Dear rache,

You wrote: "It helps to remember than most right-wing extremists are bitter, lonely and hateful people who resist change and are attracted to policies that are both unfair and cruel."

How many right-wing extremists do you know? How do you know your statement is accurate?

I oppose the policies of right-wing extremists and find those policies hateful, but I don't know that they themselves are bitter, lonely and hateful. Right-wing extremists may group with other right-wing extremists and not be lonely at all. I assume that they would not resist change if the changes were to their liking.

It is common to assume that those we disagree with are lacking in humanity, but they may not be. They just may be a product of a different milieu

As per usual, rache denigrates anybody whose opinions he is intolerant of by calling them names and describing them as bad or maladjusted.

What are 'right wing extremists'. They seem to be just ordinary people expressing views and beliefs that were mainstream before the world went mad.

Thanks for your post, davidf.

What are 'right wing extremists'.
The Academic Left, that's who !

ttbn,

So glad to read that you agree with David F., in this
matter. How about broadening it to include anyone
on this forum - who's views disagree with yours
and cutting out all the derogatory comments and
attacks. Whether it be about individuals or political
parties? That would be a nice change.

It seems that we might not be able to trust ASIO with our security either.

Simon Jeans, an immigration lawyer and one time member of the refugee tribunal casts doubt over ASIO which, he says, has a "very narrow vision" of what is a threat to our national security.

For ASIO, people have to be members of a terror organisation or directly in involved in a terror plot before they will even consider making an adverse security assessment. People who 'merely' hate us and our culture are not considered to be a threat.

Jeans says that ASIO "lets in people who are a threat to our national security" with the idea of turning them; even paying them; putting them under surveillance to see who they mix with.

Now, ASIO has too many people under surveillance, being followed, and they can't keep track of them all, which is why terrorists supposedly under surveillance have committed atrocities.