It is inconceivable that any here would be so stupid as to be going along with the sustained and systematic meta-narrative of spin-masters.

Giving a bit of a boost to policies one agrees with, or even through some selfish motivation that one might accrue advantage is one thing. - But one would imagine that no-one would be cutting off her nose to spite her face by assisting to bury the alarming evidence of political brutality and attempted censorship, Brown Shirt like, that was evidenced by the attack on Bolt and apparently through verbal only so far has previously been directed at his family.

It is shameful. This is Australia, how dare these politically bullying, gutless mongrels attack a defenceless citizen in the street?

Pages back, a poster (Bazz) put the problem succinctly,

"The attack on Bolt was a political attack and that makes it doubly dangerous.
It was not done in front of a crowd as a demo, it was an isolated act.
It was recorded so to be a incitement prop to fellow leftists.
We indeed have crossed a red line."
Posted by Bazz, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 1:52:13 PM

The activists did cross a red line and we would very foolish indeed not to recognise that and be looking forward to the apprehension of these perpetrators and a suitable custodial sentence to deter copycats who may go further.

There are always the young, well-off, well-educated activists who cannot accept the decisions of democracy and require that their opinion, their will, be acquiesced to, or else. Evan Pederick (Hilton Hotel bombing) was one such leftist activist and union organiser, who came from a privileged background, good family and was very intelligent, employed in a safe guvvy job (Centrelink) who could not accept that his will might not always prevail.

The perpetrators, any accomplices and any hidden directing agent behind the Bolt assault need to be identified and properly interviewed and (risk) assessed. Those who hide them should be brought to justice as well and soon.

Dear Shadow Minister,

I have since learnt it seems it was shaving cream and glitter sparkles, not “a liquid”.

When Gillard was getting sandwiches piffed at her your response to the remark 'Having sandwiches thrown at her by school-children is very poor' was “I'm sure with training they'll get better.”

And our resident blowhard Hasbeen asserted;

“It is no good demanding respect for someone, or some group. People get the respect they deserve, throwing a sandwich was wrong, it should have been a sandwich shop's dumpster, after a busy week.”

So my question is should we regard sandwich throwing as assault too? Or does it depend on the recipient.

Foxy,

I don't see how the handful of incidents of far right violence over the past 60 years has relevance to the thousands of left whinge activists prepared to commit low grade violence on a continual basis against anyone that disagrees with them. And for every nasty sign lofted by a conservative, there are hundreds of vile slogans lofted by left whingers.

SR,

Wow, you must have had to go back 5 years for that, and I'm sure that in your mind a spur of the moment prank by a junior school student is comparable to a deliberate violent attack by masked extremists.

I guess that you would like the child to be taken out and flogged?

SteeleRedux,

What possible advantage is there for you or for your loved ones and the community of which you are all part, to be spinning excuses for thugs who would attack in company in broad daylight in a city street?

You would have to concede that they went to some lengths to plan and coordinate the determined attack, likely motivated by political hatred. They were not deterred by the video surveillance, the possibility of getting caught and the penalties for the crime.

Forget the tu quoque that is fallacious anyhow, I am interested to know why you would support thugs who attack vulnerable people, especially a lone, old fellow who has done them no harm.

Dear Shadow Minister,

This is not a competition, or at least it shouldn't be.
Violence is wrong no matter who does it or how many
times it is done. Once is one too many.

I link I gave you showed the history of violence in
this country and the history covered violence from
all groups. It was worth a read.
We're not trying to score brownie points here - like
your side is worse than mine.

All violence is bad.

What you've done Foxy is to employ every tactic to degrade the information available form news reports and video, and try to throw as many curve balls in as possible.