Tool of the Year 2008

First of all-apologies to anybody who reads this blog. For the past two weeks I've been doing surveillance work down at Lorne, to see if a barracks can be built without the knowledge of the civilians (long answer short: yes, but only if the civilians are comatose or dead).

But now, onto life:
GrodsCorp is running an 'UnAustralian of the Year' contest. Captain Lefty has already given us his views. Personally, I can't decide who'd be U.A.Y. - however, I do know who'd make 'Tool of the Year.'

A beaming, theocratic chappy who runs by the title of General Fred 'Randall' Nile.

Here why:

Conservative MP Fred Nile says he wants topless bathing banned in NSW to protect Sydney's Muslim and Asian communities.

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"Our beaches should be a place where no one is offended, whether it's their religious or cultural views," he said.

That General Nile opposes topless sunbathing is irrelevant to his tooliness. What matters it that he is citing potentially offended Muslims as the reason for supporting the bill. For those in the dark on Aussie Fundies, Nile has, in the past:

- called for Muslims to banned from entering the country.

- displayed an inability to comprehend acts of evil perpetrated by non-Muslims.

- shown total ignorance of the hypocrisy for stating that Australian laws should be based on the Bible, but not on the Qur'an.*

Hence, I nominate Fred Nile as Tool of the Year 2008 for actually believing that he could get away with pretending to care about Muslims' sensibilities.

FDB! also comments on the General.

*if that sentence sounds like I want Sharia Law in Australia, I'll clarify: I don't want any religious laws anywhere.