This is now our fifth terrorist attack by refugees. What are we doing to ourselves? My editorial on The Bolt Report. Bolt's ad for Bolt himself.
The challenge for Victorian politicians in wake of Bourke Street tragedy
Morrison wants Muslim leaders to do more to prevent terrorism, but what more can they do?
There is an election around the corner just watch Andrew Bolt go tooth and nail in vilifying Islam as the fundamentally most dangerous system of belief in this country. The same was once said about the Catholics as their loyalty couldn't be guaranteed to Australia before the Pope and the Vatican. That was proffered back then by the ultra-conservative ruling elite to ensure they can turn traditional left-wing voters by nothing else but a sense of fear. Bolt's not original we have seen it before and it was disgusting and cowardly then and it is just as cowardly today. The conservatives have even taken us to war to retain power wars that we have all lost and left to the Labor Party to pull us out of. Andrew Bolt is parroting the right-wing movements elsewhere and in the English speaking world he's been employed and given the platform by Rupert Murdoch to do it. What relief, only the right-wing is listening to him. Australian Muslims should be aware of how dangerous Andrew Bolt is he's, in fact, searching jabbing insulting in the hope of pushback in the form of sensation from anywhere he might generate it. In this case what he's promises isn't original it's been shown before but Bolt with his production team will do everything to sensationalise it.
- In a response to a questioner, Triggs also criticised the prime minister, Scott Morrison, for his response to the Bourke Street attack and his dismissive attitude to mental illness.It emerged on Sunday that Hassan Khalif Shire Ali believed he was being chased by “unseen people with spears” and was abusing substances in the lead-up to Friday’s fatal terrorist attack.
On Monday Morrison said referencing these delusions was “a lame excuse”. Terrorism experts and lawyers responded, saying his comments were “simplistic” and that better mental health access could prevent violence.
“The perpetrator intended to terrorise, that meets the definition of terrorism,” Triggs said. “[But] so many of these acts are by people with profound mental disturbance or substance abuse. I think to ignore that reality is very foolish indeed.
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When strategy takes the place of ideals and values we simply witness and avalanche of heartless hopelessness, harm, no service and Australian shame (ODT)
Divide between government and Islamic leaders deepens over Bourke Street attacker
A 2018 U.N. report highlighted this trend of branding human rights defenders, activists, and experts as “terrorists,” in Algeria, Egypt, the Philippines, and elsewhere. The Center for Strategic and International Studies has also noted that several countries besides Nicaragua have used compliance with FATF counterterrorism measures to justify passing restrictive laws in recent years.
“From Brazil and Nicaragua to France and the U.K. to Kyrgyzstan and Australia, we’re seeing clampdowns that make it all too easy to label protesters, journalists, activists, political opponents, and others that the authorities want to neutralize as ‘terrorists’ and ‘extremists,’” said Letta Tayler, a senior researcher on terrorism at Human Rights Watch. “We’ve seen a dangerous global spread of draconian counter terrorism laws since the September 11, 2001 attacks. … Because the word terrorism is associated with atrocities, it’s now easy to get public buy-in to responses that break the law in the name of security.”
THE PAGE THAT MAKES A FOOL OF THE RACE DISCRIMINATION COMMISSION
The Age makes a fool of the Race Discrimination Commissioner with its story placement. Chin Tan: "It is... highly misleading and counter-productive, to frame Melbourne’s problems with crime as a problem with African Australian communities." Next to this report are ones on Africans bashing a teenager and killing a restaurateur.
What some have said, however, is the truth: that Sudanese and Somalis have a very high rate of offending, which raises the question: why bring in so many as refugees when some Australians then pay such a high price? According to BoltWhat's with this man who can't say the words "I have said" who is his authority when police and experts have denied this very statement. 100 people of interest in a population of over 50,000 do not constitute a statistically significant issue. The majority of these are kids ranging from 13- 17 and still in school. What is significant is some media personalities have carved a name for themselves printing statistically significant bullshit and Andrew Bolt is a gang leader.
When Andrew Bolt cobbles cases together we see he's stuck trying to impress us with his laser vision of 5 cases among 10million people as being the reason we need a multi-billion dollar National security task force instead of money poured into mental health and our education about it.The only reason Bolt doesn't print all the information available to him from the police is if all the information were laid out Andrew Bolt wouldn't have a leg to stand on and would be shown up to be the racist he in fact is. Police and Bolt's statistics can't differ that significantly and Bolt certainly isn't the specialist he makes out he is so if the denial of Bolt's claims is so strong the only real gap is who publishes the information is it correct anis the person publishing it of high repute. Well, Bolt is none of those and the Police and ABS are all of those. Bolt cherry picks and even when he does the numbers aren't that significant. No more significant than the drugs, violence and hidden crimes that went on in the private schools he sent his children.As for the race commission being called fools why is it racists like Bolt always claim they, in fact, are the victims of racism a concoction that bullies use to claim they are only trying to defend themselves. If Bolt had that much popular support you'd think he would be seen meeting and greeting his fans in public but no he will no doubt fly out of Australia to holiday because Amsterdam has an even larger community of Muslims and coloured folk which Bolt says are of such bad character 3 million in fact.
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