Posted on 09/25/2014 4:56:36 AM PDT by naturalman1975
THE Age newspaper will launch an internal review after an innocent man was labelled a “teenage terrorist” while his family said they had “big concerns” for their safety.
Abu Bakar Alam, 19, said he was afraid to leave his home and was “not really OK” after being wrongly pictured on the front pages of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald in their coverage of the Endeavour Hills police shooting.
His grandfather was a heroic Afghan Australian killed by a terrorist suicide bomber.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Family outrage over incorrect ‘teenage terrorist’ photo on front page of Fairfax papers The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald are Australia's two major left wing newspapers and what they have done in this case is really quite appalling. They managed to put on their frontpage a photo of a 19 year old man who is not even suspected of any crimes at all identifying him as a terrorist.
Before anybody says anything - yes, this kid is Afghani. I don't know if he is a 'practicing' Muslim, but he certainly seems to have been raised in that faith. But all indications are that his family have assimilated into mainstream Australian life. He has family members who have assisted Australian forces in fighting the Taliban - his grandfather was murdered by the Taliban for taking a pro-western stand after going back to his country of birth from a successful life here in Australia to try and help it find its way to a better future.
This all makes it an even more monumental blunder that this kid has been publically labelled in this way.
After reading your information about the kids family, maybe this was purposeful.
The possibility of a Muslim infiltrator at the paper should be considered.
Am remembering the remark: There will be information and misinformation. When there is misinformation am always thinking of was there a reason for the stated misinformation, which then causes a question of if there was a reason for the information/misinformation was the reason sinister or was there another intent? With the misinformation being the more prevalent, and information (true information) having be dug out of the pits of hades, cannot help but think perhaps this misinformation event was planned but sense no corporation by the victim or victim’s family to be involved in a planned event. This is my gut talking and the intent of the release, also from my gut, is being perceived as intentional. Have a suspicious as to why based upon some known information shared but my information could be misinformation also even though that information comes from someone on the ground in Australia. Unpredictable games are being played, not only in Australia’s media but within worldwide media and the outcomes are being manipulated by people within news organizations that are agenda driven and all organizations are agenda driven including governments, military, new organization, etc. What the end game appears to be is a hiding of facts or manipulation of facts and more sinister plans being placed to print for eyes unknown. In any event, the 19 year old and the family currently is in tremendous danger from not necessarily Freedom Loving People, in Australia, but instead the danger is currently from Freedom HATING People in Australia. Dangerous games are becoming the norm and the media plays with people’s lives and sometimes those games are intentional. The purpose is nearly always money exchanged hands and normally cannot be classified as a mistake. My opinion Naturalman.
Thank You ... Your response was concise and my thought is the same as yours.
Alinsky tactics call for undermining authority unilaterally. We as a society are trained to think of authority as governmental, but society has other authorities as well.
Think about the voices that have been undermined in recent years, and how and why these ‘social authorities’ have lost credibility: the church; the mainstream media; the military; local police; unions; schools; charities; wealthy individuals; corporations; small businesses; banks, etc, etc.
The point is not that there are bad players in some of these arenas. The point is that (as happened in the early part of the last century) by undermining society’s faith in everything, you can fill that emptiness with something of your own making.
That is the danger today. That is what we see happening.
No disagreement. Human nature is to fail and have witnessed plenty of failures. Guess mankind never learns, myself included. To currently go after evil, it is a given that honest good people have to be willing to go on the quest after evil and is also a given that the honest good people going after evil can also become evil themselves and is certain evil will consider those pursuing evil for punishment as evil. Life becomes a round robin. Suppose this is why God sits in judgment and throws satan the wayward souls while both good and evil at the human level become the sacrificed.
Thanks for your opening comment.
The Leftist Western MSM do not make mistakes like this, they are quite expert at what they do.
I agree with the other posters, this is disinformation to undermine public trust in Australian and Western culture. These newspapers are a fifth column.
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