Two surfers fight back against might of Communist developer…
Navrin Fox and Woody Jack are two very good surfers from Angourie, a couple of hours south of Bryon, on Australia’s east coast.
Two years ago, the pair threw their life savings on a 99-year lease on an acre of land on Fiji’s Mololo Island.
A third share went to a Fijian pal Ratu Jona Joseva, who gets his bread ferrying surfers to Cloudbreak and whose family is one of the three that own land on Mololo.
And this is where it gets interesting…
From Newsroom in New Zealand,
Last year they got a phone call from Joseva saying something was up. A Chinese developer had moved onto the land next door and was ripping the place apart.
When Fox and Jack flew in from Australia they found a scene of devastation.
“There were two or three excavators in the water, smashing through the reef and digging it out to create a massive channel. There was hydraulic fluid spilling into the water. Another excavator on the land was covering the beautiful little beach on our land with the material from the reef to build a hard zone. It was shocking. We knew they didn’t have a foreshore lease and what they were doing was illegal,” said Fox.
Fox and Wood felt their piece of paradise would never be the same, even if they could get it restored to the original state. In a moment of despondency, they offered to sell it to the developer Freesoul Real Estate and approached the local director Dickson Peng.
We pointed out to Peng that they were using our land to access the development site and raised the idea of them buying it. Peng replied ‘Fuck you, I am going to take your land anyway’.”
At that point Fox, Jack and Joseva went to war with Freesoul.
The battle has cost them most of their life savings and last week culminated in Fox being attacked by an employee of Freesoul when he tried to walk on to his own land at Mololo Island.
Accompanied by Newsroom journalist Melanie Reid, Fox was visiting the site to point out the environmental damage when a Chinese employee of Freesoul confronted him.
When Fox went to access his own land through a gate in a fence Freesoul erected across the foreshore, the employee tackled him and got Fijian security guards to help him lock the gate.
Fox reached his own land by going through a bush area but was attacked again by the same man. The local Fijian security guards restrained their Chinese colleague and appeared to tell him Fox was entitled to be there.
Fox said: “It is like living next door to a lawless monster. I am devastated for the Fijians, how can a company just come in and do this? They have no respect for anything else except money – greed governs.”
Of course, this is the thin edge of the wedge, as they say.
For all my brothers and sisters who bemoan the USA as the world’s omnipresent Superpower, imagine, please, what’ll be like when China fills the inevitable power vacuum as US power declines.
China ain’t got no New York Times or Washington Post, no Seymour Hersh, keeping the government even vaguely in line.
No protests. Cameras on every citizen.
No, gulp, Instagram.
How would you live?
huh? no idea who or what you are.
Well not after I clarified it with you no.
I should’ve taken down my comment. But I thought I’d leave it as I generally dislike deletions.
back away from the pipe lady
How’s the ferris wheel coming along? I expect to be able to sobatu from the top!
Hahahahahaha!!! White man getting a taste of his own medicine. Doubt that many Hawaiians, native americans or africans, will feel much sympathy for itsmyland-haole. Its my land, its my land! FU bitch, I’ll take it like you showed us how to do it the last 500 years. Pissing in my pants laughing!!!!! HAHAAHAHAHAA!!!
You think the Fijians are gonna get off any better?
Hahahahahaha!!! White man getting a taste of his own medicine. Doubt that many Hawaiians, native americans or africans, will feel much sympathy for itsmyland-haole. Its my land, its my land! FU bitch, I’ll take it like you showed us how to do it the last 500 years. Pissing in my pants laughing!!!!! HAHAAHAHAHAA!!!
uhhhh…. I wasn’t fapping to that header pic at ALL! (I’m a man by the way). Well I identify as a Trans Giraffe Goddess, formerly known as Mongoloid Ozzy….but you know. My dreaded birth certificate says “Old Male S.O.B.” (Where’s the liquid paper)? All heil The Queen
“what’ll be like when China fills the inevitable power”… well, when german barbarians (anglo-saxons, goths…) invaded north america they made massive genocides. Then made movies showing the genocides in “westerns”, making money showing their proud about their crimes against humanity.
In Australia the same anglo-saxons did the same crimes: genocides of aborigines and rob their lands.
For sure chinese will not made in Fiji thermonuclear experiments like USA did in Bikini atoll, destroying and poisoning everything. Neither bomb the site with dirty bombs with depleted uranium to get ride of nuclear trash from USA.
If Fiji had oil, USA or Australia rob that land too, and didn’t care about surf or nature, like they didn’t in other places.
Anyway china will not rob the land and kill the people like anglo-saxons did all over the world. So they are not the same.
Whait! who are complaining? Anglo-saxons? Did you know the criminal record of your history?
Spoken like a true hater of his own first world country and 1st year community college activist/chinaphile. Oh the guilt you must bear for the “crimes” of your ancestors. Your philosophy is like an inverted liberal retard version of the samurai code.
Yeah?! You think so red-neck?
Well, we know red-necks don’t think. Anyway, thank you for showing the illiteracy of red-necks.
Sounds like a smooth deal compared to developing in Bali!
And I like how he invested his life savings twice. I don’t even know where to start asking questions about that
This whole ordeal sounds like a Patagonia sponsorship application
Yes, my bad…. Confessions
Amazing book, can’t put it down type.
Good on ya, Nav for not responding to the provocation, I know I couldn’t of kept my cool.
For more than 2000 years China was the world’s biggest economy . We whities took risks , believed in growth and science and were very successful for 200 years . It went west from Europe to the US and now it has gone west again ………
Once the Chinese discover surfing we’re all fucked.
Like Barr’s summary….
I wanted to share this article which I think gives some insight into the mentality that has unfortunately pervaded modern culture in China:
https://nextshark.com/young…
Most of China is rural and lives on dollars a day, other areas (Xinjiang) are in the midst of crackdown by the government. And then you have the ‘winners’ who go out and do shit like this, thinking they’re the rail barons of the 1800’s.
he almost has his thumb in the pacific rim.
both shitholes on the decline. most people want nothing to do with them. dont believe your own media and political dog whistling hype. oh, and i aint in either, whitey.
Last time I checked you were pretty damn white yourself Mara..
hahaha shhhh. the fishing has been good.
Hah. Shoulda known. Always thought DA was someone else.
Holy shit I was suckered in too!
you whiteys here are the whitest whites that ever whited lol
Chinese probably made that app from yesterday.