ASIO has lifted our national terrorism threat level to ‘probable’ meaning a greater than 50 per cent chance of an onshore attack or attack planning in the next 12 months. Of course, 100 per cent of the population that has read a newspaper in the last 12 months will be unsurprised by any of this.
My security-conscious and terrorism-aware clients have asked, ‘What should we do?’ The answer for most of them (who are already prepared) is ‘business as usual’. They, as well as the broader population, quite rightly rely on the government and police to protect them. Even the most libertarian ‘small government’ person will agree the government has a role in national defence and protecting people’s individual safety from violence.
Many of us have watched in disbelief as various levels of government not only turned a blind eye to a smouldering problem for years, but potentially fanned the flames.
On October 9, two days after terror group Hamas committed the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, there was a riot at the Sydney Opera House calling for harm to Jews and the NSW Police did … nothing much.
On a nearly weekly basis, groups of anti-Israel activists march in Sydney and Melbourne chanting genocidal phrases that Hamas itself wrote. Leading these crowds are people on bail for violent offences as well as an established history of supporting violent terror groups. They are marching in lockstep with the Greens, who still haven’t worked out that Israel is a modern liberal democracy like ours. What starts with Israel doesn’t end there. It’s simply the Jews first and everybody else next. Ask France or London.
The plan to import Palestinian Arab refugees from Gaza, no doubt to help Labor’s chances in Western Sydney, must rank as one of the most cynical vote-buying exercises in Australian history. It has been reported that 70 to 90 per cent of Gaza’s population supports Hamas. Even if you took a conservative estimate and argued it’s merely 30 per cent, or 20 per cent, that still represents an unacceptable risk to our nation. Every 20 year old within that group has been raised on a lifelong Hamas-led (and UNRWA sponsored) education of hating Jewish people, Western Civilisation, America and it’s allies. That is, us. It is worth asking why none of the 22 Arab countries and 57 Muslim countries are absorbing this group while Australia rolls out the red carpet.
While I can understand someone wishing to leave Gaza, those doing so would have plenty of money to bribe officials. People in Gaza with plenty of money and those connections are almost certainly tied to Hamas. How will our government vet this? By asking Hamas?
Is this really about Gaza? Or is it about Grayndler, the seat occupied by Anthony Albanese?
Minister for Immigration Tony Burke’s electorate of Watson includes also Australia’s highest Muslim-occupied suburbs of Lakemba and Bankstown.
Cabinet papers in the National Archives of Australia reveal the 1976 Lebanon concession was an unmitigated disaster. Immigration Department officials were ‘completely overstretched’ and lost control of the program with ‘the possibility that the conflicts, tensions, and divisions within Lebanon will be transferred to Australia’. They were. And as a check of the roll at the Goulburn Supermax shows, we’ve learned nothing.
Policy mistakes by government can take years to reveal themselves but with the fox already within the henhouse, the government has potentially placed an order for more foxes.
Our national stupidity level should be elevated from ‘Gobsmacking’ to ‘Unhinged’.
