The 'men of middle eastern appearance' we keep hearing about are, as Freepers all know by now, Lebanese muslims, second and third generation descendants of Lebanese immigrants who were accepted as refugees during the period of 'unrest' that levelled Beiruit and destroyed the 'Paris of the Middle East' - they were, in fact, Arafat's thugs! And we are now suffering the same stand-over tactics, the same crime wave Lebanon experienced for years, before the muslims started killing the Christians. It's simply their MO...but they wouldn't get away with it here, if the socialist State Government didn't let them. The Premier, Iemma, himself the offspring of immgrants, is the son of a member of the Italian Communist Party. Ieamma has been openly accused of being in debt to the muslim constituents - on whom the Labor Party counts for re-election.
Iemma is a disgusting stuffed shirt, he wasn't elected, he was chosen to fill the position to replace Premier Carr, who retired 'for family reasons' - but as I distinctly recall Carr making comments in regard to Lebanese muslim youth, methinks he was pushed...and replaced with Iemma who, as a man without substance, would follow Labor ideology to the letter.
And let the Lebanese muslim gangs run wild as they have been used to.
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0104/64.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538780/posts
The leader of a youth group located in Lakemba, currently facing terror related charges, apparently had some 2,000 followers. They are drug peddlers and car thieves. They harass anyone not muslim at places like Darling Harbour, shopping centres, various beaches.
The New South Wales government is going to regret this. Calling the people of Cronulla a gang of 5,000 white supremascist racists is not going to translate well at the ballot box. Sydney has post WW2 migrants and their descendants in huge numbers, not one of them is going to be happy about being depicted as racist.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/10/1055220602132.html
Some of the 'brave' Lions of Lebanon sitting in the gutter where they belong.