A note about humour as a tactic

I probably should explain a few things here seen as my previous post has caused a few people to scratch their heads.

Having just watched Molly and Mobarak again on Saturday night and witnessing Jim Saleam’s shit-sheeting activities against the Afghan refugees in Young, it was a tad infuriating to wake up on Sunday morning and find myself the subject of a Jim Saleam shit-sheet (and also rather spooky).

Hey, they wacked it into my letterbox and also postered their A3 “DEPORT BOAT PEOPLE” posters around my street. Something they’d not done before.

I mean, they’re trying to send a message here, “We’re not bluffing, we do know where you live”.

Come on, this is a guy who has firebombed shops and arranged beatings and shootings. Whether you want to or not, you are going to have a reaction to something like this. Some people would have marched off mob-handed to settle the score, some people would have gone into hiding and ceased all anti-racism campaigning. I didn’t. For like, the seventh time in a week I took all the evidence down to the local cop shop and am content to let them deal with it. I will continue on doing what I have been doing. So, if you’re free over the coming days and feel like scraping off some posters and starring in a docco, email me.

It looks like our state local member and Police Minister, John Watkins is interested in doing something about this as well. Myself and a couple of Ryde Councillors should be meeting with him sometime this week. Watkins is Labor Left and a top bloke to boot. Matter of fact, every ALP branch in this part of Sydney is Left controlled. I never knew that until today.

Online, well — I chose to combat Saleam’s idiocy with humour. From a propaganda perspective it is the left’s best weapon against the right. Some of it may seem a tad full-on and iffy but you have to understand the context.

The parts where I am yapping on about the linguistic origins Jim’s surname take place in email correspondence. I was simply trying to use his own fucked up mentality against him. You know how racists like to classify each and every ethnicity as a separate rung on the eugenics ladder? I was merely trying to paint him with his own bigoted brush.

Another point to remember is that my basic natural disposition is that of a clown. On balance, this has primarily been a humorous blog. I have naturally been dealing with this particular topic in a rather serious manner but, in light of circumstance I think you can all understand me returning to my standard piss-taking way of doing things.

Darp Hau · 14 December 2004 · Discussion