 

[Azamakumar]

Why would you take a day off school and waste it by going to a protest...? If you don't want to go to school then at least do something interesting and fun.

Took your advice, jigged school, stayed away from the protest. Fucking mad day.

 

[stazi]

Now here's someone who's repeated a few times:

oh isnt that the crazy guy who is always protesting about stuff near kings cross. he always has various signs which usually dont make sense.

 

[poWerdrY]

man, im so dissapointed. i got home, had a snack and turned on the tv. an hour later, all i saw about the apec summit was the protesting. what about the bashings? i wanna see protesters getting pummelled and that new water cannon implemented. it just ruined my day

 

[Chris.]

protesting for APEC does nothing. all it does is close down streets and pisses people off.

 

[Mabs]

APEC does nothing. all it does is close down streets and pisses people off.

Fix'd

 

[Snaykew]

man, im so dissapointed. i got home, had a snack and turned on the tv. an hour later, all i saw about the apec summit was the protesting. what about the bashings? i wanna see protesters getting pummelled and that new water cannon implemented. it just ruined my day

I hear your pain. I'm waiting for the protests to get violent and the police to crack down on their sorry arses.

 

[Dragon Fanatic]

Haven't been on BOS since i graduated last year, but was interested to see if anyone actually participated in this walkout.

I wrote this for Honi Soit recently, thought you might find it interesting;

When you are stretching it for time and franticly rushing to a tutorial that you are already twenty minutes late for, they are there to hold you up. When you are sitting having a quiet coffee or grabbing something to eat with some friends, they come out of nowhere to interrupt. When you are simply minding your own business and doing some quiet reading, their booming tirades on random injustices in some remote part of Melanesia breaks the silence you were otherwise quite enjoying. Lets face it, we have all seen and been harassed by people of one political inclination or another during our time on campus. Whether it be the anti-war protestors completely clad in orange Guantanamo Bay jumpsuits, or the Vegan’s protesting about the mistreatment of animals, they all seem to have a message that, to their mind, is unequivocally, the greatest message one could possibly impart onto another human being, and by getting in our face and letting us know about it they seem to believe they are doing us the highest of favours. Well you are not.

According to the posters and chalk writings I see around campus, there seems to be a myriad of political problems inherent within our society, with each individual issue being propagated as being of far greater importance than the other. From an outsider looking in, there always seems to be some sought of protest or showing of strength at university either debunking “political myths” in the case of left winged groups such as the Socialist Alternative, or indeed promoting them in the case of right winged organisations such as the Young Liberals. But do these demonstrations actually achieve any of their proposed goals and do anything to change the situation they are disagreeing with, or are they simply a way to gather a group of people with similar ideas, and have some fun immaturely arguing with opposing groups.

Most of us know that the anti-war moratoriums held during the Vietnam War were some of the most passionate and ground breaking ever to be held by students around the world, and in Australia, Sydney University was the hub of such protests. But that was back in a time where this type of thing was seen as “cool”, and hippie culture was thriving under the ideas of the injustice of conscription and Australia fighting in a war we had nothing to do with. Fast forward to 2007 and our world and country has vastly changed, but many of the university protestors still look back to the relative political success of that period for inspiration and, as a result, Vietnam has now become the benchmark for the way in which they should vocalise their qualms of today, something that ensures the average university student is indeed hassled the way we are on a regular basis.

One of the more advertised and large scale demonstrations that was held recently, was the “Demand a Better Future” rally, initiated by the National Union of Students. It can be accurately said that the May 2nd gathering was far from the success that the NUS had hoped, and while all who both organised and took part in the protest would never admit that it was a failure, I believe that the support they received would have been a far cry from what they would have expected considering the ridiculous amount of manufactured fanfare organisers attempted to create.

Considering the copious amounts of posters, speakers before lectures, chalk writings, t-shirts and people on loudspeakers out the front of Fisher, it would have been difficult for any student, who studies at the Camperdown/Darlington campuses, to have not known something about the rally planned for May 2. It seems to me that this over promotion was one of the reasons why the rally was so poorly supported by the students as a whole, as this “in-your-face” approach is not welcomed by people who don’t already have strong and vocal political persuasions. As a consequence, not only do students ignore what such political advocates have to say, many start to detest and genuinely revile the “uni protestors” even though personally they are probably quite pleasant human beings.

In my mind, people are well-entitled to believe in whatever they please, but these protestors are not only shooting themselves in the foot with this confrontational style of advertising their political ideas and notions, but they are also a major pain in the arse for the nonplussed uni students who simply want to get their degree and have some fun along the way.