o sung wu,

you are right again. The previous immigration officers should hang their head in shame. Regressives such as Fraser, Rudd, Gillard and Turnbull should be ashamed. Thankfully Abbott had the guts to stop the boats. Now only Hanson with all her faults and Bernadi have any courage to at least minnimise the damage for our grandkids.

Hi there RUNNER...

You've been around awhile, and I've always respected your opinion, OK? So please tell me honestly, am I being too pessimistic on my take of what's happening in Australia now? To be very honest with you, one of the (couple of) 'nick names' I had when I was in the CIB was the 'Prophet of Doom', and I'll admit I do tend to look at things as the 'glass is half empty' rather than 'half full'?

Speaking with a mate (newly retired) well away from Sydney, and he was saying there are parts of Punchbowl, his latest patrol district where he was previously I/C, prior to retirement, where a single police presence in daylight hours (supposed to be the safest part of the 24 hour cycle for police) is now being cancelled until further notice! Ostensibly because of the elevated risk to police? There's an old saying that I always observed; in areas of high crime against the person, it was the coppers who owned the night, not some flea bitten bunch of petty crims!

When I joined the job in the sixties, I was stationed at Redfern, doing foot patrols on my 'pat malone'. What in hell's happened to yours, mine, and our country, for F..k sake? Moreover what are our "conservative" (sic) politicians doing about it? And what are police command doing about it as well - go FULLER go!

'So please tell me honestly, am I being too pessimistic on my take of what's happening in Australia now? '

O sung wu

I hope you are being to pessimistic however I very much doubt it. Australia has never been so divided. We have always had our struggles but by and large people got on. Even in the days of having a brawl in the pub (not that I condone it) and then shaking hands and moving on after it. The left have refused to have their own filthy ideology under a microscope and hence have not a clue when it comes to Islamic ideology. The left's hatred of the natural family, decency and the Christian faith that demands a conscience is abhorrent to them.

I actually hate to say it but with creeps like the masterminds of the child grooming program (safe schools) I wonder of this country is even worth defending any more. Once the conservatives had conviction of their ideals. They were at least smart enough to know that fatherless kids leads to diaster. You saw that everyday in policing. I saw it in the gaols. Now the conservatives have been infiltrated by weak regressives who care only about the next election and not about our grandkids future. It's all about me. Either we will have a mass awakening or continue to regress into the Greens land of sodom and gomorrah. To prove that they have some sort of superiority the regressives have adopted the gw faith in order to look down on anyone prepared to think. Yep they have won the minds of our kids. Maybe we are to blame for sitting back in comfort while these social engineers have destroyed our society.

This is incredible. We currently have a discussion thread running, filled with angry right-wingers condemning (and rightly so) the actions of a pair of hooligan pranksters for attacking Andrew Bolt, and yet when one of their own mows down a group of Muslims (killing one of them), the general response is ‘Well, what did you expect?’

Given the fact that Andrew Bolt makes a career out of twisting and distorting the truth (with his latest example being the ‘gay children’ misquote) and stirring up resentment, I could quite easily have asked ‘What did you expect?’ in that instance (and probably more reasonably, too, given that no one was killed), yet, had I done that, I would have been howled down by the same people here who are shrugging their shoulders with indifference to this attack.

Hasbeen I don't consider it an either or situation. There is in my view a serious incompatibility with many of the teachings of Islam and a sane society. That does not mean that it's not valid to criticise bad reactions that make things worse. Revenge attacks on people you know nothing just stir up the risk of more people being radicalised.

There us clearly plenty of room to debate issues of further immigration but the reality is without utterly destroying our own freedoms there are a lot if Muslim's in western countries who are not going away. We need to find ways of dealing with that without destroying most of what we care about in the process. Lashing out with violence against Muslim's is not part of any credible solution, rather part of making things worse.

R0bert

' and yet when one of their own mows down a group of Muslims (killing one of them), the general response is ‘Well, what did you expect?’'

what is more incredible is your arrogant assumption that he is one of 'one of their own '. And who might that be AJ? One of the Salvation army or the many Christians who have helped aids patients. Or is this another slur that the left use to cover their total depravity. The regressives again creating a problem with their pig headed multi cultural fantasy and now blaming others for the obvious fruit that it would produce.