Shock and Horror

I have watched and read over the last few days of the senseless bomb blast in the nightclubs of Bali. It is a truly terrible act of cowardry that allows people to take someone elses life for whatever reason. This particular event has been aimed at Australian Tourists as the nightclubs which were attacked were very popular with the Australian Tourists.

To explain to those around the world why this is such a shock for Australians is because bali is a very cheap and popular holiday destination, like Spain or IBIZA for the poms. We go there because it is a good place to go (or at least was) and very close to Australia.

I can't watch the footage of the aftermarth of the blast it is just too horrible to describe seeing burned bodies, pieces of people, legs arms and the like. But this attack is so close to home that it has us scared.

Australia has been very lucky in our track record of true terrorist attacks, with really only one back in the late seventies, the bombing of the Hilton Hotel. But now we are in the firing line of terrorists even if the attack did not happen on Australian soil it was still aimed at Australians for the Government's support of the war against IRAQ.

But now we have people in Australia saying that it is Australia's fault for supporting the USA and there push for war against IRAQ. A ninteen year old - yes a nineteen year old who is a self confessed muslim extremist has used the event as a soapbox to put Australia on notice that we are going to be attacked. He also said that minority groups were undermining the society and this guy inthe past has called for all good muslims to attack and harass gays and lesbians. Lovely guy!

For now lets hope that we all come through this unscathed and that our police and militairy can put a stop to any threats before they take the lives of innocent victims!

5:32:00 PM