Lies, Lies, Damned Lies!
Green Left Weekly continues its to show its true colours by publishing emotive slurs against the RSL, implying our former soldiers are, or rather were (past tense) racist bigots, and publishing other blatant lies.

The prejudice on which Pauline Hanson relied has now jumped the generations - from the ex-diggers and grey-haired RSL loyalists, to the testosterone and beer-fuelled youths who are hurting in Howard’s Australia, in and out of work.

‘[H]urting in Howard’s Australia’ ? This can only be described as a complete load of rubbish. Many of the thugs were clearly young, well-off Australians, probably with excellent futures. Look over the images that have appeared in the media- expensive cars, clothes and sunnies. This is not a class issue, as much as the communists at GLW wish it were.

And our prime minister, John Howard, wants to preach calm! Has anyone seen these guys? Should any ethnic community be calm when these thugs are whacked out of their heads, wielding baseball bats and launching bricks and flower pots!

Another blatant misrepresentation from GLW. The thugs ‘whacked out of their heads, wielding baseball bats and launching bricks and flower pots” were in fact the Lebanese-Australian mobs engaging in revenge attacks against Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Australians.

GLW goes on to ignore the violence at the scene of the Lakemba Mosque by Lebanese-Australians:

Those young Lebanese-Australians were right when they gathered to protect their local mosque. They are right to demand an end to the racist scapegoating of their communities. And the trade union movement, anti-war activists and everyone outraged by racism must stand shoulder to shoulder with them.

GLW tries to create an image of Lebanese Australian gangs singing Christmas carols and urging an end to the violence, when in fact, they targeted police.

We should expect nothing less from the toilet rag which sees Che Guevara as the poster child of the left.