feisty tige said:
The whole issue was blown out of proportion to what was stated on the BDO website in the first place.
Aussie media have a bit to answer for IMO. It is starting to sh!t me to tears....
Feisty,
What do you think the BDO website said in the first place?
And secondly, why state ANYTHING about the Australian flag to begin with?
It was the organisers that started all this...not the media, not the public, but the BDO organisers themselves.
All they had to do was just deal with any troublemakers, whatever they are wearing.
For them to single out OUR flag, and then try and put a ban/discouragement on Australians wearing/bringing THEIR nations flag to an event on the Australia Day weekend....now THAT is something that sh!ts me to tears.
Don't blame the media Feisty....that's what poor old Sheik Hilaly and his supporters do all the time....and all this "taken out of context" garbage.
If they hadn't come up with this ridiculous idea to begin with, there would be nothing to take out of context.
Its passing the buck, and about time people took responsibility for their actions and words.
outcast said:
oh ffs
people stop playing the poor persecuted aussie here
the reason they are discouraging it is in direct reaction to the behaviour of people wearing the aussie flag , it has nothing to do
with political correctness or appeasing minorities or some grand anti australian conspiracy
had there been hordes of trouble makers wearing serb or lebanese flags last year no doubt it would be those flags being targeted
so lets not get too precious here
look i agree it is wrong to try and ban the flag but in the grand scheme of things
it is simply one mans ill thought out attempt at trying to reduce the chances of trouble at his event
nothing more nothing less
as for the aus open comparison does ken west run that event? no sot really relevant
Outcast,
Firstly, it was Mr Ken West in 'The Age' yesterday said this:
Event organiser Ken West was quoted as saying fans' behaviour last year in the wake of the Cronulla riots and the recent ethnic violence at the Australian Open tennis tournament had forced his hand."The Australian flag was being used as gang colours. It was racism disguised as patriotism and I'm not going to tolerate it,'' the newspaper quoted Mr West saying
...as you see, it was Ken West himself who used the Australian Open tennis as one of his reasons for banning/discouraging the Australian flag from being brought to the BDO concert.
Yet, how many Aussie flags were flying during the tennis biffo?
I saw a few Serb, Croat, and Greek ones....and have they been banned at the BDO concert?
No.
And about the 'poor persecuted Aussie' and 'appeasing minority group' comments.
Let me ask you this:
Why do you think there has been an upsurge in young Australians wearing the Australian flag at events like the cricket, tennis, and BDO?
Why do you think Australians wore Aussie flags during the Cronulla riots?
I'll tell you why...because the normal, everyday Aussie way of life is being eroded by people like Mr. West, who target and single-out things like the Australian flag for a concert.......yet if any idea of banning Croat/Serb/Greek flags at the next Australian Open would be vilified as a racist act, the organisers labelled bigots, and the equal-opportunity board swamped with calls from angry migrants.
Can you imagine the uproar, if on Reconciliation Day, an event banned the Aboriginal flag, using Redfern and Palm Island riots as an excuse to ban it?
But hey, because someone like Mr. West is singling out the Aussie flag, we're all supposed to shut-up and take it.
Then people wonder why Australians are slowly becoming more intolerant to minority groups and left-wing do-gooders.
