Oops just broke my own committment re this thread but I noticed that the key quote from Walkabouts response to my previous post disappeared as has part of the Wikipedia quote. I've reinserted the quote and reposted the whole post. This is just to make better sense of my comments below. (Aha! its because I used angle brackets that got parsed badly as html)

Cheers and bye once again.
Andrez

David, in your response to my last post you say: "you'll see that I have NOT ctriticized any particular culture or race (far from it), but have repeatedly questioned the act of immigration itself"

You continue to remain dishonest as far as your values and political orientation concerning multiculturalism. Your statement above is an example of what is called dog whistling here in Australia. Since you say you spent time here then I can understand where you picked up the tricks. For those who arent familiar with the tactic I am talking about, Wikipedia has a concise summary:

"Dog-whistle politics, also known as the use of code words, is a type of political campaigning or speechmaking employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has a different or more specific meaning for a targeted subgroup of the audience. When you speak in code(...), most of the time the only people who hear and understand what you just said are the intended group, who have an understanding of the world and a use of words that is not shared by the majority of the population......The term is an analogy to dog whistles built in such a way that humans cannot hear them due to their high frequency, but dogs can."

Get it? Whether you are aware of it or not this is how you are operating and how you are trying to promote your viewpoint. Bush does the same thing as did Thatcher in her time. So did Adolf as he undermined the German state in the 20's and '30's.

As I said earlier, just be up front about it and dont pretend otherwise because you are not fooling anyone other than yourself.

Now that I've got that off my chest, I came across a thread with 500+ posts also pushed to promote Walkabouts views, poetry or whatever. Having scanned through that self important, self centered onanistic drivel I can only concur with other people who have suggested to boycott threads where David is either promoting his political or social views or his Vogon like verse. I know I wont bother responding to any more posts in this or other threads driven by Walkabout. I support and encourage Mudcatters to do the same. Let this thread lapse!

Cheers,

Andrez

But taking one last tack, I offer some verse of my own (for better or verse :-) ) to Walkabout, based on yet another traditional style:

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Hush!
Don't drown the flute-song of your being
In word symphony.
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Can you hear what I am saying?