Posted on 12/13/2005 5:13:52 AM PST by Aussie Dasher
SYDNEY, Australia — The racial unrest that broke out in Sydney's beachside suburbs over the weekend has spread to two other large Australian cities, where people of Middle Eastern descent were assaulted by whites, police said Tuesday.
In New South Wales, where Sydney is located, lawmakers scheduled an emergency session of the state Parliament to consider legislation cracking down on the rioters who rampaged through the city's suburbs for two straight nights, the region's premier said.
Seven people were injured and 11 arrested after youths rioted in the suburbs Monday night, smashing the windows of stores, homes and parked cars. The youths appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent, leading police to believe the destruction was in response to racially fueled attacks on a Sydney beach a day earlier.
Calling the rioters "ratbags," New South Wales premier Morris Iemma said police would be given special "lockdown" powers to stop convoys from forming and driving into communities to carry out acts of retribution. He also said he would urge lawmakers to pass legislation toughening prison sentences for rioting offenses.
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I have a feeling this is going to be blamed squarely on Christians and Non-Middle Eastern Australians.
(Even if most of the damage and violence is committed by Middle Easterners.)
Yesterday, I seen ABC was using the term Middle Eastern youths, now FOX is saying people of "Middle Eastern descent". Why can't they just say Muslims?
Obviously the jihadists must have thought that Oz was France. They simply needed..correction.
Translation: Where concerned Australian citizens defended themselves against Muslim aggression.
If the moozies are looking for "correction", well, have they come to the right place!
"Be good or begone" will have new meaning!
"Someone" opened fire on a Catholic primary school celebrating christmas..
"The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, has blamed religious intolerance for a shooting attack on cars outside a Christmas carols ceremony in western Sydney last night.
Cardinal Pell says those attending the service at St Joseph's Primary School at Auburn were harassed as it commenced.
Towards the end of the event, the local priest heard gunshots.
In the morning, staff at the school found their cars had been peppered with bullets.
Cardinal Pell says he believes the harassment and the gunshots may be linked to recent ethnic tension in Sydney.
"This violence is unacceptable, as unacceptable as the violence perpetrated by Anglo elements at Cronulla beach on Sunday," he said.
"I'm deeply concerned about the targeting of Christmas celebrations at schools with students as young as five years of age.""
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1530250.htm
I thought y'all outlawed guns down there, or is that only for SOME people..?
A post from yesterday said that all the "middle eastern" youths involved were muslims while the press insists on the race angle implicating innocent middle eastern Christians in their coverage. It's the press that's pushing for a race riot. This is yellow journalism at its lowest.
We know some of the moozies have guns. I'm betting this crime was not committed by the Baptists!!!
I have to say that, after I worked with the Aussie diggers many years ago, I always admired you blokes and am pleased that mine wasn't a misplaced sentiment.
The Leb guns were always outside the law
There's so much more to this story than is being reported. A history of Muslim gangs raping Australian girls, the Bali bombing...As John Kerry likes to say, "It's complicated."
It was the Amish, again. Everyone knows that.
Whatever happened with the UK explosion story?
It has virtually disappeared from the MSM.
Its absence makes me all the more certain that it was terrorism. The MSM certainly wouldn't want to draw attention to that!
I'm reminded of a bumper sticker I saw today: "Australia: LOVE IT or LEAVE!"
I'm a yank, but I love Australia and its people and culture (not its recent imports). It is one of the two or three places outside the US that I could call home.
I think Fox and the AP should follow the PM's lead and call them 'ratbags.' hahahah, bully for the Aussies. It is NOT France, in Australia.
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