Extremists

Is an extremist an extremist becasue of their beliefs or because they are at the narrow end of society and have to 'hate' those who are different and easy to bully?

First we must look at what an extremist is, I believe John Cleese explains this so well ....

So are we all clear by what an extremist is? I know I like to feel good about myself, but is it really necessary to choose someone to put down to make me feel that way? Ok maybe Mr Cleese was too broad about the groups and he is British so we will forgive him his ignorance of the rest of the world. As we all know the British really only care about themselves and their tiny part of the world, oh yeah that’s until they want to visit one of their colonies.

OH MY!!! I sound like an extremist! I better turn the attention onto someone else that the masses will dislike……

NEO NAZI’s have many groups around the world with various names some of these include:
KKK , Hammerhead Skin Nation, National Alliance and Stormfront. With reputations like they have who wouldn't dislike them

These groups have similar ideals in that they believe in Racial Purity, are Anti – Semantic and are very active on the internet. But as the YouTube clip below shows its not easy being a Nazi, so maybe we should cut them a break and just feel sorry for them.

While we are feeling sorry for them we can’t forget Australia’s own extremists groups. These groups think of themselves as saying what all Australians are thinking and can prove their legitimacy as they are a registered political party.

I am speaking of the one and only Australia First Party. According to their website - http://ausfirst.alphalink.com.au/  this group has 8 core policies that they are extremely serious about. I will just discuss one as I am certain if you are interested in this group you would of joined them on their secret Facebook page ( quick go and look at it now).

I am going to look at Core Policy number 7, which is:

 ‘Strengthen the family - Promote policies that strengthen and protect the traditional family.’

Firstly what is a traditional family? Not so long ago it was meant to be mum, dad and 2.5 kids. This always worried me as what happens to the other half of the kid? Does ‘it’ go live next door? Or just the other half never existed? Well, if that is what this group believe in then maybe they can tell me where the other 0.5 of the kid went. Personally I don’t know any 0.5 kids or many mum and dad families with even 2 kids. Looking down my street we have mum and a few kids, dad and a flatmate, mum, dad, grown adults (kids) and their partners with their kids. Apparently there are even families of mum, mum and kids plus dad and dad with no kids somewhere in this wonderful country called Australia. Wonder what kind of traditional families they have elsewhere? If TV is to be believed the great USA has similar families – what ever happened to “The Cosbys?” Though the US also has ‘The Simpsons’ , "The Sopranos" and families like those in ‘Modern family’ probably why this group are called Australia First. It would be extremely hard if they were called ‘The World First’ or even ’Australia and America First’ but that’s right I forgot, the US has its own extremists, they don’t need to import them from Australia.



Oh almost forgot the protecten part of the policy. 'protect the traditional family'. How are they going to 'protect' families? Are there enough members for every family who the group deems traditional to have one(member) standing at their front door and following their every move to protect them from the boogeyman??
I think not. I will not start on who this group deems to be the boogeyman but I will enlighten you slightly. Those of you who remeber the Cronulla Riots in Sydney 2005 will no doubt be shocked to find that the Australia First Party didn't think that it was wrong..... I will not even go there in this blog as I will never finish it. I will however leave you with disturbing footage of the day and ask two questions; Since when do Australians travel in large crowds while waving fists in the air and chanting? Does this remind you of an earlier clip in this blog?

That was rather serious, and I do apolgise but it needed to be shown.


So I am now off to begin my own extremist group and you are more than welcome to join it. It is called Choccers! We stand for eating lots of chocolate, the creamier, the better. We are against all those diet industry people who constantly tell us its not good for us and we need to lose weight or we will die. We will get our own fashion label, facebook page and of course produce our own propaganda explaining how great we are....

Until next time my Choccer family