NSW MP says Young Middle Eastern Men responsible for Racial violence in Harris Park (3 Viewers)

[MissSarajevo]

Street thugs in Harris Park, in Sydney's west, were violently attacking elderly white women for a number of years before shifting their focus to Indians, says a NSW politician who raised the problem of violence in the suburb in State Parliament two years ago.
Gordon Moyes, a member of the NSW upper house, said he understood Indian students' rage at being "picked on", but believed the problem of street crime in Harris Park had gone unaddressed for years.
Meanwhile local businesses have expressed fears that Harris Park - a "sister shopping area" to nearby Parramatta - could turn into a "ghost town" as a result of the unruly protests and street violence.

Indian students 'easy targets'

A leading member of the Sydney Indian community says he believes most of the attacks on local Indian students are opportunist crime.

Mr Moyes, a Christian Democrats MP, said he first became aware of violent street crime in Harris Park a number of years ago when, as head of Wesley Mission, he found his workers were repeatedly robbed while helping people in the area.

"I found that over a period of time many elderly Anglo-Saxon women were attacked and robbed and had their purses snatched and phones stolen," he said.


He said the attacks were mainly carried out by young Middle-Eastern men.
"It was mainly street crime but it was street crime with threats, they were very aggressive. And there were concerns that police weren't around at the time when they were needed."

He raised the issue in Parliament in 2007, questioning the "inability of police to contain" the crime, and called for more police patrols.
"What has happened over the last few years is that a number of Indians students, attracted by fairly cheap accommodation, have come into the area," he said.
"The target - always the soft targets - moved from elderly people walking on the street to Indian students with laptops. I think elderly 'Anglos' became more cautious in venturing out, and the target shifted to another group."
Mr Moyes did not believe the attacks were motivated by traditional racism.
He said the offenders also tended not to be recent immigrants, but were people born in Australia and brought up around the Harris Park and Granville areas.
"This has been their turf for as long as they've been alive, and now they've got different people moving in - there's a bit of assertion on street areas."


Mr Moyes said the anger of young Indians mirrored concerns previously held by the elderly.
"I can understand the rage that has built up, and the way groups of them have decided to come together to protest.
"Any time any group in the community feels like they are being picked on, whether it's elderly pensioners or young Indian students - and feel no one is doing anything about it - they are going to get angry.

Harris Park violence 'going on for years'

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[Uncle]

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they were their for cronulla riot against white and now they here for harris park riot against indian.
police are declining, poor pay, danger and night shifts galore.
police speed camera more reliable than police themself.

 

[B_B_J]

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BTW, OP is jew. therefore whatever she says holds no value.

Just putting it out there.

 

[jb_nc]

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Op is a jew or serbian either way there opinion holds as much weight as a leaky ship

 

[SylviaB]

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If you're going to post a news article, at least fucking include even a sentence of our own thoughts/opinions.
Neg repped.

 

[B_B_J]

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Op is a jew or serbian either way there opinion holds as much weight as a leaky ship

hahahahaha.

 

[Sprangler]

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SMH - Harris Park violence 'going on for years'
Al Jazeera English - Asia-Pacific - Australia PM warns race vigilantes

Why don't they assimilate, etc.

 

[B_B_J]

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ok, tbqh, im getting sick of this shit. ffs, Ive never faced a racist comment in my fucking life other than the odd "curry" here and there.

Most of these Indians are fresh off the boat imports, I hardly hear or have witnessed Australian born Indians being attacked due to their race.
This whole thing has been blown out of proportion. fucking bullshit.

 

[JonathanM]

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How stupid of them to identify the ethnicity of those targeting the Indians. I thought it was white trash bogans and that was fine, no one cares that way . Now that a middle-eastern group is involved, bring in the Islamaphobes :mad1:

 

[MissSarajevo]

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If you're going to post a news article, at least fucking include even a sentence of our own thoughts/opinions.
Neg repped.

What an idiot. I included my thoughts with emoticons moron. :mad1:

 

[Aryanbeauty]

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Its not surprising at all, the lebs cant live in peace with anyone. They cant even live in peace with their fellow lebanese people. Crime and violence is in their blood, evidently.

 

[Uncle]

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wow the OP is a serb or jew:

What an idiot. I included my thoughts with emoticons moron. :mad1:

An emoticon is not a sentence.
Idiot.

.
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If you're going to post a news article, at least fucking include even a sentence of our own thoughts/opinions.
Neg repped.

 

[russs]

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Harden the rules.

Any sort of violence/rock throwing toward authority = hardcore punishment.

 

[luv2luvurmama]

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If they dont like living in this country!!
...Then they can ... FUCK OFF!
Why did they come here in the first place!!

The media focused on the issue that the men involved were lebs, to show the public that the australians arent the ones actually causing the problem here.

Lebs are so fucking funny man..

 

[B_B_J]

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lol lebs.

 

[Failure_123]

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More people are beginning to hate the lebanese...perhaps that is why they are restricting many of them coming here.

 

[B_B_J]

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lol restrictions. They will threaten to blow up the Australian embassy in Beirut.

They are like barbarians, nothing can restrict them.

 

[zstar]

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The thing is the ones that are doing this aren't immigrants.

Their parents came here during the 80's when immigration laws were far more lax and generous and they were born and raised here.

So they're all born here and try to emulate Black American ghetto hoodlums. The worst idea is having them 'ghettosized'.

They behave like this because they're out of control and their parents don't discipline them.

 

[Crestwood's_G]

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can i ask why when indians get up in arms its a protest but when anglos protest its a racist riot?

one solution: ban arabs from Australia...

 

[banco55]

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The thing is the ones that are doing this aren't immigrants.

Their parents came here during the 80's when immigration laws were far more lax and generous and they were born and raised here.

So they're all born here and try to emulate Black American ghetto hoodlums. The worst idea is having them 'ghettosized'.

They behave like this because they're out of control and their parents don't discipline them.

....and where did their parents come from in the '80's? A shitty war torn country where people couldn't get along with each other. Looks like they've passed those traits on to their kids.