Aboriginal riot in Sydney injures 40 police
Anna Marshall - 20 February 2004
Years of pandering to Aboriginals with massive welfare
payments and special privileges while simultaneously
fuelling their resentment by dwelling on past grievances, blew up in the faces of the social engineers, do-gooders and
the politically correct elites on a hot February night in
the Aboriginal ghetto of Redfern when
a horde of rampaging, rioting Aboriginals torched the
Redfern
railway station and then set about assaulting police with bricks,
bottles and fire-bombs.
Tension began building following the accidental death of
an Aboriginal youth on the morning of Sunday 15 February.
Riding his bicycle in a reckless manner, he fell off and
impaled himself on a fence. Rumours spread like wildfire
through the ghetto that the youth died in a police pursuit,
a claim the police deny. Posters sprang up calling the
police child murderers. Groups of Aboriginals started preparing Molotov cocktails
and filling wheelie bins with bricks, paving slabs and
bottles.
Full scale rioting broke out after dark. It was not
quelled until the early hours of Monday morning by which
time, reportedly eight police were hospitalised and another forty
injured.
The politically correct pandering to
Aboriginals is one of the root causes of their tragic state.
Many Aboriginals feel they are not accountable for their actions
or responsible for their lives. Read
"Killing them softly".
In most cases they are beyond the law -
and they know it. The police were too timid in quelling the
riot because they knew would be accused of racism if they
acted decisively. They allowed the rioters to advance to
within metres of them to throw brick, bottles and even
Molotov cocktails. No wonder so many police were injured.
Far from denouncing the riot, many of the
ghetto's residents hailed it as a success.
About 150 residents gathered in Pemulway
Park next day to hear Aboriginal leader Lyall Munro urge
even more violence. Residents cheered and whistled approval
when Munro, using a megaphone, said "the streets were
taken by our young people and we are all proud."
Munro warned that Redfern could become the
next Brixton, the scene of violent race riots in the UK.
"If Palestinian kids can fight war tanks with sling
shots, our kids can do the same", Munro said.
If this is the voice of Aboriginal
leadership, what hope have the kids got?
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