I no longer respond to the Marilyn who attack reality. There is no way Marilyn has consideration for the laws enacted by Rudd/Gillard which lured people to their deaths and permitted well heeled country shoppers to abuse our hospitality and usurp the places of genuine refugees.

Caring people do not pander to criminal elements and there is no doubt Labor/Green policy has lined the pockets of people smugglers and threatened the security of this Nation.

I doubt the Marilyn's who inhabit our Country have genuine concern or real compassion and will continue to ignore them.

Michael this tripe is best filed in the WPB.

Even genuine refuges are illegal entrants if they attempt entry without visas. They know it, and since many have relatives in Australia those families are all conspiring to subvert the processes needed for coming in legally. That is unfair to many in Australia who are trying to bring relatives in. There really is a queue also in refugee camps. If you believe in no borders you have to convince the government of Australia and indeed the rest of the world because Peace depends on recognized borders. These people may indeed have a genuine story to tell but experience has found many have not.

Breaking the law is illegal no matter your skin colour or racial heritage.

Entering territorial waters without a valid visa or entry permit is breaking the law and is therefore illegal. If you tried it at an airport you would be on the next plane back.

The Lady-who-is-no-Monroe still sounds like someone who others would stereotype as a dumb blonde. As I don't believe in stereotypes I would just say her comments were dumb and offensive.

Unfortunately Michael, we have too many Marilyns....usually left wing feminist weirdos I for one am tired of the rubbish that has been bought to our country in the last 30 years....Hence the violence in western Sydney and in other states as well but not as often....Under Labor they have been able to flout our laws......Thank God for Campbell Newman, they wont want to come to Qld........We must concentrate on bringing good quality people here I know of a Zimbarbwian Dentist who took 8 years to have his application approved, and he has never asked for one cent from the Govt, yet the Centrelink seekers are here in droves

Not difficult to pick; Marilyn Shepherd and inflammatory speech go hand in hand.This woman has been at it for years. I read somewhere ( maybe she said it )she is confined to a wheelchair - all she does is fire off provocative missives to the next target.Quite correct Colours - absolute waste of time trying to reason with such an individual.Pathetic waste of space.

Good on you Michael. There are too many Marilyn's in this country just look at what is happening here. There is nothing racist about this website, the problem is they are illegal trying to invade our country. If it is good enough for other potential immigrants to come via the legal channels why do the illegal ones think they are so special.

I believe that until we can house our own homeless families we shouldn't be allowing anyone in.
Besides the more people living here the more carbon emissions we will release into the air. Heaven forbid we wouldn't want that now would we. Look at the fuel used by the planes to take them back to where they came from. One would expect to see Al Gore using a canoe to get around instead of jetting here & there, after all he is such a believer.

Shaz does such a good job Michael at least someone keeps us well informed.

Michael

For information, the following was published in The Age on 4 May 2009:

THE POLITICS OF MARILYN SHEPHERD

I first came across Marilyn Shepherd when reading the readers' comments that appear at the foot of some articles in Israel's Haaretz Newspaper. The posters in this section are an eclectic group who mostly correspond in strident fashion pushing various points of view - many of them particularly extreme. Included in this group are some mean and nasty types with axes to grind and they push their agendas with … shall we say … an unhealthy disregard for the truth.

Haaretz apparently moderates its readers' comments and I suppose it's a tribute to Israel's democracy that a newspaper gives space to a diverse group of anti-Semitic types, Holocaust deniers, Hamas mouthpieces (as well as extremists on the Israeli side) to express their views. After all, they do have Amira Haas and Gideon Levy on the payroll. In any event, you won't see such tolerance and openness in any equivalent Palestinian publication.

Marilyn always seems to stand out: not only because she's an Aussie but because of the systemic and pervasive racism that drips largely from her acidic computer keyboard. I can imagine her skulking in some cellar, tapping gleefully away inventing another imaginary crime perpetrated by those nasty Jews against those poor Palestinians.

Since she first came to my notice, I've followed Marilyn's vicious, racist hyperbole through a variety of media and internet outlets. Hatred of Jews has become her virtual trademark. I have also discovered that Marilyn Shepherd is one of very few people to have been banned from blogs at both extremes of the political spectrum as well as plenty in the middle.

Based in South Australia, Marilyn visibly has anger management issues. Scarcely a post of hers isn't peppered with swear words, calling others "wankers", telling them to "piss off" or similar comments which would make the most foul-mouthed brickie blush but are standard for the 56 year old "lady".

Hi Michael you can back it London to a brick its this person https://twitter.com/MarilynShephe15. She has been banned from most conservative blogs and a pretty nasty person with a foul mouth. A few years ago she, along with approx 7 kids, were all on the dole and or invalid pension. She has been peddling her filth for some years now. If you like to feed the troll go for it. personally she's not worth it. She has also changed her 'online' name many times to avoid being bagged. One of her favourite tricks is to post a reply after her comment saying how right the previous comment was.

I have never read you inciting race hatred Michael (or Shaz).

I have seen many races of illegal immigrants in pictures on this forum, but never a derogatory or racist comment I've seen.

Africans, Somalis, Iranians, Afghans, Asians, Europeans... many races come here illegally.

The thing they have in common is not race, but a dangerous and violent RELIGIOUS totalitarian ideology. ISLAM. MUSLIM.

My brother was in a religious sect many years ago called the Children of God. We knew how unsettling and dangerous this religion was to our family, and hated the religion. We hated the ideology behind it, and the child sexual abuse that went with it. Never, ever, did we hate the people or the different races of people who joined. What we did do is want the RELIGION dismantled.

There is only 1 Qur'an which says to ALL Muslims to hate anyone who is not Muslim. This ideology has to be gone from a Christian country, from OUR country.

Race hatred is an entirely different thing.

Colours may have a point Michael. There are other sites where I often publish the link to michaelsmithnews.com because I am proud to be associated with your work as you are succeeding in drawing attention to the activity of corrupt shonks still being ignored for the most part by main stream media. One of those sites is notorious for for the ranting of trolls who are not willing to identify themselves. While I accept many posters on electronic soapboxes, have a legitimate reason for wanting to remain anonymous. Unidentified posters who promulgate aggressive or accusatory comments will often whinge about being moderated. It is a simple enough, do not post comments you are not willing to sign your birth name to. That tends to influence some restraint among rational people. Edward James

If Marilyn has nothing constructive to say or uses inflammatory language you have every right to block her, Michael, because it's your blog. Let her start up her own.

As an ealier poster noted, she's been at it for years and is a complete pain in the neck.

David Marr on 'Insiders' on Sunday was asking what law these people had broken to justify them being called 'illegal'!!

Maggie, I agree 100% . Congratulations , very well put.

Wonder if they are a part of the Socialist Alliance as they seem to be making a fair bit of noise lately and are trying to stir up trouble in a manner of places ..as their Ranga-ness is no longer is charge.

Marilyn is Gillard, like when Gillard put on her glasses trying to make her self look important but looked dumb.

I think it's the law of... "ya can't come here unless you go through customs, ya can't come here unless you have a visa and identification papers, and you can't come here ILLEGALLY!!!"

What a big fat sausage head Marr is...

Yes its the one and only marilyn sheperd of letters to the editor of the Adelaide Advertiser fame, lucky you Michael seems you have arrived, now all you need is kon kourteff to start writing to you now, expressing his deep and undying love and loyalty for julia and the the labor party as he does almost daily, dont take them seriously Michael nobody in south Australia does.

Michael,
This story has unfolded over the last week with one of my daughters (all 6 we educated at a good Catholic college)and all became vegetarian tree huggers among other things and most have moved on and had families and gained some life experiences.The only husband on the tools runs a plumbing business and is being persecuted by the unions forcing him to join and all his workers or the job stops. The union rep has been intimidating the apprentices and workers for weeks. At the same time my daughter posts a comment on Facebook supporting Get Up on the illegal boat people.
Of course Dad took pains to tell daughter the very union persecuting her husband was a major funder of Get Up.
Disbelief Dad can not be right. The average person has no idea how it all fits together and the ABC does,t help

Michael, people such as this I think we need to realize are ignorant, a bit sloooow, dim witted and so it goes on. Anyone who watched your concern and interest in the plight of REAL refugees trying to come here via LEGAL means would realise what ding bats Marilyn and the likes are.

'racist' is one of the 'new' fashion terms that seem to thrown around in order to try and keep people from stating the truth. Quite frankly I think a greater majority of us have had a gut full of it and want some plain common sense reality to return.

Funny how, in order to play the race-hate card, you need to define a person as being of another race. You need to acknowledge his skin colour and/or language barriers and make your judgement about his plight based on your own preconceived notions and stereotypes about the society and culture he is fleeing from. If you don't, then all you've got is a man on a leaky boat. I guess the irony of such hypocrisy is lost on racists like Marilyn ;)

I would concur with most other postings. Marilyn's opinion should be respected and I would allow her comments. Gotta be fair and balanced. However I would not tolerate incivility, bad manners or language or libelous remarks.

Some sites, like WUWT will publish an edited version of the posting with either all the content or just the offensive bits removed, eg (snip - libellous) I like this, you can't be accused of censorship, you have not published some of my comments probably because of possible libel (though it is unlikely I wasn't in fact factual or hadn't added the obligatory alleged) but it would have been nice to see you publish the fact of the submission but without the content for the reason noted.

I would also validate the email address she provided, personally I would not allow any content from unvalidated e-mail addresses (snip - unvalidated email)

' ....56 year old """"lady"""" ? You seem to be infatuated with her...

Here is a group that were harrassing Joe Hockey and Christopher Pyne.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/students_menace_hockey_to_grab_more_of_your_money/

Did you catch this news yesterday
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/gangs-rort-a-sick-joke-police-will-seize-meoc-numberplates-from-taunting-car-owners-who-claim-discounts/story-e6frg6n6-1226750024342

I believe Michael's blog values work well for most of us who post on his site.....TEAM -- i.e. Together Everyone Achieves More.