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Violence on the train to Camberwell : Comments

By Tim Watts, published 12/1/2010

Victorians need to send a message of aggressive intolerance towards the racist and prejudiced bottom crawlers in our society.

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Phil, whilst I'm very sorry about what happened to your son, I think you're missing the point. The boys who attacked your son don't represent multiculturalism - they're just thugs.

What bugs me is how people can conflate violent crime committed by youths of "ethnic" descent with multiculturalism. Where exactly in Lebanese culture is street violence condoned?

What about all the other law-abiding people of a variety of ethnic and other cultural backgrounds who live decent lives. Why should their right to live in a pluralistic society be threatened because some people don't like multiculturalism (and almost by necessary definition ... multiracialism).

And for the record I've known a lot of decent Lebanese guys who have held down good jobs, worked hard and obeyed the law all their lives. Why should these guys be smeared by anti-Lebanese sentiments that emerge from the actions of a fairly small group of people. After all, there are over 70,000 people of Lebanese descent in Australia.
Posted by David Jennings, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 6:34:17 PM
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Hasbeen

Sorry to hear about your son. Be sure this won't be considered racist. If the boot was on the other foot the ABC would have it as a lead story inferring racism.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 6:55:35 PM
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David, go to Brighton, Sydney, alone. Park your car, & wander into a shop. Try to have a meal, or a cup of coffee.

Then repeat the same post.

Take your crash helmet, because about 50,000, of those 70,000 live around there, & they are mostly thugs.

Then try around Logan, in Qld. Different race, same result, just not so masny of them, yet.

Once these people know they are on the no penalty list, with out courts, the sky's the limit for them.

But, remember, as the saying goes, be careful out there.
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 6:57:05 PM
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Hasbeen, it's everywhere.

My pre-school teacher has an adult son with permanent brain-damage from being beaten-up in his (my) home town. Despite knowing exactly who and when, and all of them being able to pass muster as "white", they got such lenient sentences as to be risible, by them, in court.

Their right wing "charismatic" pastor spoke emotively on their behalf.

Your son did the right thing, made it expensive to attack him. I just wish my old teacher's son had had similar training. Pastor might have had hospital visits instead.

Oddly enough, when I moved to the city, in the very parts of town considered "rough" I felt safe, and have never been bothered, except by a drunk twenty-something in a bar.

Rusty.
Posted by Rusty Catheter, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 8:19:11 PM
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'Their right wing "charismatic" pastor spoke emotively on their behalf.'

no doubt the secular judge went light on the offenders
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 9:17:37 PM
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Having worked in the law i've seen and its been said a lot that white defendants get treated more leniently than Aboriginal defendants in criminal cases. So Hasbeen what does that prove?
Posted by Lucy Montgomery, Thursday, 14 January 2010 8:49:39 AM
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