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Contents 1 Cronies 2 A change of heart? 3 Hmm. 4 Poor guy

[edit] Cronies

David, I read the word 'cronies' and changed it to the more neutral 'associates'. After some hindsight I realised that perhaps you were para-phrasing the actual newspaper article so I changed it back to 'cronies'. Just thought I'd let you know what I did.

Does anyone know what school he went to?

[edit] A change of heart?

I was slightly confused when I read the section on a change of heart. Is a change of heart or a re-change of heart? Speight holds two degrees from Seventh-day Adventist universities. At some stage he must have already had Christian leanings.-Fermion 03:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Fijian culture is such that church attendance in many areas is virtually compulsory, whether one personally believes in it or not. David Cannon 10:13, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hmm.

Wasn't he guaranteed he wouldn't be arrested if they surrendered and ended the coup when they eventually did? How's that hold up legally? I don't really recall the events of this coup, I remember seeing it on the news .. but not the intricate details. 211.30.71.59 11:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, a promise was given that he wouldn't be arrested. The army later arrested him anyway, saying that he had violated the conditions of his immunity. David Cannon 11:51, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poor guy

Wow, I was fed all this propaganda about him in Australia; he was just looking out for his own people though. I agree, Fiji should be for Fijians, get all those ethnic businessmen outta there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.107.175.127 (talk) 10:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC). Yes, racism is so the way to go. The Ethnic Fijians aren't exactly an oppressed minority, you know? Its not the same as here in oz where we treat our native peoples as third-world citizens, they control the vast majority of their country, their democratic system revolves around tribal chiefs for god's sake. Speight followed a racist dogma, and he is no more wonderful than Pauline Hanson or Louis Farakhan WookMuff 06:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Fiji is now over 70% ethnic Indian. A small pacific island is slowly losing it's indigenous people to a race and ethnicity that, for the most part, does not assimilate, has over one billion people outside its country, as professed by GOPIO (Global Organisation of People with Indian Origin). If this is not genocide then I don't know what is, someone should be charged. 60.240.247.253 22:50, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

The claim of 70% is a MONSTROUS LIE. By the tone of your chat you have impure motives. The current figure is LESS THAN 38%. It has NEVER been as high as 70%. From memory the highest ever, was about 53% Indo-Fijian. (around the late 1960s)again from memory!. For the record I am neither Indo or Fijian.

As to George Speight's school, he was at Suva Grammar School in the late 1960s. Oh and he was a bully and a thug with a chip on his shoulder even then.

George Spieght couldn't give a rats .. about the Fijian people, he left Queensland with the corporate Regulators sniffing at his heels because of his completely self-serving dodgy dealings. When he got involved in the Coup, he was been investigated for criminal activity in business dealings and his conduct as Chairman of 2 Fiji Nation Timber bodies was being examined from several perspectives. Very conveniently (for him) the entire headquarters office complex burned down (with all the accounts, minutes, correspondence etc). It could fairly be said that George Speight is Fiji's version of Christoper Skase, but wasn't smart enough to stash the cash and shoot through to Majorca. So he "got" the government before they could get him.

The issue of race (ie: looking after the interests of indigenous Fijians) was used as a front for their real motives and as a way of stirring up support and assistance from the more extreme groups, by both the Speight coup AND the Rabuka coups in 1987. Anybody who thinks otherwise does not know Fiji. Bigredtoe 08:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Bigredtoe, Indo-Fijians now make up over 70% of the population. 220.237.85.167 (talk) 12:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)