Is this suspicious?

[London Dave]

No, probably a couple of sheiks who'd done their dough at the cup!

[The Prototype]

So they bet on the wrong horse?

[Johnson#26]

Maybe. Did you contact security (if there were any around)?

[HAL]

I understand. No I didn't contact security if there were any. What's contact security if there were any like?

[Proud Pies]

[Morrigu]

Tess I am alert but not alarmed

No wait I am alarmed I have misplaced my bloody fridge magnet - doesnt' matter they know who we are anyway

[Eunos]

Tess, why are you surprised that they knew who you were, and where you were dialing from?
For me, thats just good policing.
Surely they know that their resources are thin and hoax calls can be made to push those resources away from the actual target(s).

I have no problem with the authorities having this capability.

[Cam]

call the cops too right!

ALL FORDS ARE BOMBS!

[~Madness~]

lmao at Cam

You are right!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lazza]

Gee, I dont like it at all Tess. I'm a dark skinned Aussie, being born in Sri Lanka and if I'm pushing my car as a result of running out of petrol or the car breaking down, I would MUCH rather that you offered to actually help me (as I would do to another person) than ring security authorities based on suspicion solely on the way I look and present after my accident of birth. THAT is utter prejudice of the highest order whatever way you look at it Tess. This right winged Howard led culture of suspicion is only going to CAUSE more racial problems and tensions in soceity than solving anything if it promotes attitudes like this. I HATE these looks of suspicion that I'm suddenly getting now after living in Australia for over 40 years!!

[Proud Pies]

[Lazza]

[Eunos]

Some may remember me relating this story, but I shall do so again.

Sydney Olympics 2000.
First day into the "Olympic precinct". Bags checked, opened and actual contents moved around. Any beeping of security barriers saw a full body scan.
4th day in "Olympic Precinct". Myself and the wife look totally Aussie, despite her being French born to Italian/French parents. We get waved straight in. No bag check, no body scan, no need to even go through the scanners!

Now, who's to say that i have not been converted to a cause. A cause that I believe can only be advanced by my killing as many people as I can.

Just because I look anglo-saxon is no guarantee that you are safe.

Please remember that. I hope our security forces do.

[Morrigu]

That is so true Eunos!!

Hubby and I get pit passes to the MotoGP, so whilst everyone else lines up to have bags checked we just sail on in with ours - no questions asked - because we are both white anglosaxon - that seems ridiculous


Talking to many of the clinicians and lab staff at work - the only place these days they don't feel stared at and uncomfortable is work - because being a Western Health service - the racial mix is very broad.

One of the female blood bank scientists - who happens to be a muslim - has been spat on and had numerous food items pelted at her from cars.

That is very sad because when it boils down to it she is a very decent human being and quite frankly one of the most honest and hard working people you could meet - committed to saving lives - not the opposite - like the radical morons who carry out such hideous violence in the name of their religion


Being of Irish decent - I have lost several family members due to differences in religious preference and those that remain are suspicious of others of different religious beliefs

Surely this is not we want for this country - to grow up with such ingrained prejudices - not all muslims are terrorists - every "group" has it's loose cannons - and most certainly they do - I refuse to believe that the majority of Muslim people support these imbeciles

[David]

I guess maybe its a case of too many people confuse "all terrorists are muslim" (which isn't even true obviously, although most of the well-publicised organiztions are) with "all muslims are terrorist"..... I can't understand what leads people to spit on and abuse muslims, often women.... (how soft is that?) when the majority of muslims have no connection with terrorist organizations or terrorist sympathies. It is a sad state of affairs but I don't agree that the government is to blame, it is simply, let's face it, not particularly intelligent people who read a few lines in a newspaper and start suspecting everyone who isn't white.