Worried and Angry: Sydney, Australia Edition

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Here's the why of it:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-15/hostages-sydney-cafe-martin-place-police-operation/5967232

These people just had to go and do something not only mean, cruel and Wrong on its face, they had to play into the local Wrong-Headed Head-of-Government's hands by doing it, didn't they?

I don't want anyone dead of this. Not police, not hostages and certainly not hostage-takers. Because I want them to be treated according to the spirit and letter of the law...and learn from this that their First Mistake was to think that a crime of this sort was a good idea in the first place.

Waiting to be damned as naïve by PM Abbott's fellow believers for saying that...

Comments

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I don't recall inviting that kind of blanket stereotyping of Muslims in general at all. When I wrote "these people", I damn well mean the specific person/people responsible for that action under discussion.

My apologies to humanity in general and my Muslim friends and acquaintances in particular for having triggered the above now-deleted screed.

*glares in the author's general direction*

As for "native Australians", I usually interpret that as referring to the original pre-European contact inhabitants of that continent and their descendants. My apologies for triggering that discomfort as well.