D-Day approaches, Wrongful Detention, Social Life.

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Hugh Lambert has predicted 97 seats to Labor and the claims (yet again)_ that the polls do not lie. Newspapers in Sydney will be interesting tomorrow as a businessman, annoyed that Howard "doesn't get" climate change and the Kyoto Protocol is spending $200 000 on full page ads urging a vote against him.

Almost on the radar is the tragic story of how the Australian Department of Immigration detained a man wrongfully for five years. Tony Burke, the best person Federal Labor has had for years in the Shadow Immigration role rightly wants a Royal Commission. The Ombudsman says there's another 200 similar cases.

Legend of the Ainu Nezumi game went off really well last Sunday; better than expected, and I consider myself a good GM. I had the opportunity to playtest some new rules which seemed to work quite well. Last Saturday caseopaya, imajica_lj and I went to see La Vie En Rose. It has its moments, but was disappointing overall. The Goddard-like jump-cuts detracted rather than enhanced and there were some serious legendary absences from the biography (e.g., Piaf's birth, her role in POW escapes, the prohibition on her receiving a Catholic funeral).

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[the-shadow298.livejournal.com]

Supposedly the two judges are being dragged in for being part of "the old boys club" and toting the Party Line for the Libs, same with the Lib staffers.

The problem with using the racist card is that it's easy to say, very hard to prove and no one will prosecute on grounds of racism unless someone is actually toting a Nazi flag and burning crosses outside the houses of immigrants shouting "darkies get out".
And even then, it's pretty hard to prove racism (that's why people get charged with other things).

And that won't happen, but there are a few American generals and White House staff that should go before the Haig.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Did you hear that Dick Cheney had to be smuggled out of France recently to avoid being arrested by gendarmes for war crimes?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about Cheney, but Rumsfield certainly did...

http://www.alternet.org/story/66425/

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Ah, maybe it was Rumsfield I was thinking of, thanks!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Kissinger is in a similar situation. He's wanted throughout Europe, Latin America and parts of South East Asia for war crimes.