During the weekend, as most people would have either sat down to watch
the second rounds of the NRL finals and complain about Manly's two tries (which
myself I'm still 50/50 about) there was a very large protest within the streets
of the Sydney CBD. I'm sure I do not have remind everyone what the protesting
was about and why it had started. It started off as a very peaceful protest
within Hyde Park, but soon became very violent where several protesters and
police were badly injured in the process. I'd like to say straight off the bat
that any form of violence is unacceptable!
The main reason why I wanted to start this blog is not necessary in
regards to the protest itself, but what has happened after the protest.
Newspaper articles - particularly that of Peter FitzSimons - telling people who
believe in imaginary friends and "To go back where you came from."
Any Australian to tell that to another person within Australia is just plainly
stupid. Are you forgetting how Australia was founded?
I have two main beefs with his article. Firstly Peter is furious that
this whole protest which turned unnecessarily violent was in regards people who
'don't like a freaking video!' Well I hate to point out the obvious there Pete,
but if the video was about people hating a country, whether it be this one or
any of the major populated countries, you would have a completely different
view! If someone came and interviewed anyone of us about our opinion on this
lovely brown land, and turned our words into something hateful I'm pretty sure
there would be a lot more protest about this worldwide. So picking in people's
belief, no matter what it is - and especially insulting their beliefs by saying
its just imaginary friends - really shows how much of an imbecile you really
are.
My other beef is that it picks on religion. Yes, what they've done was
wrong. Yes it was horrific and people should not have been injured, but why are
you whining to a newspaper? Get off your butt and do something proactive!
Liking a picture on Facebook isn’t solving any of these problems.
What I want to know is where is your article about the other horrific
things that are done every single day all across the globe? Where's your
article about world hunger? Where is your article about rape, not only against
adults but also against young children? Where is your article about war? How
governments use war as an excuse to terrify people and to take the other
countries valued possessions? Where is your article about countries stealing
other countries property and never returning those valuable precious artifacts?
Where is your article about how women still get paid less in the 21st century!
Where is your article about domestic violence? Where is your article about
people injuring animals? Where is your article about the innocent people who
are condemned to die every year for something that they didn’t do? Or even just
for something that they wanted to stand up against?
People need to stop using other peoples religious belief as a form of
venting their anger, and focus on other things that are really more important
in the world. I cannot speak for all religious people, but I have a feeling that a lot of people with beliefs are disgusted with what happened within these riots as much as I am.
