Reports from the Cronulla frontline
The press is full of comments today as the battle of the beaches continues. Amusingly Scott Poynting, of the University of Western Sydney, blames a contestant from Dancing with the Stars, a second rate TV show.
“There’s nothing unique about the insecurities of Anglo-Saxon people, particularly in insular cities that have been targeted by the politics of Hansonism,”Academics, don’t you just love them. The police are keeping their distance.
Carload after carload of young men raced from Lakemba in Sydney’s southwest, ignoring speed limits and bent on revenge. They were followed by at least 12 police cars travelling at speed, lights blazing and sirens wailing.Now let me see, would these be police cars with radios that are often used to set up road blocks ahead of trouble? Nothing’s new.
VIOLENCE between surfers and gangs of young men from Sydney’s sprawling western suburbs is not new – it started in the late 1950s and emerged again in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Only the names are different.The Far-Right were there but on the face of it didn’t seem to have enough numbers to impact significantly on the already dangerous situation. I watched Issa last night on TV. He came across as a reasonable sort of chap caught out in circumstances beyond his control and not of his making. But the thought crossed my mind that so far in the media we have seen a mob of rampaging hooligans on one side and a reasonable chap like Issa to represent the other side of the foray. Don’t cameras work when filming the Lebanese? As Vinny comments at Tim Blair’s blog;
how come the cops are never in the vicinity of a mob of rampaging lebos?? it’s incredible, 500 lebos smashing up cars in cronulla and not a copper in sight, but if white anglo aussies start any trouble there will be truck loads of those police quick smart.Tim Priest, an ex NSW copper has his say and isn’t kind to the the NSW leaders.
Of course, the usual claque of agenda-driven ethnic community leaders were quick to condemn the Cronulla incidents as un-Australian and racist. Never mind the multitude of racist attacks on young Australian men and women during the past decade, which have now manifested into full-blown racial retaliation.As I said yesterday, I wasn’t impressed with the rioters at Cronulla but the problem is clearly deeper that the media would have us believe. We’ve seen the effect, can we now concentrate on the cause. The Age reports peace talks have already commenced between the Lebanese and the Bra Boys.
Lebanese Muslim leader Keysar Trad and Maroubra’s surfer gang, the Bra Boys, are attempting to broker a peace deal between rival groups following race riots in Sydney. Mr Trad, president of the Islamic Friendship Association, and two Bra Boys leaders, Koby and Sonny Abberton, have held talks about ways to encourage people to stop the violence.I note there is no mention of Cronulla. Maybe a Sydney reader could explain. Do the Bra Boys represent Cronulla? Sounds like two separate suburbs to me. UPDATE: Where were the police? TERRIFIED residents told yesterday how they were bashed, threatened with firearms and forced to cower inside their homes after up to 100 youths of Middle Eastern descent rampaged through Maroubra in apparent retaliation for the Cronulla race riots.
Lyne Sickle, whose Ford Festiva was vandalised, said she watched a police car enter the street and then turn away as a large mob of hooligans congregated. “I don’t know why they (police) didn’t do anything,” she saidOne man, Steve, said he was threatened with a handgun and chased inside his home when he went to investigate the commotion.
“I was at the gate and this big guy came rushing towards me,” he said. “I slammed the gate and … another guy at the car pointed a gun at me and said, ‘get back inside’. I ran inside and they chased us up the steps. It was terrifying.”
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Regardless of who started it, everyone’s got to stop it.
I’m from sydney, just to clear something up, Cronulla and Maroubra are different suburbs. They’re about half hour to 45 mins drive away from each other. If the talk between the 2 gangs work, it still leaves cronulla. As far as i’m aware, there is nothing similar in the area. Meaning this could worse at Cronulla. I know this that the people from cronulla that were part of the riots, will most likely not pay heed to any peace talk agreemnets. That won’t accept the ‘bra boys represting them.
Didnt anyone think it strange that the ‘payback’ by Lebenese Muslims for the riots on Sunday (themselves caused by an attack by 20+ Lebenese on 3 young lifesavers) did not take place at Cronulla, but at another suburb, Maroubra. So the people of Maroubra, ordinary citizens who had nothing to with the incidents at Cronulla, were attacked by 150+ Lebenese who descended on their streets and trashed their cars with hammers and baseball bats.
How typical of the Lebenese Muslim gangs, attacking those who cant fight back – perhaps the idiots who are labelling Australians as ‘racists’ may wish to ask themselves why the people of Maroubra were attacked. The idiot media may also wish to ponder the fact that there are no carloads of enraged Aussies heading to Lakemba to harrass and threaten Muslims. Yet.
Kayelene
I hate to explode your world, but people do not stop doing what they want to do without a reason.
What has struck me as I watched the footage on TV is how limp the police look as the try to contain
the problem. The policewomen look next to useless and most of the men look far too small to be
taking on such militant groups.
Bring back height and weight requirements for police officers on the front line and get rid of the
University aspect so that the tough as nails ex footy player types can demand some respect.
Maybe Joh Bjelke should have been consulted instead of Peter Ryan..
NSW State Labor has failed NSW people..
The Bra Boys are like Lebs on steroids.
Maroubra is not only another suburb, it is to the north of Botany Bay, Cronulla is to the South of Botany Bay, there is no hope that the ‘Bra boys’ represent the residents
of Cronulla or are acting in their interests, hell lets be realistic here, the Bra boys are just one gang trying to redirect another gang away from their turf.
Solutions – If I was NSW Police minister, I’d start with approaching Tim Priest about possible employment as Police Commissioner.
If the Police don’t start Policing ‘without fear or favor’ this will get a lot worse.
G’day,
Kevin, have a read of this:
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17560765-5001030,00.html
An article in todays Sydney Daily Telegraph on just how difficult it is for a cop to do his job.
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Ralph
Ralph,
Tragic and I believe it. There are obviously a lot of good coppers who know this to be true. They need to speak up more and put pressure on the government to listen to people at the coal face.
Apropos post 9.
Had, recently, an interesting conversation with a blue-bottle, he is fed up to the gills with the Vic police having been emasculated and turned into tax revenue collectors. he really wants to do the very thing which is the only reason for a police force, to stand in for the ordinary citz. and take down hardened, nasty thugs ,
in order to uphold the rule of common law.
He is big, robust, fit, gentle chap, honest, doesn’t pretend to be clever, and not a screaming coward and no patsy to the politically correct types with whom the bloody socialisto pollies have stuffed the higher echelons with.
Peter Faris Q.C. had something to say about the current Queenie heading the force, which included the sentence, sack her, that will do.
It is chaps like that big beefy, decent, law-abiding but willing to apply biff to the types thoroughly deserving a kick up the goolies that the leftoids who stuff parliament and bureaucracy detest as they also detest those who are all of that and are real police commander material: after all, what’s such a dutiful decent chap
like that against `selective policing’, `commoonity bonding’ and, yah glad to be a
tax collector – helps me c.v.’ for dah spend and tax commie assholes who stuff Spring ST. type `police commanders’? Answer, well the former is just a rascist, beer swilling neanderthal – of course! – which th ecurrent leftoid wringing twats pretending to be police commanders beleived, in ductile, craven agreement
with the stalinist shites who sit in Spring St and their goons who whatever they are are neiher civil nor servants except to the Stalinst cabinet, they had rid the force clean of.
As Priest wrote of N.S.W., so too Victoria.
Murph
Of course people don’t do or stop doing things without a reason.
The reason in this case is that if everybody stops, nobody has a reason for reprisal.
Sometimes we’ve got to agree to disagree.
Kayelene