Leigh
"Attacks on Indian students are to be deplored, as are attacks on anyone"
According to Police " Indians make up 30 percent of robbery victims in Melbourne's western suburbs" but they are less than 1% of the population in this area.
Do not you see that the attacks against indians are not "as are attacks on anyone" but 30 times higher, than the attacks on every one else?
70 attacks in one year on Indian students. I gree with Indian High Commissioner (ambassador) to Australia Sujatha Singh that ""There is a racist element to some of the attacks but many of the attacks are opportunistic,"
Australian government MUST protect from any kind of attacks and discrimination, all people living in Australia, including Indian students.
It is not only the billion of dolars we take from students but our obligasion to respect and protect basic human rights.

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

Jewely “my experience with Islanders is any opportunity to attack needs no motivation. They are one of the most un-racist races on earth in this regard. If there is no one around from another race they will beat the crap out of each other.”

That is very interesting but I am none the wiser to who you refer…

Islanders?

Channel islanders - the populations of Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and Alderney

The Hebrides – well they are Scottish (so they say)

The British Isles… the English, Scottish Welsh and Irish

The Maldives

Torres Strait Islanders (I understand there are some 'intolerances' between them and mainland kooris)

The Solomon Islands

The Philippines (now this old fella is much appreciating one of the lovelies from there and she me, too... )

Japanese islands.. they were very xenophobic, especially prior to the American occupation following WWII

Fijian islands (now they have had some ethnic tensions there which have been boiling along for the past 20 years)

The numbers of “islands” dotted around the earth is quite extensive

But you go on and have your rant and leave thinking people the challenge of determining exactly what you mean… we could even make a board game out of it….

Spot the island… the winner is the one who can denigrate the inhabitants the most

So Jewely… since you are so good at handing it out… now is the time to ask..

what is your ancestral ethnicity?…

Do tell, then we can all slag off your origins and ancestry.

Col:”That is very interesting but I am none the wiser to who you refer…”

You are being nasty again Col. Were the ones in Sydney from Jersey or the Maldives? The ones I come across were Samoan (not the American side who I was told are uppity), Tongan and Raratongan mostly with the odd Numean thrown in but I must say I liked the Numeans (my spell checker has no idea who I am talking about so wont fix it).

“So Jewely… since you are so good at handing it out… now is the time to ask..
What is your ancestral ethnicity?… Do tell, then we can all slag off your origins and ancestry.”

I wasn’t slagging them off, I lived this Col, this is personal experience with the races in that particular neighbourhood. But in NZ you can “identify” with a culture and you are one if accepted. I have been part of a Samoan Family, Maori Family, Suadi Family, Jordainian Family, Italian Family, English Family. Friends from everywhere and every religion and certainly just about fostered most races on earth and every one got the same cuddles no matter what the race.

My Granddad was Scottish. If you go further back, mum likes the whole genealogy thing, I am a mess of cultures from Europe with some Jewish thrown in (well whatever race that is).

What about that whole DNA thing and the seven daughters of Eve and the Scientific Adam? We all go back to one man don’t we?

You're right Col. There is great nuance to this thread. Never has endorsing violence against der untermenschen been so subtle.

Hey, Leigh. Where did I indicate that I hate my country? Are you sure you don't mean that I hate racists wrapping themselves in the flag of my country?

Roll up, roll up! See the amazing Leigh conjure arguments out of thin air to justify his piteous fear of the unfamiliar!

"You are being nasty again Col." (Jewely).

You're wrong. TB is always like that.
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I would help. I have helped. Remember when train doors were left open??!
Two greater spotted foulmouths were harassing a disabled man. I didn't even turn to them. I told them I would throw them through the open doors if they didn't stop. They stopped.

A young boy was being kicked in the head by a group of youths who had cornered him in a lane. My colleagues warned me not to intervene. They were killing that kid. Myself and another woman took them on. I knew if I backed away from the youth that came right up to me, then he would see fear, and act on it. So I stood my ground, as did the other woman. The attacked boy fled, then they did when they heard the sirens.

I was prepared to give evidence; the other lady would not. It never went to Court.

But I have had to have a Court officer with me on one occasion because of threats. I remember he accompanied me to the toilets, and stood guard outside the door. The person concerned had a mental health problem.

I am now a silent voter with unlisted numbers!

Today IS different, and far more dangerous. But it would change nothing. I WILL NOT stand by and watch a defenceless person attacked. It will not happen, no matter what the cost.
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The attack WAS racist. The nonintervention was in my view, the laissez faire attitude prevalent today.

There is a certain irony in this. i believe that nonintervention is sending a clear message that this behaviour carries no penalty. That;-and programmes like Underbelly, that have made celebrities out of some of the worst maggots in our society.

“Hey, Leigh. Where did I indicate that I hate my country? Are you sure you don't mean that I hate racists wrapping themselves in the flag of my country?”

For the first part, Sancho, in all of your posts where the subject gives you an opening. For the second part of your question: I think you probably hate everyone, including yourself. Your habit of calling people with different views ‘racists’ certainly comes under hate.

I don’t hate anyone, including you. I have nothing against Indians, Indian students, Indian taxi drivers (who probably aspire to become Australia citizens when they have been here long enough) or any other Indians, including the Indian doctor who mis-diagnosed a medical problem I have.

You are probably a well-meaning person; but, you are certainly a misguided and naïve one.

ASymeonakis,

Don’t address your comments to me. The last time I responded to you, you got me suspended for saying what needed to be said.

I’m not going to risk that again