Thursday - December 15, 2005

Aussie Update

In order to get a grip on the recent rioting, the government of New South Wales has passed new laws that make the Patriot Act look like nothing more than simple guidelines. Police in Sydney can now impound vehicles and cell phones without warrants, they can close down shops, lock down sections of the city and declare alcohol-free zones. In addition, penalties for rioting have been increased from ten years to fifteen years in prison.

Here is a link to what Australians are saying about the new laws, as seen on the Australian newspaper The Age’s reader comment section. Here are a few comments posted there to give you a taste of how Aussies feel about the new laws and the Middle Eastern immigrants who started it all ...

If I’m walking down a street and get bashed by a gang wielding bats and bars I’m not going to give a tuppenny stuff about their cultural background or whether they feel marginalised. Do you think I should?

Should I, as they swing the bats down on me, feel sorry for them and empathise? Should I accept responsibility for not being more welcoming when their parents came to this country? Do you think they’ll want to talk to me about it?

Thugs are thugs. They’re not activists. They have no political justification for the way they act. They are criminals and should be treated as such. Shoot the morons down and send the parents the bill. I’m sick of it all.

* Posted by: Stuart D at December 15, 2005 10:06 AM

Bring back old fashioned policing - AND - restore a bit of structure back into society instead of the PC bulls*** mess we have now. Sod the Politically Correct crowd - the cops could give the local thugs the occasional hiding to keep them in line, as dead heads only understand that type of reasoning.

Society must take a lot of the blame too - doesnt matter WHO is playing up, members of the community should be able to pull up the hoons and slap them and keep them in line.

As to the Politically Correct morons - your mates who seem to permiate all levels of society that are decision makers - I hope you are happy now - look around you and see the fruits of your labour(pun)- or should I say - communism....

I for one will be making sure my community starts policing itself. The buck stops with each one of us -so tell the PC mob to get stuffed and take back control of our lives.

We have had enough.

* Posted by: steve at December 15, 2005 01:03 PM

‘I am sick of all the namby-bamby liberals harking about freedom and liberty when the most productive and orderly societies are the ones with strict military discipline. ‘

What a load. Last time I looked, neither the US, the UK, most of Western Europe and Australia managed to be first-world, creative, productive nations without ‘strict military discipline’. I can’t understand how people such as Uncle Joe can criticise the Left on one hand for their nanny-statism, and in the same breath whine that the state isn’t being paternalistic enough. Just go and live in Singapore. We’ll stay here and enjoy our hard-earned freedom.

* Posted by: Pete at December 15, 2005 02:11 PM

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