Monday, August 14, 2006
UNBELIEVABLE LACK OF JUSTICE IN AUSTRALIA
A Victorian teenager who made a bomb that maimed a classmate's mother has been allowed to walk free from court.
The 16-year-old (left) adopted the username "Osama31" to search the internet for bomb-making instructions. And he used the same chemicals that devastated London's transport network last year and that British terrorists have been accused of using in a bid to blow up jet airliners this week.
The Children's Court was told this week that three boys from an outer Melbourne secondary school planned the bombing in September, 2005 - three months after the London Underground bombings killed 56 and injured 700 - after a schoolyard dispute with a female classmate. One of the teenagers has admitted making the explosive, known as Mother of Satan, which two of his friends detonated.
The court heard that the girl was not at her Glen Waverley home when the bomb was detonated, but her mother was maimed by the blast. The woman could have been killed if the security door had not shielded her from the explosion, the court was told. "Had that person come through the door, she probably would have been killed," the magistrate said.
He was shocked by the bomb's size and the level of planning behind the attack. "You've obviously spent many, many hours learning how to make bombs," the magistrate said. "You had trial runs. You don't make bombs in this day and age, particularly bombs of this magnitude." The teenager, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to possessing and manufacturing explosive material.
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Were these boys not charged with aggravated assault or attempted murder or some other crime more serious than what the one plead guilty to? If not, why not?
The linked story goes on to say that the one who made the bomb had plead guilty to getting the bomb materials together and making the bomb. What about more serious offenses? In America, they would each be charged with aggravated assault at a minimum, or assault with a deadly weapon or even attempted murder. Why weren't they charged with the more serious offense(s) and why were they permitted to plea to a lesser offense when it was easy to prove the greater?
Australia needs to deport all of the Muslims who are not citizens and maybe even those Muslims who are citizens. Islam is the religion of death, not the religion of peace. America ought to do the same: get rid of them, send them to whatever Islamic nation with Islamic religious law in effect that will take them. And not permit any Muslims from any country to enter for any purpose. What else can be done to protect our people from these cowardly savages??
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