Beach Wars

CRONULLA’S beaches might be divided into sections to remove some of the tensions that erupted into mob violence this week. No. A thousand times no! We shouldn’t even consider changing our lifestyle to accommodate thugs. They are required to mix in, not us and whereas pretty well every other group of migrants has settled into our national melting pot the Lebanese Muslims stay aloof. From the Thin Man Returns

“We don’t care where you are from, but once you decide to make this your home, you are Australian, becoming one people and one culture from which the best parts of the ‘old country’ are brought to the new.”

Terry Sweetman in Brisbane’s Sunday Mail can’t string two words together without slipping “Howard” in as a part of the problem.

However, it would be an act of denial of Howardesque proportions to pretend that there was not a huge element of racism behind the riots.

It could also be described as an act of denial of Sweetmanesque proportions to ignore all the other evidence available. Having shown his colours he then proceeds to write several hundred words trying to prove that the 100 plus extreme right fools present at the riots were running the show.

Since the festering of One Nation, we have been deluged with the rubbish that wells up into talkback and spills into the public domain. The messages often feature animated Australian flags, rousing choruses of Waltzing Matilda and the authors glory in chauvinistic net nom de plumes such as “Aussie”, “Digger” and “True Blue”. They try to project an image of the blokey Australian as big as the land, although their thoughts betray small, mean minds.

You’re most probably right Terry but there were about 100 plus of these idiots at Cronulla amongst the 6,000 odd rioters of both pursuasions and common sense would tell us they weren’t calling all the shots. Very few Australians listen to them, they’re just an aberation every society has to put up with – like journalists who simply don’t get the picture. If Australians are racist as some of the media, the Left wing and all the multi cults would have us believe why haven’t we had daily riots between Aussies and Italians/Greeks/Croations/Irish/Russians/Vietnamese/ Iraqis/Iranians and all the other races that go to make up our population base? Why is that the Lebanese Muslims are the only targets? In the meantime the real problems are best described by Platey Mates at Tim Blair Communities all over Sydney are caving into the demands of the Lebanese Muslims channelled through the Premiers Department and the Police commisioner to cancell Christmas events. Just in case you didn’t get the message the Lebanese Muslims have burnt churches to the ground and fired shots at others. Why have we surrendered?