Friday, Jun 10, 2011 at 20:48
I am one of the few, you had me right up until you said 'our rock'. Its not our rock, never was never will, its on loan to the invaders who plundered and murdered the original owners of this land. Here is/was a group of nomadic wanderers minding their own business, hunting fishing breeding dying beliefs religion sacred sites burial grounds, pointing the bone for fourty thousand years
and along comes whitey with his diseases, guns, alcohol and a mentality that white men are supreme over savages, whether in Africa, India,South America or
Australia, that they know better, that they know a good black is a dead black, eg
Tasmania's Aborigines were hunted down to extinction, a shameful piece of Australiana buried in time.
If I was to walk over,climb, sit, jump, run-over, scratch/etch my name into your family tomb, I'll bet you would be screaming blue-murder too. I was taught to respect those whom died and have a marker of sorts to show the site, I don't need to show my disrespect by walking on the grave, I visit as many graveyards as I can to read the history of those buried.
Paid tax all your life, well, bully for you, the original owners paid with their lives, eg The Myall Lake Massacre, where,7 White men were hung for their misguided thoughts. Where white men roam, the local
population dies off very quickily, eg Smallpox. Our Govt. of the day handed out smallpox infected blankets, how kind of them, no better than KKK.
When "our" Aboriginies joined and died for our Country in WW 1, what did our Govt. do to compensate the returned "diggers" They gave 5 acres of land to each WHITE soldier, nothing for the blacks. When an Aborigine rescued a fallen comrade, who got the medal, the White Officer, when an Aborigine charged a machine-gun nest, who got the medal, a White Officer.
Another do-gooder, me, doubt it, I have been burgled twice by the original owners, cheesed off, you bet, but I really get p***ed off when people scream about injustices and talk about "our rock"
Get over it, and those who know me through this
forum know I have also paid taxes all my life, was in Artillery for X years,An Army driving Instructor, a truckie in 4 States over Xyrs, now I drive a school bus for relaxation in my final yrs
There are many things in LIFE that I want to do, but alas, its not to be, so I make every day count and if I should ever get to Ayers Rock, I will think of the original owners and their sacred ground and just marvel in awe at the majestic spectacle
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