Posted on 12/18/2014 12:31:18 PM PST by naturalman1975
IT feels like terror has come to our home town. After this week’s events, Sydney joins New York, London, Madrid, Mumbai and Ottawa on the list of great cities visited by politically motivated violence since 2001.
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Australians are not innocents when it comes to terrorism. Nearly a dozen Australians were killed in the September 11 attack in 2001. A year later, 88 died in the Bali bombings in Indonesia. Australians died in the 2005 Bali bombings, the 2005 London bombings, and the 2009 Jakarta hotel attacks. All those incidents took place thousands of kilometres away. This event occurred in the middle of Sydney, in a warm and charming establishment where city workers indulged in the modern Aussie ritual of a morning cappuccino or flat white.
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The danger of foreign fighters is very real for Australia. The turmoil in the Middle East is incubating a new generation of jihadists. Syria has become a magnet for foreign fighters, including perhaps 200 Australians. Many will return to our country with lethal new skills and dangerous international connections.
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Certainly, Monis’s deeds are unlikely to alter Australia’s behaviour in the world.
Canberra will continue to prosecute those international causes in which it believes, including the military effort against Islamic State in Iraq.
If anything, the Martin Place siege may encourage Australians to lean further forwards, rather than backwards.
This attack reminded us that we are not spectators in the world’s troubles, we are participants. We know that the moat that encircles our continent cannot protect us. We must find our security in the world, not from it.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
Well, not if you insist on building your enemies a bridge.
And unarmed.
No secret - somebody could work it out quite easily if they waded through my posts (not that they would want to). I live in Victoria.
Thank You Naturalman ... Australia ... We are already gone and let islamists have their hate ... We are ready!!! Bye Bye islamists!
Life is that runaway train ... I am with you!!!
Finally, a Five Star Call.
I thought it was interesting that one Aussie commentator said that maybe the strict ban on law abiding citizens owning guns in Australia should be reexamined. Obviously this terrorist had no problem getting his gun
The ABC, SBS SMH and The Age commo hacks are islamo hate apologists. They are enemies too.
One of our Senators (Senator David Leyonhjelm) has raised the issue. Our Senate is a bit weird in the way it’s elected - small parties can people into the Senate, and he actually got in last year partly by accident (his Liberal Democrat Party were first on the ticket in his state, and got a lot of votes from people who thought they were voting Liberal). Because the Senate is finely balanced, even though he’s only one of seventy six Senators, the government actually needs to pay attention to him (with neither of the main sides holding a majority, the minor party Senators have a lot of potential influence). He might actually get somewhere. To a great extent, his views are fairly libertarian and his support for gun rights is part of that.
So tell, Aussie FRiends, have you started deporting your Muslims yet?
The Australians and the rest of the West are left bowed because they all accept these bearded barbarians inside their borders in spite of their terrorist activities.
If they had any courage the West would totally eject Islam from their midst as our European forefathers did.
Has it ever happened that government reversed a law formerly passed?
Yup, you’re so right.
But I think that government will rather have its citizens inebriated than armed.
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