BamaD -> RE: What is happening in Sydney? (12/17/2014 7:42:56 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tj444 this is a Fast Reply- It seems that this person had mental issues/instability.. so how is this a terrorism thing any more than someone killing because he/she heard voices telling him/her to kill their children to "save" them or send them to a "better place" or someone saying Satan told them to.. or a mentally ill husband who takes his wife and kids hostage or commits murder suicide.. or of any other delusions a mentally ill person would come up with? It seems to me that many of these types of incidents are a result of mental problems that are not treated or properly treated and that should be a greater focus.. wasn't there another thread here a while ago about a mentally ill person turned killer & how the health care system fails the mentally ill? (maybe Newtown?).. anyway, that's jmo.. http://www.dw.de/sydney-gunman-had-history-of-mental-instability/a-18133289 http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/17/aaron-alexis-another-improperly-treated-mentally-ill-man-becomes-mass-killer/ Prior to the attack he proclaimed his support of ISIS. To argue that he was imbalanced means he could not be a terrorist is irrational. Terrorists are by there nature often imbalanced. Please stop taking this poor deranged individual seriously. He was so incompetent that he neglected to bring his IS banner with him and so had to include the provision of an IS flag as one of the demands he made to the authorities ..... By turning it into a serious terrorist incident you are playing directly into the hands of IS who would love to be able to claim that their reach extends far beyond the borders of their 'Caliphate'. If there is a terrorism-related aspect to this sad incident, it is in the way the people of Sydney reacted to the event, reaching out to our Muslim community and together standing tall against the forces of hate and bigotry. This has ensured that bigots and fundamentalists (on all sides, including our right wing fundies and loonies) have been sidelined and silenced. The silence of the usual suspects on the Right, normally too quick to jump onto any anti-Muslim bandwagon, has been deafening. Here in Australia, no one is pointing the finger at Islam, Iran or Iranians, or terrorists. Most people here accept that the perp was a deeply troubled individual with serious mental and legal challenges, acting on his own initiative. The only place I see people pointing fingers are here on these boards, usually by people far removed from t*he event, people with their own Islamophobic agendas to push. I wish they could follow the lead of Australia's Islamophobes and grace the discussion with their silence. I only take him as seriously as I do any other nutcase who goes out to kill people. Proclaiming everyone who are see the obvious terror inspiration in this to be Islamaphobes is hiding your head in the sand. If you insist on taking this demented soul seriously that's your choice. It doesn't seem justified by the facts that are in the public domain at the moment. I can report that the kinds of security-related questions being asked here are along the lines of: * How did a person with such a long history of violence obtain access to firearms? How did he apparently maintain this access despite being charged with c40 counts of sexual assault, and with involvement in the murder of his ex-wife? * How did a person with his history obtain bail on the string of sexual assault charges he is currently facing? * How did a person with his history fall off the security agencies 'watch list' c5 years ago and stay off it despite his subsequent arrest on sexual assault and accessory to murder charges? Perhaps further questions will emerge as more facts about the siege and the perp emerge but the above is the focus of inquiry here at the moment. Only one of the three questions has any kind of terrorism connection and even then the connection is far from direct. You are 100% correct on one point anyway, he should not have been out walking around.
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