Posted on 04/07/2008 3:39:17 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
A group of teenagers armed with baseball bats and machetes attacked Australian teachers and students on Monday, injuring 18 people and forcing a high school in Sydney to be locked down, police said.
Five youths barged into the morning assembly at Merrylands High School in south-west Sydney, witnesses said, grabbing students before starting to smash windows at the school.
The school then locked its students in classrooms as the youths, who were not students, went through two school buildings, smashing more windows and equipment, police said.
"They caused a considerable amount of damage," a police spokesman told reporters. "There have been some assaults. But there are no serious injuries as a result of those assaults."
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Police arrested five boys, aged 14 to 16, after the attack.
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Any local info on this?
> The fact that this poorly written article fails to identify exactly who these “youths” are and why they felt compelled to attack this school with ball bats and machetes (!) leads me to beleive that the Religion of Peace might be involved.
Possible but not necessarily so. DownUnder the machete is a weapon-of-choice for several ethnic groups, such as Samoans, Tongans, Somalis, Maori. In OZ they do have a sizeable RoP community (unlike NZ) so it is possible that the RoP is involved. Just don’t jump to conclusions yet — I shall check and see if any of our local news sheds further lite on the subject.
*DieHard*
PING Amen.
Sydney Morning Herald is reporting it as youths 14-16 involved. No ethnicity mentioned, but speculation that it might be a “retribution” attack.
Here is a link:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/school-attack-retribution/2008/04/07/1207420273217.html
Nothing much more than that being reported by NZ news media.
So more poor reporting, as we might expect.
I hear that its easy to buy Machetes at the Machete and Bat shows.
Top of the hour, Radio New Zealand (whose news reporting is excellent) is reporting it as “youths” on a rampage. This leads me to believe that if ethnicity or religion were a driver for the attack it would be mentioned.
It often is here, if it is relevant.
“the Religion of Peace might be involved.”
That was my thought, too. The press tends to hush that aspect up.
For the children! For the children!
The Amish really do need to move into the 21st century and upgrade their weaponry.
If any news “reporters” are reading this. We know what you are doing. You deliberately delete certain words from news articles because you don’t want us to realize how much we are in danger from certain groups of people, easily indentified by the deities they are always yelling about.
And just what cult do you think Somali's etc follow?
In OZ. bats and machetes are a weapon of choice because guns aren't easy to come by especially for "youths". No doubt these will now be banned as well.
Those idiot reporters are hurting their cause. Read the comments here. A lot of people are supplying the missing words in news articles. The missing words begin with M and B. Their blatant attempts to hide certain facts about the perpetrators is backfiring. We are supplying the missing M and B words even when it’s not about M or B.
> And just what cult do you think Somali’s etc follow?
Downunder you mean? The Somali criminal element follow the cult of organized violent crime. Islamofascism doesn’t get a look-in: they come from a violent society, they bring the violence with them and they profit because the locals aren’t as attuned to the violence as they are.
Don’t make the mistake of looking for Muslims where there are none. In the case of Somali crims, religion would be incidental to their main belief: being crims first and foremost.
As to the “etc” part of your post? I take it you mean the Samoans, Tongans, Maori? They would be invariably Christian, and often very devoutly so. It doesn’t stop them running amuck with bats and machetes tho’. And they are fairly rough customers make no mistake.
One that I didn’t mention is the Lebanese, of which there are many in Oz. They would either be Maronite Christian or Muslim, depending. And again, religion is not necessarily their main driver: ethnicity would be.
As you doubtless come from America (we don’t have skunks here) your viewpoint is probably colored by the American experience. In Oz and in NZ it is a bit different here.
Bump.
I’m all in favor of smashing stuff, breaking windows, etc., at government schools, but injuring people is going a little too far.
“In my spare time, I have organized the very first Guardian Angels Chapter in New Zealand”
Bravo, Good for you. Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, is someone I have always respected and admired. To think you have a chapter...amazing.
BTW, thank you for sticking up for what my President and country stand for. Geez, we are far, far from perfect, but when did standing up for principal, liberty, freedom, and a way of life the West chooses to live (even if it includes protecting a country, the West's ’s own self interests) become a dirty word? It is a shame many in this country and abroad simply do not understand, freedom is not free and have a blame America mentality asopposed to condemning that which threatens us. I hope history will judge President Bush in a much kinder way then the ignorant and naive do now.
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