Lifeguards bashed, Race Riots Begin.. in Australia..?

**Alrowan** · 12-11-2005, 16:17

the links

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...235951313.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...235951620.html

personally coming from the area i find the whole affair disgracful, on one hand you have the small minority who have caused trouble in the past, but now those who are coming out against those who started it are just as bad... who knows how long this will continue, but i think its absolutly shameful

**Alrowan** · 12-11-2005, 16:28

http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/2...02.html?page=3

some pics as well (none are very violent, most show the sheer numbers)

**Shadow** · 12-11-2005, 16:37

Why do they hate those lebanese so much

**Alrowan** · 12-11-2005, 16:45

well just some quick background info on Cronulla and its attitude, its not without reason too. For the last 10 years the area has seen a large rise in lebanese and other middle eastern peoples in the area, coming from other parts of sydney to go to the beach, though with these people some few undesirables came as well, that being the gangs. so over the last 10 years theyve seen beatings and such by these gangs, and yet the locals never really united against them, the police never did much either. It had recently gotten so bad that i even refused to go to the beach there for the last 2 years, ive had several mates actually been victims of these gangs as well.

anyhow, the straw that broke the camels back was the beating of some lifeguards, and the polices inability to act, then through the week text mesages were sent calling for all locals to come join in "leb bashing day" Now my guess is most people didnt know a thng about it, but the media being who they are had to show the rest of the country the text message, and basically invited the rest to happen. It then snowballed into what you read, and my guess is this is FAR from over. If i know these gangs, they wont give up, i expect to see some horrific retaliations in the coming days, and to be honest im quite worried as to how much this could blow out. Especially with the media blowing things out even more

**Fragony** · 12-11-2005, 17:52

I am just dying to hear the words 'social exclution', or maybe 'low prospects', or even better the creme de la creme 'racism'. I thought Australia was a pretty fun place after hearing Papaweio's praise but it turns out to be a normal country after all.

**Proletariat** · 12-11-2005, 18:14

I remember going to school in Paramatta for a year when I was sixteen. The tension was pretty thick between the Lebanese and Aussie kids. Fist fights were fairly frequent but I just assumed it was normal high school stuff. We later moved to Manly and it was much nicer.

My cousin who lives in Greystanes was attacked by a group of them coming out of a bar one night. There were about six of them and he ended up having to get his jaw wired. He probably mouthed off to them, but still. Six on one is pretty cowardly.

I'm starting to agree with Fragony about the difficulty of mixing cultures. You can't really blame the Lebanese for banding together, but it's a big problem when you have a large group of immigrants refusing to try to adapt with the host's culture.

**Devastatin Dave** · 12-11-2005, 18:48

When, oh when will JAG and Adrian show up and start spouting self-loathing comments about how its not the criminals fault but the fault of the society in which they are attacking? Should be soon now, lets watch...