The murderer Monis was subsidised by the public purse, both his living expenses and prodigious legal costs, right up until the moment a gunshot ended his life in the Lindt coffee shop. Someone needs to explain how that could have happened, and it had better not be one of the careerist enablers who made the welfare system his comrade in arms
We will mourn the innocent, heal the injured, comfort the bereaved, hail the brave and scorn the hate. But we must also learn the lessons. We are better than this.
To that end I am hopeful that the perfect storm unleashed by Monis’ barbarity will now envelop the too-long rorted immigration, welfare, and criminal justice systems and those responsible their debasement. It was no accident that this barbarian and others skated freely through the gates of our Australian community to live like leeches upon it.
We must first overcome the absurd protests that Monis’ villainy was a one-off, an isolated case, which had nothing to do with his sinister religious beliefs. Likewise, we must recognise the dysfunctional welfare-industrial complex for what it is — a support scheme available to help manifest and advance social pathologies. Have we not recognised that Monis was a walking Venn diagram of victim handouts, subsidised weirdness and extremist hatred? To be the quintessential welfare queen and a psychopathic, parasitic criminal and a terrorist are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, in this case they were symbiotic”
Islamist terrorists can be nutters, too, and typically are. It matters little what Monis’ state of mental health happened to be when he walked into the Lindt coffee shop. Remember, Sydney jihadist Khaled Sharrouf was an officially diagnosed, welfare-qualified schizophrenic. When Monis and other Islamist extremists carrying out their ‘lone wolf’ terrorist acts, — the 7/7 London bombings, the Boston Marathon massacre, the recent Ottawa assault and Fort Hood rampage — they are doing exactly what Islamist terror groups like al Qaeda and ISIL urge them to do. Mad as a cut snake or not, Monis did as ISIL requested, ergo it was a terrorist act.
If we can take this first step and then others, if we can dismantle what has effectively become a societal Trojan Horse of our own making, we may well look back at this horrible event years from now and see it as the turning point when we began making a better job of protecting the innocent, helping the truly needy and, if we are to make these improvements permanent, holding to account those who have so conspicuously failed us and our precious civilisation.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/12/jihadi-centerlink/
