19 December 2005 Jim Ball’s Editorial

BEN BRIKA BAIL HEARING

Perhaps now after the revelations last Friday at a bail hearing in Melbourne, those that were railing against the anti-terror laws in recent months finally get it…Finally understand why the laws are necessary.

It’s pretty simple really.

Even for the misguided and pig ignorant slow learners.

Put simply, it would seem that there are some living among us who mean us harm.

Serious, devastating harm!!

This was only the bail hearing, but what was revealed was quite chilling and terrifying.

In essence, two Melbourne terror suspects allegedly discussed killing John Howard and his family and launching a large scale attack at a football game and causing devastation and carnage at a railway station as part of a religious war.

The entire conversations were picked up and recorded by police on September 24^th last year.

Self styled cleric Abdul Nacer Ben Bricka allegedly told 20 year old Abdulla Merhi, “you shouldn’t just kill one, two, or three but consider doing something close to a train station.”

Ben Brikka allegedly drew on Koranic verses as justification for the proposed attacks.

There was also (allegedly) a conversation about slaughtering police.

How anyone can reconcile and square such vile, dark, barbaric and satanic thoughts and deeds with spirituality is simply beyond the comprehension of the civilized world.

There has been some pretty mindless, juvenile and undergraduate opposition to the terror laws from supposed educated elites who quite frankly should know better.

It now seems quite apparent that the laws weren’t just cobbled together for the hell of it …..It’s patently clear the spooks really were onto something.

Or would the high-minded prefer to keep stumbling around in their fog of denial and delusion and wait for a bomb to go off before “bringing them to justice.”

Unfortunately terrorism is not quite that neat and tidy…

It’s a bit difficult, working within the old law and order framework when the perpetrators as we saw in New York, London and Madrid and Bali are quite prepared to also eliminate themselves with extreme prejudice.

It seems that as the evidence unfolds, the tut tutting, smug, high-minded moralizers who returned their fridge magnets may eventually get used to wearing egg.