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SYDNEY GETS STABBY

More water trouble:

Two men have been arrested over a stabbing attack on a group of six people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

The five males and a female were injured after one group, described as being of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean appearance, set upon the other about midnight, police said.

At least the police approach ban has been lifted:

Police were ordered not to approach convoys of men of Middle Eastern appearance who were heading towards beachside suburbs to take revenge for the Cronulla riots ...

Assistant Commissioner Bob Waites told the Herald that a log entry of the commander’s order was kept, revealing that he said: “Cars of Middle Eastern persons are not to be approached, just advise … registration number and location."

Before the commander’s radio order that night police made an operational decision not to disperse a crowd of Middle Eastern men who gathered in Punchbowl Park, so as not to antagonise them.

Wouldn’t want to do that.

Posted by Tim B. on 02/04/2006 at 03:04 AM
  1. No, best leave you to do that, it’s your special talent.

    Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 02 04 at 04:18 AM • permalink

  2. Dutch perspective of the clash of civilizations

    Check out the nuts on the squirrel.

    Posted by Go Canucks on 2006 02 04 at 04:29 AM • permalink

  3. They should be reminded their name is the New South Wales Police FORCE.

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 02 04 at 04:31 AM • permalink

  4. Apparently the librarians are letting Miranda use the computer again.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 02 04 at 04:32 AM • permalink

  5. You know, it’s actually kind of funny.  All these Muslims around the world, starting trouble from Holland to Australia to the U.K. to Thailand to Nigeria to the Philippines to Russia to even (I’m not kidding) Trinidad and frickin’ Tobago....and still no one really takes them seriously.

    They must be wondering what, exactly, they have to do to make us mad.

    No wonder they’re seething all the time.

    Posted by NewSisyphus on 2006 02 04 at 04:55 AM • permalink

  6. You all just know that stabbing is an essentially visceral experience - a bit like beheading without the weaponry or available time and privacy.

    Covering yourself with the blood of the infidel in the name of Allah is one of life’s enriching experiences.

    Miranda’s apparently out on early release - just ask her.....

    Posted by Kaboom on 2006 02 04 at 05:19 AM • permalink

  7. #5 NewSisyphus:

    I’m not too sure what needs to happen.  The West are in some sort of Chamberlain denial of the threat to its being, it is equivalent of a metastasized melanoma, rather than being checked and monitored in the early stages, it is now needing some sort of excision.

    The strange thing is that many Islamist spokesmen (no women) want the West to be inclusive of an exclusive tyrannical beast.  Many people fail to see that contradiction.  Am I over reacting?

    Posted by Stevo on 2006 02 04 at 05:46 AM • permalink

  8. No, best leave you to do that, it’s your special talent.

    I thought you had to be a cartoonist to properly antagonize.

    Posted by Sortelli on 2006 02 04 at 06:34 AM • permalink

  9. "Mr Waites said he could not name the commander who gave the order. A technical failure meant that two of nine police radio channels were not recorded on the nights of December 11 and 12, when revenge attacks occurred. The digital recording system had been installed for the Olympics, and its only known failure had been on these two nights.”

    OH MY GIDDY AUNT!! The cover up started on that very night!

    Posted by davo on 2006 02 04 at 07:58 AM • permalink

  10. It’s either a cover up or a technical failure that has lasted since 2000.  I believe the latter as far as the police are concerned, it’s a disgrace that their technology systems have been dysfunctional for nearly six years.  That’s incompetent.

    The cover up is the work of the politicians.

    Posted by Stevo on 2006 02 04 at 08:21 AM • permalink

  11. Tim,
    you missed the best bit:

    Waverley mayor Mora Main said she was deeply concerned about the attack.

    “We work co-operatively with the police all the time and nothing like this has ever happened for at least a couple of years, so we are very concerned and we will be calling for a full report from them,"

    Posted by Nic on 2006 02 04 at 08:22 AM • permalink

  12. Bumbling bureaucracy at its best ...

    Posted by Stevo on 2006 02 04 at 08:41 AM • permalink

  13. If I was that mayor I would have a 7 am “sunrise service” meeting with the police chief every single day until he delivered a satisfactory explanation.

    Or his resignation.  Whichever.

    Posted by R C Dean on 2006 02 04 at 08:57 AM • permalink

  14. The N.S.W Police’s hands-off approach towards people of Middle-Eastern-appearance and batons-out approach toward whiteys, reminds me of the contrasting ways a large local family treated their biological kids and their foster kids. When they fought amongst themselves, off would come the dad’s belt and the biological kids would get a good whacking. Much like the coppers whacked the whiteys at Cronulla. The foster kids were not whacked, but the show of force was meant to keep them in line as well.

    Are we ever going to treat people of Middle-Eastern-appearance like other Australians? Or are we going to continue to treat them like we just picked them up from the foster home? Poor unfortunates. They can’t be whacked? It’s not our place. Look at their crazy behaviour? Aren’t they damaged enough? I say it’s time for their (police) whacking.
    See here.http://emotionalrex.blogspot.com/2006/02/riot-order-avoid-middle-eastern-men.html

    Posted by JoeJr on 2006 02 04 at 09:09 AM • permalink

  15. Every time I go to Bondi, I see the police hanging around en masse, at the restaurants, cafes and shops.

    Meanwhile, I see the thugs all alone in their hotted up HSV’s sitting down in the car, being left alone by the police, surely due to cowardice if not strategic order.

    Where do you think the crime happened? In a “known hotspot” according to the Commander, despite a massive police operation.

    From: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/violence-returns-to-bondi/2006/02/04/1138958944793.html

    "These guys have just no hesitation in pulling a knife out and stabbing you to do damage, possibly to kill.

    “If the knife had gone in much further, it was right next to [my son’s] main artery.”

    Police say the incident happened in two waves.

    The attackers had earlier left Bondi after an argument about two teenage girls being hassled.

    They then showed up several minutes later, armed and in two vehicles."

    Pretty standard behaviour at Bondi as I recall. One or two ‘men of Middle Eastern appearance’ sporting Adidas trackies and a rude haircut, would loudly call a girl a “slut” or a “pig”. If the girl’s boyfriend or husband should so much as look at the perpetrator, they would feign offence “what you looking at?” and all of a sudden ten of his mates would back him up, and it was on as they practiced this week’s kickboxing moves. Additional carloads were always a phone call away, making a cellphone a dangerous weapon.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 02 04 at 09:20 AM • permalink

  16. #14 Emotional_Rex:
    Treat them like the all people who live in Australia.  I think that’s what you’re trying to say.

    Posted by Stevo on 2006 02 04 at 09:26 AM • permalink

  17. What happened to the hard as nails, take no shit coppers of old Sydney...come back we need you!
    To Gough Whitlam, Al Grasby, Malcolm Fraser and all the other architects of multicult “diversity” at any cost, thanks alot for unleashing these psychopathic scumbags on our city...great job fellas.

    Posted by Tancred on 2006 02 04 at 10:22 AM • permalink

  18. Miranda’s few interjections here recently have been weak and lacking in substance. I wonder if she’s ill? Miranda, honey, are you seeing a doctor? Maybe you just need vitamins.

    I worry because I love.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 02 04 at 10:33 AM • permalink

  19. "The five males and a female were injured after one group, described as being of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean appearance”

    Ah, Mediterranean appearance, eh? So they may well have been immigrants from, say, San Marino? Or maybe Malta?

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 04 at 10:49 AM • permalink

  20. They certainly couldn’t have been any of those Lebanonesians one hears tell of, could they?

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 04 at 12:03 PM • permalink

  21. #13 our police don’t answer to any mayor.  they are a state based organisation.  they answer to the state government, in this case run by a bloke called morris iemma who owes his parliamentary seat to the lebonazis. the seat is lakemba, home to the infamous mosque, gathering place for angry mobs of MoMEA, and many prayer rooms run by the madder mullahs, where the imams say calming words in english & inflammatory ones in arabic. so while iemma talks tough about cracking down on gangs of thugs, his police force sips lattes as the thugs continue their activities unchecked

    Posted by KK on 2006 02 04 at 12:32 PM • permalink

  22. Well. Paco, you know how violent the Maltese are.  And those people on Corfu.  Bad news, the lot of them.

    Posted by ushie on 2006 02 04 at 03:02 PM • permalink

  23. Donnah, did Miranda ever wander into your library?  Just color me curious.

    Posted by ushie on 2006 02 04 at 03:04 PM • permalink

  24. 22: This Mediterranean thing has me baffled. I keep having visions of gondoliers in their straw-hats, charging into a crowd and laying about them with poles. Or maybe Sicilians in Borsolino hats cutting up with their stilettos. Or (no fatwas, please) could it possibly refer to people of Lebanese extraction?

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 04 at 03:12 PM • permalink

  25. Ah, Mediterranean appearance, eh? So they may well have been immigrants from, say, San Marino? Or maybe Malta?

    Funny you should mention it, paco: a good friend of my dad’s is of Maltese extraction, and is as Aussie as our host, but since the incidents at Cronulla, some areas are strictly off-limits to him. And yes, he has also had numerous run-ins with Lebanese Muslim Youths™ and feels no shred of sympathy for them.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 02 04 at 03:15 PM • permalink

  26. Spines: Let’s hope the LBY’s don’t find out about this.

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 04 at 03:26 PM • permalink

  27. I meant LMY’s.

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 04 at 03:27 PM • permalink

  28. Ah, Mediterranean appearance, eh? So they may well have been immigrants from, say, San Marino? Or maybe Malta?

    #19 - Paco, don’t forget the Cretans!

    Posted by Kaboom on 2006 02 04 at 04:17 PM • permalink

  29. new south wales police force = N.S.W. pussy force.

    the most corrupt and lazy police in the western world.....bar none.

    Posted by vinny on 2006 02 04 at 06:14 PM • permalink

  30. #28: No,no, can’t forget the Cretans! Or is it Cretins? What’s-his-name . . . Shiel? .  . . now has me permanently confused on the spelling.

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 04 at 06:38 PM • permalink

  31. Maybe you should send the NSW porkies to Iraq for some toughening and bring back a battalion of regulars to keep the peace in Cronulla.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 04 at 08:24 PM • permalink

  32. According to one of the high priced coppers I saw on TV the attacks “had no racial overtones”.I suppose that statement is supposed to make the victims feel better.The remarkable thing was that this cop was able to offer this assurance before any of the alleged perpetrators were arrested or even interviewed and the victims were still receiving medical treatment.Is “No racial overtones” the new official mantra for apologist coppers seeking not to offend the Leb. criminal community and their corrupt ALP friends and at the same time enhance their own promotion prospects?

    Posted by Lew on 2006 02 04 at 08:46 PM • permalink

  33. As an Aussie, I sincerely apologise to those of Mediterranean Appearance.

    Please dont think for one moment that the average Australian doesnt know the difference between psychotic Muslim trash and Italians etc.

    Posted by dee on 2006 02 04 at 10:16 PM • permalink

  34. Fortunately, only six people were stabbed at the Bondi Pavilion.

    Imagine how nasty it could have been if Waverley Council had installed an
    Australian flag on top of the building!

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 02 04 at 10:28 PM • permalink

  35. #19 & the corsican mafia (i mean look at napoleon’s track record)

    Posted by KK on 2006 02 04 at 10:30 PM • permalink

  36. & sardinians are a fishy mob.... sorry

    Posted by KK on 2006 02 04 at 10:31 PM • permalink

  37. smh has named one of those arrested - not john smith surprise surprise

    Posted by KK on 2006 02 04 at 10:47 PM • permalink

  38. Well it all might just be different next election. When is the next election? And will Iemma every win a service medal.....for what service?
    What police?

    Posted by waussie on 2006 02 05 at 01:59 AM • permalink

  39. Some perspective on the Bondi policing. For six weeks since the beachside riots all police leave was cancelled and a mass police presence came into effect at many beaches, Bondi included.

    Bondi Public School was the temporary staging post for police with dozens of vehicles, police horse floats and a command post set up. At times it seemed there were more police vehicles than cabs !

    In that time they conducted active racial profiling, intercepting various dodgy vehicles and passengers and generally going over them with a fine tooth comb. As a result the number of hoons visiting Bondi and surrounding beaches dropped off markedly.

    With the end of the holiday period last week this extra police presence was withdrawn and guess what? Last night at work I noticed the hoons racing each other back towards Bondi. Be prepared for more of the same.

    Posted by JAFA on 2006 02 05 at 02:16 AM • permalink

  40. From News.com.au, as kk noted (#37), it seems they have arrested one of the perps although he apparently has a bit of trouble getting his story straight ("I was playing cards - honest").

    Posted by entropy on 2006 02 05 at 05:14 AM • permalink

  41. We should all thank the ABC, who spared their listeners the fact that MOMEA’s were involved, and that the incident involved violence “between” two groups of people. Still furiously disconnecting the dots.

    Posted by Jim Geones on 2006 02 05 at 06:33 AM • permalink

  42. Well the newly arrived Sudanese refugee and father of 4 young children having been bashed by Middle Eastern thugs last week has died in hospital.
    And it isn’t being referred to as a ‘racist’ attack despite the fact that Sudanese people in Auburn, where the bashing took place, have complained of harassment by Middle Eastern youth.
    At least 2 of the people stabbed by Middle Eastern thugs over the weekend remain in hospital.
    Overseas, Middle Eastern men go on a rampage and destroy foreign embassies.
    And it ain’t over by a long shot!
    Stay tuned…

    Posted by Brian on 2006 02 05 at 08:14 AM • permalink

  43. Vinny 29

    "new south wales police force” ... the most corrupt and lazy police in the western world.....bar none.

    Well sure, maybe, NOW.  With New Orleans out of the running, that is.  What percentage of the police payroll actually exists, in NSW?  In NO, apparently, there were more cops drawing salaries than actually existed.

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 05 at 10:50 AM • permalink

  44. stoop doggy dave, wow now that’s what i call corruption.....one day we may be as brilliant as that.

    Posted by vinny on 2006 02 05 at 03:56 PM • permalink

  45. 42 Brian, it’s not being referred to as ‘racist’ because the perpetrators aren’t skips.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 02 05 at 04:22 PM • permalink

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