Race riots in Sydney

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Az
Australians having balls

Must take a lot of 'balls' to gang up on one man (in the photo Dracon posted) when he's cowering on his own and there's eight of them around him, some of them holding bottles.

One Muslim woman was targeted by the crowd and was forced to shelter in a kiosk while an angry mob outside chanted racist slogans, including "kill the Lebs", "kill the wogs" and "go home Lebby scum".

Gosh, maybe she was a potential suicide bomber ! Or maybe she was attempting to enjoy a day out at the beach...

...fuelled by alcohol and an SMS and email campaign to "bash" anyone of Lebanese appearance, the crowd started chanting racist slogans aimed at people of Middle Eastern origin.

Surprise. All based on such well-founded 'facts' as these:

...a lifesaver was allegedly bashed by two men of Middle Eastern origin.

leading to:

...text messages circulating in the area, which called for "Aussies" to retake the beach by joining "Leb and wog bashing day".

fanned by:

Far-Right groups, including Australia First, distributed inflammatory literature at the beach, as did skinhead groups.

Australia First NSW secretary Jim Saleam confirmed that his group had been distributing anti-multicultural and anti-immigrant literature at the beach.

Mr Saleam also confirmed the group had helped mobilise people for the demonstration.

In other words, the same people who smash Jewish gravestones and daub synagogues with swastikas.

[Traianvs]

Also, it seems the white Australians were yelling something in the genre of: leave Australia to the natives, we don't want any of you foreigners here.

That struck me as something ironic, since they are immigrants themselves, originally even criminals and scum expelled from the home country...

[Az]

Must take a lot of 'balls' to gang up on one man (in the photo Dracon posted) when he's cowering on his own and there's eight of them around him, some of them holding bottles.

Yes, it does - when you know that this will be answered by a just the same, against you and your family.

In other words, the same people who smash Jewish gravestones and daub synagogues with swastikas.

Wow, surprise, many of these people are nazis! My point is they're bad and stupid - JUST LIKE THE IMMIGRANTS.

[finbar]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Interesting. BTW., I thought there were sporadic clashes like this in Australia at football games? I have seen some reports of Croatians and Serbs fighting it out at such events.

Australian football grew from immigrant roots. Clubs developed accordingly, built around original countries and states of origin - Greek, Macdeonian, Serb, Croat, etc. Age-old tensions from home were transplanted and violence could ensue between supporters when age-old rivals played each other. At one point, the football authorities banned clubs from including a country or state of origin in their club's name.

What's happening now is Australians -v- Others.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Az

Must take a lot of 'balls' to gang up on one man (in the photo Dracon posted) when he's cowering on his own and there's eight of them around him, some of them holding bottles.

Yes, it does - when you know that this will be answered by a just the same, against you and your family.

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It takes no 'balls' at all to gang up on a lone man:

Mr Morley survived the 1999 nail bomb attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho by David Copeland, in which three people died and 70 were injured.

In the early hours of Saturday morning he was kicked and punched to death. Police are hunting a gang of teenagers who carried out a spate of attacks that night near the Royal Festival Hall, including an assault on another gay man.

Mr Morley, who was the bar manager at the Admiral Duncan in 1999, was chatting with another man on a bench by the Thames for several hours when he was approached by several youths and two girls. After a brief conversation he and his friend were pulled to the ground and kicked and beaten. He died in hospital.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/11/110104ukMurd.htm

All it requires is that you be:

bad and stupid

as you put it.

[Az]

Why on earth are you bringing me this? Was that an arab immigrant who was attacked? does this have anything to do with the case in point? Where there gay riots in london in the next days? did gay people start beating up straights for no reason whatsoever?

[Pekka]

finbar, what, are you a wog or leb? if not, stfu!



Oh and the line about throwing 'a barbie' is priceless!

molly, it's not really that simple necessarily. This would be a case where right wing youth, meaning the anti-immigrant and racist section of it would come and join 'the party'.

It's a lot like protest and leftist youth with their anarchist section. Just because it went to crappers didn't mean they all, or even considerable part was anarchist, activist, or trying to start anything out of proportions what was first planned.

This would be the same case in my opinion, or at least there's a chance for it.

To say 'oi Australia is racist country"!'' is some of the most stupid BS I ever heard. Every country is racist to some extent, was this a racist event, for some it must have been, there must have been some skinheads moistering their pants over this, but there must have been also people who were fed up with the stories of immigrant gangs messing things up.

That's not racism, and who ever says if you get upset about immigrant gangs doing stuff, then you are nothing but some weird PC person out of the touch from reality.

Does it make native gangs better, absolutely not. People tend to focus on immigrant gangs, they make headlines more often, it's easier to judge, it is often seen as 'extra bad, we have our own problems, we don¨'t need new ones, especially from groups that are small in here'.

And absolutely yeah it gets dangerous when this kind of lynching mob mentality starts to rise! That's just bad. But that's a symptom, and if we start with the only solution that Aussies are so racist and that's the problem, that's just a big **** off waste of time. Beat these gangs down, and peace will ensue.

Simple.

Of course PC cops have problems with this. But then again they see identity as something of nazi nature.

[Pekka]

oh, and since when did skinheads have the right to racism?

That's crap.

I can be racist and not a skinhead. Or even right wing.

[Az]

er.... ok.

[Pekka]

What Az, you have a prpoblem with beating gangs down, what, are you a gang member, do you enjoy gang activity?

[Az]

no it just seems like a non-sequitur

[Pekka]

non-sequitur, what a fancy word I don't know what it means. I guess that means you win. Or where you with me or against me? How's it going to be?

[Datajack Franit]

hmmmmmmmmmm

[Pekka]

And in the name of equality, I'd like to call everyone for a public bashing of native gangs. In fact that should be more fun. Gear up and let's crack some skulls!

[VetLegion]

I'll bring the barbie!