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Sydney's Gun Crime

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Bazz,
As a victim of Male genital mutilation I couldn't agree more on the need to ban the odious practice of cutting infants of either sex, a small percentage of Islamic girls endure the process but 100% of Islamic boys are mutilated.
This is another area where the so called 'Bleeding Hearts" fear to tread, where's the outcry over MGM? Why is it that FGM is banned but MGM is still tolerated?
Let's hear some thoughts from Lexi and co on this little head scratcher, pun intended.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 13 April 2012 4:50:10 PM
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How DUMB can you get.
Bazz,
I assume you're actually referring to those who can't see the agenda, not the ones coming here. Isn't there anyone out there who can see through the refugee smoke screen ?
Posted by individual, Friday, 13 April 2012 5:04:39 PM
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Dear Banjo,

I can't comment on something that I know very little
about. I don't live in Sydney any more and am not
familiar with the neighbourhoods or the problems
that people living in them encounter. I tried in
good faith to give you a brief general summation
from my point of view - in that - those that
break the law - should pay the penalties according
to the law. I'm not a judge and jury however - and
sentencing I shall leave to the experts. If you don't
like what I'm posting - ask someone else whose
opinion you may prefer.

Dear Jay,

The practice in some cultures of FGM in young girls is,
and should remain illegal in Australia. It is a criminal
offence in this country.

Although male circumcision was common from the 1920s to the
1960s - medical authorities have discontinued the
practice since 1970s and it is now pretty much a
thing of the past.

The Royal Australian College of Physicians has stated quite
clearly that routine circumcision of male infants is not
warranted in Australia and New Zealand.
Posted by Lexi, Friday, 13 April 2012 6:47:10 PM
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Lexi.
Yes..so lets criminalise it altogether, there is no more reason to circumcise boys than there is girls and it's no more or less destructive to the infant right? Boys die from post operative infections and complications, they lose sexual function due to botched circumcisions, they're left with scarred genitals and decreased sensitivity and the stigma of being "not as other men".
Of course that's not going to go down well with certain minority groups who have special protections, rights and privileges from the state is it?. You can't have Afghan and Iranian refugees coming here to bolster the self esteem of middle class White women and then tell them they can't practice MGM, they might feel...what's the word..stigmatised, or marginalised.
See this is another inconsistency in the administration of a "free and democratic" world, cultural sensitivity is required when males are the victims of some outdated barbarism but when women and girls are being "oppressed" out come the Blackhawks and Humvees.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 13 April 2012 7:11:31 PM
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Sorry Individual, I can't see the point you are making.
Maybe it wasn't to me.
Posted by Bazz, Friday, 13 April 2012 8:29:30 PM
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I have found it too easy, we all do, to be diverted by rebuttal of facts it is true the CURRENTLY the offenders are Lebanese.
True too, that currently they seemingly hate us, well no, Lebanese Australians.
Back to law, it costs, massive amounts to imprison anyone.
Currently, and for near 20 years, NSW uses prison inmates to clean up road sides.
Why not high vis, bright pink? jump suits,with some constricted movement in built.
And SOME offenders earn enough to pay ALL COSTS involved in the case of their crime capture court and the time in custody.
Every such prisoner to be given education, not brain washing,social skills and even how to read.
Long term prisoners,take all they own within reason to pay for their terms.
A full review of all Social welfare payments of every convicted person.
This will find too many, of every race, who commit crimes are funded by dole or welfare.
Not draconian measures self defense ones.
And every chance of helping some find away out of the crime circle.
We must never, ;let fears about unfairness to perpetrators blind us to ways we can stop the behavior and help everyone.
Lexi nice person that she is, highlights the very real danger in closing our minds to reality or eyes to evidence that can not be ignored.
Posted by Belly, Saturday, 14 April 2012 5:12:59 AM
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