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Lionel Edriess
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Kat wrote on Dec 17 th, 2014 at 5:48pm: ian wrote on Dec 17 th, 2014 at 4:06pm: AYanker wrote on Dec 16 th, 2014 at 4:49pm: I'm very sorry for what happened in your country today guys. From my vista across the pond, you seem to be a peaceful people and unaccustomed to violence like this. While you will surely ask yourselves why this happened and how you can prevent it from happening again, I hope you will not allow it to change who you are.
Our hatred and desire for revenge post 9/11 led us down a path of decadency I really don't think we'll ever recover from. We have become renowned war mongers, spies, torturers and have sacrificed the values of liberty and transparency to appease our anger against others. In the end, the weapons we developed to fortify our freedom have been turned on us to destroy it. Every email is read, every call recorded; warrantless searches; checkpoints that aren't at the border; police officers that murder civilians weekly on camera and walk free; trigger-happy SWAT teams raiding barbershops in poor neighborhoods simply to verify barber's licenses; and even the smallest towns now have armored vehicles and arms from Iraq that the local police are now beginning to deploy to address misdemeanors and collect fines.
You do not want this to become your daily reality. You *must not* allow this man to convince you to destroy yourselves. People will seize on this opportunity to try to barter your freedom for your security. Don't fall for it. They'll call you "traitors" and "anti-Aussie" and other nasty things. The more they talk, the more stubborn and noisy you need to get. Shout them down. Don't even let them *set foot* on that slippery slope.
Secondly, I am warning you, as a black man living in this buggered-up, sadistic, evil, twisted, racist American society: hatred is like a cancer -- it is slow and budding at first, but quietly, it consumes everything you are, spreading from place to place until it kills the very organism that hosts it. I see how you (as a people) treat immigrants in your country, and what I see makes me sad. And at the core of it is that same budding hatred -- all of it's ugliness and viciousness tucked deep, deep down where it will ferment until it is bursting at the seams. Hatred will only beget more hatred, and not just from those your nation mistreats. It never stops there. When you practice lack of compassion, you'll eventually lose it for each other. Listen, Yank w@nker, you have no idea about Australia. Immigrants are treated very well compared to your bastion of democracy, despite which australians are among the least racist in the world. so shut your mouth and crawl back into your hole. Why should he? Everything he says is essentially correct. I agree. To you, AYanker, I lifts me lid! Welcome and thank you for your input We are fortunate in this country to possess a quite formidable fence around it, unlike yours. And ian, unfortunately your comment indicates the knee-jerk, defensive response that is all too common in this forum. You have failed to take into consider the differences between the two extant countries, especially their respective histories. You also failed to acknowledge the spirit in which the commentary was given and the thought that went into a considered opinion. It amuses me when I read all this commentary about the perpetrator of this atrocity. All the speculations about how he was able to walk out of possible detention, how he should have been marked as a person of interest, his mental state, how he got a gun, whether he had a licence, the introspection regarding his history, etc, etc, etc. Everybody seems to be ignoring the elephant in the room. Islam. Muslims have nothing to do with this event. The motivation came from Islam, nowhere else. 1/01/1915 is the 100th anniversary of the Broken Hill incident. And what was the motivation there? Just sayin'.
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