SURE, there are terrorist supporters but it would seem that they are being monitored admirably by Australia’s various law-enforcement agencies.
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Yet the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott and his cabinet continue the beat-up about how much we are in peril because of these dissidents.
Beat-ups are a regular tool in the LNP government so be sure to scrutinise everything they say, such as “Kids overboard” during the Howard era and, recently, the “debt and disaster” three-word slogan from Mr Abbott that turned out to be not true. So clearly this government has form.
I will quote you a couple of statistics the LNP doesn’t want you to associate with the terror debate — a woman is hospitalised in Australia every three hours; a woman is killed every week in Australia.
Fairfax Media has published these figures as being the fall-out from domestic violence.
Someone will be scared and frightened today but it won’t be because of terrorists.
— JIM CAMPBELL,
Culcairn