Quote Originally Posted by macca View Post
Once you take away the rights of another person to go about their daily lives, you lose all your rights. This ass has no rights, stop pissing around with him and send a very clear message we don't accept this crap in our free land. This is Australia, if you don't like the way we live here you are welcome to leave.
Quick to judge Macca. How do we know the person responsible isn’t a mentally ill spotty teenager born in Sydney. Of course the situation needs to be dealt with but I’m just making the point that there are a lot of assumptions made in your words, presumably because of a flag. It may turn out that the offender is indeed an islamic extremist, but when folk respond as you have it just feeds the monster. Irish advises ‘wait until we know’. I consider that to be excellent advice, particularly from someone who grew up in a place ripped apart by terrorism. I would add “Whatever the facts turn out to be don’t be tempted to turn against the innocent, even if they are different to us or wear different clothes”.