The letter sent By Anonymous entitled "Agreement from Australia," was comforting for me to read, in view of an accusation made against me that I was not only racist but promoting Racism.
The point I was making in "Australia's Racist Shame. Or is it?" had absolutely nothing to do with 'Migrants' or 'ethnic groups', and everything to do with 'white, Australian, activist groups' that terrorise society through the abuse of political correctness and anti-vilification laws.
I can well imagine that the underlying cause of these recent riots, was:
- Home Grown Aussies get fed up with being labeled and abused for saying what they think.
- Not free to discuss, opinionate or argue any given point for fear of abuse or for fear of being 'prosecuted', they get angry.
- The anger is suppressed until it becomes rage.
- Rage eventually gets vented in uncontrollable ways.
- In the meantime, the Ethnic groups, because of all the media attention to terrorism; and hearing, feeling and sensing the tension in the home grown Aussies, got on the defensive (which is natural).
- Finally something happens, and it just escalates. The 'whites' misdirect their anger that rightfully should be directed toward the activists and thought police, onto the 'ethnics', and the 'ethnics' resenting their 'outcast' status, dish it right back.
In the end, both groups are fighting for exactly the same cause - freedom to live their lives in peace, in Australia.
Laws don't stop hatred, they can only punish and/or suppress it. The solution to the 'Racial' hatred, is to find the root cause. The point of all my articles, is that the root cause is to be found in the abuse that the home grown Aussies have received, not from migrants, but from the thought police, whose ultimate agenda is simply to stifle 'all' dissent or 'disapproval' on any matter, so that they can pursue their agendas without interference.
It was precisely this topic about which I had just finished a 3500 word article, when I first saw the news about the riots, and penned the article mentioned above. [Political Correctness : Corrupting Democracy]
There are no Lebanese in my family, but there are different religions represented, including the Muslims, Buddhists, Christians and others, and the family is composed of 'Whites', Asians, 'coloured' and Black people. (As my son once joked - "You never know Dad, if you are lucky, you might one day end up with a 'white grandkid'.
We are all different, but all the same - 'We are Proud Aussies!
R.P.Bendedek
Email: rpbendedek@hotmail.com
Note: Because of the recent Server change, some links may not work. This file was amended September 2007.
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R.P.BenDedek is the pseudonym of the Author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' (www.kingscalendar.com), and is a guest columnist at Magic City Morning Star News. An Australian, he currently teaches Conversational English in China.
King's Calendar Social Commentaries may be found at: http://www.kingscalendar.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=331
"The King's Calendar" is a chronological study of the historical books of the Bible (Kings and Chronicles), Josephus, Seder Olam Rabbah, and the (Essene) Damascus Document of The Dead Sea Scrolls.
