Sunday, September 9, 2007

Demonstration Fun

What an interesting spectacle the APEC demonstration appears to have been. Containing all sorts of bizarre groups from both sides of the spectrum as well as a weird group of men and women called "Billionaires For Bush":

'But just nearby a small group of young men and women calling themselves “Billionaires for Bush” and dressed in black tie and mock fur jackets chanted, “One, two, three four, we don't care about the poor. Five six seven eight, give us tax cuts, we can't wait."They also chanted: “The Billionaires, united, will never be defeated.”'

It's gotta be a piss take, and quite an amusing one at that!!

There also appeared a far-right group called the "National Anarchists" (sounds like an oxymoron) who it seems were just plain morons:

'The National Anarchists, who described themselves as the New Right, were all dressed in black hooded jackets. Some of the group wore dark sunglasses and all had bandanas around their faces.Inside the National Anarchists' lines was retired Macquarie University constitutional historian Andrew Fraser. He said he was a supporter of the National Anarchists because "globalisation is destroying my people, the Anglo-Saxons who are the core ethno-cultural identity".'

Because us Anglo-Saxons are just so damn oppressed. Predictably this created some problems for the socialists within the "Stop Bush" brigade:

'The National Anarchists were confronted by left-wing groups who called them neo-fascists and chanted "Anti-racists, call police” and “You are not a part of this", pointing at the black-hooded demonstrators. A group composed mainly of women marched in front of the National Anarchists, chanting, "No race, no war, that is what we're fighting for."'

What fun!

What was conspicuously missing was a demonstration against the Chinese delegation and all the grotesque human rights violations within China. Or the Vietnamese delegation and all the horrible political discrimination continued by the corrupt government in Vietnam still to this day. It remains an exploitable fact that the Left seem to only demonstrate in any sizable numbers against America lately, how is this at all right? I don't mean to imply that they shouldn't protest against American foreign policy where they disagree, but why are these notorious human rights violators given such an easy ride in comparison?