on 03-10-2015 06:28 PM
on 03-10-2015 06:35 PM
They wont ever change their mind
Not until more Australians have
Been killed by terrorists than Australians
Or brits have been killed by yankees
In the war of independance
Or tsunamis earthquakes and
The plague combined have killed
More christians than terrorists
on 03-10-2015 07:20 PM
When one Australian is killed every week by terrorist activity and one in every three Australians suffers physical or mental trauma as a result of terrorism, then I shall become seriously alarmed
When 119 Australians die in a single month as a result of terrorism, then I may start to panic.
https://bitre.gov.au/publications/ongoing/road_deaths_australia_monthly_bulletins.aspx
In the meantime I shall be alert but not alarmed and grieve with the family of the young policeman killed in Parramatta and the families of all public officers killed in the line of duty by criminal thugs.
on 03-10-2015 07:43 PM
Thats prerty much what I said
on 03-10-2015 07:47 PM
03-10-2015 11:36 PM - edited 03-10-2015 11:37 PM
on 04-10-2015 10:28 AM
If 14 year old boys can be turned into terrorists, murder innocent people walking down the street or going about their daily work, then we should all be worried. There's no defence against it.
04-10-2015 12:58 PM - edited 04-10-2015 12:58 PM
Any senseless murder is horrific and should cause deep concern - and when that murder is carried out by a teenager it is even more worrying; but does the motive make the murder any more or less horrific?
Is the murder of Curtis Cheng any more shocking than that of David Auchterlonie?
Is Mr Cheng somehow more dead than Pirjo Kemppainen, a 63-year-old retired nurse, murdered in her own home by two 14 year old boys?
Is a radicalised Muslim teenager who shoots a man outside a police station a more frightening murderer than a sexually jealous teenager who stabs a girl in front of all her classmates?
Murder is murder - the motive may vary but the end result is just as terrible andjust as worryingl. Suggesting, as the OP does, that we should demonise an entire section of our community fover the actions of one15 year old boy is pure paranoia. You might as well argue that all teenagers should be locked up in detention centres till they turn 20.
on 04-10-2015 01:35 PM
Yes unfortunately it is , as very Rarely do the other murders inspire others to take up the sword , if we except this as an inevitable part of our life , we give justice and propriety to their aims , we must never allow crimes of religion or politics become the norm or acceptable as , if we do we will allow our society to descend into the chaos that is the survival of the fittest
on 05-10-2015 05:38 PM - last edited on 05-10-2015 07:47 PM by underbat
Well said and I agree 100% and not demonising a whole religion as I was accused of.