i think its important to realise that if the laws are a lot stronger... then the trouble makers will go behind bars, and have less of a chance of causing more trouble, and tarnishing the name of the whole community they are from...
this goes for both the lebanese and the australians involved in the riots on sunday.
it all comes down to the failure of successive govt's and the whole softly softly approach to crime prevention, raising kids, etc
all they succeed in doing is ligitamising taking the law into their own hands, and ligitamising extremist groups (be it neo Nazi's or Al Qaeda terrorist groups)
(see this article in The Australian)
David King
December 13, 2005
EXTREMIST groups accused of links to neo-Nazis have admitted mobilising more than 100 people to attend the riots in Cronulla.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...55E601,00.html
Jim Saleam, the NSW secretary of ultra-nationalist group Australia First, said his members had recruited up to 120 people for the rally but denied they were involved in violence.
NSW Police Minister Carl Scully confirmed that extremists had taken part in the riots.
Skinheads wearing boots, braces and neo-Nazi emblems were among the mob of 5000. Three far-right organisations -- Australia First, The Patriotic Youth League and the Newcastle-based Blood and Honour -- handed out racist pamphlets. All three are considered to have neo-Nazi links.
Anti-race hate campaigner Matt Henderson-Hau, who runs the Fightdemback.org website, said he had information that only one of the skinheads at the rally came from within the Sutherland Shire.
"The rest came from the Central Coast, Newcastle and other parts of Sydney," he said.
Patriotic Youth League spokesman Luke Connors confirmed that his group attended the riot and had handed out anti-migration literature.
"There was only a few people there, mostly girls with their boyfriends, handing out a few leaflets with 'Aussies fighting back' on them," he said.
"It wasn't a full-on operation, we didn't plan a full-on operation. Australia First did, not us."
Mr Henderson-Hau said neo-Nazis had manipulated the crowd at Cronulla.
"If you remove the Nazis from the equation, you will go a long way to dousing the flames and hopefully some cool heads will emerge on both sides," said Mr Henderson-Hau.