Hasbeen,

Didn't think so but I had to make sure after Belly said that you were. He said:

“Found your latest contribution interesting Hasbeen, as a rural union official, now finished work, your view ...”.

I'm glad to see that it was just poor English expression. You would have as much interest in unions as I do.

Rache - Gang of Muslim migrant kids attack park goers in Lewiston, Maine

Gang of Somali Kids Attack Maine Residents at a Lewiston Park

It was an otherwise pleasant evening in Maine when two dozen Somali youth swarmed and attacked two local residents in Kennedy Park last Thursday evening.

The Somali mob attacked around 7:45 pm, just as the sun was setting on this historic city park in the heart of Maine’s second largest city.

A local mother recorded as a mob of teens and children, boys and girls as young as nine years old, brandishing wooden bats and other objects, along with fists, feet and sheer numbers to attack the two non-Somali defenders. At one point you can even here one of the hoodlums repeatedly daring the woman to, “stop me, b**ch.”

Lewiston Police tell Maine First Media one of the victims was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. However, no charges were filed.

Lewiston Mayor, Shane Bouchard says these types of incidents are common at Kennedy Park, but points to Lewiston’s low crime rate.

http://12160.info/video/watch-video-gang-of-muslim-migrant-kids-attack-park-goers-in-lewi

Sounds like Victoria.

We should be worried, but not for the reasons everyone here thinks. We have a lot of problems that are easily solved, but most of the solutions are counterintuitive to the people on this board, who regard them as the problem!

For instance the number of people on disability pensions is high, but the government are implementing the NDIS which is designed to enable disabled people to work, and people here oppose it because it's too expensive.

Then there are people who are so attracted to the "live within our means" meme that they support policies which shrink the economy and put thousands out of work! What will it take for people to understand that the limits of what we can sustainably do in this country are not financial?

As for this alleged "no go areas" problem, it has little to do with religion or race; it's just the latest in a long seres of problems with gang crime that goes back at least as far as the early 1990s, possibly much longer. AIUI the best solution is for the police to have a surprise 5am chat with the gang members and their parents.

Love it! the uniformed snipping about my use of the English those who know me know I passed with honors in burning the rubbish in the school incinerator and collecting the milk bottles and stacking them for removal, but if it floats your boat and makes me grin go for it, rural union official, that was me, and believe me from road construction to farm hand, it was not open warfare.PS leaving school at 13, eldest country sons did that, unable to even read, I still am educating my self, my last teacher in that 23 kid school would not know me

“uniformed snipping”. Should that uninformed sniping? He seems to have studied “road construction” (all very useful) but missed out on 'sentence construction'. He gets 10/10 for attitude, however, and the same for not being offended as so many people like to be these days. Good on him.

Let us start off on the right foot, I will ignore any thing you post will you do that for me? please? not in to knit pickers, now opened a can of worms in my post about construction and casual workforce, so here it is, truth,on negotiating a new agreement every union involved, along with their work place reps, sits down with management, it can be over days or weeks,one union, ALWAYS wants the five percent wage rise for every one of the three years that agreement will run, the bosses side WARNS full time jobs will go, worksite delegates demand the 5 percent for all, some/my union voice,s calls for full time jobs to be part of a reduced pay rise,WARNING all involved, the end of the mining boom has ended the shortage of labour, hence casual jobs out number full time greed gave birth to job loss.