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Friendlyjordies forced to take down video after having his house firebombed

clircle 3y ago
Perp could have just installed dislike button chrome extension
SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
Quite disturbed these days by the state of governance in this country, on so many levels. Things aren't headed in a bad direction, we're well down the road. Where will this country be in 40 years time I wonder?
- Larrikin 3y ago
  This could have been a comment someone said every single year since the tea was thrown in the river in Boston. It could refer to either side of any argument. Make a real point instead of a reactionary statement to a single event.
  - pavel_lishin 3y ago
    > Boston Friendlyjordies is Australian, and SuperNinKenDo lives there as well.
    - Larrikin 3y ago
      Fair point, but it's even more sad that it can apply to any country in the world
    - defrost 3y ago
      Okay then, so howabout: This could have been a comment uttered in Australia every single year since fifteen years after the tea was thrown in the river in Boston. It could refer to either side of any argument. Does that work for you? As a fellow Australian it works for me.
      - SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
        Australia didn't exist for several hundred of those years, so, in all good humour, no.
        Thorentis 3y ago
        Assuming you're acting in good faith, I agree that your original comment was extremely generic, and the point of this person's reply was simply to say "this comment could have been uttered at any point in history". Countries and government are always in flux and crtiscisms of a generic nature are almost always applicable. I don't think the comment was so cryptic as to require my explanation, but I hope it's helpful.
        drc500free 3y ago
        I think more specifically, they were going for "any point since the advent of modern democracy." And obviously before that, but the assumption of who government was responsible to underwent a massive paradigm shift. "Gee, Charlemagne doesn't seem to have the interests of us serfs in mind" wouldn't have been a very interesting conversation back in the day.
        defrost 3y ago
        The assumption of who government was responsible to underwent a massive paradigm shift with the issue of the Magna Carta in June 1215. The case could be made that there was a long slow steady devolution of power in the UK system of Government since 1215 until the present, that was branched, modified and frozen by the US Constitution which has remained in a kind of "little King for four years" stasis since while other countries have continued to evolve government, democracy, elections and representation.
        defrost 3y ago
        Australia has existed as a free continent for at least 35 million years, it has been inhabited for some 70 thousand years, and it had governance with a governor since 15 years after the Boston tea party [0][1]. Which Australia are you thinking of? Quite disturbed these days by the state of governance in this country, on so many levels. - William Kermode, Tasmanian maritime merchant (1836) [3] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [1] https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/about/Pages/1788-to-1810-Early-European-Settlement.aspx https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/about/Pages/1788-to-1810-E... The first settlement, at Sydney, consisted of about 850 convicts and their Marine guards and officers, led by Governor Arthur Phillip. They arrived at Botany Bay in the "First Fleet" of 9 transport ships accompanied by 2 small warships, in January, 1788. [3] https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/02/george-arthur-tasmania-maritime-museum-colonial-statue-satire-protest-art- https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/02/george-arthu...
  - SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
    The original video, and my comment, have no connection to any tea in any harbour. Edit to actually add something to the conversation: I think any (deep thinking) person in Australia will understand my comment: there's a serious breakdown in governance that's going on. I'd say the issues are somewhat generalisable to other Commonwealth countries too, but lately here in Australia it feels like there's an intractable rot that's taken hold. It's more concerning to me than mere incompetence, or thinking that "[other side] bad", it's a breaking down of the political system itself. That said, if you look at Australian history, unsurprisingly for an ex penal colony that was federalised by non-ideologues, its system of governance has not developed in a very wholistic or unproblematic way, basically ever.
    - boffinAudio 3y ago
      Australians need to understand that for as long as they cannot investigate the war crimes of 'their' defense forces, their government will remain corrupt and corruptible to an extreme degree. The Australian people do not have oversight of their military - only the sovereign does, we must ask permission - and in that set of circumstances our government is simply not functioning in our interests, and will not do so in any other regard until that situation is addressed. You cannot expect a government whose crimes are covered up by a foreign sovereign to be willingly subservient to the people they are supposed to serve. The Australian government do not serve the Australian people, period - they serve foreign interests, always. You can see this in every single sphere of Australian governance.
  - jamhan 3y ago
    I think SuperNinKenDo is right. We are witnessing events now which are unprecedented. For example, Australia is now at the point where we have the police force in a (once-)successful western democracy gaslighting for pro-terrorism protestors. The NSW Police just did a press conference [1] where they said "forensic analysis has found no evidence the phrase "gas the Jews" was chanted in videos circulating online from a pro-Palestinian rally at the Sydney Opera House, despite witness statements saying it was." They did not say who performed the forensic analysis. If you have seen/heard the videos (the one I watched was posted on X/Twitter on the 10th October 2023), it is quite obvious that the protestors shouted "gas the Jews" multiple times and it is absolutely extraordinary that anyone would claim otherwise. Here is another example. On the national holiday, Australia Day, January 26th, in Melbourne, there was an "Invasion Day" rally with "thousands of Aboriginal and Palestine flags". Protestors held a large banner with the message "Kill the Australian in your head" (i.e. "kys in minecraft") and calling for destruction of the country. [2] Read the article [3] about this incident that occurred near this protest: An elderly couple had earlier attended the 21-gun Australia Day salute at the Shrine of Remembrance near the city centre. They wore Australian flags in their hats. After that, they found themselves near the path of the protest. A police officer approached the man and said "You are under arrest for inciting a riot". We just had a copycat crime where teens stole cars and rammed cyclists and filmed it for TikTok [4], just like the well-publicized case from the USA last year. Edit: Attempted honour-killings: In Adelaide, Afghan immigrants caught trying to murder a daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j7weY0gkfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j7weY0gkfA [1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/nsw-police-opera-house-protest-video-analysis/103418582 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/nsw-police-opera-hous... [2] https://archive.md/XBblW https://archive.md/XBblW [3] https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/shocked-melbourne-couple-claim-they-were-threatened-with-arrest-on-australia-day-for-doing-one-simple-patriotic-act/ar-BB1hsN9q https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/shocked-melbourne-c... [4] https://7news.com.au/news/teen-boys-arrested-after-cyclists-allegedly-targeted-and-hit-with-car-on-beach-rd-in-melbourne-c-13427322 https://7news.com.au/news/teen-boys-arrested-after-cyclists-...
    - lucubratory 3y ago
      >If you have seen/heard the videos (the one I watched was posted on X/Twitter on the 10th October 2023), it is quite obvious that the protestors shouted "gas the Jews" multiple times and it is absolutely extraordinary that anyone would claim otherwise. The point is that those videos were almost certainly doctored to add that audio, almost certainly by the entity that claims responsibility for promoting the video, the AJA. That chant would have been a crime in Australia, so it became a police matter, and after investigating the video they found it didn't contain evidence of that crime. There were anti-Semitic chants at that rally (which were immediately and fully condemned by the organisers of the rally, who are good people, not anti-Semitic in the slightest, and who work with Jewish people constantly in their anti-Zionist activism), but there is no evidence that the specific chant the AJA alleged and provided likely falsified footage for was one of them.
  - ActorNightly 3y ago
    We are way past empires. With the exception of the middle east, most of the world is generally united. You can mix people from developed countries and everyone would get along. The standard for living has been raised quite a bit, so its totally acceptable to hold government to higher standard.
- mikecoles 3y ago
  Australians are not alone in enduring misery induced by governments that have grown too large and controlling.
- Bluescreenbuddy 3y ago
  put the pearls down.
kiba 3y ago
I am now curious due to the streisand effect.
pavel_lishin 3y ago
I have no idea who this is, or what the context is. Apparently this is an Australian youtuber, who's had his house firebombed on two other separate occasions? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendlyjordies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendlyjordies > Firebombing incidents > On 19 August 2022, Shanks published a video titled Coronation, where he discussed John Barilaro's new employment at Sydney-based property developer Coronation Property Group, and revealed links between Coronation and the Alameddine organised crime family.[49] Police launched investigations into two attempts to burn down Shanks' house in Bondi Beach, one attempt on 17 November 2022 which mistakenly targeted his next door neighbour, and another on 23 November 2022, which successfully burned down his home.[50] In a statement, Shanks' lawyers stated that his home had been "firebombed", and that he was not home at the time of the attacks.[51]
- 000ooo000 3y ago
  For non Aussies: the tldr is that friendlyjordies does some investigative videos going after corruption in Australia, mostly in the state of NSW (state of Sydney). Obviously I can't speak to the quality of the research he and his team do, and his demeanour isn't to my taste, but he seems to have ruffled serious feathers by going after a particularly unlikeable former politician (Barilaro), ClubsNSW (gambling body), etc. At one point in the Barilaro saga, Barilaro seemingly had our 'lone wolf terrorist' police unit focus on friendlyjordies' team. Then you have the firebombing mentioned above.
  - jamhan 3y ago
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    - troad 3y ago
      Why don’t you start a YT channel investigating corruption in the Labor party then? Sounds like you’ve claiming it’s an underserved market segment.
    - daveygravy 3y ago
      And that warrants firebombing?
Georgelemental 3y ago
Remember, the problem of violent organized crime has a solution, one Australia of all places should be familiar with: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-02/el-salvador-election-bukele-seeks-second-term-on-popular-crime-policy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-02/el-salvad...
- mr_toad 3y ago
  Doesn’t really work when the organised criminals are the government and police.
  - 20after4 3y ago
    But they always will be. The people who desire power are the very people who should not have it.
- errantspark 3y ago
  Mostly bad take. The long term solution is to remove the incentives for criminal behavior and enact laws that prevent power concentration, authoritarianism is not stable. That being said I can see the value in an authoritarian clamp down as a way to rapidly improve the situation in a country as far gone as El Salvador, I remain extremely skeptical about the long term efficacy. Australia is not in a situation analogous to El Salvador by any stretch of the imagination.
  - Georgelemental 3y ago
    > remove the incentives for criminal behavior Prosecuting and imprisoning the criminals is a necessary (though not sufficient, I agree) component of this.
  - troad 3y ago
    > remove the incentives for criminal behavior Is that all? Just a post scarcity society then?
  - ActorNightly 3y ago
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desireco42 3y ago
I looked at their youtube account... man, this guy or people are OP, world need more people like them.
moi2388 3y ago
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RecycledEle 3y ago
I have seen the same issues in my area. People who fight curruption are sexually abused by cops. When they complain, they are thrown into mental hospitals. If the complain about that they are shot and killed by the cops. When Western Civilization falls, it will be because the common man sees no reason to fight to keep his local police in place, and is probably looking for ways to help overthrow them. When I was a teenager, I would have responded to a "Red Dawn" scenario by shooting the invaders. Today I would offer then assistance.
hm-nah 3y ago
Is there an archive link to the vid somewhere?
- TonyTrapp 3y ago
  Just searching for Coronation on YouTube brings up several re-uploads immediately. It's also on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/youtube-QGpWvYscSpE https://archive.org/details/youtube-QGpWvYscSpE
- ZunarJ5 3y ago
  https://archive.org/details/youtube-QGpWvYscSpE https://archive.org/details/youtube-QGpWvYscSpE

Perp could have just installed dislike button chrome extension

Quite disturbed these days by the state of governance in this country, on so many levels. Things aren't headed in a bad direction, we're well down the road. Where will this country be in 40 years time I wonder?

Larrikin 3y ago
This could have been a comment someone said every single year since the tea was thrown in the river in Boston. It could refer to either side of any argument. Make a real point instead of a reactionary statement to a single event.
- pavel_lishin 3y ago
  > Boston Friendlyjordies is Australian, and SuperNinKenDo lives there as well.
  - Larrikin 3y ago
    Fair point, but it's even more sad that it can apply to any country in the world
  - defrost 3y ago
    Okay then, so howabout: This could have been a comment uttered in Australia every single year since fifteen years after the tea was thrown in the river in Boston. It could refer to either side of any argument. Does that work for you? As a fellow Australian it works for me.
    - SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
      Australia didn't exist for several hundred of those years, so, in all good humour, no.
      - Thorentis 3y ago
        Assuming you're acting in good faith, I agree that your original comment was extremely generic, and the point of this person's reply was simply to say "this comment could have been uttered at any point in history". Countries and government are always in flux and crtiscisms of a generic nature are almost always applicable. I don't think the comment was so cryptic as to require my explanation, but I hope it's helpful.
        drc500free 3y ago
        I think more specifically, they were going for "any point since the advent of modern democracy." And obviously before that, but the assumption of who government was responsible to underwent a massive paradigm shift. "Gee, Charlemagne doesn't seem to have the interests of us serfs in mind" wouldn't have been a very interesting conversation back in the day.
        defrost 3y ago
        The assumption of who government was responsible to underwent a massive paradigm shift with the issue of the Magna Carta in June 1215. The case could be made that there was a long slow steady devolution of power in the UK system of Government since 1215 until the present, that was branched, modified and frozen by the US Constitution which has remained in a kind of "little King for four years" stasis since while other countries have continued to evolve government, democracy, elections and representation.
      - defrost 3y ago
        Australia has existed as a free continent for at least 35 million years, it has been inhabited for some 70 thousand years, and it had governance with a governor since 15 years after the Boston tea party [0][1]. Which Australia are you thinking of? Quite disturbed these days by the state of governance in this country, on so many levels. - William Kermode, Tasmanian maritime merchant (1836) [3] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [1] https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/about/Pages/1788-to-1810-Early-European-Settlement.aspx https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/about/Pages/1788-to-1810-E... The first settlement, at Sydney, consisted of about 850 convicts and their Marine guards and officers, led by Governor Arthur Phillip. They arrived at Botany Bay in the "First Fleet" of 9 transport ships accompanied by 2 small warships, in January, 1788. [3] https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/02/george-arthur-tasmania-maritime-museum-colonial-statue-satire-protest-art- https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/02/george-arthu...
- SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
  The original video, and my comment, have no connection to any tea in any harbour. Edit to actually add something to the conversation: I think any (deep thinking) person in Australia will understand my comment: there's a serious breakdown in governance that's going on. I'd say the issues are somewhat generalisable to other Commonwealth countries too, but lately here in Australia it feels like there's an intractable rot that's taken hold. It's more concerning to me than mere incompetence, or thinking that "[other side] bad", it's a breaking down of the political system itself. That said, if you look at Australian history, unsurprisingly for an ex penal colony that was federalised by non-ideologues, its system of governance has not developed in a very wholistic or unproblematic way, basically ever.
  - boffinAudio 3y ago
    Australians need to understand that for as long as they cannot investigate the war crimes of 'their' defense forces, their government will remain corrupt and corruptible to an extreme degree. The Australian people do not have oversight of their military - only the sovereign does, we must ask permission - and in that set of circumstances our government is simply not functioning in our interests, and will not do so in any other regard until that situation is addressed. You cannot expect a government whose crimes are covered up by a foreign sovereign to be willingly subservient to the people they are supposed to serve. The Australian government do not serve the Australian people, period - they serve foreign interests, always. You can see this in every single sphere of Australian governance.
- jamhan 3y ago
  I think SuperNinKenDo is right. We are witnessing events now which are unprecedented. For example, Australia is now at the point where we have the police force in a (once-)successful western democracy gaslighting for pro-terrorism protestors. The NSW Police just did a press conference [1] where they said "forensic analysis has found no evidence the phrase "gas the Jews" was chanted in videos circulating online from a pro-Palestinian rally at the Sydney Opera House, despite witness statements saying it was." They did not say who performed the forensic analysis. If you have seen/heard the videos (the one I watched was posted on X/Twitter on the 10th October 2023), it is quite obvious that the protestors shouted "gas the Jews" multiple times and it is absolutely extraordinary that anyone would claim otherwise. Here is another example. On the national holiday, Australia Day, January 26th, in Melbourne, there was an "Invasion Day" rally with "thousands of Aboriginal and Palestine flags". Protestors held a large banner with the message "Kill the Australian in your head" (i.e. "kys in minecraft") and calling for destruction of the country. [2] Read the article [3] about this incident that occurred near this protest: An elderly couple had earlier attended the 21-gun Australia Day salute at the Shrine of Remembrance near the city centre. They wore Australian flags in their hats. After that, they found themselves near the path of the protest. A police officer approached the man and said "You are under arrest for inciting a riot". We just had a copycat crime where teens stole cars and rammed cyclists and filmed it for TikTok [4], just like the well-publicized case from the USA last year. Edit: Attempted honour-killings: In Adelaide, Afghan immigrants caught trying to murder a daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j7weY0gkfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j7weY0gkfA [1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/nsw-police-opera-house-protest-video-analysis/103418582 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/nsw-police-opera-hous... [2] https://archive.md/XBblW https://archive.md/XBblW [3] https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/shocked-melbourne-couple-claim-they-were-threatened-with-arrest-on-australia-day-for-doing-one-simple-patriotic-act/ar-BB1hsN9q https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/shocked-melbourne-c... [4] https://7news.com.au/news/teen-boys-arrested-after-cyclists-allegedly-targeted-and-hit-with-car-on-beach-rd-in-melbourne-c-13427322 https://7news.com.au/news/teen-boys-arrested-after-cyclists-...
  - lucubratory 3y ago
    >If you have seen/heard the videos (the one I watched was posted on X/Twitter on the 10th October 2023), it is quite obvious that the protestors shouted "gas the Jews" multiple times and it is absolutely extraordinary that anyone would claim otherwise. The point is that those videos were almost certainly doctored to add that audio, almost certainly by the entity that claims responsibility for promoting the video, the AJA. That chant would have been a crime in Australia, so it became a police matter, and after investigating the video they found it didn't contain evidence of that crime. There were anti-Semitic chants at that rally (which were immediately and fully condemned by the organisers of the rally, who are good people, not anti-Semitic in the slightest, and who work with Jewish people constantly in their anti-Zionist activism), but there is no evidence that the specific chant the AJA alleged and provided likely falsified footage for was one of them.
- ActorNightly 3y ago
  We are way past empires. With the exception of the middle east, most of the world is generally united. You can mix people from developed countries and everyone would get along. The standard for living has been raised quite a bit, so its totally acceptable to hold government to higher standard.
mikecoles 3y ago
Australians are not alone in enduring misery induced by governments that have grown too large and controlling.
Bluescreenbuddy 3y ago
put the pearls down.

kiba 3y ago

I am now curious due to the streisand effect.

pavel_lishin 3y ago

I have no idea who this is, or what the context is. Apparently this is an Australian youtuber, who's had his house firebombed on two other separate occasions? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendlyjordies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendlyjordies > Firebombing incidents > On 19 August 2022, Shanks published a video titled Coronation, where he discussed John Barilaro's new employment at Sydney-based property developer Coronation Property Group, and revealed links between Coronation and the Alameddine organised crime family.[49] Police launched investigations into two attempts to burn down Shanks' house in Bondi Beach, one attempt on 17 November 2022 which mistakenly targeted his next door neighbour, and another on 23 November 2022, which successfully burned down his home.[50] In a statement, Shanks' lawyers stated that his home had been "firebombed", and that he was not home at the time of the attacks.[51]

000ooo000 3y ago
For non Aussies: the tldr is that friendlyjordies does some investigative videos going after corruption in Australia, mostly in the state of NSW (state of Sydney). Obviously I can't speak to the quality of the research he and his team do, and his demeanour isn't to my taste, but he seems to have ruffled serious feathers by going after a particularly unlikeable former politician (Barilaro), ClubsNSW (gambling body), etc. At one point in the Barilaro saga, Barilaro seemingly had our 'lone wolf terrorist' police unit focus on friendlyjordies' team. Then you have the firebombing mentioned above.
- jamhan 3y ago
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  - troad 3y ago
    Why don’t you start a YT channel investigating corruption in the Labor party then? Sounds like you’ve claiming it’s an underserved market segment.
  - daveygravy 3y ago
    And that warrants firebombing?

Georgelemental 3y ago

Remember, the problem of violent organized crime has a solution, one Australia of all places should be familiar with: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-02/el-salvador-election-bukele-seeks-second-term-on-popular-crime-policy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-02/el-salvad...

mr_toad 3y ago
Doesn’t really work when the organised criminals are the government and police.
- 20after4 3y ago
  But they always will be. The people who desire power are the very people who should not have it.
errantspark 3y ago
Mostly bad take. The long term solution is to remove the incentives for criminal behavior and enact laws that prevent power concentration, authoritarianism is not stable. That being said I can see the value in an authoritarian clamp down as a way to rapidly improve the situation in a country as far gone as El Salvador, I remain extremely skeptical about the long term efficacy. Australia is not in a situation analogous to El Salvador by any stretch of the imagination.
- Georgelemental 3y ago
  > remove the incentives for criminal behavior Prosecuting and imprisoning the criminals is a necessary (though not sufficient, I agree) component of this.
- troad 3y ago
  > remove the incentives for criminal behavior Is that all? Just a post scarcity society then?
- ActorNightly 3y ago

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desireco42 3y ago

I looked at their youtube account... man, this guy or people are OP, world need more people like them.

moi2388 3y ago

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RecycledEle 3y ago

I have seen the same issues in my area. People who fight curruption are sexually abused by cops. When they complain, they are thrown into mental hospitals. If the complain about that they are shot and killed by the cops. When Western Civilization falls, it will be because the common man sees no reason to fight to keep his local police in place, and is probably looking for ways to help overthrow them. When I was a teenager, I would have responded to a "Red Dawn" scenario by shooting the invaders. Today I would offer then assistance.

hm-nah 3y ago

Is there an archive link to the vid somewhere?

TonyTrapp 3y ago
Just searching for Coronation on YouTube brings up several re-uploads immediately. It's also on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/youtube-QGpWvYscSpE https://archive.org/details/youtube-QGpWvYscSpE
ZunarJ5 3y ago
https://archive.org/details/youtube-QGpWvYscSpE https://archive.org/details/youtube-QGpWvYscSpE