Jakarta Globe’s Democratic Values – Obamanoid Democrat, That Is!
And off we go again, another Oz shrill enlisted by the Jakarta Globe to tell Indonesia how to deal with drug-smugglers.
Or so I thought!
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The JG pulpit was this time handed to somebody called Mary Farrow, who operates out of Melbourne, and she’s actually hailing the two criminals due for execution here in the near future as ‘Messengers of Redemption!‘
Even for a pinko, that’s laying it on a bit thick.
Still, I thought, at least she tries to make her case on the ‘merits’ of the pair, rather than the vacuous ‘soft-on-terrorists’ spiel we have been hearing from the EUSSR for too many years now, the irrational ideologues who say that the death penalty is NEVER appropriate, no matter how vile the crime.
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Victims of the Bali Bomb Pigs- =============
- Those clowns would consciencelessly have saved the Bali Bombers’ skins!
OOOPS!
Spoke to soon!
Mary
- There I was thinking she was just another Antipodean agitprop gal, when it turns out she’s actually AMERICAN!
And laden with all those specious American left-lib hang-ups against capital punishment, which she says provides scant evidence of redemption.
No, Mary, it just provides clear guarantees that the bad guys dealt with are not going to do any more bad!
She doesn’t seem to have much to do with Indonesia. But no matter, she is of course free to comment, as are those of us who live here. In my view, you’d get more sense from one of the guys who goes round my komplek selling yummy spicey salads like gado2.
But since he, like the great majority of Indonesians, supports the death penalty, the cosmopolitan moneyed clique that runs the Jakarta Globe won’t be allotting him bags of JG page-space to tell it as he sees it.
‘Democratic,’ in the JG editorial mind-set, has more to do with the limousine liberals of Obama’s Democrat Party leadership, in Washington DC, than with how their own fellow-citizens would vote, were Indonesians given a direct democratic say on the issue.
Still, there are a few gems in Mary’s propaganda piece. Like this-
Let’s strongly support a policy where education for young Australians between the ages of 18 and 25 teaches them about culture, rules and risks as a condition for an Australian exit visa before travel.
Education?
Education for young Australians already, surely, includes basic literacy. So when they touch down in Bali, they need no special skills to get the message.
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What’s so hard to understand about that?
Mary Farrow, 
Lanny, and 1 other are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Eva Evans 19:08 on January 29, 2015 Permalink |
I do not care about these two criminals, and I cannot understand why this American woman thinks she needs to get on her high horse.
I also don’t know or care about the Jakarta Globe. I looked it up in your older posts and have read somewhere that the plutocrat who owns it was mixed up with the Clintons?
Birds of a feather?
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Lanny 14:51 on January 30, 2015 Permalink |
This Indonesia newspaper does not speak for Indonesia majority, only like for foreign goverments and non-goverment organs NGO.
You are foreign but you support us, the most people here who support our President in this problem.
So I say thanks to you.
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Mary Farrow 07:53 on January 31, 2015 Permalink |
Ross, as you have seen fit to post my picture and make comment about me personally, I will just add that you might do a bit more homework before you jump the gun. I do not hide behind a keyboard by any stretch of the imagination and it’s pretty easy to get the whole picture, if that was your intent. Your eagerness to spout off about my commentary, which was not solicited by anyone anywhere indicates that you did not really read it well enough to pick up at the start that I was not an Australian. Also that I don’t seem to have much to do with Indonesia, not that I am required to but I do have an interest in culture, in the new neighbourhood that I live in and the benefits of education and the arts to assist people in challenging environments. That is not only my passion, it’s my business.
So while you are entitled to your opinion just as I am, I think that your following might like to know just how deep you go before expressing an opinion about the origins of your targets. That might make it a bit harder or time consuming for you, or weaken your position a tad, but that’s what we hope for when we go out and try to inspire a following. It should require better research and you have neglected that a bit. However, I accept that it makes it easier to feed the machine that you drive. Don’t let the truth get in the way of rhetoric, for goodness sakes. Thanks for some shred of free speech recognition though 🙂
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ross1948 08:46 on January 31, 2015 Permalink |
Good morning, Mary, and thank you for responding.
I did make it fairly clear that I only skimmed through your article first and wrongly assumed you were Aussie, then re-read it and gathered you weren’t Aussie at all, hence my ‘Ooops!’ and my words ‘or so I thought.’
That was an acknowledgement of my initial error, which I promptly rectified.
The debate rattles on. Have a nice day.
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