Sydney students get a lesson in violence [Muslims riot in Sydney]

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | March 27 2003 | Philip Cornford

[MrBambaLaMamba]

After a brawl with police and a boisterous student protest against the war in Iraq that led to 33 arrests, a schoolgirl in a black chador approached a police cordon.

"I want to go home," she demanded. It had been a sometimes exhilarating and sometimes frightening day of defiance in a warm, autumn sun. The confrontations and the emotion had exhausted her.

She received an icy silence. The cordon did not open. Her friend, another Muslim girl, said: "We'll get into trouble." The police paid them no attention. With incredulity and then outrage, the girls realised the situation.

It was 3.19pm in Phillip Street and police had just corralled 600 young demonstrators between two cordons at Bligh and Bridge Streets, trapping them outside the Prime Minister's office to which they had marched.

They were to remain there for two hours while about 300 angry demonstrators outside the cordon refused to clear the street, treating with contempt police demands and pleas by the adult protest organisers who had lost control of the youngsters whose emotions they had whipped up all day with their bullhorns.

Those inside the cordon saw themselves as hostages and three times surged against the police lines, trying to break through. "Let us go," they chanted. Those outside also tried to break the cordon, but were repulsed.

To Assistant Commissioner of Police, Dick Adams, it was anarchy, just as he had predicted that morning. He said he had to regain control of the streets. Until then, those inside the cordon would have to stay there.

Brandishing a kitchen paring knife he said was found inside the cordon, Mr Adams declared the protest an unlawful assembly.

Police set out to close the protest, making many more arrests. Advancing shoulder to shoulder, they cleared Phillip Street of demonstrators. They then started releasing the now silent and resigned protesters inside the cordon, letting them out into Bridge Street, the far side. At 5.09pm the street outside the Prime Minister's office block was clear and weary police began to march away, led by 10 police horses.

It was the end of a day in which many protesters tried hard to show maturity, wanting their objections to the war to be taken seriously. And for a while it was full of promise as about 2000 school-age protesters massed in Town Hall Square, making passionate declarations but insisting the protest remain peaceful.

At 12.35pm, all that changed. Young men began fighting with police, trying to free two mates who had been arrested. Girls hurled themselves into the fray.

During the half-hour melee, police were assaulted, pelted with full drink containers, eggs and with restaurant chairs. Three suffered minor injuries.

Fourteen protesters were charged, four with assaulting police, the others with resisting arrest, malicious damage, affray, violent disorder and throwing a missile. Nineteen were issued infringement notices for breaches of the peace.

The fights with police showed this was more than a protest against the war in Iraq. They exposed a deeper wound among the young men whom Mr Adams accused of attending the protest with the sole intention of "inciting violence" against police.

No one said it yesterday, but many will say it today: It is a wound which has to be healed.

[Chi-Town Lady]

Yes I’m aware that Sydney is in Australia. What I meant by my statement is a deserted island somewhere that doesn’t have any form of human life on it. Ship them all there so they can fight and kill each other and leave the rest of innocent people in this world alone.

[cricket]

"Why are they here ?"

yes, why don't they go back to Iraq if they do not believe in this war? Why did they leave to begin with?

If all these people stayed home; perhaps they could have effected the changes from within; but no. . .they have left the work to someone else and now they complain.

Please good Muslims; just go home and take care of your own business or support the efforts of those that now are doing what you should have.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Don't you just love that cows, like the one whose pic I posted, that stand along side these terrorist bastards. The fools who support these monsters are brain dead. I believe that they WANT to be oppressed, subjugated and then terrorised.

The thing is the "large group of Middle Eastern males" who were at the heart of this riot are the mates of the pali pack rapists who've been attacking young women here on and off for the last 3 years.

You can have a good laugh at their expense though, they'll stand wearing their USA basketball team shirts echoing the eurotrash mantra "US has no culture" and then say, "If you ain't down with peace, if you ain't down with the anti-war movement, I'll bus a cap in yo ass."

My personal favorite is the paradoxical and universal "Baby killer" slur ALWAYS uttered by the socialist/abortionist/pro-choice groups towards those they oppose. Wankers all.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Most of them go where ever it is they:

1) Have access to modern plumbing
2) Will be supported by someone elses taxes
3) Can shout support for their former tyrants without actually having to worry about the wrath or whim of said tyrants
4) Are permitted to act like animals without being killed outright for their actions [See No. 3]
5) Can blame their criminal behavior or terroristic actions on racism or ethnic or cultural hatred and find an audience willing to believe their lies
6) Are protected by state supported/enforced gun control

[faithincowboys]

notice they choose to live in a liberal (not rat) society like austrailia rather than the oppressive societies they
claim to love so much.

sickening!!

[Chi-Town Lady]

"The fools who support these monsters are brain dead. I believe that they WANT to be oppressed, subjugated and then terrorised."

I think you've hit the nail on the head. If they weren't THINKING about being oppressed all the time what else could they bitch about? If they stopped all their "fartwa's" they might actually be able to bring themselves into the 8th century!

[smpc]

I've always noticed too that they are the ones who imitate American ghetto culture the most here while being so anti-American.

Its a given that they're anti-Aussie,you never see one wearing Billabong.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Ha, Billabong? Its always track suits and trainers, counterfeit/knock-off Adidas, Nike, Rebok, Hilfiger et al.

[smpc]

This incident has been all over the news so much....its really going to stir the aussie public into another huge anti-muslim frenzy.There'll be more attacks on mosques and bashings,and then the muslim countries in the region will call us racists.Same cycle over and over.

These guys are so friggin dumb.They clearly hate everything about our culture....i just dont understand why they stay.

[xp38]

Usually spelling doesn't bother me but Sydney Australia is my birthplace.

[Jemian]

I sincerely apologize. Please forgive me.

[sheik yerbouty]

To jihad.

[Michael2001]

The religion of peace strikes in Sydney