"Batman railway station" That pic is of the Eastern Suburbs underground platform at Redfern Sydney.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-29/woman-assaulted-racially-abused-at-batman-train-station/5776684

<<Anybody who incites idiots who carry out violent assaults like that stupid woman in Melbourne should be charged with the appropriate offenses, as well as the idiot who did the actual assault.>>

With Abbott mouthing off the way he is, he should be careful he is not doing exactly what you are saying.

o sung wu,

"Unfortunately, in a society such as ours, you'll always get some stupid block head who'll came out of his cage and do some awful things, all in the name of the particular emergency occurring at that point in time. There's no accounting for weird Psychiatric behaviour ?"

Right you are...although I'll betcha no-one cites the possibility of "psychatric behaviour" in the case of the man who attacked the policemen recently...no that one was "terrorism related"

"...in a society like ours..."

You mean the society where we had sensible security measures - or this new and improved version?

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/george-brandis-has-silently-swept-away-your-freedoms-20140929-10nev6.html

Read it and weep.....if you value an open and free democracy.

In one fell swoop, and with the aid of Govt and Opposition hysterics and a bunch of wafty Senate none-too-brights, we've opened Pandora's Box regarding the rights of the state to secretly "do as they please".

Don't you find that unsettling?

"Seemingly Labor is more or less in lock-step with the LNP on this entire issue ? They (Labor) also believe this Islamic threat is above normal politics, consequentially they've fully supported the government's current stance on this issue ?"

Yes...Shame on Labor for noting Abbott's bandwagon gathering momentum - and jumping on for the ride!

Aren't any of you the teensy bit concerned, knowing that laws like the ones just passed in Oz have often been the catalysts for dreadful suppression of domestic populations in the past.

Once more Albert Camus's quote:

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."

The following link should give most of us
food for thought:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/26/tolerance-is-bigotrys-counterpart-in-keeping-muslims-divided

Worth a read.

Hi there POIROT...

I think we all are, in answer to your very last question POIROT ? Any attempt to erode the rights, privacy or freedoms of any individual living in a democratic society, smacks of times past, under the domination of Messrs HITLER and STALIN and their ugly imitators and mimics ?

But what are we to do ? There's no doubt whatsoever, there's a real threat in our community, not only from our declared and identifiable antagonists, but that idiot group who emerge from under their respective rocks, wanting to create chaos and pandemonium.

The latter are just as bad as the former I reckon, because you never predict when this group will make a move. They generally act quite impulsively and in a fashion that can only be described as maniac ! For this reason they're highly dangerous and completely unpredictable. The only real benefit for police, generally this group all have their own individual MO, thus you can almost say they're 'typecast' in the manner they commit their crimes ?

Thank POIROT.

Dear O Sung Wu,

Could you be a bit more specific.

Which group exactly are you referring to?