January 23, 2006 - A violent subculture has been growing in strength, thanks to politicians who choose to ignore it, writes Paul Sheehan.
"There also remain questions about the Government's priorities after the Cronulla riot and the revenge attacks that followed. Police were quick to subpoena the Herald for photos taken during the paper's coverage of the violence at Cronulla on December 11. Strangely, no subpoena has ever been received for the Herald's images taken the following night, December 12, when convoys of revenge attacks formed in Lakemba and Punchbowl before going on a largely unchecked rampage.
The big questions therefore remain: when is the penny finally going to drop for the NSW Government about the problems coming out of a subculture centred in Iemma's electorate? When are they going to realise that the gang rapes, the anti-terrorist sweeps by ASIO, the drug trade, the gun trade, the car rebirthing trade, and the thousands of incidents of harassment and intimidation are all linked, all part of the same cultural source?
Instead, we have the Premier, with his ministers and his senior police seemingly incapable of even acknowledging the existence of a disconnected, hate-filled, racist and criminal subculture within the broader, functional, assimilated Muslim community.
As a result, six weeks after the Cronulla riot, which itself was the latest in innumerable warnings, there remains little evidence any of those responsible for the pre-meditated, large-scale racial violence co-ordinated in Punchbowl and Lakemba on December 11 and 12 would ever have had to worry about the consequences had it not been for a media uprising that began on January 14 and is not going to stop."
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