HOOPER BOMBs BROWNE!

I kind of agree yet flags usually have kind of ties to kingdoms/Clans, Imperial adventures etc etc so in alot ways very few flags are "unique". Sure the Southern Cross is used by 2 other nations yet I dont see why that really matters..We are the most of important of the three, haha.

I bought up the Anglo surname because you said the flag does not represent you at all. If you have ancestry that has been in Australia for quite some time then perhaps theres a possibility you have relatives who have served under the Australian flag.

The Eureka flag perhaps.

 

Why would that be solely indicitive of being of Anglo Saxon decent?? :huh

 

Your point about of a lot of the flags not being very unique and having ties to kingdoms e.t.c is well taken. As I said earlier everyone has their own opinion I don't think it is a matter of wrong and right.

 

Woods did look good for a round. But as you said he faded and stopped scoring the way he had in the 1st. Not sure I like his loose, hands-down stance. You need to be very talented to implement that sort of technique successfully.

 

he will do well as a pro,if he stays out of jail, the games r spose to be non political,if we had no rules,may as well not have the games

 

No doubt he bought that shirt with white man's tax money.

Pretty much sums up Aboriginal Pride in this country: whinge, whinge, whinge about the white man, but make sure you do it with your hand out.

 

Sums it up a lot ,, after all the kid has been subsidised by the white aussie paying puplic for a long time now ,, Unlike others in the team who have too work

 

whats wearing the shirt got to do with being ungrateful as an Australian for all he's recieved as an elite athlete?? :huh

He shouldnt have worn the shirt, but not because of the small minded petty niggling reasons of a hillbilly ****wit like you :good

 

And who else??? :think

dickhead, see above my last response, you're in the hillbilly ****wit class along with the boke above

 

atsch for ****s sake

 

Fights on fox now

 

I understand why the rule is there but you ask any punter on the street and that would be behind Hooper on this...no matter what ethnicity.

I guess the problem they want to avoid is people taking the **** and wearing really politically charged stuff ...then pointing to an example like Damo's and saying there is a precedent, so I can do it...we all know the difference but do they have a leg to stand on? Technically maybe they do.
I understand why the IOC put a blanket ban on it but it doesn't sit right for me, it's not big deal.

 

Well, he broke the rules. The rules may be silly but they are there for a reason.

There is an element of reverse racism in this, especially in light of Mundine's comments about it - he broke the rules, he is not above the rules. If he doesn't like the rules, don't go to the Olympics.

Simple really.

Mundine will say anything to get publicity - if I was an Aboriginal sportsman I would cringe if he ever came out in support of me - him endorsing my actions would be like the kiss of death and I would know he was simply using me as a vehicle to push his own agenda and garner publicity for himself.

Besides, if the English never came to Australia, no Australian (regardless of their ethnic background) would have the opportunity to go to the Olympics.

 

Why doeant it sit right with you??

He's both ignorant & extremely arrogant, he needs to understand that he & his people are only one of multitudes of ethnic minorities competing for their larger country, Aboriginals arent that important in the political landscape & some of those other minorities like the Tamils etc might have a much fiercer political & social voice if allowed to "protest" at an event that shouldnt, cant have political grandstanding involved

 

He's there representing his country.

The Olympic committee recognises his country as being Australia, and recognises the Australian flag as being one with a Union Jack and the Southern Cross and Federation star on it.

He decides he wants to show them and wears a singlet with the Aboriginal flag on it instead of the regulation Olympic-issued singlet.

He breaks the rules, he deals with the consequences.

If there weren't consequences, he would be receiving special treatment, which is reverse racism.