You ‘forgot’ to quote the first part of the statement Luther. “I’m quite accustomed to a hostile group… it’s not going to change me and I’m not going to change you – ” Even without knowing who the other party is he’s addressing, through a logical process of ensuring credibility of a statement, you can see he’s clearly speaking to the ‘hostile group,’ not the Australian people collectively. Go do your research. I don’t think a foreign politician would accept an award and insult the country that confers it upon him. No wonder so many ‘graduates’ are coming out of school with paper not worth the crap its wiped with.

What is credibility of your source guys? A joke excuse of an Australian newspaper? Read the entire quote in context and prove you’re not an ignorant gossip monger. Don’t be a media slave. What is the point of liberty if you don’t know how to think for yourself?

Mr Lee was also conciliatory about past comments in which he warned Australia would become a “white trash” nation, saying “there are some words sometimes sown in the heat of the argument. You have changed and the Australia I came to in 1965 was a very different Australia.”

We are going to prosper, you are going to prosper. But if I ALLOW YOU TO RUN MY COUNTRY IT WILL SPIRAL DOWNWARDS AND WILL HIT ROCK BOTTOM”

Go figure what that means what it tells of your system.

And this went on with all the parts of the body shouting and disagreeing as to who should be the boss. Suddenly, while all this argument was going on, they heard a squeak from the bottom. They all stopped arguing and every part of the body fell silent. “What’s that again?” asked the brain.

“What about me? Can I be the boss?” It was the arse hole joining the debate as to who should be the boss.

When all the parts of the body heard this they all fell down laughing. They could not stop laughing. The eyes were watering with laughter. The wax from the ears popped out because of the uncontrollable laughter. The mouth laughed so furiously that it accidentally bit the tongue. The tongue was bleeding profusely but it felt no pain because it was laughing until the throat could no longer produce any sound. This laughter went on for a full ten minutes and the entire body rocked and shaked like it was being hit by the greatest earthquake in history.

But the arse hole did not join in the laughter. It kept very silent. It was very angry and hurt. When all the parts of the body had regained their composure the brain said, “You are just an arse hole. You cannot be the boss. Arse holes can never be the boss.”

When the arse hole heard this it became real mad, hopping mad, mad as hell. It said, “Oh yeah. Then let me show you who the boss is.”

From thereon the arse hole clammed up and refused to open any longer. It shut very tight and would not talk to all the other parts of the body – what the Malays would call merajuk. For many, many days no shit could pass through. After a week the brain started getting very groggy. The eyes became so watery it could no longer see. The heart started beating so softly you could no longer detect its beat. The lungs became so short of breath that oxygen was no longer being sent to the blood. It was now apparent that the entire body was dying.

Finally, all the parts of the body admitted defeat and ceded that the arse hole is the most powerful part of the body and should be made the boss. So they called another meeting and all the parts of the body unanimously agreed to appoint the arse hole as the boss, proving once and for all that all you need to be is an arse hole to become boss.

BTW, I have an opt-ed piece on this matter at http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/articleop-ed1_johntan.html

cheers,
john

All shuffle there; all cough in ink;
All wear the carpet with their shoes;
All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbour knows.
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way?

And a question: if the awarding of the degree was against university rules, then can the degree be revoked on these grounds? Or at least, can the decision to award the degree to Lee be reconsidered by the Honorary Degrees Committee under the existing Honorary Degree Rules? (which, one would think, would have the same outcome).