intense racial riots erupt in sydney

[rioters bloc]

violence erupts at cronulla

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/violen...4235936223.html (http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/violence-erupts-at-cronulla/2005/12/11/1134235936223.html)

Police have been pushed, pelted with beer bottles and had their patrol cars stomped on as violence worsens at Sydney's Cronulla Beach.

Racial tension turned to violence today as at least 5000 angry people converged on the beach after simmering anger and disputes between beach users flared last week.

An ambulance spokesman said crews had treated at least five people after pockets of violence broke out among the crowd.

At least two of those would require hospital treatment, he said.

No details about their injuries were available. The two most seriously injured were at the Cronulla Surf Lifesaving Club, he said.

He could not comment on a report that a girl of Middle Eastern appearance had been pushed over and was kicked repeatedly as she lay on the ground.

Reporters at the scene said groups of young men had been seen hurling beer bottles at police cars.

Crowds also swarmed around police vehicles, stomping on them and preventing them from moving through the troubled community's foreshore area.

Roads have been closed down in the area and some traffic lights are out.
Police are also standing guard at the kiosk adjoining the surf club, where roller doors have been pulled down as the violence continues.

Six people have been arrested and four people have been charged, a NSW police spokesman said.

A 28-year-old Cronulla man has been charged with affray and a 17-year-old Cronulla youth has been charged with assault police.

The pair will face Sutherland Local Court at a date to be fixed.

Two people - a 16-year-old Sutherland boy, and 33-year-old Kareela man - have been charged with offensive conduct.

The 33-year-old will also face Sutherland Local Court at a later date.

It was not known how the youth's charge will be handled.

Anther two people have been arrested and are being questioned at Miranda police station.

No charges have been laid.

Witnesses at the beach reported seeing police use capsicum spray to subdue at least one man.

A reporter at Cronulla station, where violence has also flared, said police were involved in a physical struggle with a group trying to board a train.
They used capsicum spray to subdue the group.

It was not clear if any of the arrests related to earlier witness reports of at least three men being pursued and attacked as they tried to get away from angry members of the crowd chasing them on foot.

At least two of the men took refuge at Northies Pub, where police gathered to protect them, Macquarie Radio reported.

Broken beer bottles scattered Elouera Road, which runs along the foreshore, with many in the crowd drinking heavily. Police have had to close the road to traffic at times.

Mounted police and other units are maintaining a heavy presence at the beach today after two rival groups used text messages to urge attacks on each other.

Some of the text messages encouraged people to carry out vigilante style attacks, and some message had racial undertones.

One of the messages had urged "Aussies" to take revenge against "Lebs and wogs". Another urged locals to rally at points on the beach today to take retaliation against "Middle-Eastern" gangs.

As the crowd moved along the beach and foreshore area today, one man on the back of a ute began to shout "No more Lebs" - a chant picked up by the group around him.

Others in the crowd, carrying Australian flags and dressed in Australian shirts, yelled "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ... Oi, Oi, Oi".

North Cronulla Beach, in Sydney's south, was the scene of two violent incidents last week - an attack on two lifesavers on Sunday and a brawl later in the week in which youths turned on a media crew.

Two ambulance officers were injured when an angry mob attacked their vehicle.

The ambulance was transporting six injured youths under police escort when the crowd descended upon the vehicle and began hurling beer bottles.

Windows on the ambulance were shattered and its panelling dented from kicking.

A NSW Ambulance spokesman said one officer was hit in the head with a bottle as it passed through a broken window.

A second ambulance officer received lacerations to the arm. A police officer in the vehicle was not hurt.

The six patients were taken to an area away from the crowd where they were assessed by doctors.

One patient was taken to St George Hospital with unspecified but minor injuries.

The other five were released.

Dozens of people have been treated for minor cuts and bruises, and some have been decontaminated for capsicum spray, the spokesman said.

Meanwhile, Sydney's Islamic community has blamed the violence on what it calls racist and irresponsible sections of the media.

Islamic Friendship Association of Australia president Keysar Trad said the violence was "bound to happen" because of racist rhetoric on Sydney talkback radio throughout the week.

"Sections of the media took this issue far too far and one can only surmise that the way this issues was dealt with on talkback radio amounts to incitement," Mr Trad said.

He said the media turned a common youth issue into an issue of ethnicity.

"One wonders how much further this can go before those people on talkback radio become more responsible," he said.

He said the racist chants show people are not acting rationally, but are "filled with hatred".

Premier Morris Iemma and Police Minister Carl Scully have warned people against taking the law into their own hands.

"Let there be no mistake - if anyone comes to this beach on the weekend with the intention of causing trouble, the police will respond with the full force of the law to maintain order," Mr Iemma said yesterday.

"It's time for everyone involved in this to just calm down."

[rioters bloc]

background to the incident: [sorry i couldnt find a better article]

Teen charged over lifesaver attack

A teenager has been charged over the assault of a lifesaver at a Sydney beach.

Detectives arrested the 18-year-old Bankstown man at Petersham, in the inner-west, shortly before 10am today.

He was later charged with one count of affray and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company.

The charges relate to an alleged assault on two lifesavers at North Cronulla Beach, in Sydney's south, about 3pm on Sunday.

The lifesavers were taken to Sutherland Hospital with lacerations and bruises caused by several blows to their heads.

The man was granted conditional bail to appear in Sutherland Local Court on January 19.

Surf lifesavers say the attack was carried out by a gang of youths who regularly visit Cronulla to harass locals and beachgoers.

[rioters bloc]

photos [so fucking disgusting with their flags and hats and whatnot...aussie aussie aussie, yeah]

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/4cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/9cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/8cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/5cronulla_gallery__470x312.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/5cronulla_gallery__470x312.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/11cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/3cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/2cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/6cronulla_gallery__470x312,0.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/1cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/12cronulla_gallery__452x400.jpg

[Creature]

One of the messages had urged "Aussies" to take revenge against "Lebs and wogs". Another urged locals to rally at points on the beach today to take retaliation against "Middle-Eastern" gangs.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA. The vast majority of my friends are "lebs and wogs" and I tell you if this started any where near where I reside it would have been... interesting.


And it just shows how stupid people can honestly get, and how little police can really do in times of true need.

[matiasm]

i was there and if i had my rifle i would have shot any drunkin kangaroo with my rifle in the leg, fair enough a few lebanese fools started trouble there the other day, but its no excuse to abuse every other ethnic background person. (im uruguayan btw)

I hav alot of australian friends, but the fools that bashed any inicident ethinc person needs some discipline.

This proves that australia has alot of racism and it does not get looked at as a BIG priority!!

[4514]

its not really australian without the beetroot.
4514

[Master Che]

He could not comment on a report that a girl of Middle Eastern appearance had been pushed over and was kicked repeatedly as she lay on the ground.
Now thats just disgusting, taking hate out on a kid. The men who did that to her should suffer for what they did.

[Eoin Dubh]

Attacking lifeguards and ambulance attendants?

What morons.
What exactly started this again??

[rioters bloc]

Originally posted by Eoin [email protected] 12 2005, 01:48 AM
What exactly started this again??
last sunday two lifesavers were attacked on cronulla beach [which is a predominantly 'white' area] and later a teeanager of 'middle-eastern appearance' was arrested over it. apparently there's a long history of clashes between 'wogs' and 'whites' there. so yesterday about 5000 really patriotic aussies converged on the beach with all their nationalistic fascist shit and proceeded to get drunk. a bunch of ethnic kids went to the beach that day later in the arvo and basically people just went nuts on them *shudders*

the other day i was on the phone to my bf while he was at work and i could hear the workers in the background laughing about how good the gathering was gonna be, and how they were gonna go and 'smash some lebs up' and 'get those filthy wogs out of our country for good' [his workmates are fucking racist fuckers]

really scary..

[Intifada]

I wrote the same in the other thread about this, the only way this can be stopped from happening again is if the racists are smashed into pieces.

I wish I was there.

[rioters bloc]

it's scary as fuck... there were random shootings during the week too, one on the day i was planning on going to cronulla beach to chill out :/

the worst thing is that on talkback radio, HEAPS of people supported what they did. and on a couple of the news stations [the particularly conservative ones] the newsreaders were smiling and stuff after watching all this footage of people kicking ambulance officers on the ground.. as one reporter put it, it was the 'ugly side of australian racism' - but is there ever a 'goodlooking' side??

AAP

*Man stabbed during altercation*

A MAN was stabbed in Sydney's south tonight in what appears to be further race-related violence.

A police spokesman said a 23-year-old man is in St George Hospital in a serious condition following an altercation at the corner of Gannons Road and Denman Avenue in Woolooware about 10.25pm (AEDT).

Radio 2GB reported the victim had a knife "embedded in his back".

The police spokesman said: "The 23-year-old man was with friends outside a golf club when a group of males of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern appearance approached him.

"Following a short conversation the 23-year-old sustained stab wounds. Police are appealing for help from anyone who witnessed the incident."

The attack follows the race-fuelled near-riot today at Cronulla beach, where several people of Middle Eastern appearance were set upon by mobs of youths, many affected by alcohol.

About the same time tonight, up to 50 carloads of youths smashed over 100 cars with baseball bats and other weapons in the eastern beach suburb of Maroubra, in apparent retaliation of the Cronulla beatings.

[Guerrilla22]

who are they upset with? Southeast Asians? I have no idea what a "leb" or a "wog" is.

[rioters bloc]

Neo-Nazis in race riots: police

Neo-Nazis are believed to have been among those who took part in the race-fuelled violence at Cronulla in Sydney's south, NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says.

Up to 5,000 people descended on the beach yesterday as mobs yelling racist chants targeted people of Middle Eastern appearance.

Mr Scipione said police believed neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups were among the crowd.

"That in fact is something that we're following up," he told the Nine network. "Yes, that's the advice we've received."

One woman was pictured at Cronulla Beach holding a poster that read "Aussies fighting back." Her photo appeared in a Sydney News Limited newspaper today. She was advertising a group called the Patriotic Youth League.

The group, founded by former Newcastle student and One Nation activist Stuart McBeth in 2002, described itself as a "radical nationalist" group, News Ltd newspapers reported today.

It has links to the German-based skinhead group Volksfront, British Nationalist Party and the New Zealand National Front, the paper said.

The group has campaigned for the deportation of immigrants and for keeping foreign students out of universities.

'Real' locals shocked

Diana Kontoprias, who runs a gelato bar near the beach, witnessed most of violence yesterday.

She told ABC Radio "real locals" were disgusted by the events.

"They were so embarrassed, so shocked of how the day unfolded," she said.

"It was a disgrace, I don't think anyone in the local area agrees with what happened yesterday."

20 injured, 16 arrested

More than 20 people have been injured and 16 arrested as race-fuelled violence spread through Sydney's beachside suburbs overnight.

But NSW Premier Morris Iemma says police are in control of the situation.

A series of apparent revenge attacks - including two stabbings - occurred overnight following the unrest at Cronulla, where more than 5000 people gathered yesterday.

Drunken mobs within the crowd yelled racist chants and chased down and bashed people of Middle Eastern appearance at the beach in an extended show of violence.

Police and an ambulance crew were also assaulted as racial tensions peaked.

A total of 25 people, including two ambulance officers, were injured, about 40 cars were vandalised and an Australian flag was burned during the mob scenes.

Police said 16 people had been arrested across Sydney and charged with 42 offences.

Neo-Nazis are believed to have been among those who took part in the race-fuelled violence at Cronulla in Sydney's south, NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says.

Up to 5,000 people descended on the beach yesterday as mobs yelling racist chants targeted people of Middle Eastern appearance.

Mr Scipione said police believed neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups were among the crowd.

"That in fact is something that we're following up," he told the Nine network. "Yes, that's the advice we've received."

One woman was pictured at Cronulla Beach holding a poster that read "Aussies fighting back." Her photo appeared in a Sydney News Limited newspaper today. She was advertising a group called the Patriotic Youth League.

The group, founded by former Newcastle student and One Nation activist Stuart McBeth in 2002, described itself as a "radical nationalist" group, News Ltd newspapers reported today.

It has links to the German-based skinhead group Volksfront, British Nationalist Party and the New Zealand National Front, the paper said.

The group has campaigned for the deportation of immigrants and for keeping foreign students out of universities.

'Real' locals shocked

Diana Kontoprias, who runs a gelato bar near the beach, witnessed most of violence yesterday.

She told ABC Radio "real locals" were disgusted by the events.

"They were so embarrassed, so shocked of how the day unfolded," she said.

"It was a disgrace, I don't think anyone in the local area agrees with what happened yesterday."

20 injured, 16 arrested

More than 20 people have been injured and 16 arrested as race-fuelled violence spread through Sydney's beachside suburbs overnight.

But NSW Premier Morris Iemma says police are in control of the situation.

A series of apparent revenge attacks - including two stabbings - occurred overnight following the unrest at Cronulla, where more than 5000 people gathered yesterday.

Drunken mobs within the crowd yelled racist chants and chased down and bashed people of Middle Eastern appearance at the beach in an extended show of violence.

Police and an ambulance crew were also assaulted as racial tensions peaked.

A total of 25 people, including two ambulance officers, were injured, about 40 cars were vandalised and an Australian flag was burned during the mob scenes.

Police said 16 people had been arrested across Sydney and charged with 42 offences.

Mr Iemma today described the behaviour as "stomach turning" and said it would not be tolerated.

"I saw yesterday people trying to hide behind the Australian flag, well they are cowards whose behaviour will not be tolerated," Mr Iemma told Channel Nine.

"That was the most disgraceful, disgusting behaviour that I've ever seen."

Mr Iemma said he planned to bring together community leaders for discussions about how to prevent further violence.

Police had the resources and the equipment to deal with the violent scenes, he said.

Police were forced to use capsicum spray and batons in their battle to subdue the Cronulla rioters, who pelted officers with bottles and stomped on patrol cars.

Later, a 23-year-old man was injured and more than 40 cars smashed with baseball bats in an apparent revenge attack at Maroubra, in Sydney's east.

A group of about 60 men of Middle Eastern appearance and armed with baseball bats smashed the windows of parked cars about 9pm (AEDT).

The group then clashed with local group, the Bra Boys, outside the Maroubra Bay Hotel.

A 23-year-old Maroubra man was taken to Prince of Wales hospital after he was stabbed with a sharp implement, believed to be a stick or nail, in the hip.

Later, a second 23-year-old man was stabbed in the back by a group of males, described as being of Middle Eastern appearance, at a golf club at Woolooware, in Sydney's south.

He was taken to hospital in a serious condition.

Riot police were also called to Brighton-le-Sands, in Sydney's south, overnight to control a group of about 200 brawling youths who had reportedly thrown projectiles at police.

Twelve people were arrested at Cronulla. They will face Sutherland Local Court at a date to be fixed.

[rioters bloc]

Race riots spread to suburbs

RACIAL violence erupted in several Sydney suburbs last night in retaliation for a rampage by thousands of young residents through Cronulla that turned the seaside suburb into a battlefield.

Political, community and religious leaders joined stunned locals to condemn an afternoon of violence by a crowd that turned on people of Middle Eastern appearance and those trying to protect them, with police and ambulance officers also attacked.

As the violence spread, police cars raced through Sydney streets from Cronulla to Miranda, Brighton-le-Sands, Rockdale, Maroubra, Woolooware and Tempe. Police said they had received reports of firearms being "flashed" threateningly but not discharged. "So far we have had no one shot," an officer said.

A 23-year-old man was in St George Hospital in a serious condition after a fight in Woolooware about 10.25pm. A radio report said he had a knife embedded in his back. Police said the man was with friends when he had an altercation outside a golf club with a "group of males of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern appearance".

In Brighton-le-Sands a group of people were reported to have taken down the Australian flag at the Brighton RSL Club and burnt it in the street. Youths were seen at a garage filling bottles with petrol in nearby Monterey.

Police closed Marine Parade, Maroubra, where people converged in vehicles on the beachfront and began fighting with locals including members of the Bra Boys surf gang. Police said 50 carloads of youths smashed more than 100 vehicles with baseball bats and other weapons. In the same suburb a young girl was punched in the face.

In Rockdale police gathered in riot gear following reports of youths armed with crowbars near the train station after 10pm, a car driver trying to run down a police officer, and items being thrown at police cars in Bay Street, Brighton-le-Sands. The street was blocked off.

Around North Cronulla beach and the surrounding streets, drunk teenagers communicated with each other on walkie-talkies about rumoured sightings of Lebanese gangs.

Commanders from the Bankstown and Campsie patrols were on alert amid fears of outbreaks of violence. Shortly before midnight police received reports of a convoy of up to 40 carloads of youths heading from Punchbowl Oval to the eastern suburbs.

By 12.30am today there were reports of 20 cars with men of Middle Eastern appearance at a BP petrol station in Cronulla, throwing rocks.

At least 13 people were injured during the earlier violence in Cronulla - including five police - and 12 people had been arrested last night.

The Premier, Morris Iemma, led a chorus of condemnation of the Cronulla attacks. "These hooligans have brought shame upon themselves," he said. "Some today tried to hide behind the Australian flag. The Australia that I know, and intend to preserve as Premier, does not support the sort of behaviour that we saw today."

The Police Commissioner, Ken Moroney, said the rioters - many of them carrying the flag and even singing the anthem - were "clearly un-Australian". "I'm ashamed as a man and as the Commissioner of Police," he said. "Never have I seen a mob turn like they have today, particularly on … women and … the NSW Ambulance Service. That has brought a higher level of shame to those involved."

There had "clearly … been a level of racial vilification … and those who are found to behave this way will be prosecuted".

One bashing victim, 19-year-old Mustafa, said at Sutherland Hospital: "They threw bottles, broken bottles, food, anything they could get their hands on. And what were we doing? We were there for a swim."

Another victim, who gave his name only as Moot, said: "We are going to have the last laugh. I got beaten up by 50 people. I am half Lebanese, part-Aboriginal. I am more Australian than the Anglos."

About 7.30pm a young man of Lebanese appearance, arms held out imploringly, sprinted south on a footpath towards the protective shield of the police stationed at Cronulla Beach, hotly pursued by a drunken mob numbering hundreds. He outran the mob and was saved by police, who placed him in the back of a police van, which was then surrounded by the mob.

As the van drove away, one young Caucasian girl laughed and said to a male companion: "That was sick. I've never seen a dumb Leb run so fast. How good was that?"

Earlier a man was cornered in Mitchell Street and had several bottles smashed over his head while he was punched and kicked by dozens of screaming people.

He had been walking with two other men when he was hit by a young man draped in the Australian flag. A bystander tried to stop the assault, saying "He's not a Leb, he's not a Leb".

A lone policeman came to his aid, spraying a canister of capsicum spray to try to disperse the crowd until more support arrived.

Many shopkeepers closed their doors as the crowd converged on Cronulla station. Two men who had just stepped off a train were bashed by about 50 people after they were forced against the carriage. Police said the invasion of the station appeared to have been prompted by a bogus text message saying a trainload of people was due to arrive from Bankstown.

Sarah Id, 17, and her sister Amy, 15, from Sutherland, who were both born in the area and whose parents are Lebanese immigrants, found themselves under the protection of police and transit security guards as they waited for their train while 1000 people stood opposite. The pair had gone to Cronulla Beach, as they had done most weekends as children, "just to get a tan".

"We had to get out because everyone was telling us to go home. Both girls and guys were shouting at us and a woman told us to watch our backs," Sarah said.

"They were saying, 'You don't belong here'. We were born here and went to Jannali High."

Neither the Prime Minister nor the federal Opposition Leader wanted to comment last night.

[Eoin Dubh]

Yeah what the heck is a "wog"?
Why would somebody want to beat up a lifesaver? These are the people who save swimmers, right? What could anyone have against them?!!?
5000 rowdies drunk and violent! That is crazy-ass. And pretty scary too.

[rioters bloc]

Thugs ruled the streets, and the mob sang Waltzing Matilda

A BARE-CHESTED youth in Quiksilver boardshorts tore the headscarf off the girl's head as she slithered down the Cronulla dune seeking safety on the beach from a thousand-strong baying mob.

Up on the road, Marcus "Carcass" Butcher, 28, a builder from Penrith, wearing workboots, war-camouflage shorts and black singlet bearing the words "Mahommid was a camel f---ing faggot" raised both arms to the sky. "F--- off, Leb," he cried victoriously.

It was one last act of cowardly violence on a sad and shameful day that began as a beach party celebrating a kind of perverted nationalism that was gatecrashed by racism.

A crowd of at least 5000 - overwhelmingly under 25 - took over Cronulla's foreshore and beachside streets. Police were powerless as 200-odd ringleaders, many clutching bottles or cans of beer and smoking marijuana, led assaults on individuals and small groups of Lebanese Australians who risked an appearance during the six-hour protest.

The horde swirled after fleeing individuals, sometimes sweeping past police lines and horses, chasing a quarry who sought safety in restaurants, shops, toilet blocks and ambulances and police vehicles. Some were snatched by police, who stood against the swarm and repelled the most violent with capsicum spray.

After a local man, "Steely", had led a chant of "F--- off, Lebs", a young man demanded the megaphone and told the crowd it was "racist". A bottle arced in from the audience and shattered on his forehead. He fled "like a bleeding rabbit", someone yelled after him.

Sometimes when a victim was cornered, the mob started singing Waltzing Matilda. Advance Australia Fair was similarly employed against obstructing police, and the usually good-natured "Aussie Aussie Aussie" chant in the mouths of the Cronulla crew assumed a menacing tone.

Cronulla was possibly Australia's biggest racist protest since vigilante miners killed two Chinese at Lambing Flat in 1860.

Yesterday's violence had been brewing for months. It came to a head last weekend when some Lebanese Australian men attacked members of the North Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club after they asked the visitors to stop playing soccer because it was disturbing other beach users.

"Steely" - who did not want to identify himself "for fear the Lebs will come and shoot up my joint during the week" - said his children had been scared by Lebanese Australians coming in from the western suburbs.

"I've got a four-year-old girl and a boy who's 11, and they see these bastards come here and stand around the sea baths 'cos their women have got to swim in clothes and stuff, or they see them saying filthy things to our girls," he said. "That's not Australian. My granddad fought the Japs to see Australia safe from this sort of shit, and that's what I'm doing today."

The word went out last week that the Shire boys would not take it lying down any more. Yesterday was shaping as a giant clash if Lebanese Australians came to run the gauntlet.

Cronulla has been an iconic surf suburb since the early 1960s, when the surfboard craze hit. It has a tribal surf culture shaped by violence and substance abuse.

Its first surfing hero, Bobby Brown, died after being sliced by a beer glass in a hotel in 1967.

Cronulla was the setting for Puberty Blues, the brutal book and film about girls growing up in the surf culture. Many of its surfing heroes have had difficult lives, not the least Mark Occhiluppo, who came back from virtual career oblivion to take the world surfing title in 1999.

Cronulla has long been the scene of battles with outsiders. The early 1960s saw pitched fights between "westies" and "surfies". Then, the media portrayed them as wars between teenage subcultures, but they always had an economic if not class element to them. It was a time when the White Australia policy still existed and nobody thought it was based on racism.

Things have changed. So yesterday "Da Boys" - the Cronulla locals - turned up early, and by 10am a party atmosphere was already evident.

Two-storey apartments were bedecked in bizarre bunting ranging from Australian and Eureka flags to "Merry Christmas" signs and Bundaberg Rum polar bear cut-outs.

On the streets, Australian flags fluttered on most cars, Cold Chisel and Men At Work boomed out of stereo systems and there were patriotic T-shirts with kangaroos, swear words and puns. Beer soaked everything.

Todd Russell, a concrete pourer from one of the apartments up the road from the riot site, was among the first to arrive and was giving away sausages cooked on a barbecue on the back of his ute, "to get everyone in the mood to be a real Aussie". He had put up a sign saying "No tabouli".

He was enthusiastically handing out brochures headed "Immigration out of control" and "Your teachers are lying to you" to passers-by."Don't know what this shit is, mate. It's just stuff. I agree with it, whatever it is," Russell said. "Look, these Lebs are coming here and giving us shit and we're not going to take it any more."

Behind him, John Moffitt of the Australia First Party was smiling to himself. He had been handing out political pamphlets to some of the flag and beer can-bedecked teenagers most of the morning and they were merrily distributing them to the committed, the curious and the repulsed. "This is a great day. Australia is now seeing what the policies of the last 30 years are reaping," Moffitt said.

Paul Wilson, a local accountant who wants to start a political movement he has called Sons of Anzacs, led the mob with a couple of megaphone chants but said he was disgusted at the abuse of Lebanese immigrants.

He said the protest was really just an extension of the sorts of things Pauline Hanson was warning about when she entered national life in 1996.

"Nobody listened to her really and look what's happened. Mind you, it's a shame that it came to this. I don't agree with the racist stuff. It frightens a lot of people off but it still a true reflection of what being a real and proud Australian is to many of us. You deny that, you're mad," he said.

The crowd's first likely target was sighted just after 11am. He copped a punch from a local before fleeing to the safety of the Northies hotel sports bar, where a police line stopped the hunters in their tracks and he was whisked from the building.

Over the next six hours there were sporadic outbreaks when the mob thought it spied a Lebanese Australian intruder.

Many in the melee took photographs on mobile phones as they contacted people to join the fray or just to check out the fun. "It's a pisser," said Michael Bedford, of Sylvania. "Shire forever."

As police tramped in quick-time from flashpoint to flashpoint, many in the crowd ridiculed their efforts. "Hup, hup, hup. Left, right, left, right. Sound off - that's right, dudes, go get 'em," a group yelled in unison, before showering police with beer.

At one point, thousands rushed up the hill to the Cronulla Mall and headed for the railway station, nearly a kilometre away, where two men were taken and beaten. Sated, the crowd returned to the beachfront.

While bedlam ruled, the North Cronulla SLSC did its best to ignore the unlovely spectacle, calmly continuing with the launching ceremony of a new surfboat, the Graham "Cashy" Cachia.

Meanwhile, down the beach, the Lebanese Australian girl's three male friends were being chased through apartments as her headscarf was being born off as some sort of souvenir. At the boat ceremony, a 13-year-old boy, a nipper with the club, turned from the boat to the noise swelling from the crowd north of the clubhouse.

"Get her!" he yelled. On his bare back were the words in black felt pen: "We crew here. You flew here."

[rioters bloc]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2005, 10:23 AM
who are they upset with? Southeast Asians? I have no idea what a "leb" or a "wog" is.
'leb' is a lebanese person, 'wog' is mainly attributed to people from western europe like italians, greek people, spanish people, etc.

wiki def:


Wog is also a slang term in Australian English, denoting non-Anglo-Saxon Australians, usually people of Southern European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ancestry. Specifically it implies Italians and Greeks, but also Spaniards, people from the Balkans (Croatians, Bosnians, Serbians, etc.), Portuguese, Maltese, Arabs, Turks, and Iranians. It also often includes Latin Americans grouped together with those of Spanish ancestry.

It may occasionally extend to people from other parts of Europe or the Levant. Migrants from the Netherlands sometimes refer to themselves as clog wogs.

This meaning came into popular use in the 1950s when Australia accepted large numbers of immigrants from Southern Europe.

[Commie Rat]

Racism is huge in Aus, basically if your not white your not Aus.

there was the Redfern Riots (very simmilar but smaller to the paris riots)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1524078.htm

http://www.eniar.org/news/news-issues/redfernriot.html

http://www.ncca.org.au/archives/media_rele.../redfern_riots3 (http://www.ncca.org.au/archives/media_releases/2004/redfern_riots3)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfern%2C_New_South_Wales


There was an incident on Palm Island where a aboriginal man was arrested and beaten in custody


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Island%2C_Queensland

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Police...3251635356.html (http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Police-prepared-to-shoot-during-Palm-Island-riots/2005/04/13/1113251635356.html)

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Palm-I...2182397017.html (http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Palm-Island-riot-accused-breaches-bail/2004/12/09/1102182397017.html)

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1255416.htm

[chebol]

The local Liberal MP Bruce Baird claimed it was revenge for Bali and 9/11, and Howard has refused to term it racist (safe Lib seat after all).

The Sydney Stop the War Coalition are holding a meeting tonight (that was already planned, with a short anti-war film-screening), where possible reponses can be floated.
Monday 12 Dec, 7pm, UTS Tower, Room 4.06.


Then, tomorrow, a cross-campus Anti-racism meeting has been called at UTS.
Tuesday 13 Dec, 7:30 pm, UTS Students' Association.

[ReD_ReBeL]

arhg these ppl r fucking dicks who r rioting, i live in the UK and have done all my life im half british and half Maltese , so im guessing if i was there i would be getting my ass kicked lol

[Don't Change Your Name]

Pathetic. Funny thing is, I probably fit in their "wog" term. Now it's ok for white people to discriminate white people? Or am I missing something? :lol:

I suppose that this is people who don't realize they don't even own the country, they just took it.

The reaction of the police looks rather "peaceful", if you ask me.

I also blame the media, to a poiny. Sometimes it makes people think that, everytime a "nigger" "commits a crime", that person's action represents the behaviour of basically every member of the "race". This kind of reasoning most people accept is what I would expect from 5 years old kids pretending to be "philosophers" :lol:

EDIT: I must point something out: when such a situation happens, it's not that the media necessarilly promotes that view, but rather, since the media never says "today 500000 poor black individuals commited no crime" it says "3 crimes happened today", in which the criminals were black. This causes people to only perceive that part of their reality and come to conclusions with it as the most important "premise" of their "argument". It's not as much of the media's intentions as it is a consequence of how the media works.

Some channels, however, take it too far too...there's a right-wing channel here which is showing a serie in which it seems they portray "poor black people" this way, and there's some "vigiliante" shit going on. I haven't seen it myself, but if it is like I heard it is, then...

[Xvall]

I sure hope someone kills them. (The Fascists)

[rioters bloc]

eurgh, i hate [most of] the media. especially on tv news. they're acting as though this is a 'law and order' issue, and keep denying that racism is something which is entrenched in australian society, from the invasion of this land by european settlers to indentured labourers in the 19th century to the white australia policy to massive support for pauline hanson just 10 years ago - and continuing.

and john hoWARd our esteemed PM denying that it was racial at all [although hes since admitted it is].

most of the tv reports ive seen have been highlighting the violent acts and property destruction committed by the 'ethnics' as the mass psychology of all ethnic people, while acting as though the violence committed by the 'whites' on sunday were just random acts committed by neo-nazis, completely ignoring the fact that there were 5000 fucking people there with racist signs, aussie flags, etc. not to mention that people were gathered through racist text messages saying things like 'enough is enough, time to show them wogs they're not wanted here!'

even my brothers friend got a text message, and hes 13! and not racist!

[rioters bloc]

PM refuses to use racist tags

Prime Minister John Howard has condemned the race-based attacks in Sydney, but says they don't mean Australia is a racist nation.

``I do not accept there is underlying racism in this country,'' Mr Howard said today following yesterday's race riots at Cronulla Beach.

``I have always taken a more optimistic view of the character of the Australian people.''

Up to 5,000 people descended on North Cronulla Beach, chanting racist slogans and attacking people of Middle Eastern appearance in what NSW Premier Morris Iemma today condemned as the ``ugly side of racism''.

The violence sparked apparent reprisal attacks late last night, with cars damaged at Maroubra Beach.

``Mob violence is always sickening,'' Mr Howard told reporters.

``Attacking people on the basis of their race, their appearance, their ethnicity, is totally unacceptable and should be repudiated by all Australians irrespective of their own background and their politics,'' he said.

``I believe yesterday's behaviour was completely unacceptable but I'm not going to put a general tag (of) racism on the Australian community.

``I think it's a term that is flung around sometimes carelessly and I'm simply not going to do so.''

Mr Howard also dismissed any suggestion his government's warnings about home-grown terrorists had fuelled the rampage.

``It is impossible to know how individuals react but everything this government's said about home-grown terrorism has been totally justified,'' Mr Howard said.

``It is a potential threat. To suggest that one should remain silent ... knowing what I know because that might antagonise someone else is a complete failure of leadership.''

Australian society remains tolerant and decent and most of the community does not want to allow a culture of tribalism to develop, he said.

``Put simply, most Australians want a nation where, irrespective of their background and always respecting the right of people to maintain affection for their own culture, ... we should encourage to the maximum extent possible everybody to become part of the integrated Australian community.

``Any emergence of so-called ethnic gangs is a manifestation of tribalism and something ... we should try to discourage.

``And one of the aims of policy should be to reduce it.''

Asked whether yesterday's violence was an example of tribalism, Mr Howard said: ``No''.

``I think yesterday was fuelled by the always explosive combination of a large number of people at the weekend and a large amount of alcohol.

``Plus there's an accumulated sense of grievance - the full extent of which I don't pretend to know.''

Mr Howard said he fully supported the actions of police at Cronulla and anybody who broke the law yesterday or on the previous weekend, when two lifeguards and a camera crew were assaulted, should be apprehended and prosecuted.

He warned anyone considering further violent behaviour would face the full force of the law.

``Nobody in this country has a right to take the law into their own hands.''

Asked for a response to remarks by Mr Howard, who said he would not label Australians as racists, NSW Premier Morris Iemma said: "Look, it was un-Australian what happened at the weekend."

"Equally, the incident of the previous week where the lifesaver was also assaulted was also a cowardly act.

"It does not matter what brought you there to the beach, which side you're on as far as the issue of the incident or the debate, you don't take the law into your own hands, you don't seek retribution.

"This behaviour has no place in our society.

"The message is a very simple one, the beaches and the streets are there for everyone and they're to be shared equally by all."

Mr Iemma was later again asked about Mr Howard's remarks, and whether he believed the prime minister was "in denial".

"It was quite clear, quite clear from the vision and the sound, both of what was on television and those that were there, those sorts of remarks, that 'sloganeering' that was taking place, was something that was utterly racism," Mr Iemma said.

"And the incidents that occurred the week before were just as ugly, thuggish and cowardly.

"Now, let's remember how this started, that was, a cowardly attack on an Australian icon.

" ... But for those that seek retribution, there will be an unrelenting fight to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice.

" ... There are not going to be no-go areas for anyone in this city. This country is there for everyone to share peacefully."

Asked again about the government's preparedness for the weekend riots, Mr Iemma said apart from the police arrangements, authorities had last week been in contact with community leaders in the Cronulla area.

"The combination of incitement and alcohol, as well as people wanting to take matters into their own hands, produced that situation and the police response was appropriate," he said.

"They're to be praised for their professionalism and the measures that they took and they have our support and our backing."



yeah, keep deluding yourself hoWARd :rolleyes:

[Jadan ja]

I am new to Australia (I moved here only two months ago) and dont know a lot about Australians. Today I talked to a person who lived here a long time and he told me that racism in Australia is much more accepted than in majority of other countries. He says that the rest of the world considers racism as more immoral, while a huge number of Australians generally dont see racism as such bad thing. In many countries it is very illegal for 5000 people to show racist signs (what is the law in Australia about showing fascist or racist symbols?).

Since many of you probably live in Australia longer than me, can you tell me what do you think is there acceptance of racism here?

[Monty Cantsin]

Originally posted by Jadan [email protected] 12 2005, 01:46 PM

Since many of you probably live in Australia longer than me, can you tell me what do you think is there acceptance of racism here?
Coming from Newcastle not Sydney I find a lot of people who hold egalitarian views but also elements of racism. I’ve got a few friends who have anti Japanese sentiment because of word war two which manifests itself in bad jokes. But over this year there have been racist attacks on international students and refugees. There was also a protest by the patriotic youth league this year which was involved in these riot but they only draw 12 people while the counter protest had over 900 people.

[*PRC*Kensei]

W T F...

Australians went mad ? u normally never hear anything from those cheeps, and now i hear they are rioting like true fascists against the coloured... maaaaaaaaaadness.

this is the oppisite of paris... bourguazise kicking outlanders... OMG....STOP THOSE FOOLS :o

what are the right wingers gonna say now ? they all freaked out on the youngesters in paris, who fought a class-war,
Now they should freak out 1000 times harder at wealth people beating down outlanders...
and they say we are aggresive :o :blink: Fucking fascits forgot about talking, they just hit... not even burning cars... just hit the people... their insane !

[visceroid]

rioters bloc, can ypou please psot sources to those articles, i want to post them on another board, but i have to post a source with them.

EDIT: never mind, i found the links myself :D

[OkaCrisis]

I think it's time for any leftist or anti-racsit Aussies to get together and hold counter-deomonstrations.

Anyone who is not participating in the riots because they 'aren't racist', are not doing enough. They need to get together to demonstrate to thier peers that racism and white supremacy are wrong. What kind of human being would EVER demonstrate with a bunch of fascist Neo-Nazis! It's sick!

And "No tabuli"?! What bullshit. People would get shot and killed on the spot if someone had a sign up that said "No Vegemite".

Intolerance is never acceptable. It's so sad that these Aussie kids haven't been taught that. Fuck John Howard.

[Dark Exodus]

Supposedly police have been lenient with ethnic "gangs", whether this is true or not it is inconsequential though since it doesn't change the fact that they are nationalist bastards.

Luckily, vigilante action is illegal.

[*PRC*Kensei]

lets declare war to sidney :P "leftist-without-a-country-or-an-army" vs. sidney :P

no, this is serious... this is hell !
i like class stuggle, i hate ras struggle !

[rioters bloc]

Originally posted by *PRC*[email protected] 13 2005, 03:40 AM
W T F...

Australians went mad ? u normally never hear anything from those cheeps, and now i hear they are rioting like true fascists against the coloured... maaaaaaaaaadness.

this is the oppisite of paris... bourguazise kicking outlanders... OMG....STOP THOSE FOOLS :o

what are the right wingers gonna say now ? they all freaked out on the youngesters in paris, who fought a class-war,
Now they should freak out 1000 times harder at wealth people beating down outlanders...
and they say we are aggresive :o :blink: Fucking fascits forgot about talking, they just hit... not even burning cars... just hit the people... their insane !
yeah, i know - in paris they riot against racism, and in australia we have racist riots!

soooo fucked :angry:

it got even worse last night

Armed Gangs on Rampage - [btw unless i specifiy other ways all these articles are from smh.com.au :) sorry visceroid!]


SYDNEY erupted in a second night of racial violence last night as Middle Eastern mobs fired shots into the air, attacked women and smashed shops around Cronulla, while up to 600 young men - armed with guns and crowbars - prepared for a battle.

In a terrifying escalation of the conflict, up to 70 cars from Hurstville and possibly Lakemba invaded Cronulla and Brighton-le-Sands to launch revenge attacks, following the vicious attacks by Cronulla locals on people of Middle Eastern appearance on Sunday.

Twenty carloads of men arrived at Cronulla by about 10.30pm, smashing shops, and cars in Elouera Road, and threatening people who got in their way. They reportedly stabbed a woman at Carringbah, but her condition was unknown.

Gunshots were heard near Northies Hotel at Cronulla and there was an unconfirmed report of a man being shot.

About 11.30pm a group of about 100 Cronulla locals surrounded a car carrying men of Middle Eastern appearance, but police cleared the crowd and let the car escape.

Hours earlier, about 200 men had assembled outside Lakemba Mosque - some armed with Glock pistols - and dozens more gathered at Campsie. They were preparing to travel to Maroubra Beach, where up to 300 locals, many armed with crowbars, waited for an arranged fight, according to "Bra Boys" at the beach.

But some young Muslims said they had gathered to protect the mosque because of a threatened attack on it by a gang from the southern beaches.

Following Sunday's riot at Cronulla beach - when local mobs had bashed people of Middle Eastern appearance - police confiscated iron bars and other weapons at Maroubra last night and blocked roads around the mosque. About 20 police cars surrounded the mosque, where four men showed their pistols and ammunition to a news crew, and boasted that others were carrying arms.

At 10.45pm, on the Kingsway at Caringbah, about 12 cars sped by, followed by another vehicle that stopped. Four men got out and began attacking patrons of Antonio's Pizzeria. They knocked a woman unconscious on the footpath and smashed the window of a denture clinic.

Thai-born Suchada Goodier, 44, owner of a Thai restaurant on the Kingsway, said she was walking on the street when she was attacked. The group then started bashing her car. "What have I done?" she said. "I have done nothing."

In Bay Street, Brighton-le-Sands, a young woman was sitting in a car when men approached and opened the door to her vehicle and put a hand up her dress, saying: "We are going to rape you, you Aussie sluts." A witness, Linda El-Hassan, 19, said a shot was fired at the woman's car but she was unhurt. Miss El-Hassan said she was Lebanese and opposed the violence. "We all came to this country and we are all one in this country."

The mobs vandalised cars and Bay Street was strewn with rubbish and a government bus was attacked and its back window smashed. Many police gathered in Bay Street, where a senior officer was heard to say: "Let's get our [riot] gear on and smash 'em."

At Lakemba Mosque earlier, a media crew had been involved in an altercation with some in the crowd about 7pm. A man is believed to have suffered a broken leg during a scuffle.

Islamic leaders tried to calm the crowd, imploring the men over a loudspeaker to go inside and pray. Outside the Maroubra Bay Hotel, police dressed in riot gear prepared for violence.

A Channel Seven reporter, Robert Ovadia, was surrounded by a group who menaced him, spat in his face, threatened to head-butt him and told him that the media had stirred up all the trouble. Ovadia called police, who sent a patrol car. The Herald's reporter at Maroubra retreated under a hail of water bombs.

The Bra Boys had told the media they were not welcome.

Police said there was evidence of text and email messages promoting another confrontation at Cronulla next Sunday. One email congratulates those involved in Sunday's riots but warns of armed retaliation. "This is only the beginning, this is a start of the war! Leb's n wog's won't stand for this and will start singling out the aussies and gang bashing them with drawn weapons. We must continue to come together to help the innocent and family's so everyone can enjoy our beach's!"

The Premier, Morris Iemma, said Sunday had exposed the "ugly face of racism in Australia". But John Howard said: "I believe yesterday's behaviour was completely unacceptable but I'm not going to put a general tag [of] racism on the Australian community ... I think it's a term that is flung around sometimes carelessly and I'm simply not going to do so. I do not accept there is underlying racism in this country. I have always taken a more optimistic view of the character of the Australian people."

[BattleOfTheCowshed]

The international community should start a boycott of all Australian products, etc. and call for the international community to shun Australia until the Australian govt. sentences EVERY SINGLE RACIST RIOTER (even kids) to a minimum of life in prison :). (No, I am not kidding)

[Eoin Dubh]

In the Canadian media the New South Wales Police chief says calm was restored early Tuesday.
He is lying.
Link below to listen LIVE to New South Wales police scanner!


http://speedy.akadns.info/streams/8000/sydneypolice.pls

The cops are really busy!

[rioters bloc]

i just got this sent to me via email from someone i don't even know [and if i do ive forgotten who she is]. it's really frightening cos she sent it to about 80-100 other people too, so i'm guessing it's doing the rounds pretty fast. apparently it's been published so i guess it's not really a new thing, it's just scary that people agree so strongly with it that they feel the need to send it to everyone on their lists, even immigrants.

edit: oops, i sent this out as an email to the 'smash racism' list too and just copied and pasted it, i wrote some stuff that doesnt make sense on this forum :P

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please read this, as it is VERY important.

Australia- The Right to Leave

Our Country - YOU Have the right - the right to leave!

After hearing about:
* Sydney deciding not to put up Christmas lights as they did not want to offend other culture.

* South Australia have bent their rules so Muslim woman are able to have their pictures taken on their driver's license with their face covered.

This prompted this editorial written by an Australian citizen.

Published in an Australian newspaper.

Quote:

IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It

I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.

However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the "politically correct" crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others. I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to Australia.

However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand.

This idea of Australia being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity.


As Australians, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle.


This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.


We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language.


Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, Learn the language!


"In God We Trust" is our National Motto. This is not some Christian, rightwing, political slogan. We \ adopted this motto because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented.


It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, Because God is part of our culture.


If the Southern Cross offends you, or you don't like "A Fair Go", then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet.

We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from.

This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this.


But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our National Motto, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom,


"THE RIGHT TO LEAVE".

If you aren't happy here then leave.

We didn't force you to come here.

You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.

Pretty easy really, when you think about it.

I figure if we all keep passing this to our friends it will also, sooner or later get back to the complainers, let's all try, please.

No matter how many times you receive it... please forward it to all you know

[OkaCrisis]

Originally posted by rioters [email protected] 13 2005, 02:30 AM
We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from.

This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this.


But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our National Motto, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom,


"THE RIGHT TO LEAVE".

If you aren't happy here then leave.

We didn't force you to come here.

You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.
I love the BLATANT disregard for the fact that Australia actually belongs to its aboriginal population (much like the situation here in Canada, not to mention much of the world), and that English colonisers should have HAD TO ADAPT to THEIR way of life in the first place in order for them to not be COMPLETE HYPOCRITES. (Not all Aussies, but certainly all of the racist/fascist ones.)

Also particularly heart-warming is the "CONFORM OR GET OUT" attitude of these assholes. Clearly they have never heard about tyranny of the majority.

It's just so sad :(

[rioters bloc]

sorry double post :/

[rioters bloc]

More arrests as violence escalates

Seven people have been injured, cars and shops trashed, and rock and flares hurled at police in a second consecutive night of mob violence in Sydney.

Eleven men were arrested as a new wave of unrest hit the city overnight in apparent reprisal attacks for Sunday's race riot at Cronulla, where alcohol-fuelled mobs chased and bashed people of Middle Eastern appearance.

The trouble began last night when a group of 200 mostly Muslim men gathered at Lakemba Mosque, in Sydney's south-west, apparently after rumours that an attack on the building was imminent.

Rocks and flares were thrown at police trying to disperse the group, and a female constable was injured when a projectile struck her leg.

Police were also hit with projectiles as a crowd of about 100 people gathered for a second night in Brighton-le-Sands, in Sydney's south.

Two police cars were damaged and rubbish bins were thrown at shopfronts as officers attempted to control the crowd.

A family was forced to move out of their apartment after their five-month-old son narrowly escaped being injured when a bottle was thrown through their apartment window, shattering the glass.

At Cronulla, about 50 men arrived in cars last night before rampaging through the beach community, smashing car windows and shopfronts with baseball bats.

Gunshots were heard near the Northies Hotel, opposite north Cronulla beach, where some of the worst violence was seen on Sunday.

Meanwhile, more than 30 molotov cocktails and crates of rocks were found during a rooftop search at south Maroubra, not far from where a mob smashed car windows on Sunday.

Cricket bats, rocks and iron bars were also confiscated by police monitoring about 100 people who gathered near Maroubra beach.

Six people were arrested at Cronulla and on the Kingsway, in nearby Caringbah, after shops and vehicles were attacked.

Two men and three youths were arrested at Maroubra beach after police discovered a replica pistol in the bushes.

Police said the injured included a Bexley couple attacked as they left a restaurant in Caringbah about 10pm (AEDT).

A 35-year-old Lansvale man suffered head injuries and severe facial bruising after being attacked at a youth hostel at Caringbah. He was taken to Sutherland hospital in a stable condition.

A 45-year-old Cronulla man suffered broken ribs and head injuries when he was attacked as he put his rubbish bin out on the street.

A 51-year-old Woolwooware man suffered a broken arm after he was attacked with a baseball bat at Cronulla.

Details of the seventh person's injuries could not be confirmed.

Police are braced for further violence after new text messages, including one declaring war between Sydney's Middle Eastern youths and Australians, began circulating.

The new messages follow a round of similar ones sent last week, calling for retaliation after an attack on surf lifesavers at Cronulla on December 3.

One of the new messages congratulates Australians for the fight they put up against the Lebanese at Cronulla during Sunday's riots, and called for more attacks.

"We'll show them! It's on again Sunday," a newspaper reported the message said.

Another warned of retaliation from the Middle Eastern groups.

"The Aussies will feel the full force of the Arabs as one - 'brothers in arms' unite now..." it read.

Another called for "straight up WAR. The leb's/wogs won't stand for this."

Police have formed a task force to try to prevent a repeat of Sunday's riots, which have been condemned by NSW Premier Morris Iemma.

[Wanted Man]

Goes to show that the only language some people understand is that of a grey prison cell - for life. Either that or the machine gun.

[*PRC*Kensei]

rioters block...

something we may not have said: take care of yourself...
if think if those fascist attackt all immigrants, i dont think they will leave leftists alone.
I mean... if they find out your a communist (or whatever left group u are) they may turn apon u to. u taking a big risk plubicing that here...

take care :)

[Tekun]

I only hope that those racists don't represent the majority of the Aussie population, what say u rioters bloc?

From what I have gathered, many Australians are friendly to other races, yet therez many others who are hostile towards people of color, specifically the Aboriginals (I think thats how u spell it)

[Hiero]

This is a result of cultural and ideological error in the white majority and cultural error in the lebanese. It is the remnants of colonialism.

[Monty Cantsin]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2005, 11:30 AM
This is a result of cultural and ideological error in the white majority and cultural error in the lebanese. It is the remnants of colonialism.
Explain what you mean?

[rioters bloc]

Originally posted by *PRC*Kensei+Dec 13 2005, 09:29 PM--> (*PRC*Kensei @ Dec 13 2005, 09:29 PM) rioters block...

something we may not have said: take care of yourself...
if think if those fascist attackt all immigrants, i dont think they will leave leftists alone.
I mean... if they find out your a communist (or whatever left group u are) they may turn apon u to. u taking a big risk plubicing that here...

take care :) [/b]
trust me, i'm freaked out of my mind. no-one's safe at the moment since whites are attacking ethnics and ethnic people are attacking whites. plus i'm an immigrant. i went to a dinner at lakemba today which is where some shit went down last night, and it took me a long time to decide that i still wanted to go. but its okay, im back and safe :)


Tekun

I only hope that those racists don't represent the majority of the Aussie population, what say u rioters bloc?

From what I have gathered, many Australians are friendly to other races, yet therez many others who are hostile towards people of color, specifically the Aboriginals (I think thats how u spell it)

unfortunately, it's a pretty mainstream thing in australia i'd say, although i haven't personally experienced anything of this scale before.

many people are hostile to indigenous peoples here, and australia's a pretty xenophobic country in general [fuelled by the demonising of immigrants by the govt through its mandatory detention centres for refugees, etc]. there's quite a large nationalist streak, which shows itself often particularly during sport competitions, and it often manifests itself in disgusting ways.

:(

[Hiero]

It is the attitude of the majority of white people, their perception of other races is an attitude left over from the colonial attitude. Then when this clashes with the current Australian-Lebenese male youth culture which is very chauvinist, we have the current situation.

[rioters bloc]

Race attacks spread to Perth, Adelaide

December 13, 2005 - 6:42PM

Attacks on a Middle Eastern family in Perth and a Lebanese Australian taxidriver in Adelaide have been linked to Sydney's race violence.

In an alarming sign Sydney's race-fuelled problems may be spreading, a family of Middle Eastern origin was attacked in Perth by a group of 11 Caucasian men, who threw eggs, shouted abuse and kicked the garage door.

The 42-year-old father of the Kewdale family, who does not want to be identified, said his family was badly shaken by last night's incident.

"I don't know if we were mistakenly identified," he told ABC Radio.

"What I definitely know is it was something linked to the escalation in NSW."

Perth police Superintendent Shayne Maines said police could not rule out a link between the attack and the racial violence in Sydney.

"There was some suggestion they did make ethnically-related comments to the occupant of the house," Mr Maines said.

"We can't rule it out until the investigation is complete, but this is obviously a very emotional issue."

Western Australia's Premier Geoff Gallop described the attack as an unacceptable act of bigotry.

"These incidents do occur from time to time in our community and they're unacceptable," he said.

In Adelaide, a taxidriver of Lebanese origin, Hossein Kazemi, was injured when punched by a passenger during an incident at suburban Gilberton today.

"There was some sort of discrepancy and argument over the fare," a South Australian Police spokesman said.

"Apparently during the assault, the victim, because he was of Lebanese origin, was taunted about the stuff in Sydney and Cronulla beach."

The taxidriver later said the incident had marred his view of Australia as a tolerant society.

"I believed Australia is a free country, (it) is the best country in the world but now, I see that (it) is highly racist here," Mr Kazemi told the Seven Network.

Police said a 29-year-old man from Unanderra, in NSW, had been charged with assault following the incident.

Another man, believed to be a second passenger in the taxi, was charged with hindering police.

Meanwhile, Islamic Council of Victoria offices in west Melbourne have been vandalised for the second time in a month.

A brick was thrown through the front window of the building.

"We understand that it's not something that's accepted by the broader society and we do get a lot of emails and calls and letters of support at times like this as well," the council's Waleed Ali told ABC radio.

Islamic Council of Victoria chairman Malcom (Malcom) Thomas said he believed yesterday's attack was linked to race violence in Sydney.

"What seems to be the pattern is when an event happens overseas there is a spike in this sort of thing. And yes I believe this is in relation to the events in Sydney," he told AAP.

"Really a retaliatory action to what happened in Sydney on the weekend I think."

[rioters bloc]

Racist text messages surface on Gold Coast

December 13, 2005 - 7:26PM

Mobile phone text messages calling for people to start "cracking skulls" have surfaced on the Gold Coast.

The text messages targeting ethnic groups are similar to ones which sparked the Sydney race riots.

Gold Coast district Superintendent Brett Pointing said police were trying to find the authors of the latest messages.

The messages promote a mass beach demonstration similar to the one at Cronulla Beach on Sunday, organised in retaliation to the bashing of two lifeguards the previous week.

The gathering spurred the racial unrest that has rocked Sydney with violent bashings and widespread vandalism.

The Ten Network said one of three text messages on the Gold Coast said: "This Sunday is our turn to have a go and fight for the Gold Coast".

"These grease ball monkeys with their gold chains and fully sick cars need to know that we're not copping any.

"We all have stories about (these groups) raping our sisters or bashing our brothers - it's not on.

"So bring your grog down on Sunday and let's start cracking skulls for each other for once."

Supt Pointing warned the authors as well as mobile phone users who forwarded the violent texts would be punished under Queensland's Anti-Discrimination Act.

"Police do take matters of this nature extremely seriously and people need to be aware that they run the risk of prosecution," Supt Pointing said.

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie tonight urged Gold Coast residents to remain calm following the text messages.

"Queensland Police have advised that this is most likely to be mischievous, so I would urge recipients of the message and local residents to remain calm," Mr Beattie said in a statement.

"However, we certainly do not want a repeat of the shocking and ugly incidents that happened in Sydney on the weekend.

"We don't want a few idiots trying to stir up trouble and that is why the Queensland Police are taking this matter very seriously."

He said there was no place for racial tension in Queensland because the state was a "very tolerant and multicultural society".

He said the author of the message and anyone forwarding it could be subject to a maximum penalty of $5000 or six months jail under Queensland's Anti-Discrimination Act.

[rioters bloc]

sorry for double-posting but i think there's a bit of confusion about the issues behind these riots so i thought id post a summary up :)

i think it's important to note that both sides are extremely racist, and it's simply deepening long standing divisions and hatreds between the two groups. of course, this isn't to say that all white australians and lebanese australians are racist towards one another, but there has definitely been a lot of tension for a while now. i'll try and sum up the situation as best i can and as objectively as i can.

so what happened at cronulla started with the assault of two lifeguards. an ‘ethnic’ teenager is currently under arrest for the assault. at first, it was believed that it was a completely random attack and the lifesavers were targeted because they were white. all week on talkback radio, callers called in to say how disgusting it was that ‘wogs’ can just take over their beaches and start harming innocent lifeguards etc, fuelling hatred. it has since come to light that the lifesavers actually provoked him, saying something along the lines of ‘we’re sick of saving you wogs from drowning, next time we’ll just let you die’.

but this wasn’t know by last sunday [and even if it was i doubt it would make much difference]. 5000 people converged, and got drunk, and when they saw some people of ‘middle eastern appaearance’ they went nuts on them, beating and kicking etc. that night, in retaliation at maroubra and brighton-le-sands beaches, gangs of ethnic people started smashing and burning cars, and stabbed a random man and then proceeded to tell the three women he was with that they were gonna be raped [they werent, thankfully].

since then, every night there have been riots in various parts of sydney. its spread to perth and adelaide [two of the most ‘white’ cities in australia].

the animosity that many white australians feel towards lebanese people [anyone of middle-eastern background really, just the lebanese communist is more visible in sydney] has been fuelled on by anti-muslim sentiments portrayed by the media since september 11. even though not all lebanese people are muslim, not by a long shot, it's a lot easier for people to just assume they are all muslim and hate them accordingly.

most lebanese families in sydney have been here for generations. but the clash of cultures is extreme, and so there still exists major identity crises in many lebanese youth, particularly male ones. i have quite a few lebanese friends, and what they all tell me is that many young lebanese-australian men they know do feel considerable contempt for white australians, for women, and for [i]white australian women in particular. this is not to say that all of them do, but too many grow up with this kind of mentality. what all the beachgoers at cronulla said was that they often went to the beach and stood their telling white women to put on clothes, calling them sluts, etc. unfortunately, this is very probably true.

this idea that all lebanese people are misogynistic was propagated through a string of gang rapes that occurred in i guess 1999-2003. they were pinned on young lebanese men, and one 20 year old was sentenced to 55 years jail [because rather than serving the separate services concurrently, the judge issued that they be served one after another]. my ex used to sit next to him in english, and was friends with his cousin, who admitted that he had known about the gang rapes as well as other rapes. and he explained to me that, for bilal at least and for many others too most likely, it was an issue of power. in their families they were taught to treat women as inferior, and taught that there own culture was superior to that of anyone else’s. according to bilal’s cousin, for a lot of people that he knew from his own community, when they went out of their own community and saw women with freedom to wear what they wanted, see who they wanted, sleep with who they wanted, it angered them beyond belief. and taunting them, threatening to rape them, and in the worst cases raping them were some of the ways they sought to exert the power they felt belonged to them. if you type in ‘lebanese rape’ into google the very first page is an australian one. if you type ‘lebanese gang rape’, all the sites that come up are australian.

what happened is that the media got hold of this information and twisted it to set alight a very volatile situation. it started to foster an even deeper hatred of lebanese people and people of middle eastern background [as they were seen as one homogenous group and synonymous with lebanese for most people].

while this stimgatisation and demonisation of the lebanese community continued, it was only natural that it should turn them even more against the ones who were doing the demonising. lebanese communities are fairly insular for the large part, same with almost all ethnic communities here. the white community down at cronulla is a particularly insular one [the whole southern shire is – they call it ‘god’s country’ and are proud of their whiteness]. neither community likes to be threatened by ‘the other’.

many young lebanese-australians men in sydney are so over-burdened with issues of identity that some of them not only reject australian society, but develop a sense of contempt and disgust for it. this is also due to australian society as a whole being rather racist [having been built on the basis of racism throughout the last 200 odd years]. white australians see this contempt, but don’t understand why, and don’t understand what a large role they themselves play in creating this contempt. many also can’t understand how hard it can be to adapt to a completely different culture, even when you and your parents and sometimes even your grandparents were born here. they say, ‘just learn the language, this is our country you have to follow our lifestyle and our culture’ and expect it to be as easy as all that.

the govt is treating this as a ‘law and order’ issue, and the whole media is framing this around stuff like, were there enough cops, what have the cops been doing, do we need more, etc. i’m so fucking sick of them denying that [b]this is a result of racism. im so sick of them pretending that australia’s a lovely ‘tolerant’ multicultral country. just fucking admit it and then do something about it. this isn’t just about random gangs. why do these gangs even [i]form? out of segregation and racism, and feeling superior about your ethnicty. all the gang wars in sydney are based on race! when will they finally admit this?

[Body Count]

Originally posted by rioters [email protected] 11 2005, 07:50 AM
photos [so fucking disgusting with their flags and hats and whatnot...aussie aussie aussie, yeah]

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/4cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/9cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/8cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/5cronulla_gallery__470x312.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/5cronulla_gallery__470x312.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/11cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/3cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/2cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/6cronulla_gallery__470x312,0.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/1cronulla_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/11/12cronulla_gallery__452x400.jpg
This disgust me.

[Ian]

This isn't as widespread as the media leads people to believe, but it is pretty fucking terrible.

[Morpheus]

If the white supremacists don't like immigrants, they should be deported back to Europe. Sent them back where they came.

[*PRC*Kensei]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2005, 04:22 AM
If the white supremacists don't like immigrants, they should be deported back to Europe. Sent them back where they came.
Comrade... sending people pack from where they came, those are the words racist party are saying over here (belgium) all day long... lets please not speak the same words as them.

[rioters bloc]

Originally posted by *PRC*[email protected] 14 2005, 07:56 PM
Comrade... sending people pack from where they came, those are the words racist party are saying over here (belgium) all day long... lets please not speak the same words as them.
i think he was just noting the irony in white supremacists saying that immigrants should be sent back to their own country when they themselves have only live in australia for just over 200 years and treated the indigenous australians shockingly when they arrived

[*PRC*Kensei]

Originally posted by rioters [email protected] 13 2005, 06:30 AM
i just got this sent to me via email from someone i don't even know [and if i do ive forgotten who she is]. it's really frightening cos she sent it to about 80-100 other people too, so i'm guessing it's doing the rounds pretty fast. apparently it's been published so i guess it's not really a new thing, it's just scary that people agree so strongly with it that they feel the need to send it to everyone on their lists, even immigrants.

edit: oops, i sent this out as an email to the 'smash racism' list too and just copied and pasted it, i wrote some stuff that doesnt make sense on this forum :P

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please read this, as it is VERY important.

Australia- The Right to Leave

Our Country - YOU Have the right - the right to leave!

After hearing about:
* Sydney deciding not to put up Christmas lights as they did not want to offend other culture.

* South Australia have bent their rules so Muslim woman are able to have their pictures taken on their driver's license with their face covered.

This prompted this editorial written by an Australian citizen.

Published in an Australian newspaper.

Quote:

IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It

I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.

However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the "politically correct" crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others. I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to Australia.

However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand.

This idea of Australia being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity.


As Australians, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle.


This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.


We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language.


Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, Learn the language!


"In God We Trust" is our National Motto. This is not some Christian, rightwing, political slogan. We \ adopted this motto because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented.


It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, Because God is part of our culture.


If the Southern Cross offends you, or you don't like "A Fair Go", then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet.

We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from.

This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this.


But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our National Motto, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom,


"THE RIGHT TO LEAVE".

If you aren't happy here then leave.

We didn't force you to come here.

You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.

Pretty easy really, when you think about it.

I figure if we all keep passing this to our friends it will also, sooner or later get back to the complainers, let's all try, please.

No matter how many times you receive it... please forward it to all you know
This... scared me a lot.

i'm not easally scared by right-wing crap... but THIS - adapt or leave - is VERY scaring.

Why?

Those words can be an immense populair slogan over here (europa) , and i think that opinion (adapt or leave- is hidden in the mind of atleast 30 % of our population.
And i'm SURE many racist groups will take this -sydney- as an example to spread mails like this, and they WILL reach the public they want to reach and stuff WILL become more racist.

"adapt or leave" is the exact same slogan as racist party's have been shouting aroud here for years... and now in australia those words cause racial riots...

I got this fear, and my mind tells me to trust it... this is not just "it will end, just a case", this WILL have concequeses (however u spell it) and we WILL feel them.

it's time to stop discussing the current situation, and start looking at what it will cause where u live, cause trust me "adapt or leave" is a very populair slogan that can turn normal right-wingers into extreme-racist-right wingers...

Pay a lot of attention on educating in your local community these days, cause in mine, i even had some responces on those riots like "cool, you see, i'm not a racist, but those who cant addapt should leave"

lets take this shit serious, even unite, not in our everlasting classwar struggle against capitalism, but to stop the fascists from causing a race war, i think at the moment they are our major enemy, capitalism has anough time to come down...

:ph34r:

[Simotix]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2005, 03:45 AM
This isn't as widespread as the media leads people to believe, but it is pretty fucking terrible.
If it wasn't for this board I would have not seen it.

I caught some of it yesterday morning at about 10 am on CNN, they did about a one minite spot on it.

[Morpheus]

Originally posted by rioters bloc+Dec 14 2005, 09:02 AM--> (rioters bloc @ Dec 14 2005, 09:02 AM)
*PRC*[email protected] 14 2005, 07:56 PM
Comrade... sending people pack from where they came, those are the words racist party are saying over here (belgium) all day long... lets please not speak the same words as them.
i think he was just noting the irony in white supremacists saying that immigrants should be sent back to their own country when they themselves have only live in australia for just over 200 years and treated the indigenous australians shockingly when they arrived [/b]
Exactly.

[pedro san pedro]

there was an article in the new zealand herald today stating that posters have been put up in wellington calling for similar riots here. i an almost belive that this shit is happening in oz, but the idea of it happening in nz??? wtf!!!!

i found the level of racism in australia staggering when i lived there. the fact that people were so open with the racist beliefs just blew me away. i dont think that it is a belief in the forefront of the minds of most white australians, but i think that it is there somewhere with a large proportion of the white population.

that the current riots are also focussed upon 'wogs' shows just how ignorant these fucks are of the history of 'their' country.

my support to any counter-protesters from this side of the tasman - just make sure that you don't protest in small numbers :(

[rioters bloc]

of course, as always the state deals with the issue by simply increasing police powers... lets just try and cover up and suppress the problem instead of addressing the issues behind it! :rolleyes:

Police get the power

December 15, 2005 - 3:57PM

Laws giving NSW police more power to crack down on unrest have been passed by NSW parliament.

Both houses of parliament were recalled from their summer recess today to pass the laws, which will be given the royal assent today by Governor Marie Bashir.

The emergency legislation was introduced following this weeks race riots in Sydney's south west.

Police can now lock down areas of unrest.

They can seize cars and mobile telephones for up to seven days, search people and cars in locked-down areas and demand identification.

They will also be given the power to close licensed premises and to declare alcohol-free zones.

Amendments to the Crimes Act increase the maximum sentence for rioting from 10 years to 15 years and the maximum sentence for affray will be doubled to 10 years.

A new offence of assault during a public disorder will carry maximum penalties of five years' jail for assault not causing actual bodily harm, and seven years' for actual bodily harm.

Eleven people were arrested overnight, as more than 450 officers again patrolled Sydney's streets to counter the threat of more "smash and bash" attacks.

Assistant Police Commissioner Dave Owens said groups of men of Middle Eastern appearance were involved some assaults.

But the attacks appeared to be random and there was nothing to suggest any organised link between them, he said.

Meanwhile, police are calling for calm following reports of text messages calling for retaliatory strikes this weekend at Brighton, in Sydney's south, at Terrigal, on the NSW central coast, and in Newcastle, north of Sydney.

There will be another community meeting today involving the federal Member for Cook Bruce Baird, the president of the Lebanese Muslim Association Ahmad Kamaledine, police and representatives of surf and rugby league clubs.

Mr Kamaledine told the ABC he expected the meeting would have a meaningful impact.

"This problem can only escalate if we ignore it and we only be able to achieve good outcomes if we work collectively," he said.

NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney has urged people of goodwill to bring back the spirit of Christmas following violence in Sydney.

"The spirit of Christmas has simply disappeared out of this city and it is up to all of us, not only the police, but people of goodwill, to bring the spirit of Christmas back into this city," Mr Moroney told reporters.

Mr Moroney said an extra 1,000 police would be on duty on Saturday and an extra 1,500 on Sunday to prevent further outbreaks of violence.

He urged people to go about their normal end-of-year activities this weekend, including going to the beach.
"There's no restriction on going to the beach," he said.

"There are certainly legal restrictions if you are going to engage in unlawful conduct, riotous behaviour, assault malicious damage or whatever the case may be."

- AAP

[rioters bloc]

Originally posted by pedro san [email protected] 15 2005, 05:07 PM
there was an article in the new zealand herald today stating that posters have been put up in wellington calling for similar riots here. i an almost belive that this shit is happening in oz, but the idea of it happening in nz??? wtf!!!!

i found the level of racism in australia staggering when i lived there. the fact that people were so open with the racist beliefs just blew me away. i dont think that it is a belief in the forefront of the minds of most white australians, but i think that it is there somewhere with a large proportion of the white population.

that the current riots are also focussed upon 'wogs' shows just how ignorant these fucks are of the history of 'their' country.

my support to any counter-protesters from this side of the tasman - just make sure that you don't protest in small numbers :(
ye, i read it too :(

NZ posters call for 'white power


WELLINGTON - Leaders here have condemned posters inciting racial violence and calling for an "Australian style" riot in New Zealand.

The posters, pasted up at Wellington railway stations, called for New Zealanders to show "white power".

"If Sydney can do it so can we ... let's take back our land" the posters say.

United Future leader Peter Dunne said the race-fuelled violence in Sydney is not something New Zealand should emulate.

"There is much to admire about Australia but copying the stupid attitudes of drunken thugs at Cronulla in Sydney is not the way forward for a peaceful New Zealand," he said.

"When the police catch up with these idiots, I hope part of their punishment will be a lesson in New Zealand's demographic trends which will show them they're fighting a losing battle."

The NZ National Party was also quick to condemn the posters. "There is no place in New Zealand for these kinds of threatening, inflammatory actions," party leader Don Brash said.

"The idea that some people cannot have the same depth of feeling for this country because of the colour of their skin is bigoted nonsense."

The posters were pasted up yesterday at railway stations in Wellington's western suburbs, Johnsonville and Khandallah and have been attributed to white supremacist group - White Crusaders of the Racial Holy War.

Dr Brash said the group was "a small, fascist underbelly, hell-bent on causing division and destroying New Zealand's egalitarian ethos ... they are thugs and bigots".

Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said he had not heard of the group. But he was not surprised it existed in NZ.

A number of race hate incidents had occurred over the past year, including the vandalism of Muslim places of worship in Auckland and letters of abuse being stuffed with pork and sent to Wellington Muslims, he said.

"There are people in New Zealand who have the kind of views evident in Australia. But they have never had much of a following in NZ," de Bres said.

The White Crusaders' internet website says the movement is broadly based on the writings of Ken Klassen, the founder of Creativity, a religion dedicated to the survival, expansion and advancement of "our race exclusively".

It believes whites are royalty and shuns race mixing or any social intercourse whatsoever with "the inferior mud races".
- NZPA

[Creature]

I dont know if this has been said previously in the thread, but apparently (according to my friend who didn't specify a souce), Neo Nazis lead the riots.

[Commie Rat]

Gah

Our local newspaper the Townsville Bullitin has a 'Txt to the editor' section - for the local less then intulectual AJ community. . . .


"Good on the youths in cronulla. Give em what for. Its our country. If your afraid to be an Australian you should leave too. LM Kelso"

"The sydney riots are a taste of things to come multiculturalism is a failed experiment it cost britan dearly and it will cost us r leach carwell"

"Its shameful whats happening in sydney, but could have been prevented. Pauline Hanson would have deported all of them. BRING BACK PAULINE!!!!"

there are about 2 pages of these, call for 'aussies to reclaim aus' , numerous to 'lebs' and 'wogs' as grubs, and even a few saying it was not racist.

I love the irony of white austrailains rallying to take back something that they dont own to begin with

[*PRC*Kensei]

ey ho,

any news update ?
hows the situation now rioters block ? stuff cooled down ? or racists took over ?
if it's over i would like to know how it ended :)

[Commie Rat]

From what im getting on the news everything has pretty much cooled down, either that or the media circus has moved on

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=77796

This is about weapons and such being sezied in a lockdown by the po po

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=77959

this is about an anti racism rally in sydney

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=77792

Celebritties join anti-racism call

[rioters bloc]

Suburb in complete lockdown

The Sydney suburb of Brighton-le-Sands has been locked down to all but residents after a carload of men were found carrying a 25-litre drum of petrol, police scanners and portable radios.

Five men have been arrested over the haul, which also included equipment to make molotov cocktails as well as commando-style utility belts, Kevlar helmets and jerry cans.

The suburb, on Botany Bay in Sydney's south, is the first to have a total lockdown imposed on it under new police powers passed at an emergency sitting of parliament.

Other suburbs hit by violence flowing from last Sunday's race riot at Cronulla have been partially locked down, but police have taken more extreme action at Brighton-le-Sands tonight.

Residents are the only ones being allowed into and out of the community, and security checkpoints have been set up on routes into and out of Brighton-le-Sands.

In a statement tonight, police said there had been "an escalation in anti-social behaviour".

Earlier today, another two people were arrested aboard a bus bound for Bondi, also armed with molotov cocktails.

The bus driver alerted police after smelling petrol.

Police in Brighton-le-Sands said they expected major traffic delays as vehicles were diverted around the suburb, which was the target of reprisal attacks following last week's race riot at Cronulla.

The five arrested in the suburb were taken to St George police station for questioning.

NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said the five, along with the two arrested aboard the bus, would be charged over the possession of offensive weapons.

All would be refused bail under the provisions of NSW's new anti-riot laws, he said.

About 2000 police have been patrolling Sydney today in a bid to prevent any repeat of wide-scale violence.

Police this weekend established road blocks at Cronulla, Bondi, Coogee and Maroubra.

One of seven men arrested allegedly armed with molotov cocktails appeared to have travelled from Melbourne to become involved Sydney's current spate of racial violence, police say.

The man was aboard a bus travelling from the city to Bondi this morning when the driver smelt petrol and alerted police.

Police said they ordered the bus to stop before boarding it to arrest the man and another man allegedly found in possession of petrol bombs.

Commissioner Ken Moroney said charges would be laid against all seven in relation to possession of offensive weapons and all would be refused bail under the provisions of the state's new anti-riot laws.

He said the arrest of the Melbourne man and other arrests at the weekend had confirmed fears that people were travelling to Sydney from interstate with the intention of joining in planned violence.

A number of people found with offensive weapons at the weekend had come from Canberra, Mr Moroney said.

As 2000 police patrolled the city to prevent more race-fuelled violence following last week's riots, Mr Moroney said 193 charges had been laid since last Monday in relation to Operation Seta.

Since Friday, police deployed in the operation had arrested 59 people and laid more than 100 charges, he said.

"[It] has clearly been a weekend like no other in the history of policing in this state," Mr Moroney said.

Reporting the arrests at Brighton-le-Sands, Deputy Commissioner Andrew Scipione said: "This just shows that what we're dealing with was perhaps this type of opportunity for those who would commit crime, not just in Cronulla but in a number of areas."

Meanwhile Premier Morris Iemma, at a press conference in Narwee in Sydney's south, said the police presence had defused the chance of possible violence.

"There's still the rest of today and into the evening. There are still some concerns. There are reports of build-up in a number of key areas." he said.

"There is still is a lot of work to be done but so far the police have done an outstanding job.

"We have to remain vigilant from here on in. This is not going to be a one-day fight. We're in for a long, hard fight. The streets are going to be safe for all peace-loving citizens."

[rioters bloc]

so apparently the rally today was alright :) although im not too sure abt the message - 'racism is unaustralian' - right, which australia have YOU been living in?

but my friend chad got up and spoke and apparently it was the most amazing speech ever and totally blew everyone away and it got on the news and everything. he's lebanese and immigrated to aus only a coupla years back so his point of view was quite compelling

Rally cry: "We are all Australians"

About one thousand people are rallying at Sydney's Town Hall calling for peace and condemning race-fuelled violence sweeping the city.

About 2000 police officers are on duty today at Sydney's eastern, southern and northern beaches to try and prevent a repeat of last Sunday's outbreak of race riots at Cronulla.

More than 900 protesters assembled outside the Town Hall at about 1pm (AEDT) to denounce racism and what they said was the media's role in provoking the riots.

They said they were also demonstrating against governments' handling of the violence.

Unite Against Racism Rally organiser and National Union of Students (NUS) anti-racism officer, Osmond Chiu, 19, said today was about uniting in opposition to a racist Australia.

"The riots have drawn attention to the racism in this country," Mr Chiu said.

"I am shocked and appalled by what's been happening, I never fathomed anything of this scale, that such violent racist clashes, could happen here."

Mr Chiu condemned some media and political leaders who he said may have fuelled the riots.

He was particularly critical of Macquarie Radio for "spreading word about the wave of text messages this week that urged further race-based attacks".

Mr Chiu also called on Prime Minister John Howard to admit the existence of racism in Australia.

"John Howard, the leader of our country, has denied that racism played a part in the week's violence," Mr Chiu said.

"He needs to admit that racism played a big part in what happened.

"Only when that happens can we go back to building a tolerant, accepting and diverse society."

Mr Chiu said today's rally was about promoting an understanding and an all-embracing country.

"The rioters have been dividing people into 'Aussie', or 'Lebanese', but a lot of Lebanese are born in Australia and have just as much right to be here as anyone else," he said.

"We are all Australians and we should never forget that."

The demonstrators then marched to Belmore Park, in the CBD's south, for another rally.

Meanwhile, about 40 Christian pastors and ministers, many from Sutherland Shire and Sydney's eastern suburbs, today issued a call for calm in the lead-up to Christmas.

In a joint statement they said they believe the majority of Australians deplore violence, particularly racial violence like that which has rocked Sydney over the past week.

"We are citizens of Sydney and committed to the peace and freedom that we enjoy in our city," they wrote.

"As leaders in a number of religious communities within the city, some have looked to us for spiritual guidance in the wake of the racial and cultural tensions that have erupted on our beaches.

"Christmas is a time in our national calendar for giving and for peace."

Overnight, police said four cars, 14 mobile phones and weapons including swords and iron bars were seized and several arrests were made as part of Operation Seta, set up in response to last weekend's racial violence.

Police said a 32-year-old man walking in Maroubra about midnight was assaulted by four men, including one armed with an iron bar. The man, who attended Maroubra police station to report the attack, was treated by ambulance officers.

Up to 1500 police officers hit the streets yesterday and about 31 roads were closed using tough new laws passed by state parliament last week to crack down on troublemakers.

Some streets were locked down in the beachside Sydney suburbs of Cronulla, Maroubra, Coogee and Bondi, and police established security checkpoints in other areas as part of Operation Seta.

Cars at the lockdown points were yesterday stopped and occupants spoken to, and only people who lived in the area or with a reasonable purpose were allowed in.

The security checkpoints will be in operation again today at key access roads to beachside suburbs across Sydney's south and east.

Deputy Commissioner Scipione has apologised for major traffic delays and has asked the public to avoid travelling to Cronulla, the eastern suburbs, central coast beaches and Wollongong.

[bcbm]

Originally posted by rioters [email protected] 15 2005, 01:57 AM
NZ posters call for 'white power


WELLINGTON - Leaders here have condemned posters inciting racial violence and calling for an "Australian style" riot in New Zealand.

The posters, pasted up at Wellington railway stations, called for New Zealanders to show "white power".

"If Sydney can do it so can we ... let's take back our land" the posters say.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/watchthecitiesburn/maoripower.gif

[Phalanx]

Excuse my ignorance, but aren't Maoris from New Zealand?

I asked my uncle (from New Zealand) what it was like living in Australia. He said the area around Sydney, not the city itself, was astonishingly racist. He said it was a bit like the American south in the 50's and 60's. That really surprised me, I was totally unaware of the hate that brews down under.

[visceroid]

Originally posted by Chinghis [email protected] 18 2005, 03:47 PM
Excuse my ignorance, but aren't Maoris from New Zealand?

I asked my uncle (from New Zealand) what it was like living in Australia. He said the area around Sydney, not the city itself, was astonishingly racist. He said it was a bit like the American south in the 50's and 60's. That really surprised me, I was totally unaware of the hate that brews down under.
yeah, im from australia, and i don't get it either... wouldnt maori power be 'black'?

[Don't Change Your Name]

Actually, that Maori thing was about the New Zealand thing. Not Australia.

[bcbm]

Originally posted by black banner black gun+Dec 18 2005, 04:38 AM--> (black banner black gun @ Dec 18 2005, 04:38 AM)
rioters [email protected] 15 2005, 01:57 AM
NZ posters call for 'white power


WELLINGTON - Leaders here have condemned posters inciting racial violence and calling for an "Australian style" riot in New Zealand.

The posters, pasted up at Wellington railway stations, called for New Zealanders to show "white power".

"If Sydney can do it so can we ... let's take back our land" the posters say.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/watchthecitiesburn/maoripower.gif [/b]
QFE.

[rioters bloc]

photos from the past week, not great at all but what do you expect from www.smh.com.au...

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/13/gal5_gallery__470x313,0.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/13/gal7_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/13/gal6_gallery__470x313,0.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/13/gal1_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/13/gal3_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/13/gal8_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/13/gal11_gallery__470x313.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/13/gal9_gallery__470x287.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/13/gal12_gallery__470x313.jpg

[Commie Rat]

Reportedly they found a group of white supreamcists in a van with a shitload os molotov's

[STREETasmyCanvas]

fuck is a 'wog'

[Commie Rat]

a wog is (may be seen as racist) slang for, predominatly a greek, but mostly any medderterainian ethnicity

[bcbm]

Originally posted by Commie [email protected] 18 2005, 10:25 PM
Reportedly they found a group of white supreamcists in a van with a shitload os molotov's
Never a spark when you need one, is there. <_<

[Commie Rat]

I could see one of them lighting up and blowing themselve to hell

[rioters bloc]

Originally posted by Commie [email protected] 19 2005, 03:25 PM
Reportedly they found a group of white supreamcists in a van with a shitload os molotov&#39;s
haha yeah i saw them on the news last night, confiscating a bunch of molotovs near brighton

craaaaaaaaaazyyyy

[BorisB]

I actually have a Ukrainian friend who was attacked with her half Lebanese cousin by these racist pigs. They broke one of her ribs and totally damaged the face of her cousin. Can you imagine they even beat up 17 year old girls. These bastards need to be taught a lesson. They should throw them in a cargo plane and fly them to somewhere in the middle east and just leave them there to get their assess kicked.

[*PRC*Kensei]

now , comrades, lets do it the classic way: fly them to siberia :lol:

mmm :( sad for your friends... face beaten up... that must be real painfull for a 17 year old...