Australia reportedly foiled the final stages of a "major terrorist incident" reported the BBC today. It went on to say that a fanatical cleric who had been widely reported as describing Osama Bin Laden as "a great man" was the mastermind of two terrorist cells that were planning attacks in two parts of Australia. Anti-terrorist laws pushed through on thursday allowed the government to carry out the raids to arrest these people.
Pardon me but WTF happened to the world all of a sudden? I am sick to death of these people attacking democratic countries that for decades have supported, through loans and subsidies, the mainly third world toilet nations that these people (or their relatives) came from. Let's try and break this down into easily digestable chunks for the unenlightened:
You dislike our "decadent" society and culture (despite embracing the consumer goods we produce).
You start to commit terrorist attacks on us to bring about our downfall and punish us.
We retaliate using crippling force.
You get angry about this and do more terrorist attacks to punish us.
We respond with even more force, trade sanctions, etc.
You cry out that we have withdrawn your ability to buy Nike shoes and commit more terrorist attacks.
We impose harsher sanctions and even more force.
Etc...
See? It doesn't work. I have said this before and I will say it again. If you don't like western society or western culture go somewhere else. Anywhere else. I don't like having my human rights oppressed or living on $1 a day so I do not live in rural China. I enjoy expressing my right to free speech so I do not live in Burma. I like seeing Sally in skmipy clothing so I do not live in Iran. I do not blow things/people up or incite racial/religious hatred. So stop it. Embrace democracy and express your dissatisfaction in a better fashion. Your like kids, but with explosives. Grow up.
Posted by AlexC at November 8, 2005 12:47 PM