by FRED PAWLE – THE tenth anniversary of the deadly “siege” in Sydney’s Martin Place valiantly avoids using the M-word.
There was a touching ceremony in the centre of Sydney this week as some of the most senior politicians in the nation gathered to lay flowers to commemorate a decade since something they called the “Martin Place siege” happened there.
- Yet, the Immigration Department considered him a model migrant, obviously.
- His Lindt Café “siege” was, in fact, an Islamic terrorist attack.
- Politicians still fail to recognise the chaos they’ve caused this nation.
Passers-by who knew nothing about this “siege” would have been intrigued to witness PM Anthony Albanese, NSW Premier Chris Minns, Lord Mayor Clover Moore and Governor-General Sam Mostyn assuming earnestly sombre facial expressions as they bent to carefully lay wreaths on otherwise innocuous slabs of pavement.
Politicians struggle to look authentic at the best of times, but this ceremony was even more awkward than usual.
SEIGE?
If the ten-year commemoration attracted such political luminaries, a casual witness might have asked, why are they gathering on the footpath?
If this “siege” is so significant, why is its commemoration being conducted in such an anodyne location?
Closer inspection reveals a plaque on the ground under the wreaths, which marks a “symbolic memorial of the spontaneous sea of floral tributes following the December 2014 siege”.
So, a memorial to a tribute then, not to the victims of the “siege”. Got it.
There would be a more honest and prominent reminder of the “siege” if the politicians who attended didn’t prefer that you forgot it ever happened at all.
As soon as it was over, the politicians all went back to business as usual, which is to pretend that the government isn’t indirectly responsible for the deadly “siege” in the first place, and that their current policies didn’t contributed to ASIO declaring in August that another “siege” is “probable”.
The “siege” was in fact an Islamic terrorist attack.
Man Monis, the perpetrator, had told Australian authorities in 2001 that he and his family were being persecuted by the Iranian regime.
He was duly granted refugee status and allowed to stay. Whichever useless bureaucrat made that decision, however, failed to notice that Monis was instead a travel agent wanted by Iranian police for allegedly stealing $200,000 from his customers and perpetrating a string of violent and sexual attacks.
Iran requested he be extradited, but Australian authorities, playing their usual role of protection racket for some of the world’s nastiest creeps, denied it.
Monis expressed his gratitude for all this magnanimity by abusing Australian war veterans, sexually assaulting women, denouncing western liberalism, praising Islam and helping his girlfriend murder his ex-wife.
So the Immigration Department considered him a model migrant, obviously.
At 8:33am on December 15 ten years ago, he armed himself with a sawn-off pump-action shotgun, casually walked into the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place, took 18 people hostage, and flew a flag bearing the Islamic creed in the cafe window.
DEAD
The siege lasted for 16 hours and ended with Monis and two of the hostages – Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson – dead.
If our federal bureaucracy was less concerned about virtue signalling than it was about keeping Australians safe, none of this would have happened.
The politicians laying those wreaths this morning know this, which is why their expressions of sombre reflection were about as authentic as Bruce Pascoe performing a Welcome to Country.
It goes without saying that neither Minns nor Albanese mentioned the words “Muslim” or “Islam” once in their statements about the commemoration.
There is little to remind Martin Place pedestrians of the occasionally fatal consequences of Islamic migration.
Coincidentally, only moments before this week’s Martin Place ceremony, news broke that the Sydney suburb of Chester Hill, which is 40 per cent Islamic, had been rocked by a hate-speech incident.
Someone had sprayed “F#ck Islam” on an underpass pylon.
Minns was quick to respond: “Vandalism like this that is aimed at particular religions is designed to incite hatred and is completely abhorrent,” he said.
“Division and conflict from around the world cannot be allowed to be imported onto the streets of Sydney.”
But it is allowed.
Nobody has yet been charged for chanting “Gas the Jews” in front of police on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on October 8 last year.
Police continue to block citizens from going about their peaceful business in Sydney’s CBD every Sunday so pro-Palestinian protesters can take over the streets.
CHANTING
Nor has anyone ever been arrested for chanting the genocidal slogan “from the river to the sea…”
There is a line in the sand and Minns knows where it is.
He can spout platitudes about threats to “the fabric of our multicultural State”, but if he so much as hints Islam may be a problem, he will feel the “righteous wrath” of the morally offended.
And by that I don’t mean Islamists, but their “liberal” apologists in the mainstream media, especially the ABC and SBS.
Meanwhile, bollards are sprouting like mushrooms all over Sydney, especially in Martin Place.
With unintended irony, the Ambulance Service, Fire Service and Police also laid wreaths today – on one of the bollards near where the attack occurred, a bollard designed to protect us from further “sieges”.
What a perfect illustration of the impotence and fake sympathies of our leaders and institutions.PC
– Fred Pawle
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As someone who fled …. uhhh, emigrated from South Africa in 1981, because , fourteen years before the event, I recognised the predictable consequences of any ‘deliberately breed to increase numbers and then swamp the host society’ game plan, the matter of the Mohammeden policy of (yep) “deliberately breed to increase numbers and then swamp the host society” relative to Australia’s future has weighed heavily on me.
So much so that in 2013 I published a video warning that Australia was heading to a similar outcome – only not involving blacks but Muslims.
YouTube ‘rewarded’ me by secretly, cunningly NOT banning me, but freezing the 40-minute video after about three minutes and also inserting a graphic promoting Islam at the beginning of my video.
Today the most popular name for male offspring in the greater Sydney region is…yep … Mohammed.
You write most excellently about “political treachery” and the (relatively) mini-drama of Martin Place ten years ago.
As the saying goes, “you (and Australia) ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.”
May (the Judeo-Christian) God help Australia’s children and grandchildren.
There certainly is not one genuinely loyal Australian politician in sight who can or even has the spine to do that.
Islam is the enemy of the West. Islam does not come to the West to assimilate but to destroy and replace Western democracy with Sharia law. The left, the alp/greens, import muslims for voting support They are fools and traitors: fools because islam will eventually turn on them as we see now with a Muslim party being started. They are traitors because they are willing to sacrifice the long term health of the nation for short term electoral benefit.
No question. Islam is fundamentally opposed to the West. Luvvies would be first off but somehow they think otherwise as do the Greens.
But we have improved – protests where-ever, burn flags on Opera House steps, depending on your religion being told where you shouldn’t go in safe & sound Sydney.
Yes Fred. Australia has lost its way. It’s now irredeemable. I sense a quiet anger without street marches or histrionics. When it manifests in the ballot box and those elected act, not with authoritarian directive but quiet institutional disbanding of the symbols that are undermining us we will have begun the trek back. Our multi racial society has, imo, the innate resilience to join the pushback. I do have serious concerns at those who are very likely to seek sectarian favour. We are in an existential battle for an Australia.