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Sticks & Stones Moogabe

Oho, clearly our attacks upon the arch-tyrant and well known releaser of contaminated lifestock, Robert Moogabe, have hit a nerve.

Old Moogabe has got stuck into us about our past and has called Australia a nation full of criminal blood.

"There are criminals who were shipped to that place and settled there. It is not surprising they are speaking like that," the doddering old despot stated.

Moogabe, who is also peed off at Australia's trying to boycott Zimbabwe's World Cricket Cup games next month, has also tried the old Third World trick of claiming that everything is racist.

So not only are we baddies, but racist as well.

It is a real shame that old Moogabe didn't pay attention to his school lessons out in the bush huts of Rhodesia, as it then was. If he had done he would know that while criminals were transported to Australia, most of our settlers were honest, law-abiding types.

That means almost all Australians would baulk at deliberately starting racial conflict within our nation just so we could get a benefit from it, unlike some African leaders we could mention!

And Australians would not throw productive farmers off their land (well, except maybe the banks, of course) and set in train events that are likely to see six million people trying to survive a famine.

And if the old goat wants to take a step back in history we can match the name calling without too much difficulty.

Every time he calls us 'criminals' - referring to 200 years ago - we should all shout back 'slaves' or 'cannibals'.

And if I may be so bold as to put forward a little bit of personal opinion on this matter - and I am - let us say this to Moogabe.

To be a criminal one must be convicted. To be convicted one must be sane. Therefore Australians are sane.

You will never be convicted, because there are extreme doubts about whether you are on the same planet as us.

If you don't like that comment, Moogabe old sock, well ... in the words of the Great Bard ... blow me!

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