SURPRISING to relate, Thomas Keneally is still alive. I know because the obnoxious octogenarian had a piece in the Guardian on Friday titled The astonishing lies of the no campaign. He obviously feels the Voice is sufficiently historic to warrant, for posterity’s sake, the predictable thoughts of yet another elder of the Whitlam tribe. Not just any elder, however. “One of the wisest elders we have,” tweeted an easily led Simon Chapman. Keneally’s argument for the latest and oiliest ignis fatuus of the leftist hive mind was the usual mixture of ad hominems, ipse-dixitism, bourgeois snobbery and half-baked homiletics. What makes the Booker Prize winner’s tirade more shameful than anything even the self-muzzled Noel Pearson has said during this Labor-incited beach brawl with the ghost of Captain Cook is his claim that governments have recently executed hundreds of Aborigines. He starts by mentioning that Australia abolished the death penalty:
Good for us! Yet there has been, since the royal commission into Indigenous deaths in custody in 1992, in excess of 550 First Nations people who have died in forms of custody. There’s your capital punishment. Death for Aboriginals. We’ve done better than Texas.
Let’s disregard, for economy’s sake, the racism of comparing the mostly petty Aboriginal offenders locked up on any given day in our prisons with the psychopaths, rapists and murderers dispatched by lethal injection in the Lone Star State. Though updated, the figure Keneally cites above is taken from the Australian Institute of Criminology study of deaths in custody. In a 19-paragraph story on the AIC’s 2020-21 report, the Guardian tardily noted in paragraph 17 that “Indigenous people were no more likely to die in custody than non-Indigenous people.” Of 106 deaths in custody in 2021-22, 24 decedents were Aboriginal and 81 were non-Aboriginal. Fewer Aborigines than non-Aborigines have been dying in all forms of custody since 2003.
Keneally’s allegation – that states, ministers, prison guards and policemen are killing incarcerated black people – is the gutter talk of a moral dwarf. The 87 year-old should to be ashamed of himself but contrition and malice are never allies. That may have been the root cause of his early exit from St Patrick’s Seminary. Interviewed about the infamous conviction of George Pell in 2019, an elated Keneally told the Church Times that he was “amused” the Cardinal’s friends and supporters hoped to see him exonerated before he died. In custody.
I think it needs to be added that the apparently higher rate of death of Aborigines in jail is due to the fact that they commit at a higher rate those crimes that warrant being jailed. And note that it is more likely that other Aborigines than other races who are the victims of those crimes. The story told by Keneally and his ilk is one of the great lies of our time.
Had you woven in ultracrepidarian my day would be complete!
As for “astonishing lies” nothing beats what supposedly converted Kamahl to Yes.
Which is a lie within a lie. He was never going to vote No.
I guess Kamahl’s Big Lie was aimed at senior people, who know who he is.
It’s pretty contemptible that the plotters thought seniors would say “Oh let’s follow Kamahl’s lead”.
They seem frantic; can’t disguise their hatred.
They’d like a prison colony to ship all dissenters to.
Recalling the beginning: modest plan/gracious offer/goodwill
Serpent-speak.
Now it’s full-on Malice.
“an elated Keneally told the Church Times in 2019 that he was “amused” the Cardinal’s friends hoped to see him exonerated before he died. In custody.”
I wonder if this rather ugly and talentless leprechaun is now equally amused at his great-nephew’s current legal plight. I’m sure he’s a firm believer in his “presumption of innocence” for his great-nephew. Well, please forgive me because I am amused, only because this ‘great-nephew’s’ nasty vicious talentless mother eagerly participated in the progressive trashing of the presumption of innocence when it came to Pell, Lehrmann and Porter so forgive my schadenfreude but it is kind of nice to see such woes come back to bite these awful, nasty people in the bum.
The problem in Australia is there is no sensible left. There does not exist in this stupid country a Bobby Jnr, Bret Weinstein nor, Rogan.
It’s all the same rabid, swivel eyed facsimile out of central command.
Vasco Da Garma is relying on “Kamahl-mentum”.
New poll reveals few Australians rank Voice as top five priority for federal government as debate ramps up ahead of referendum.
Never forget The Guardian comments –
and
Will review Guradian comments again on Oct 15th.
Sorry doubtful anyone would understand him knowing how the demographics of this area has changed.
Someone I used to know who used to do concreting in Sydney used to refer to another close suburb in the area as E-ping, that was over 10 years ago.
I gave up on him 20 years ago with having any intelligence due to his reporting on Eritrea- according to him the Eriteans fighters were just sooo wonderfull. The gushing was nauseous.
Eritea now is a one party totalitarian state, only one party allowed, no private media or print, no elections since 1993 after independence (the old one vote, one time), opposition arrested and no trial, religious persecution etc etc.
Yet he is put forward as a “wisest elder”.
Well, he would be, for a certain type!
Earth to Albansleazey: No one gives a rodent’s backside about Kamahl’s opinion on anything.
Talk about desperation.
Kamahl, Keneally!
‘It’s Time’ to put The Band back together.
Shame about the spitting face though.
The repellent Thomas Keneally is related to the even more repellent Kristina Keneally.
I did not know that.
That explains a lot, none of it good.
She married his nephew, I believe, Lee. So they’re not blood relatives.
But they may as well be. The case to which Cassie refers was in the news last week:
Policeman son of ex-premier Kristina Keneally fights charge of faking evidence.
I’m guessing she’s now a big fan of due process.
Kamahl.
And don’t forget the profound insight provided by the hardware expert, Mr Hammer.
‘He had no idea’: MC Hammer called out by Sky News host for backing Voice ‘Yes’ campaign.
No sign of the real backers yet.
“She married his nephew, I believe, Lee. So they’re not blood relatives.
Correct, and the Keneally family are NSW Labor bigwigs.
I’m guessing she’s now a big fan of due process.
Funny that.
In a serious country, a man of letters who took delight in the corrupt imprisonment of an innocent churchman (and scoffed at his friends) would be disgraced. He would not be a respected “elder.” He would keep his head down; he would not be invited to the gatherings of beautiful people; perhaps he might even seek to redeem himself by apologising.
Australia is no longer that country.
Australia, the communist country.
It’s always projection with the left. Always. The most astonishing lies of this great unifying referendum so far are the following:
“The Uluru Statement from the Heart is only one page.” Albo and friends.
“I did not call No voters racist and stupid.” Some ridiculous harpy filmed saying it.
And my personal favourite:
“I DID NOT!” Professor Spitty.
““She married his nephew, I believe, Lee. So they’re not blood relatives.”
We used to call them “Prick relations”. Not connected by blood but definitely connected by being porked.
It’s funny, when I saw the heading, “the Libelous Leprechaun”, I was expecting to read a dissection of Alan Joyce. lol. 😀
The elites aren’t “astonished” at the No campaign. They’re angry.
They can see they’re about to be thwarted.
Pell was, if course, meant to die in custody. The Hunchback and his lickspittles in politics and the media will be furious with the prison staff that he didn’t die, Carl Williams style, in a regrettable incident for which the state coroner (now the independent and apolitical Mr Justice John Cain) could find no one responsible. The much derided screws turned out to ne (apart from Mark Weinberg) the only people of integrity in Victoria’s ‘justice’ system.
Not just thwarted, Christine, but a thorough thrashing.
Old Lefty
By accounts I have seen, CDL Pell was quite popular with the other inmates. A regrettable “accident” might have had too many potential hostile witnesses, even forgetting that he was also apparently popular with the guards.
“By accounts I have seen, CDL Pell was quite popular with the other inmates. A regrettable “accident” might have had too many potential hostile witnesses, even forgetting that he was also apparently popular with the guards.”
They could see his holiness, they knew he was innocent.
I remember reading that when the HC verdict came through, the inmates cheered.
I think the cheers were from his legal team not far away.
I think he wrote that some inmates were firmly in the innocent camp, and others not, and they would argue in their cells about the merits.
Most of the career crims thought Pell was innocent, so I hear. They have enough experience of the system to recognise a stitch-up when they see one.