"WHAT IF", what if the sky had fallen on Bolt, what if a saber toothed tiger had attacked Bolt, what if his mates had done him in. The reality however is somewhat different, I can see how you Leoj take great delight in peppering the whole episode, and if I was on the extreme right, rather than being a center moderate as I am, I too would be catcalling my trite indignation from the highest belfry in town! Just as you and others are attempting to do.

Joe, I don't have two personalities, I'm not the bloke on the forum who claims that one day he walked out of a Commo Party meeting, and across the road into National Action HQ and joined up straight away, and has been there ever since. Now am I.

Issy, what have you shot this week?

Crime in all its forms has to be dealt with, based on the facts, not some hypothetical possibilities.

The good old days... to quote Leoj; "I suppose there will never be a turning back to what Australia was. Who would have ever imagined such an attack?

The Egg Throwing Incident occurred on 29 November 1917 in Warwick, Queensland, Australia. An egg was thrown at the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes at the Warwick railway station during his campaign for the 1917 plebiscite on conscription. The egg was thrown by Patrick Michael Brosnan, possibly assisted by his brother Bartie Brosnan.

The Queensland Police refused to arrest the egg thrower. Hughes was indigent, so was Leoj, The upshot was Hughes formed the Commonwealth Cops as a result!

Dear Shadow Minister,

You wrote;

“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.”

Pretty easy, just type in OLO forum Gillard and sandwich and bingo, there were all the usual suspects cheering on the students.

Let me get this straight. Piffing a sandwich at someone is a prank while spraying a little shaving cream on another is a violent attack? I have readily acknowledged the difference in circumstances but I am talking about the specific action. How are you making an assessment that they are so different?

It's all in the eye of the beholder when it comes to the far right nutters.
They show their true colours when one of them is facing assault charges.

Interesting how the leftists are always horrified by verbal offence and of course defend s18c, even where the rights of QUT students are trampled, but a ferocious, unprovoked attack in company against a columnist whose opinions they don't like is OK, mere 'piffing' and to be applauded.

Paul,

"Issy, what have you shot this week? "

With the No1 Ruger, scope sighted, high powered rifle in .220 Swift, 3 fox and 2 feral cats; what have you, or the rest of the Greens, done for our wildlife?

Sunday I shot paper targets with rifle and next Saturday is the monthly pistol shoot and I'll be shooting with a .22 Ruger Mk II pistol, a Model 10 Smith & Wesson revolver in 38 Special and my reproduction 1873 Colt revolver in .357 Magnum.

Hi Stale Reflux,

A kid throwing a sandwich at someone probably looks very like a kid, throwing what looks very much like a sandwich, at someone.

Two grown men (albeit half-witted) in hoodies throwing 'something' in someone's face, and then shoving some sort of soft stuff into someone's face, COULD be just a couple of nice young men carrying out a little prank, OR a couple of hired thugs throwing acid into someone's face before planning to belt the daylights out of him.

If it was you, how would you interpret the situation, on the spur of the moment, in those vital split-seconds before - for all you knew - something much worse was about to happen ?

I realise that, as a six-year-old, you would assume that that big man was all-knowing, like all dads, and would have immediate understanding of what was going on - which was ? A prank ? Or an assault ? Ah, it must have been a prank because there was that other big man with a video camera thing.

How was Bolt to know that it was just glitter ? How was he to know that it was just shaving cream ? How was he to know that those two idiots weren't intent on beating the sh!t out of him ?

Or worse ?

You really are an idiot, Stale.

Joe