[KangarooJacqui]

In fact Chicago seems to be pretty peaceful when the issue race-related riots comes up.

Quite right. I apologise to anyone from Chicago I may have inadvertently offended.

Sydney is quite conservative (politically, not socially) on many things

Sorry but New South Wales (of which Sydney is both the capital and the largest city by FAR) has a Labor Party Government (our equivalent in Australia of the RATS, for our US friends) and has had for quite some time. If they're conservative, why aren't they VOTING that way?

to be blunt I suspect this type of riot comes up when a group of minority accepts victimized status and blames other people for their woes, and refusing to accept personal responsbilities.

Witness, for instance, the New Zealand militant Maori, and the ones who expect handouts just because they got there a couple of hundred years before Captain Cook. To be blunt, this riotous and frankly vile behaviour is Aboriginal separatism rearing its ugly head in one of the inner suburbs of Australia's largest city, where a large proportion of the population are low-income Aboriginals. It's not my fault most of the left-leaning media in this country are too afraid to print the word "Aboriginal" and call it what it is... a race riot.

As I believe I've mentioned before, this sort of thing is frightening. On many levels.

[NZerFromHK]

I was reading Paddy McGuinness's article when he remarked that many bleeding heart liberal measures will never get enacted in Sydney while they are on the rage in Melbourne. I think even though Sydney is dominated by the Labors for quite some time, these is no Labor Left as is Melbourne or Tasmania. The Sydneyside Labor (Labor Right) appears to be on the moderate wing of the Democratic Party (Joe Liberman).

[luvbach1]

Memo to our friends abroad, the roaring 20s have ended in Chicago.

[Little Ray]

the New Zealand militant Maori, and the ones who expect handouts just because they got there a couple of hundred years before Captain Cook.


And ATE the folks who were already there...