ok I got it. Looks like Rod had a nervous breakdown from all the stress created by the govt of Australia...which for all practical purposes destroyed his ability to make a living as well as his way of life. I read where his ex wife Joanne called it a psychotic episode. Joanne also claims she and her sons were unaware of his amphetamine addiction...and that they were only made aware after his death. So that charge is a bit suspect.
In addition, Hobs who was allegedly shot by Rod just hours before and could not see from the peppered glass in his face was at the roadblock "yarning" with the bush cops. Suspect too is the role of Hobs and his friend Jon who was at the roadblock as well. Especially suspect since hours earlier he himself was running down the road like a madmen screaming and yelling he had been shot and could not see. Then, Hobs friend Jon was the second shot by Rod....Hobs being the first hours earlier. And then there is Brian Williams "Willy" whose role in all this should be suspect as well. There had to be a reason Rod was after these guys beyond the alleged Freemason yarn that has been espoused by the alleged victims. Perhaps a drug deal gone bad?
Regardless, it does seem that the bushcop Glen Huitson was an innocent victim caught up in the crossfire between Rod and this Hobs fella.
Now perhaps we should get this thread back on topic. Which is what will Australia do about this manical sheik and his raping pals?
from 2004
Three Pakistani gang rapists who are facing life in jail yesterday begged a judge to be pardoned, citing cultural differences that led to the brutal attack, immaturity on their part and hardship within their families if they were imprisoned.
But Supreme Court Justice Brian Sully said “culture or no culture”, a strong message needed to be sent to other young men that such horrific sex crimes against women will not be tolerated in modern society.
Andrew Haesler, for one of the defendants, known as MMK, 17, said his client was immature and had lived in Australia for two years without the “restrictive boundaries” in his home country.
But Justice Sully said the crime could not be passed off as a “youthful indiscretion that has somehow gone wrong”.
“Sixteen or not, what he did is absolutely repellent behaviour, and it’s adult-type behaviour,” he said. “It has to be established once and for all that culture or no culture, wherever he came from, however old you are, this cannot be tolerated in modern society.”
Five males, four of whom are brothers, were found guilty last year of nine counts of aggravated sexual assault in company - which carries a maximum life sentence - on two girls, aged 16 and 17, at the brothers’ Ashfield family home on July 28, 2002.
The girls were repeatedly raped, threatened with knives and bullets and one was told the other had been killed because she had resisted her attackers. None of the men can be named because the younger brothers, MMK and MRK, 18, were minors at the time. Another man, known as RS, is 25.
Two of the men, known as MSK, 25, and MAK, 23, sobbed openly in court, maintaining their innocence and begging for “another chance”.
The brothers are representing themselves because they believe an anti-Muslim conspiracy has prevented a fair hearing. Their father, a practising doctor, told the court they should be pardoned because they “did not know the culture of this country”.
Justice Sully said the victims’ impact statements had greatly affected him: “I have not heard . . . anything like it . . . something proper needs to be done to get the message out to the adolescents and teenagers.”
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=10055_Cultural_Differences
Muslim Gang Rapes and the Aussie Riots
By Sharon Lapkin
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 15, 2005
In Australia this week amidst anger over an Islamic man’s rape conviction and the bashing of two Aussie life savers, working-class locals erupted in a rampage of anger and brawling in some of the worst racial riots in decades. But there is more to the story than is being repeated in the American mainstream media....
Four days after he set foot in Australia, the rape spree began. And during his sexual assault trial in a New South Wales courtroom, the Pakistani man began to berate one of his tearful 14-year-old victims because she had the temerity to shake her head at his testimony.
But she had every reason to express her disgust. After taking an oath on the Qur’an, the man – known only as MSK – told the court he had committed four attacks on girls as young as 13 because they had no right to say “no.” They were not covering their face or wearing a headscarf, and therefore, the rapist proclaimed: “I’m not doing anything wrong.”
MSK is already serving a 22-year jail term for leading his three younger brothers in a gang rape of two other young Sydney girls in 2002. In his own defence, he argued that his cultural background, was responsible for his crimes.
And he is right.
In some parts of Pakistan, sexual assault – including gang rape – is officially sanctified as a legitimate form of enforcing the social value system.
One village council recently ordered that five young girls should be “abducted, raped or murdered” for refusing to be treated as chattel. The girls were aged between six and thirteen when they were married without their knowledge, to pay a family debt.
And when Mukhtar Mai’s 12-year-old brother was alleged to have committed an offence in a small Pakistani farming village, the village council ordered that his sister be gang-raped. So, she was taken to a hut where four men repeatedly assaulted her.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan there were 804 cases of such officially orchestrated sexual assault in 2000, and 434 of these were gang rapes. And if that isn’t bad enough, the victims of these atrocities are then expected to commit suicide because rape victims bring irreparable shame upon their family.
So as MSK committed his acts of rape while visiting Australia, he was simply perpetuating his own cultural heritage. He hails from a society where officially sanctioned sexual violence is commonly employed as a means to enforce the subservience of women.
And this is where two fundamental tenets of the modern Left clash: the irresistible force of cultural relativism collides with the immovable object of gender equality. But in the 21st century it is the latter that must prevail.
read more....http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20535