Posted on 04/24/2016 3:41:13 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A 16-year-old boy will appear in a Sydney court later today charged with planning a terrorist attack at a Sydney Anzac Day event. Counter terrorism police arrested the teenager in his home in Auburn, in Sydney’s west, yesterday afternoon. NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said the age of the suspect was concerning. “Now, the age of the individual is of significant concern. Sixteen years of age. A boy,” NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione told reporters this morning. Mr Scipione said the boy had been charged with one count of acts in preparation or planning a terrorist act. The offence carries a maximum penalty of life in jail. “Police will be alleging it was linked to the Anzac commemorations today,” he said. The arrest was the result of an investigation by Operation Vianden officers. Police believe the boy was acting alone and the threat had been “thwarted”. It appeared he had been radicalised online, Mr Scipione said. He was known to security services. Officers had been monitoring the boy’s online activities and were forced to act yesterday. The 16-year-old was arrested alone on a street near his Auburn home.
“We had to do that to ensure the safety of the community. Clearly we have taken that action with community safety on the eve of the sacred day, which is Anzac Day. I want to assure the community here in NSW that our counter-terrorism capability is such that we are able to move very quickly to prevent harm and on this occasion we have done that,” Mr Scipione said.
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Off topic, but I often wonder, why do Obama, Hillary, and some others, pronounce Muslim as “Mooz-lim” instead of “Muzz-lim”??
Heck why does Obama say “Pock-ee-ston”, instead of “Pack-i-stann”??
Why does Obama say “Taley-bonn” instead of “Tali-bann”??
Why does Obama and very few others say “ISIL” instead of “ISIS”? I know both are initials for the same organization ,but almost the entire world calls them ISIS but Obama insists on singularizing himself by using the term ISIL.
Way off topic, but why does Obama speak of the Holy Koran, and pronounce Koran with a distinct Arabic inflection? Where did he learn to pronounce it that way??
Zoroastrianism, what else?
IMHO, all of it is a concern. Islam has been around for a long time, but the recruiting of Western youth is much more recent. The degradation of our culture, and the loss of purpose and spiritual meaning that is inherent in the world our children are growing up in is a huge, huge problem. We went from Gilligan's Island and the Dick Van Dyke show to Breaking Bad, the Kardashians, and House of Cards (I watched and liked, all of the Breaking Bad episodes - as an adult, and now watch Better Call Saul, so it isn't about being prudish).
As a new parent, a priest once told me that it was my responsibility to keep the light of innocence shining in my child's eyes. I agree, with all my soul. It's not about trying to keep your child ‘ignorant’ of life. It's about teaching and helping them to be cognizant of goodness, and why it is sacred and needs to be preserved. Radical Islam is an evil force, but like many evil forces (e.g. gangs, loose sexual mores, etc.) there is an attraction for those who feel empty and without purpose, and who aren't grounded enough to resist the allure these things have.
Anyway, I don't disagree with you at all about the pre-eminent concern that radical Islam is. I just think that those who feel devoid of meaning in life are more susceptible to radicalization.
But then I hadn't even heard of the Religion of Pieces at that point.
And naturalman,the tribute you have on your "home page" for numerous Aussie and Kiwi soldiers who have recently fallen in battle is very impressive indeed...impressive and moving.
One of the first things I saw while in the Sydney airport awaiting my flight to Adelaide, scratched in the men’s toilet stall wall:
Kiwis are bloody wankers!
I had no idea at the time what it meant.
Then about an hour later a guy asked me for a fag.
I seriously began to wonder what I had gotten myself into!
I know that he uses ISIL for Islamic State of Iran and Levant.
Levant is the Middle East with a big hole were Israel used to be.
The tribute on my homepage is signal and symbol of my commitment to the Ode. We will remember them.
Look, just because the founder was violent, and violent conquest is worked into their scriptures that promotes terror and violence as a way to spread the religion, and just because his followers were violent both during his life time and after his death, and just because the religion has a long bloody horrible track record doesn’t mean...oh well sorry, yes it does...nevermind....
In the "Kill Infidels" madrassas and "Kill Whitey" churches he's gone to all his life.
Letterman once had Rickey Gervais do a Top Ten List called "Top Ten Questions Americans Ask Brits" and one of them was: What do you mean by "let's go smoke a fag"?
Brits and,it would appear,Aussies use "fag" as slang for cigarette.
I always enjoy your posts from Down Under.
How on earth did you find FR ?
Pity you can’t hang his worthless ass.
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Not as often as we used to.
The late great Sir Terry Pratchett co-wrote a novel called Good Omens with American Terry Gaiman. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody who thinks Christianity shouldn't have jokes made about it, but I love it as I love all of Pratchett's work (and he poked fun at absolutely everything in the same way).
Good Omens is set in our own world (unlike most of Pratchett's work) and one of the plotlines involves the very tiny remnant of the English 'Witchfinder Army' still operating in the late twentieth century (the heyday of finding and burning witches having been some centuries earlier). At one point, Withfinder Private Pulsifer needs to try and bluff his way onto a USAF base and is making use of his 350 year old ID card.
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The guard on the hole in the fence looked puzzled. He was aware of excitement back in the base, and his radio seemed to be picking up nothing but static, and his eyes were being drawn again and again to the card in front of him.
He'd seen many identity cards in his time‑military, CIA, FBI, KGB even‑and, being a young soldier, had yet to grasp that the more insignificant an organization is, the more impressive are its identity cards.
This one was hellishly impressive. His lips moved as he read it again, all the way from "The Lord Protector of the Common Wealth of Britain charges and demands," through the bit about commandeering all kindling, rope, and igniferous oils, right down to the signature of the WA's first Lord Adjutant, Praise‑him‑all‑Ye‑works‑of‑the‑Lord‑and‑Flye‑Fornication Smith. Newt kept his thumb over the bit about Nine Pence Per Witch and tried to look like James Bond.
Finally the guard's probing intellect found a word he thought he recognized.
"What's this here," he said suspiciously, "about us got to give you faggots?"
"Oh, we have to have them," said Newt. "We burn them."
"Say what?"
"We burn them."
The guard's face broadened into a grin. And they'd told him England was soft. "Right on!" he said.
I found it during the 2000 election. Electoral processes fascinate me, and the situation in Florida was very interesting from a procedural and technical point of view, and FR was a great place to see all the articles grouped together. After September 11, there was a lot more that I wanted to know about and again FR was a great source of information.
I finally subscribed and posted when Australia during 2004, when I got sick of the ‘Iraq was better off under Saddam’ things that were flying around the media at the time (I served in the first Gulf War - and we should have finished the job then. Won’t argue that things have gone as well as they should have or could have - but once again, that’s more down to political will than anything else - politicians not letting the warriors finish what was started) and have hung around here ever since. It’s a great place to get information and perspectives. And to occasionally explain Australia’s gun laws which get grossly misrepresented by both sides of the gun argument at times (20th anniversary of the Port Arthur Massacre on Thursday - expect it’s likely to come up again this week).
For your information, ISIL includes Israel and ISIS does not...do you have any further questions???
An anti-war song, commemorating the 1915 battle at Gallipoli.
“And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”
- Eric Bogle
Now when I was a young man, I carried me pack, and I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murray’s green basin to the dusty outback, well, I waltzed my Matilda all over.
Then in 1915, my country said son, It’s time you stopped rambling, there’s work to be done.
So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun, and they marched me away to the war.
And the band played Waltzing Matilda, as the ship pulled away from the quay
And amidst all the cheers, the flag-waving and tears, we sailed off for Gallipoli
And how well I remember that terrible day, how our blood stained the sand and the water
And of how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay, we were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny Turk he was waiting, he’d primed himself well. He shower’d us with bullets,
And he rained us with shell. And in five minutes flat, he’d blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia.
But the band played Waltzing Matilda, when we stopped to bury our slain.
We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs, then we started all over again.
And those that were left, well we tried to survive, in that mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks, I kept myself alive, though around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head, and when I woke up in my hospital bed,
And saw what it had done, well I wished I was dead. Never knew there was worse things than dyin’.
For I’ll go no more waltzing Matilda, all around the green bush far and free
To hump tent and pegs, a man needs both legs-no more waltzing Matilda for me.
So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed, and they shipped us back home to Australia.
The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay, I looked at the place where me legs used to be.
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me, to grieve, to mourn, and to pity.
But the band played Waltzing Matilda, as they carried us down the gangway.
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they turned all their faces away
And so now every April, I sit on me porch, and I watch the parades pass before me.
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march, reviving old dreams of past glories
And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore. They’re tired old heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, what are they marching for? And I ask myself the same question.
But the band plays Waltzing Matilda, and the old men still answer the call,
But as year follows year, more old men disappear. Someday no one will march there at all.
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by that billabong, who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
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NOTES:
“Matilda” - the backpack and associated gear used by livestock drovers and prospecters
In remote areas of the Australian outback.
“Swag” - canvas sleeping bag
“Billabong” - creek or estuary, generally with an outlet to the sea and containing more or less brackish water.
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