riots in civilised society

[sinisterorb]

any one find these new events to be oddly alarming?

if the populace of supposedly civilised society acts this way in relatively good times what are they going to be like in the near future?

Comments

[mrsalads]

What is the reason for those riots? What do Australians have to riot about?

[sinisterorb]

exactly.. . its weird seeing places like paris and sydney just get all bent out of shape. ..

[fpu]

The Australian Riots have come to a head largely because of the whole OMG Terrorists bullshit thats constantly being spruiked by our neanderthal leaders. Our populace has always been pretty racist anyway. Its certainly disturbing that its gotten this bad though - I never would have thought that we'd have these sorts of riots here. I can more or less understand the aboriginal community getting violent about being mistreated by the police and paractically everyone else, as they did earlier in the year, but this whole 'Lam's Out' business is just repulsive beyond belief.

[mrsalads]

So how is New Zeland on the whole Terrorist thing. You country has always seemed like one of the sanest amongst the western world. It looks more and more appealing every time I see "Terror!" on the front page of the newspaper, on TV, on posters at the train station, on the train... makes me want to blow something up.

[sinisterorb]

yeah we've mostly been pretty relaxed about it.. . we've had hoaxes which whipped a few idiots into a frenzy and we locked up a guy for 2 years because he came from a "dodgy country"

but mostly we realise its much of a media invention. ..