Old Mother Ashby wrote:

> I'm not sure that smug is quite the word I would use. They're probably
> ropeable, but as you point out, violence is as unacceptable in Indonesia
> as here and in fact it's unthinkable for the average person. Idle young
> men are another matter. We had a spot of violence in Cronulla recently,
> you know - the jury is still out on whether it was a genuine race riot,
> but you had a mob of drunken yobbos (some of them draped in the national
> flag, if you please), stirred up by the Sydney shock jocks, who had a
> whale of a time beating up anybody who they thought might be Lebanese or
> the like. All to do with longstanding resentment about who owns the
> beach, one of those Sydney things. And of course the next week there
> were the payback bashings. It's all settled down apparently, but the
> powers that be have had to think about some of the mixed messages
> they've been sending.


No "mixed messages" at all about the Cronulla contretemps Ma Ashby,
beach - goers were sick and tired of Lebanese male trash taking over
the beach, picking fights, insulting white women, etc....

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