60 minutes and Channel 9 will be facing an ASIC investigation.

In my view, there should also be a Federal Police investigation into the debacle.

What Channel 9 have done is prey on the vulnerabilities of Sally Faulkner. This has cost her all opportunity of seeking custody over her children because Channel 9 have bribed the father to drop charges in return for sally forfeiting any right over her children.

It is deplorable in my opinion.

Sally should have approached DFAT as the first step who could have communicated with Lebanon's Department of Foreign Affairs.

To not do this, and have Channel 9 violate serious laws in Lebanon for a story is just criminal.

It literally is, but let's see if anything is done about it. Surely it's at a stage where federal police should be doing an investigation.

Yes well I fear you are fundamentally right.

Our legal system in Australia wrt Family matters and legal custody of children, strongly favors the mother. Therefore, Australian Law is just as much flawed as the Lebanese system.

As a Father, faced with the possibility of losing access to my children, I probably feel that the actions taken by the Father in this case are understandable as it is also understandable that a Mother like Sally Faulkner will try to recover them. She just went about it the wrong way, and for that I blame Channel 9 more than anyone. They have to answer to this, as no one is above the law.

If a law is violated in Lebanon by Australians, then they should also be accountable to Australian Law because kidnapping is illegal in Australia as well.

Edited by Aikhme: 22/4/2016 03:21:38 PM

That was quick, I see Nine have already started using the whole we are journalists just doing our job angle. Last time I checked it was still illegal to pay a group of thugs to kidnap a couple of kids. :roll: Pull the program off air and send in the AFP asap.

The fact is he took his kids away from their mother and Australia on the proviso he would return them, and all you can do is play armchair lawyer and defend him, despite his grubby, malicious actions. Just because some countries dont have adequate laws to deal with international child theft and are systematically sexist agaisnt women doesnt mean he's got no shit on him. His actions were dispicable and rather than consulting your little legal book for difference between right and wrong I suggest you try using your conscience.

Once again if its fine for men to steal their children and hide behind local juridisction to deny fair access for the mothers, then the reverse is also true.

Sadly some have been consumed and brainwashed by legal doctrine and lost all perspective on morality and common sense. A mother has her kids stolen by the father and she is branded a "criminal" for trying to retrieve them? He was the one who lied, deceived, manipulated etc but instead she is the baddie, due to some mindless respect for Lebanons laws? Morals of course come into play where the laws are sexist, inadequate, antiquated and often corrupt.

Come on now...You ought to know what mainstream sentiment is of Arabs in Australia by now...
..they will side with the blonde haired , blue eyed Australian woman no matter what.
But in saying that, the Father is a total contrast as to what Australians would expect of a stereotypical Arab.
He speaks in an American accent and sounds civil....so that softens the perception of his cause to some extent.

Edited by socawho: 25/4/2016 11:02:57 PM

SocaWho has achieved self-awareness.

I've always been rational and offer balanced arguments...unlike those who are blinded by ideology to rationalise their arguments rather than use common sense.

Rational, balanced, sensible and blinded by nothing... you're an example to us all mate.

Why do you think it wont happen?
Do the maths...its a numbers game? or did you fail at Maths.
Europe has just had a 1 million refugee intake of mainly Muslim people, mainly men. And you look at Belgium which has a rapidly rising Muslim population and you think its not rational to mention this.
Regardless of whether people like it or not , it is not fact? ...or do you like manipulate stats to suit your political persuasion.

Its the problem with you Communists have...you won't call Black as Black and White as White for what it is....only when it suits your argument.

If I said to you the population of China is 1.3 Billion, then your Left Wing brain would compute..."does this question go against my Left Wing persuasion" and if does then should I lie or deny this statistic since it goes against my political agenda.


Edited by socawho: 25/4/2016 11:13:39 PM

This is the wrong thread for this, but beyond the litany of errors in your above statement, it's pretty obvious that you simply don't understand what a caliphate is. Your very premise is undermined by your own ignorance.

1. You just lectured us all on how rational and balanced you are, and how you're not blinded by ideology... and yet you call someone who disagrees with you a Communist.

2. I assumed most people addressed this kind of shit in primary school, but if you think that the world is black and white then you're a simpleton, nothing more. This post just confirms your biggest problem - a total inability to understand or even accept the possibility of nuance.

[quote=TheDecider]This is the wrong thread for this, but beyond the litany of errors in your above statement, it's pretty obvious that you simply don't understand what a caliphate is.[size=8] Your very premise is undermined by your own ignorance.[/size]/quote]
I was waiting for you to mention this.



Edited by socawho: 25/4/2016 11:14:46 PM

You shouldn't throw words around that you don't understand the meaning of. It's painfully clear that you don't know what a caliphate is; stop using the word.

Whatever Murdoch Rags. :-"

You only agree with those who apply the same definition of anything that is in line with your political persuasion.

Quite blatantly obvious.

So... you have nothing?

I'm not Murdoch Rags, everyone else on this forum worked out who I am in a matter of days (if not hours), so I'm amazed you still haven't caught on.

What do you think a Caliphate is? Enlighten me.

And if all else fails, pretend the argument never happened.

Typical SocaWho.

Pots and kettles, my friend.

Jeez, he ain't a fan of you. I'm just a Marxist, apparently. You're a full-blown Commie?

Senator McCarthy is dragging us reds out from under the bed :lol:

:lol: If that makes me Arthur Miller I'm not complaining.

I told you that he was connected to Hezbollah days before the media got hold of it, now you claim it is just to make them look good?

I was right, and there will be political concessions to Hezbollah, just admit it.

Why have a multi at all?

You're Notorganic right?

Reads more like Humbert to me.

FMD this multi thing annoys the fuck out of me.

Decider is JP lol.

-PB

But they didn't, most have sided with the poor innocent Arab father. The backlash against 60 minutes and the mother involved has been loud and strong, hardly anyone has come out and condemned the father. Sadly there's a paranoia manifesting in our society where everything can be reduced to gender, race and sexuality and we end up in this crude tug of war where peoples perspectives on right and wrong are warped by their petty ignorant prejudices. Perhaps people like yourself find it difficult to take the side of a privileged white women over a poor disadvantaged Arab man lest you valid the white privileged power structures or some stupid shit like that.

Lebanon teaching Australia that men have rights too... http://www.smh.com.au/world/60-minutes-kidnapping-scandal-sally-faulkner-adam-whittington-to-face-kidnap-charges-report-20160630-gpvwvq.html