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Being a Sydneysider, I am of course quite biased but I do believe that our reaction to this incident offers an example of how to respond to terrorist attacks that the world could do well to study and learn from.

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Being a Sydneysider, I am of course quite biased but I do believe that our reaction to this incident offers an example of how to respond to terrorist attacks that the world could do well to study and learn from.

I can't see what the rest of the world could learn from Sydneysiders' reaction, Tweak. I see no discussion of new and exciting methods of torturing people, for instance.

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Taliban storm Pakistani school, killing 126 (children)

http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-taliban-attack-military-school-kill-2-072153239.html

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This shows:

1) the dangers of fundamentalist head-in-the-sand interpretations -- Christian, Islam, Buddhist, Atheist...anyone on a self-righteous mission

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2) the dangers of small-minded people using a small percentage to paint an entire group, off on a self-righteous mission.

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It's interesting you say that about the Amish -- there's a conservative here who keeps running for the House, and one of his issues is that the Amish here use the roads for their carriages, and he's pissed off about it, doesn't think they should get special consideration, and keeps running to put an end to it.

So yes, there are conservatives as nutty as your rants.

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Nonetheless, that's the guy, that's his platform, and that's his proudly ranted affiliation.

If the shoe fits you, so you be it.

He's still not getting elected.

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How sharp of you to recognise the flaws underlying my little bit of shameless self promotion. It is quite remiss of me to fail to spot the opportunity to indulge in some petty genocide - unforgivable really. And I have no excuse to offer for my inability to engage in minority baiting or dog whistling. Your point about torture is taken - surely this was a chance for some creative waterboarding under the expresso machine. That could have been an impressive bit of improvisation don't you think?

The far fetched notion that by being nice to people, by standing beside and with them in their hour of need will be reciprocated in kind by a grateful group of towelheads with long histories of compassion towards infidels is clearly a lefty-liberal aberrationdelusion, possibly induced by too much time spent in the sun. It almost goes without saying that given an inch those eebil Mooslims will take a mile and demand on the introduction of sharia law as their quid pro quo.

Yes it's true - the defence of our Western way of life, of Christianity Mum and apple pie - starts at our local Lindt Chocolate & Coffee shop. And if those nefarious eebil Mooslims dare to come between us and our traditional way of life, then by all means let's bomb them back into the Stone Age. Sometimes the old tried and trusted methods are the best aren't they? We wouldn't be where we are today without them would we?

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It seems that this person had mental issues/instability..

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How sharp of you to recognise the flaws underlying my little bit of shameless self promotion. It is quite remiss of me to fail to spot the opportunity to indulge in some petty genocide - unforgivable really. And I have no excuse to offer for my inability to engage in minority baiting or dog whistling. Your point about torture is taken - surely this was a chance for some creative waterboarding under the expresso machine. That could have been an impressive bit of improvisation don't you think?

The far fetched notion that by being nice to people, by standing beside and with them in their hour of need will be reciprocated in kind by a grateful group of towelheads with long histories of compassion towards infidels is clearly a lefty-liberal aberrationdelusion, possibly induced by too much time spent in the sun. It almost goes without saying that given an inch those eebil Mooslims will take a mile and demand on the introduction of sharia law as their quid pro quo.

Yes it's true - the defence of our Western way of life, of Christianity Mum and apple pie - starts at our local Lindt Chocolate & Coffee shop. And if those nefarious eebil Mooslims dare to come between us and our traditional way of life, then by all means let's bomb them back into the Stone Age. Sometimes the old tried and trusted methods are the best aren't they? We wouldn't be where we are today without them would we?

Do you really think this type of post is appropriate to this thread?

Butch

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It seems that this person had mental issues/instability.. so how is this a terrorism thing any more than someone killing because he/she heard voices telling him/her to kill their children to "save" them or send them to a "better place" or someone saying Satan told them to.. or a mentally ill husband who takes his wife and kids hostage or commits murder suicide.. or of any other delusions a mentally ill person would come up with? It seems to me that many of these types of incidents are a result of mental problems that are not treated or properly treated and that should be a greater focus.. wasn't there another thread here a while ago about a mentally ill person turned killer & how the health care system fails the mentally ill? (maybe Newtown?).. anyway, that's jmo..

http://www.dw.de/sydney-gunman-had-history-of-mental-instability/a-18133289

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/17/aaron-alexis-another-improperly-treated-mentally-ill-man-becomes-mass-killer/