Alan Jones - Cronulla - Klu Klux Klan

Racism: who's stirring it up?

Marce Cameron, Sydney

''Alan, it's not just a few Middle Eastern bastards at the weekend, it's thousands. Cronulla is a very long beach and it's been taken over by this scum. It's not a few causing trouble, it's all of them'' - Sydney radio 2GB ''shock jock'' Alan Jones reading out an email on air three days before the Cronulla race riots.

Last December 11, thousands of Anglo-Australian racists, some waving Australian flags and signs with racist slogans, converged on Cronulla beach in the south east. The racist mob, urged on by neo-Nazi white supremacists, verbally abused and assaulted beach-goers of Middle Eastern appearance. The following two nights, dozens of outraged youths of Arab descent drove to Cronulla looking to retaliate.

The Cronulla riots erupted after a week-long campaign of incitement by the corporate media, in particular the Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph, 2GB and 2UE. The trigger for the race riot was a minor incident: an alleged altercation between two off-duty Cronulla lifeguards and some Middle Eastern youths.

NSW Labor Premier Morris Iemma responded by deploying 800 police to Sydney's eastern and southern beaches. Police used new powers, granted by an December 15 emergency sitting of the NSW parliament, to search people and cars, to confiscate cars and mobile phones (and check text messages) and to ''lock down'' popular beaches with police checkpoints. Entire suburbs also became out of bounds for non-residents.

Following the Cronulla riots, the political establishment and the corporate media launched an intensive campaign to deny what was obvious to a majority of Australians - that the mob violence against people of Middle Eastern appearance reflects an underlying racism which, on occasion, can easily be brought to the surface.

You can read the rest of the article here http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/653/7630

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[MrKhouri96]

@generalG1810 not all lebos are Muslims I'm Lebo and I'm Christian 49 percent of Lebanon are Christian and what Alan jones said was wrong he was just encouraging it which is causing more trouble he's a fuckhead

[phillchopp11]

makes me sick to be an aussie

[astrolaw]

Lebos out!

[88aztek]

i listen to alan jones every morning.. just cause i love the feeling of being so fuckin pissed off with him and his ignorant listners!

[AssyrianKingz13]

Fuck Alan Jones!

[sefindeblow]

Alan Jones is such a low life, and a coward too. Where was he at the time? Hiding behind a radio mike, what a low life grub.

[MsTsarbomba]

@KumarZimmerman08 u reckon

[KumarZimmerman08]

@MsTsarbomba Nah, in 30 years time the Asians will be the majority. They will probably take Aus and NZ.

[KumarZimmerman08]

When will people realize that multiculturalism and multiracial don't work. They are Liberal/Marxist fantasies. Anyone who has ever studied world empires knows how hard it is to keep all races/cultures/peoples happy. There comes a point were you just have to see it for what it is.

[Sampson366]

Watch Alan Jones and read comments on youtube loss faith in humanity.

[younot2funny]

If I said things like this they would have put ME in prison.

Shows there are different laws for HIM.

Forget bagging "political correctness" - how about EQUALITY ?

Then little over a month ago Alan Jones said that Julia Gillard should be taken way out to sea and threatened with DROWNING.

For some of you who are not Australian and seeing this, it is worth noting that Julia Gillard is the PRIME MINISTER of Australia.

I would be in JAIL if I had said the same thing. What's going on ?