> From: Russell Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Andrew Paul wrote: > > It was a little confronting, I agree, but please, take a few steps > > back from that big red button. > > Done - big red button = bad. No question. >
Thankfully our red button leads to a damp squib that goes whizz in an attempt to scare of birds.. I am glad we don't have that responsibility. > > If, lets say, we were invaded by the newly elected > Indonesian Islamic > > Government, on the basis that we were supporting terrorism > in the form > > of East Timor and West Papua. (a more sound basis than our current > > debacle in Iraq btw, at least some facts !) Do you think you would > > just roll over and play dead? Or do you think you might be > protesting > > in the streets? > > Oh, absolutely, the .22 would come out of the rubble and I > would take my > nationalistic fervour to the invaders. But I wouldn't wave > pictures of > the PM, or of the archbishop, or anything other than the > Australian flag > or the Southern Cross. But most assuredly, I would not mutilate the > bodies and celebrate their desecration. > > As much as it saddened me, I didn't feel angry or disturbed > watching the > Pajeros in flames, or seeing the bullet holes. Shooting them > as invaders > I can sort of understand, given that these people don't > understand what > the good individuals over there are trying to achieve. But the crowd > bothered me. Really bothered me... > It is scary, no questions there. I guess my point was that's it not entirely their fault. And its not incomprehensible, nor something you can confine to certain races or creeds. Mob anger is not pretty, nor coherent or sensible. Lets try not to encourage it I say. Andrew _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
