True Colours

Well, it's taken me a while. The blog now steps into current affairs for a post or two.

John Howard has finally spoken but refuses-to-use-racist-tag.
Howard has once again used clever semantics to basically give the mob responsible for all this a bit of a nod. Or at least that's what I think. Why not just come out and say it? It was a racist attack by drunken white yobbos on a Sunday afternoon, and the attacks on the wider community by Lebanese gangs are just as racist. It's a chicken and the egg situtaion. At least he seems to condemn the development (finally, an admission!) of tribalism in Sydney (the cult of the Sutherland Shire could be considered a tribe, just as the Lebanese ganstas). I just wish he would take a principled stand for once in his life. But considering the local member for Cook is Liberal and has pretty much sympathised with the vigilantes shows the political layer present in all this. Howard has used this kind of negative sentiment for political gain in the past. Same rules should apply for all regardless of your address or background.

There's a bigger question: What's causing all this?