The events in Cronulla have the dead hand of the NSW ALP [New South Wales Australian Labor Party. SR] all over them. It's a chickens-come-home-to-roost scenario.

By engineering a brutal police regime in multi-ethnic communities at the same time as Muslims are being blamed for so much - from a genetic predisposition to pack rape to a war of terror. It's no surprise that these riots occur in New South Wales given what the ALP government has dealt out these last few years.

While these riots reflect the rising racism in Australia, no government has done more to foster such poison in its own patch than the NSW ALP. The Labor Party has worked overtime to divide the state along ethnic lines, with the determined complicity of the radio shock jocks and the print media.

So when the new terrorism bill is promulgated - aided and abetted so keenly by this same Labor Party - is it so strange that on a NSW beach that such racism explodes?

This country's entrenched racism, historically focused on Aborigines and Asians, has been exploited once again, like a maggot who's been given fresh garbage. The prejudice on which Pauline Hanson relied, has now jumped the generations - from the ex-diggers and grey-haired RSL loyalists, to the testosterone and beer-fuelled youths who are hurting in Howard's Australia, in and out of work.

While this process has taken its time, it needed official state sponsorship, enshrined in such things as the new anti-terrorism legislation, to find a new core of activists.

And our prime minister, John Howard, wants to preach calm! Has anyone seen these guys? Should any ethnic community be calm when these thugs are whacked out of their heads, wielding baseball bats and launching bricks and flower pots!

And they wrap themselves up in the flag of the Australian state to justify themselves! Are these then, the real Australians?? of which the prime minister is so keen to eulogize?

In the face of this terror, communities are being asked to rely on the NSW police force for protection. But who would do such a thing given the force's own history of terrorising communities, as the Indigenous community of Redfern can attest! Those young Lebanese-Australians were right when they gathered to protect their local mosque.

Stop the racist attacks! Defend civil liberties! Repeal the anti-terror laws!  

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