freediver wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 10:01am:


Should these violent rampages be illegal? As long as they don't damage property or target people for a beating ~ then let them rampage.

The riot the Muslims chucked in Sydney a couple of years ago was because the police were ordered to stop them.

When will they ever learn?

They should have let this Muslim crowd do its walk-and-its-talk and let it run its course.

They were heading for the park to make some rousing speeches and chant "Allahu Akbar!" a few times. That's what the cops should have let them do.

freediver wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 10:16am:


It's a philosophy I learnt from mums with their hysterical brats in supermarkets.

With utter calm these mums simply wait-out the violent tantrums chucked by their ankle-biters when they're denied a chocolate bar or a packet of sherbet with a straw, etc. They simply wait patiently for the storm to use up all its energy.

freediver wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 10:16am:


Every cowboy knows you ride flank with the stampeding herd until they've calmed down and are more amenable to being gently corralled and pacified.

It's better to Run with the Bulls a la Pomplona than put up obstacles to thwart their passage to wherever they're going.

Canute knew the same thing about the tide.

The police should have 'rode herd' on this Muslim protest group, gently prodding them here and there to remain away from the shop windows.

But they CONFRONTED them ~ stupidly and ignorantly .. and of course the inevitable happened.

Dogs, capsicum, kicks and punches, batons, screams of "Allahu Akbar!" and small children being photographed holding up placards saying behead all those who insult the prophet (pbuh).

The police showed themselves to be totally ignorant of the psychology of the mob. A mob is more than the sum total of its component parts. It is an entity all of its own.

Don't get me started.

freediver wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 10:16am:


Now you're being petulant. Nobody has suggested any such thing.

freediver wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 2:17pm:


'Crowd whisperer' ~ I like that. It's got potential.

"Send in the Crowd Whisperers, Police Commissioner! They'll know how to tame this rampant multi-legged beast coming down Sydney's George Street".

These crowd engineers would then infiltrate the mob and start making quiet suggestions of a pacifist nature to those around them. Redirect their tunnel-vision to alternative perspectives.

That's what horse-breakers do. They infiltrate tame horses into the feral pack to act as pacifiers.

Karnal wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 2:49pm:

cods wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 10:08am:




They can be upset. But murdering because they are upset by cartoons, and then defending and excusing those murders because of the 'hurt',  puts them all beyond the pale.

The should have been an IMMEDIATE Muslim campaign, along the lines of the Lind Cafe solidarity, with #Iwill

deride

withyou.

THAT'S what Muslims should have done by the million to be creditable.  But of course they didn't. Even if Muslims murder 17 people over cartoons, Muslims MUST remain the victims.

cods wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 10:08am:


More than ever.

8 million people marched across France just recently in support of satirical humour and the freedom to laugh at our enemies.

cods wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 10:08am:


Ho-hum ... Whatever, codsey.

freediver wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 8:14pm:


You're being inscrutable. I don't see the connection.

I just wanted cods to know I still find a flag planted up the Ayatollah's arse humous. It was a cartoon in the Daily Telegraph by Warren.

Hang on ... the penny's dropped. You mean hummus?  Good one.

Lord Herbert wrote on Jan 26^th, 2015 at 5:24am:



oh the good old typo...

hilarious...so exciting...