Re: Bomb threats worry Aussies


"Mike Holmans" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Larry de Silva wrote:
> > > > I shall be immensely sorry if there are further attacks in London
for
> > > > reasons of rather greater moment than a footling series of cricket
> > > > matches, and will not blame the Australian team at all if they
decide
> > > > that the situation is not conducive to playing cricket in a
reasonably
> > > > relaxed frame of mind and decide to go home as a result. I hope they
> > > > don't, but I don't have to walk in their shoes.
> > > > I think it's pretty despicable to criticise cricketers for being
scared
> > > > by bombs going off. Calling them wimps from the comfort of your own
> > > > lounge room is just distasteful.
> > You also don't understand the true meaning of the words "double
standards"
> > when it comes to making such decisions as to abort or not go on a pre
> > arranged tour. Or you may believe that certain bombs in certain
countries
> > kill, maim or hurt much less than others in other countries
> > dude......................It is NOT downright irrelevant but then again,
you
> > have the right to hold that silly view all by yourself.
>
> Sod your feelings of personal affront that somebody behaves differently
> when they consider a situation in your country and one in another's.
> This is not about your pathetic amour propre but about whether or not
> people feel safe to do their jobs away from home.
>
> Are you really so devoid of humanity that it is more important to you
> that people facing the serious possibility of inadvertently being blown
> up consider whether or not you'll be able to twist their actions to
> find evidence of racism than whether they are too scared to play
> cricket or not?


No but I'm NOT the type to ever run away from the terrorists. THAT is
exactly what they want to achieve, to *** up normal life. I know that you
don't worry about such trivial things but I have challenged and confronted
the LTTE terrorists for a very long time and received two death threats for
my trouble. But I'm not scared, I still use my own name and the bastards
know that I live in Bendigo, Australia. They are all froth and bubble,
especially the brainwashed, robotic suicide bombers who have a death wish
because their life is so fucking boring and unfulfilling.


> You, I note, comment from the safety of Bendigo. You may well know
> people who live in a terrorist warzone, but I am one.


Not too sure how safe Bendigo is but the thing is that I show no fear of
these gutless terrorist mongrels who get a hard on by killing innocent men,
women and children.


> July 7th looked immensely like the events of 11/9/2001 in NYC and then
> in Madrid. Neither of those spectaculars were followed up with repeat
> attacks in the near aftermath. It was not an unreasonable theory that
> London also would not be bombed further, and that cancelling
> arrangements would be shutting the stable door after the horse had
> bolted, and this was the view which the authorities sought to get
> across, largely successfully.
>
> The second incident two weeks later therefore came as a big surprise
> and has thrown the whole thing into the melting pot again. There is now
> no way of even estimating whether another bomb is likely. The
> impressive speed with which the second group have apparently been
> tracked down and caught is fairly reassuring, but I'm not sure whether
> it's reasonable to be scared now or wait for another one to go off
> before deciding that life is definitely too hazardous for a stranger to
> stay in town. I suppose I wouldn't advise people to cancel their
> arrangements for coming here, but I'd probably suggest that anyone who
> was only thinking about coming would be better off waiting for a bit
> rather than making definite reservations.
>
> OK, I admit I am no longer a full-time Londoner and spend nearly half
> my time away, but that would be true regardless of terrorist activity
> and I love my city. But these days when I hear a screaming emergency
> vehicle siren I wonder "What fresh hell is this?" whereas a couple of
> months ago it would only have occasioned mild curiosity. Yes, I'm a bit
> on edge - and I've lived here a very long time, I've experienced bombs
> going off for decades (though never being near enough to get hurt), I'm
> basically impressed with the way the authorities are going about their
> business, I think I'm pretty clued up about the political situation and
> have a realistic appreciation of the threat level. I'm a bit nervous -
> for people who aren't used to this, don't know the city, don't know how
> much to trust the authorities, don't really know why bombs should be
> going off at this particular time, it is bound to be different, and it
> is obvious that some of the tourists around the place are pretty damned
> scared.
>
> I have no clear idea of what it was like in any other place that has
> been affected by bomb blast at any other time. It would be ridiculously
> presumptuous of me to guess how the people in those situations felt,
> but you have no compunction about arrogantly asserting how they should
> have felt. And you have the gall to consider me pompous. Talk about
> self-aggrandizement: let's all admire Larry's liberal social conscience
> in his Bendigo lounge room rather than worry about some poor buggers
> 10,000 miles from home who have people detonating things a mile or so
> from where they're playing a Test match and react according to the
> circumstances they are encountering at that moment rather than Larry's
> Guide to Etiquette.


You keep on agreeing to terrorist demands and do what they want you to do,
be *** bloody scared. This is NOT for me.



> It may well be regrettable that the Sri Lankan police and authorities
> did not on some previous occasion inspire the same level of
> semi-confidence that apparently (and in my view somewhat foolhardily)
> the current Australian team have in the Metropolitan Police and other
> British organs, but it is utterly contemptible for you to pick over the
> actions of people at different times in different places for evidence
> of some over-arching social attitude which transcends self-preservation
> just so that you can feed your appetite for anti-Australian bile.


Anti Australian bile???? Quote me sunshine?

I absolutely LOVE Australia, the BEST country in the entire world dude. Not
a doubt in my mind.

I think you have finally lost it Mike. The bloody terrorists have
unfortunately got you by your balls.

Laz


>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>


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