NSW Ambulance no-go zones

November 03, 2008

AT least 350 homes and streets in NSW are deemed no-go zones by ambulances because they are deemed so violent a police escort is needed.

Topping the blacklist is inner-city Redfern ...

The Newcastle suburb of Windale and Inverell in the state's northwest also have some of the highest number of violent residents.

Are we in a social capital recession or depression?

Attempted abduction in Raymond Terrace, NSW

28/10/2008

A man of African appearance, mid 20s, scruffy hair and beard, repeatedly told a 15-year-old schoolgirl to get in his car as she was walking home along Dalyell Way, Raymond Terrace.

And again I can't find this story on the NSW Police website...

Police hunt fourth person over Irish tourist bashing

October 17, 2008

Police today released this photograph of 19-year-old Kane Desmond Tupuolamoui, a New Zealand national on the run following the arrest of two men and a woman in connection with the attack.

Tupuolamoui is known to frequent the eastern suburbs around Hillsdale and Coogee, where Mr Keohane was bashed as he walked home from a party.

Irish girls attacked in Bundaberg over a cigarette

October 13 2008

THREE Irish backpackers have become the latest victims of an unprovoked, vicious assault while travelling in Australia.

The three girls from Westmeath, Galway and Dublin were attacked and badly beaten outside a take-away in the east coast town of Bundaberg.

They were knocked to the ground, punched and kicked by three aboriginal girls in a row "over a cigarette".

Police who viewed CCTV footage of the assault outside Hungry Tum 24-hour eatery said they could clearly see the assailants punching and kicking the victims on the ground.

A spokesperson for Queensland police said the incident was a totally unprovoked attack.

"Three female backpackers were accosted outside a 24-hour eatery by three 17-year-old aboriginal girls," he said...

Meanwhile, the three Irish victims and a Swedish friend have asked not to be identified, but one has described the terrifying experience.

"It was all just over a cigarette," the female victim, from Galway said.

"It all happened in a split second. It was fairly frightening and we're pretty shaken up."

She explained: "I was pushed to the ground and they started kicking me in the head. I went to hospital and had x-rays done, just in case, because of the blows to the head, but everything is OK, thankfully...

The security footage showed how the three girls beat the backpackers after one of the tourists refused to give them cigarettes outside the store.

During sentencing, magistrate Neil Lavaring said: "There has been a number of assaults and it has been in the public limelight.

"There has been considerable injuries, deaths and all sorts of things."

Yes, all sorts of things. Here's another victim of "have you got a cigarette?": Eddie Spowart.

Two people bashed and robbed – Burwood, Sydney

25 Oct 2008

Around 2.30am, police responded to reports of a large brawl and located the two victims near a pond in Burwood Park.

The brothers, aged 26 and 16, both from East Burwood, told police they were attacked by 10 males of Pacific Islander appearance and then robbed of a mobile phone and wallet...

... hospital scans on the younger victim revealed severe facial fractures and three contusions on his brain.

Man stabbed - Condell Park, NSW

20 Oct 2008

... a man was stabbed in Condell Park last night. About 10:15pm, police from Bankstown Local Area Command were called to a house in Edgar Street following reports of a man having been stabbed.

It is believed a 27-year-old man was involved in a fight with another male outside his house. During the incident the 27-year-old man received stab wounds to his chest and arms before the offender fled the scene...

Police would like to speak to a man who has only been described as being of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance wearing a white tracksuit.

Unprovoked glassing at Liverpool hotel, NSW

29/10/2008

... an 18-year-old Miller male, was socialising with friends at the Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool, when a man described as being of Pacific Islander appearance, around 175 to 180 centimetres tall with dreadlocked hair, attacked him.

Senior Constable Hill said that there appeared to be no reason for the attack, which occurred at about 11.30pm on Saturday, August 9.

He probably just realised he was downtrodden and was seeking reparations.

Machete attack on Perth bus

2nd November 2008

In Balga, a 50-year-old bus passenger received cuts, minor abrasions and machete wounds during a fight with three Aboriginal youths aged between 10-16.

If you call yourself the 'biggest gang' in Australia, then don't be surprised if your kids take those words seriously.

Parking fine anger turning violent in NSW

November 02, 2008

"We're aware of some people having their teeth knocked in, they've sustained ongoing injuries from knife attacks, some (have been) threatened with guns, some have had their families threatened, had rocks thrown at their houses, their vehicles attacked," USU research officer Lyn Fraser said.

"It's a very, very serious problem and people have the right to go about their work without those threats of aggression or violence."

Has anybody seen the social capital? We seem to have lost it somewhere. You might even say we have a Social Capital Crisis. Time for a bail out, Mr Rudd, not time for more high-stakes gambling.

Teenager stabbed after Eden Hill argument, WA

October 19, 2008

A 19-YEAR-OLD man was taken to hospital after being stabbed three times in the abdomen following an argument at a party in Eden Hill...

Police are looking for an African male, about 186cm tall of medium build, with short black curly hair, brown eyes and a distinctive gold chain around his neck.

Sleepwalking towards Britain's knife crime.

Civil liberties advocates turn blind eye for Obama

October 31, 2008
Michelle Malkin

If Joe the Plumber were Jawad the Suspected Terrorist, civil liberties activists would stampede the halls of Congress on his behalf. Liberal columnists would hyperventilate over the outrageous invasions of his privacy by Ohio state and local employees. The ACLU would demand the Big Brother snoopers' heads. And Democratic leaders would convene immediate hearings and parade him around the Beltway as the new poster boy/victim of unlawful domestic spying.

But because peaceful American citizen Joe Wurzelbacher is an outspoken enemy of socialism, rather than an enemy of America, the defenders of privacy have responded to his plight with an impenetrable cone of silence.

After the last presidential debate, during which John McCain invoked Joe the Plumber's anti-socialism shot heard 'round the world, several taxpayer-subsidized employees in Ohio immediately rifled through government databases in search of damning information. The Columbus Dispatch identified Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, as one of the dirt-diggers. She also happens to support Barack Obama and contributed the maximum amount to his presidential campaign.

... Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland quickly pooh-poohed the civil liberties infringements and denied any nefarious political motives.

If that doesn't send a chill up your spine, you don't have a spine.

In addition to Jones-Kelley, investigators have uncovered at least three additional suspicious uses of state computer systems to access Wurzelbacher's data...

I contacted the ACLU twice this week for comment about this rampant plundering of Joe the Plumber's records. Like the Genesis song goes: No reply at all. (That was the same reply the ACLU gave me two months ago when I asked if they had any reaction to the Chicago gangland tactics of a MoveOn spin-off group that announced it was trolling campaign finance databases and targeting conservative donors with warning letters in a thuggish attempt to depress Republican fundraising.)

For the last seven years, these left-wing privacy champs have lobbied on behalf of foreign enemy combatants. The ACLU fought unsuccessfully to kill the Bush administration's post-9/11 effort to monitor terrorist communications in the United States. The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and USA Today went ballistic over the government's bank surveillance program to trace terrorist financing.

Those same papers fumed earlier this year when State Department contractors illegally sifted through the passport files of Obama ...

But when freelance members of the Obama Goon Squad take it upon themselves to do opposition research on The One's citizen critics and rummage through government databases, where are all the privocrats? And how safe will your state tax and IRS records be if Dear Leader is elected?

Lawrence Auster

...a frightening glimpse into the America that Barack Obama and the Democrats would create for us, an America where, if any person scores a good point off a Democrat, as Joe the Plumber did off Obama, Democrats will go searching in his records to find embarrassing things on him. An America in which people like Joe Wurzelbacher would be afraid to speak up.

Notice Malkin's point about how the ACLU refused to return her calls on the matter. Gosh, I guess those liberals don't care about "chilling" effects on free speech after all, do they?

Consistency is a virtue...

Mormons speak about Auburn stabbing

October 24th, 2008

But you have to get it via the grapevine, not the Australian media. FAIR Blog in America has posted a Mormon account of the stabbing of Chris Collinsworth and David Ferguson at Auburn on October 14th, with some photos of revisiting the attack site:

In a letter distributed to the families of the missionaries of the Australia Sydney North mission President Scruggs recounts the events of Tuesday, October 14:

At about 8:45 PM, Elders Collinsworth (out about 6 months from Mapleton, UT; BYU basketball player, 6′9″, 220 lbs) and Elder Ferguson (out about 18 months from Great Falls, Montana; BYU major in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 6′1″ — very slender), were walking on the sidewalk about 1/2 a block from their apartment. The area, Auburn, is our most urban. The missionaries refer to it as “all manner of ‘ese: Chinese, Sudanese, Lebanese, etc.” The Elders saw two Lebanese men, over six feet tall with mullets, walking towards them. As they approached, the Elders stepped off the sidewalk to let them pass. As soon as the men were in striking distance, they struck. Elder Collinsworth grabbed his attacker and threw him down into the street and held him to the ground. Elder Ferguson exchanged punches with his attacker with enough ferocity that the coward fled. By this time a third attacker jumped on Elder Collinsworth pulling his shirt over his head. He was knocked to the ground and kicked. He said the last thing he saw as he hit the street was Elder Ferguson running towards him. Elder Ferguson knocked the third attacker off of Elder Collinsworth. The second attacker who had run away earlier returned to join the attack.

At this time a passing Sudanese motorist stopped and honked his horn, flashed his lights and yelled. The three attackers ran away. The motorist got out and checked on the Elders — now both on the street — and then went to get a nearby policeman. At this point the Elders realized they had both been stabbed. Elder Collinsworth, once in the back; Elder Ferguson, thrice — in the thigh, the upper left arm, and the left wrist. Blood was especially pouring out of the wrist wound, so Elder Collinsworth took off his tie and bound the wound. An ambulance quickly arrived and transported them to Westmead which is a very good hospital.

...

Elder Ferguson (via his mother) gave me some details not found local news coverage:

I have 9 stitches in my hand, and about as many in my leg. My leg has an ugly L shaped cut. I think I passed out for a second when my head hit the ground and that is when one of the men stabbed me in the leg and jerked the knife. When I came to, I kicked the man in the shin, jumped up to my feet, and then tackled the other guy. I imagine I wouldn’t have done that if I knew I had been stabbed.

What the papers don’t tell you about the fight is that I was confronting the guy with the knife before he ran off. He had a scared look on his face and in reflection, it seems he was just about as surprised to be in the fight as we were. The third guy, we believe, was not connected to them and just wanted to join the fight.

… At one point for about 20 seconds [Elder Collinsworth] was being kicked really hard in the face repeatedly by two of them. He had no bruises on his face, no cuts, his teeth weren’t damaged and his nose wasn’t hurt. The only damage he received to his face was when he was punched before he was on the ground...

On Wednesday the story of the missionary attack was reported by Deseret News and other local media (for example KSL and the Daily Herald). The interest created by the sports angle ensured that media outlets throughout the nation picked the story up. As a former member of FAIR, Elder David Ferguson may very well be to our apologetic network and reader audience what Elder Chris Collinsworth is to the BYU basketball team and fans...

Several of us from FAIR contacted Margaret Ferguson to express condolences and let her know her son was in our prayers. I asked her how she found out about the attack and if there was any discussion of him coming home. She responded: “He called us from the hospital with his Mission President a few hours after the attack. He said, ‘I was in a bit of a scrap and I am in the hospital but I am O.K.’ Of course I started to cry and he told me to STOP crying. Now this sobered me up because I knew that he must not only be O.K. but back to his usual ‘not a big deal self.’ Then his Mission President got on the phone and described a little of what had happened. So we never felt like he needed to come home.” ...