Fires

I'm really surprised and stunned at the current death count in the "Bush Fires" just north of Melbourne in Australia. Yesterday i checked out the news and it was at 108 people, at the moment the figures is as high as 170.

Sad thing is that arsonists might have added to the fires too which is not only disturbing but really frightening to think there are people that are out there that would do that for their own amusement.

As some of you probably know i spent most of my time in Melbourne when i was in Australia for 6 months, i've no doubt i drove through the area that the fires are burning north of the city. The thing that doesn't surprise me about the current situation is the weather, the temperatures were reaching 47C (116F) the other day and that the city itself hadn't had any rain for 8 weeks. As a result of the heatwave they are having (and have had for the last decade) the water reserves in the south east coast of the country is alarmingly low. I just wonder what water the firemen have been using to tackle the fires.

Hopefully the fires don't claim any more lives and they are put out very soon, i also hope that the area gets a crap load of rain over the coming days and weeks. I have my doubts about that though unfortunately.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 878106.stm

Australia counts deadly fire toll, BBC News, Monday, 9 February 2009

Australian bush-fires: mass manslaughter by the Queen

Another royal disaster - this time in Australia - 170 deaths in bush fires which a good president of an Australian republic should have prevented.

This story merits attention because human lives have been lost which could have been saved and it is important to save lives wherever possible. There is an absolutely urgent need to explain to the world political community how the failure of Queen Elizabeth as head of state is leading to one disaster after another and this news story is simply the latest disaster for which she as head of state is responsible.

If people can be educated about the failure of the Queen, as I am trying to do here and in my website, then political action can be taken to have revolutions in countries like Australia (and Scotland where I stay) to change these Windsor realm countries into republics which can then elect a competent president as head of state who can then insist on action to save lives.

The Queen is to blame for these fire deaths. Why?

• The Queen allowed a poor Australian Prime Minster - Rudd who did not prevent the bush-fire deaths.
• The Queen allowed the usual suppression of Rudd's critics
• The Queen allowed poor building regulations and/or poor enforcement of regulations which should be making houses and their immediate location fire-proof. Instead, trees and other tinder have been allowed too close to houses, houses built which burn too easily and so on
• The Queen allowed arsonists to roam the country free the same as scum are allowed to roam free here in Scotland and other countries the Queen rules.

So people should fear that the Queen, Prince Charles and the royalists, until they are stopped, are going to cause many more deaths of innocent people.

The Australian armed forces shouldn't fear the Queen though - they should enforce a ban on the royal family visiting Australia and arrest the Queen's Governor General as a first step towards an Australian republic.

Wow that whole shpeal almost makes me wonder if these arsonists started the fires in an attempt to make this queen look bad.



So the queen is responsible for home owners not being smart enough to take care of their property ?

That doesn't make any sense to me.

I didn't suggest that and it is a perverse conclusion from my text.


Well some people have heard of building regulations - legal requirements which must be designed in to the design of a house by architects and properly implemented by builders.

Simple things mostly - requiring that the house is safe to live in, not built as fire-death-traps - that kind of thing.

Now obviously in a region where bush-fires occur building regulations should be appropriate for the region.

Now either the Australian regulations do not require the sort of measures I have outlined to make the buildings reasonably bush-fire proof or they do require such measures but they are not enforced.

Getting building regulations right and properly enforced is a matter of law and politics.

Now when politics is suppressed and made undemocratic, as it always is under the Queen ...

- members of parliament suppressed, threatened or actually excluded from parliament if they annoy the majority of MPs.

- the media strictly controlled so as to avoid embarrassment to politicians and state officials

- the right to protest on unusual single issues like building regulations suppressed - persons arrested, jailed or sectioned in mental hospitals ("must be mad" or whatever the officials say when someone really protests so loudly and in a high-profile way which is so embarrassing to the powers that be that he or she cannot simply be ignored)

... then when conditions like this apply then the state is acting undemocratically and the failure is a failure of the head of state who has failed to remove the ministers or judges or police chiefs or whoever is responsible for suppressing democracy.

In Australia, in this case, the Queen simply by remaining as head of state yet not doing the duty of head of state which was to remove Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister is to blame.

The main reason that a good president of an Australian republic did not remove Rudd for incompetence and suppressing democracy was that the Queen as monarch is in the way of a republic, as always.

Now I KNOW none of this makes any sense to you. It simply is the case that most people are brainwashed by the media into misunderstanding what is wrong with the monarchy - all Australians are usually told is that the problem with the Queen is said to be that she is "not Australian" and that, so you are told, is the problem. Not so.

I am sorry. You are ignorant and you have been deceived. There is a real job of president and head of state to be done and it involves sacking rotten politicians from being ministers and defending the right of the people to a proper democracy rather than an elected dictatorship.

The hatred of republicanism amongst the political elite in the Queen's realm countries like Australia and Britain is why many Australian politicians tried to fob Australians off with a bad system of a rotten so-called "republic" whereby the parliament would elect the president - so the parliament could stop a good president sacking a bad prime minister and insisting on free speech inside and outside parliament, even when that free speech is extremely offensive to the stupid majority of MPs.

The president needs to be elected independently of the parliament - the parliament's role is sometimes to impeach the president on a 2/3 or 3/4 vote, remove the president from office and have a new election for president.

A parliament which elects a president is still a majority dictatorship, not a democracy which means "government by all the people".

Gosh - a lot to explain!

The bottom line is if these people would have quit watching TV and worrying about what everyone else is doing, and took care of their houses and neighborhoods, their houses wouldn't be getting burned down now.

Yes there are people who do take care of their stuff and are getting the spitty end of the stick here, but it's not the queens fault.

If your neighbor is a jerkoff and doesn't take care of their property, ride their ass or move to a better kept area.

Blaming the queen is a cop out. Most likely a cop out by people who didn't take care of their home and want to point the finger somewhere, or people who have an agenda for overthrowing the queen.

If you want to blame someone, blame god, (s)he invented fire in the first place.

Wrong. If your next-door neighbour is storing 100 tonnes of dynamite in his back-garden which is endangering your property as well as his own, it is a matter for law and regulation and enforcement and at the end of the day, the guy goes to jail for endangering the community.

The same should apply to neighbours who have trees too close to their house and yours which pose a fire risk to your property. Cut the trees down or go to jail.

Now where the Queen is to blame is royalists like to go with the flow of the lazy majority who don't always see the need for enforcing new legislation, unless there has just been a big disaster with lots of lives lost, then even the lazy majority sit up for a wee while.

So if a majority in parliament doesn't see the need for new regulations - like you don't - then the duty of the head of state is to allow sufficient freedom of speech to really speak out and protest and embarrass the lazy majority so that they have no option but to notice continuously that someone thinks there is a problem that they need to change their mind about.

With a Queen and a kingdom, that protestor goes to prison or mental hospital and the lazy majority go back to sleep and the houses burn down - by then of course, the outspoken person maybe has been killed in prison by a violent fellow prisoner or had his mind poisoned by compulsory drugs in a mental hospital.

Now in a democracy, that annoying person is there ALL THE TIME and stupid, lazy majority can't get rid of him because he is protected in his constitutional rights by a good president - and then eventually, the lazy majority start to think about the issue - they change the regulations - and the houses don't burn down any more.

Hence a democracy is a hell of lot more noisy and annoying for lazy people, but it works out safer in the end.

Peter, i don't appreciate reading what you are typing as it is a rediculous opinion and one that i never even asked for.

The Australians got to vote on whether or not they should become a rebublic some years ago and as you can see they obviously voted against.

By no means am i fan of the royal family, however i just don't really see the link between them and the deaths of these people in Australia. Some of the things she's alleged to have done is actually pretty funny to read.

Peter, we have a name for people like you: a bloody drongo.

This should not be a political discussion, and although you are entitled to an opinion you cannot blame the Queen or anyone in a position of power for absolutely everything that goes wrong. You also seem to think that the Queen spends her time thinking of new ways to destroy that 'nasty fly-ridden country where we sent all the bad people' ... the truth of the matter is that the Queen actually says very little in regards to running Australia. That is what the Australian Government is for (if it works or not, and the Queen is not to blame if the Australian Government doesn't work, either). I for one happen to think that our election process successfully appoints the more favoured candidate, which for over a year has been Kevin Rudd. If we thought he was to blame you'd hear about it, because his head would be on a stick on Fort Denison.

You also have very little understanding of how such fires work in Australia. Our land is very dry, and as such everything burns that much more easily than it would in most of Europe. We also have hot summers and winters that you'd probably call summers. Australia is meant to burn - it rejuvenates the land by opening and spreading seeds.

If we had all these fire safety standards that you're yapping on about it wouldn't matter. 750 homes would still be a pile of ash, twisted corrugated iron and a lone chimney, like my grandmother's was on Christmas Day in 2001, and 181 (possibly more) would still be dead.

Our fires, when the conditions for them are favourable, simply cannot be easily contained. They spread so fast - I've heard of some exceeding 130km/h - and they grow to phenomenal sizes.

On Christmas morning, 2001, my grandmother left home for her daughter's house ... there was a small bushfire many kilometres (and a gorge) away. By 2pm her house was burning (as well as half of the town), one of her cats was dead and the other was cowering in one of the only places to have survived, the neighbour's garage. The neighbour on the other side was a volunteer firefighter, who had made his home as fire-safe as possible. It burned, too.

The only bushfire safety regulation that would be effective would make it mandatory that all houses are built out of metre-thick concrete external walls and are built at least ten metres underground.

Drongo.

Peter thats quite a rant. I wonder where your getting your facts? In the United States we hear very little about how the United Kingdom/Commonwealth work, but even in this sheltered environment, I know that the Monarch reigns in title only and has very little to do with the day to day running of the UK let alone the Commonwealth states. In fact, last I checked, the Queen is not even allowed to enter the Parliament without an invitation and has very little political power outside of her ability to dissolve Parliament.

Your argument makes about as much sense as me complaining that a boulder fell out of the sky and crushed my house after you did nothing to restrict the rules of physics. Now you and I both know that you have no real power to change the affects of gravity so I can hardly blame you for not trying to stop the rock from crushing my house. Yet your making the same claim about the Queen. Your holding someone to account for not taking action when they have no real power to do so.

There's a big difference between explosives and over-growth genius.

Law is designed to protect everyone from the malicious, not moronic.

Should we start jailing people who climb a tree to get a better look at the thunder clouds ?


That's brilliant, start new regulations that everyone is just going to ignore, because they do so well with living with the current regulations. Because that always works.


LOL you watch too much television.

It's the child molesters and women killers that get raped and killed in prison.


Right, because the new regulations in California worked great for the wild fires that swept through recently.



Which comes down to if your neighbors house is a fire hazzard, get on his ass instead of crying to the queen.

Hi SB. I just noticed your location - Edinburgh, Scotland. Hey we are practically neighbours - 170 miles at the crow flies, less than 200 miles by road!





Well it is a public forum so my comments are not aimed at you particularly but for all Australians and anyone who wants to protect people from disasters allowed to happen by the Queen.


Well that vote is exactly what I am talking about above and I quote myself in the next quote below. You were not offered a proper republic in that vote. It was a rigged referendum and the Australian people were cheated. Here again is what I said above.




Well I explained the link in my posts above. However because what I am saying is significantly different from what the people on your TV tell you about the monarchy you can't understand what I am saying.

I am sorry SB but you have been brainwashed by your education and TV you have watched. Even many Americans are to some extent brainwashed into thinking favourably about the Queen.

There is a global crisis in political education caused by decades of state control of education and broadcasting.

Only now with the advent of the internet can intelligent educators such as myself start explaining the truth. However, it is hard work and the chances are that only when what I am saying appears on TV will most people actually be able to understand.

How could Goerge Bush cause the fires in California last Year? He should feel ashamed for that... stupid lightning... if only he regulated how closely the trees grew to each other, then maybe the trees wouldn't have passed on the fire. Stupid government... we don't need it anyway, only meddling with human affairs and trying to keep the suspicious crowd safe. stupid, stupid, stupid!

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You don't know people like me. People like me are few and far between.


Deaths which could have been avoided had the state ruled competently should be blamed on the head of state.


I did not suggest that. That is a perverse conclusion from what I have written.


It is not what is said but what is done. If you are being strangled what does it matter what the strangler says? It matters naught. What matters is that the strangler is obstructing the flow of air to your lungs and the flow of oxygenated blood to your brain. Should the strangler recite the Lord's Prayer while doing so it would make no difference.

The Queen by simply remaining as monarch of Australia is preventing Australians electing a good president of an Australian republic. It doesn't matter if she says nothing. By remaining she is preventing a president speaking as head of state of Australia - that is all the difference she needs to make to destroy Australian democracy and allow mass deaths in bush-fires and other disasters.


Well I presume you Australians have heard the phrase "Her Majesty's Government'? The Queen appoints the Prime Minister, or perhaps she gets her Governor General to do it and she appoints the Governor General which amounts to the same thing.

Therefore the Queen is exactly to blame for the Australian Government. If the head of state appoints a poor Prime Minister then the head of state is to blame for the failures of the Prime Minister.

Why are poor candidates favoured by the population? Mainly because poor candidates are the ones promoted by the broadcasters, controlled by officials who have gained power thanks to the monarchy and who don't want politicians who are going to remove the monarchy and replace it with a proper republic.

Of course Rudd as Prime Minister is to blame. Don't tell me that trees and bushes and other tinder which could spread a fire to a wooden house could not have been cleared from the vicinity of houses in one year.

It takes more than embers floating on the wind to set alight a wooden house. Embers and sparks can only set alight tinder - dried leaves, grasses and twigs. It takes a lot of radiant heat from a neighbouring fire to set a solid house constructed from planks of wood on fire. If you have nothing but concrete or ploughed earth or sand or dirt or other incombustible surface material surrounding even a wooden house then it is highly unlikely to catch fire from sparks and embers floating in on the wind.

It could have been done easily in one year. Rudd did not order it. He did not push such legislation through the parliament. He did not declare a state of emergency. He did nothing.

Doing that alone would not save the bush from fires but it would have saved houses and towns from bush-fires.

The head of Rudd on a stick would do you no good if the next PM was also appointed by Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles or anyone except an elected president of a republic.

It is the Queen's head we need to put on a stick, or send her and her family into exile. Isn't there a small island that Napoleon was sent to - there will do.


Complete rubbish. You are just being ridiculous.

I have seen on TV pictures of burnt out houses in Australia and they had burnt out trees right next to them.

So cut the trees and bushes down, cut the grass back or even plough it under. Apply herbicide to stop it growing back. If you want style, lay concrete or pebbles around the houses. Lots of options there.

Also having a sufficient supply of water and fire hoses (and pumps where the pressure is low or where water comes from a local tank) and such like to put out fires would be a good fire-safety measure too. Just in case all other measures don't work.

No doubt there are also expensive fire-retardant coverings to apply to the outside of wooden houses as well but removing things that burn from the vicinity would be the easiest and cheapest way to go I believe.

Brick or concrete houses don't catch fire from the outside. That is why they use brick to construct fire chimneys even in wooden houses.

The science of stopping things catching fire is understood (not by you obviously) but what is lacking is the political will to do what needs to be done - writing new regulations and fining or imprisoning reckless people who don't follow the new regulations.

I've got a few points to make here...

1) You're Scottish telling an Australian that the Australian doesn't know his country

2) Have you considered that for everything that goes wrong, it is easy to blame the government? Just think of all of the conspiracy theories for many deaths in America... the "truth" behind the Kennedy Assassination... the "truth" behind the 9-11 incident... whatever

3) Flaming other people and Australians about their "lack" of knowledge and their "perverse" way of concluding your rants here would accomplish nothing but more flaming and perverse way of concluding your ever continues rant of others being 50 times dumber than you...

4) Obviously, you are one of the conspiracy theorist and believers...

You are right at how to prevent fires and whatever anyone could do that... see a fire put some water no fire ta*da *applaud*

What to do to prevent fires from spreading... move anything flammable away from the source of fire... gosh Einstein, thanks for mentioning. I'll move that 50 tank of gasoline away from my house, because I totally expect an arsonist to come by anytime now!

I wonder which source is better... T.V. or seeing it first hand... whatever, you being the genius here and the smart conspiracy theorist would be able to figure that one out.


Anyway, why the hell, did this topic go way out of hand? All it started out as being is a simple statement of what was happening in Australia and not a political rant coming from people quarter of the world away.

And there's a good reason for that.



Hypocritical. You can't detect sarcasm really easy can you, Drongo?

I suppose if I ever have the unpleasant experience of visiting your home I would see:
- All trees/bushes and vegetation cleared for at least 100m around
- Several lightning rods
- Bat-mobile-style armour to cover your house in case there is an explosion, nuclear warfare, or aircraft incident
- A bunker, just in case
- Retaining walls 100m high in case of land-slides/floods
- Super glue so you can glue the earth back together if there is an earthquake
- Bullet-proof glass (you should invest in this - there are likely some half-maniacs who will over-react to you senseless rants and try to assassinate you ... I say half-maniacs because at least they have decent common sense, you, however, seem to be a full maniac)
- Icebergs. What weapons they'll be - sinking the "unsinkable" and all. Well, you probably think the Titanic didn't actually sink and was stolen, stripped and sold for parts by the Royals, and that the titanic we see from "real" footage is actually a model in a dark, smoke filled room with blue lights.
-Spam filters. No wonder people spammed and prank called you.