Dear Shadow Minister,

Were you really taunting me? I thought you were behaving as normal. Perhaps you had best flag when you are doing it so I can remind myself to be offended.

Now to your poorly researched post.

Firstly you can't raise me anything as over 18 years of operations the Red Brigades killed less than your right-winger managed in a day. “A total of 75 people are thought to have been murdered by the BR.” Wikipedia

Secondly the sandwich lobbed at Gillard only narrowly missed her head where it was aimed and instead struck her arm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZEZ-Mz0rI

Thus by your definition this was assault.

Finally I reject the notion that a 16 year old should not be held 'responsible for their actions'.

I was shocked to find this kind of terrorist training film is freely available on the internet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KxoWtb2VE

Note the bloke in the video, obviously a member of Left Wing Ratbag Inc, naturally in cowardly disguise (wearing sunglasses), but the coppers have a full description, an arrest is expected shortly. Not to be outdone, the rival mob, The Popular Patriotic Peoples Front of Oz, the right wing crazies, in a statement released on Faceybook, recommend the use of 'Vegemite' as a filling, "it will demonstrate your total commitment, and national pride in all things Aussie" they said. They also suggest you aim for the "nuts" (not them) when launching you deadly missile!

SR,

I think your research is faulty.

"According to Clarence A. Martin, the BR were credited with 14,000 acts of violence in the first ten years of the group's existence. According to statistics by the Ministry of Interior. A total of 75 people are thought to have been murdered by the BR. A majority of the murders were politically motivated, though a number of assassinations of random police and carabinieri officers took place, as well as a number of murders occurring during criminal ventures such as bank robberies and kidnappings." So the body count is roughly the same but the red brigade were by any measure far worse than Brevik.

Also along with your left whinge red brigade, there are more than a dozen other EU left whinge groups such as your Baader Meinhof, Your red army faction etc, (responsible for the Bologna train station bombing which killed 85 and wounded many more.) etc etc etc.

From the video that you linked, it is clear that the sarmi didn't come within a country mile of Juliar's head, but I see now that it did graze her elbow and could technically be called assault. However, differences are still vast.

The sarmi itself did no damage or injury, unlike the masked hoods that used their fists to assault Bolt, partially blinded him with the foam squirted deliberately in his face and eyes, and ruined his suit.

With respect to diminished responsibility due to age, this is a basic fundamental tenet of law not my opinion, and the measure is different. Similarly the vile activist that spat on liberal members only got a slap on the wrist.

The perpetrators and their handlers obviously believed that crimes were to be committed, because the perpetrators wore the masks and other concealing disguise to hide their hair for example.

They didn't remain at the scene to have the victim and passers-by share the 'joke'. When a brave citizen arrived on the scene and challenged them verbally, a time where any prankster would be certain to declare it was all in jest, the perpetrators took to their heel and disappeared. That also suggests a planned escape route and probably other support, maybe transport close by.

Since then the perpetrators have gone to ground. Responsibility has been claimed by a leftist fundamentalist outfit known for extremism and violence. The announcement employed similar means and twisted propaganda that are part of the modus operandi of terrorists.

Disguises, assault in company, escaping the scene and going to ground in a safe house/s somewhere, with a stage-managed announcement being made by some fundamentalist activist crew is not the behaviour of the prankster.

By their own behaviour the perpetrators have defined their assault as a political attack and the handlers who have claimed responsibility confirmed that to be the case.

It is telling that those here who defend these thugs, through attempting to trivialise the assault for instance, are also sinking their political boots into Bolt. They see the assault as politically motivated, to humiliate, punish and hopefully gag a hated journalist.

Hopefully police can bring their investigation to a close soon and the Court can decide.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Lol. My research faulty?

You really aren't very good at this are you.

You wrote;

“Also along with your left whinge red brigade, there are more than a dozen other EU left whinge groups such as your Baader Meinhof, Your red army faction etc, (responsible for the Bologna train station bombing which killed 85 and wounded many more.) etc etc etc.”

No the Red Army faction was not responsible for the Bologna station bombing rather it was the ultra right wing group the NAR.

“Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR) was the largest and most violent right-wing terrorist organization in Italy during the second half of the 1970s. It was responsible for several individual murders as well as the worst terrorist attack in post-War Italian history, a bombing in a Bologna train station that killed 85.”
http://web.stanford.edu/group/mappingmilitants/cgi-bin/groups/view/259

Perhaps retiring from this conversation might be a wise move for you.

SR,

So you've conceded that you were wrong about the red brigade, good. Wrong about the law and many other things, so perhaps you should retreat with your tail between your legs.

Even Brevik and the NAR don't measure up to all the violence from your left whinge terrorist groups.