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Australia’s terror paranoia is unfounded : Comments

By Christopher Michaelsen, published 12/9/2005

Christopher Michaelsen argues there are good reasons why we need not expect a terrorism attack in Australia.

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Part 1
When I came to Australia in 1971, and was introduced by a man about his “wife”, I understood he was degrading the woman as being a woman of low social standing. As that is the meaning of “wife” in Dutch.
You see, words can have different meanings.

When I listen carefully to what was stated by the Muslim and that he held bin laden was a great man, I did not detect any offensive remarks in this. It is not what he stated that was offensive but rather how another person perceives what he states is offensive.

If he had stated bin Laden was great for defeating the Russians, then likely it was acceptable.
If however it was stated that bin Laden was great because what he did to the Americans, then bias comes into place and then it is an offence.
Why?
The man is entitled to express his personal views, provided he does not do so to commit a criminal offense.

Look at the Vivian Solon case, where she was basically portrayed as some Asian prostitute, and deported and somehow the Minister then in charge, Ruddock is made Attorney General and the minister now in charge is neither held accountable for leaving her rot, despite it was known she was wrongfully deported.

Where is responsible government?

Today, I had a sudden visit (unannounced) of a man who had contemplated suicide in 1995, but I assisted not to proceed with it. The woman who accompanied him made known to me that she had heard a lot about me and that she had great respect for what I was doing. She has for the third time cancer back and is not expected to live long. To me, it was rather an honour that such a sick woman wanted to visit me before she is to die.

We have enough rot around in the world and can do well without propaganda to scare the living day lights out of ordinary citizen about terrorism.
Posted by Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:28:51 PM
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Yes, “It's unlikely that we'll see a m a j o r terrorism attack inside Australia in the near future” - as far as terrorist camps will freely functioning in the bush and cash flows from Australia sustain terrorism round a globe.
Posted by MichaelK., Friday, 16 September 2005 12:34:24 PM
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Part 2
Look how the US could not even manage Katrina, and G. Bush admits not to be ready for any terrorist attack, this despite how the patriot Act itself is a form of terrorism there.

We have people sleeping under bridges, the poor unable to afford proper medical care, Aboriginals in outlaying area’s denied basic provisions, etc, etc, and surely our priority should be to spend our money on them then to fund the warmongering conduct of the Prime Minister and his cronies.

Since 1996 I have been campaigning that we need a special civil protection service that will come into operation in time of disaster as exist in The Netherlands. Then regardless of being a natural or human disaster people will have some way to protect themselves and their love ones in the immediate period and so giving a better opportunity to survive.

We must not accept this tyranny of oppressive legislation and make clear that we need positive legislation and conduct that will really make a difference.

The last thing we want to do is to terrorize people because they are or happen to look like Muslims where the real danger might be unexpected from a total different quarter.

We must not divide but unite. If the government is not willing to do so, then we simply must do it among ourselves.

Hatred to any particular group of people is not going to get us anywhere.

What we need to start with is some survival kit to be issued to every family, that will have basic needs in time of emergencies. That alone can safe a lot of lives!

We need to set up a civil protection service that will ensure that not only the rich and the able will get attention in time of need, but that any person regardless of status, race, colour, nationality, etc will have the same rights for survival and will be cared for.

We do not want the USA elaborate Home Security Department where when it comes to a disaster they leave people to die in nursing homes and hospital beds
Posted by Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, Friday, 16 September 2005 12:39:20 PM
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Hey Chrismic!

When or how did I equate "muslim" with "terrorist"? I merely pointed out that their leadership is on record has having defended racists, terrorists and even rape inciters(Sheik Feiz). You see the left needs to demarcate anti-war, ant-Bush from people who merely hate the war in Iraq or Afganistan because there are "white people" present on some "muslim" land. These people are just racist, bigotted ethnocentric xenophobes. Essentially, the muslim leadership in Australia today are no differnet to the KKK or the Nazi-party, I would say that they are actually much worse, these people not only cannot mix-in, they want us to turn into them, an invited guest! Arrogance!
Do you know of the Hizb-ut-tahir brothers and their little organistaion? They openly say that their objectives are to turn the world, including this country, in a sharia state under the Caliphate. Gays would be stoned to death, Christians and Jews would be given the pleasure of second-class and forced to pay a special "dimmi" tax, others would be killed. This group is defended by all of the muslim association leaders. Why? Indeed how? No-one from the leadership or even the general muslim community condems these vile things.
To say that by me pointing all of this out is racism is dumb, is it racist to say that a group of kkk blew up a black guy so let's get the racists? Should we say nothing of KKK or Nazis lest the wider white community will feel victimised? How would they unless they were in agreeance or simply didn't care?
This is disgusting racism. Anytime we go overseas to remove a dictator, if it is in the Middle-east, we are going to be criticized by these people not because they think it is wrong (they say nothing of the Sudan genocide or indeed the Hell of the Taliban all those years, or the millions of poor South-East Asian workers or "slaves" in the "rich" "arab gulf states")like the left "think" they are doing,
but because you are white and they are Arabic,mulsim, semitic or whatever, but not white!
Posted by Matthew S, Saturday, 17 September 2005 8:54:53 AM
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Chrisma, a few things more.....

To say that 50-200 people dead is nothing is representative of your arrogance.
Go to Bankstown, Fairfield, Cabramatta, Blacktown, Punchbowl, Lakemba , ask the poor white or even indiginous people living there what they think.
For nearly twenty years, atleast fifteen, there has been hundreds if not thousands of bashings and attempted murders on white people out there, also in Darling Harbour at night. Every year there are more than 30 gang rapes comparable to the Skaf brothers cases and they are all racially motivated and carried out by middle-eastern gangs.
I would have to check the exact figures with the police, such as Tim Priest, about how many single white males are killed by knife or multiple feet every year.
This is terrorism on a massive scale. Check the stats, these areas and these particular ethnic groups are Austarlia's crime capitals for all violent crimes and drug crimes.
Terrorism has been happenning out there to the poorer people for twenty years and there have so far been thousands and thousands of victims, including probably hundreds that have been murdered.
Remember those footballer's a few years ago at a city pub who got shot and murdered by Lebanese thugs? They admitted that they killed them simply because they were "anglos", "skippy-trash", and they didn't even know them.
This is terrorism! This new thing with bombs on trains is nothing compared to this!
Posted by Matthew S, Saturday, 17 September 2005 9:05:59 AM
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Dear Matt S,

Where do you base your claims about hundreds if not thousands of attacks on white people in those areas? Where do you get your gang rape statistics from and how can you proove they are racially motivated?

Arguments such as yours were well critiqued in Scott Poynting's text 'Bin Laden in the Suburbs' a good read with regards to this article we are responding too. Furthermore a majority of criminologists have not found a causal link between crime and ethnicity, rather finding that the environment has more to do with it than anything else.

The thing that astounds about people that post glittering generalities is the inability to back them up. By all means if you have proof, play your hand and show it. You will need more than Tim Priest and a few Daily Telegraph articles to proove your point.
Posted by scooper9, Saturday, 17 September 2005 4:48:07 PM
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