When intelligence and law enforcement authorities investigate incidents like these, they must pursue every relevant line of inquiry.
In the immediate aftermath, it wasn’t clear whether the man police had taken into custody had any ideological motivation: a key distinguishing factor for terrorism as opposed to other (equally serious) offences, such as hate crimes.
Under the Australian Criminal Code, terrorism is violence and conduct done for the purpose of advancing a “political, religious or ideological cause”.
https://theconversation.com/why-did-it-take-9-days-to-declare-the-perth-bombing-attempt-a-terrorist-attack-275223
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Learning the intent.
Did he want to hurt people, or hurt people who support indigenous rights?
The former indicates someone with issues, the latter indicates intent to harm or intimidate a specific group.
For example, Joel Cauchi wasn’t a terrorist, he wanted to harm many people, he just didn’t care about affiliation etc. that’s the difference with a terrorist act.
They have to ascertain intent. Was it targeting a single person, or a group? Was that group a specific group of a religious or ethnic nature?
You can’t come out straight away without the facts, but I’m glad that they did, as because the police have now done their due diligence, they will be able to push for a longer, harsher sentence for the accused.
This feels like a strange thing to be outraged over. They caught the guy immediately and followed proper process. Intent was proven and the guy will be put away.
This stuff takes longer than the social media news cycle.
It was always a terrorist attack and I cannot understand how anyone could suggest otherwise.
Had the guy been another colour, it would have been labelled “terrorist” immediately.
We must apply the same criteria across the board, regardless!
Okay but now let’s watch them never ever do anything to crack down on the extremists that create these kinds of terrorists.
Because it was so ineffective it was hard to tell what was intended?
It’s absolutely ridiculous.
We’ve had multiple incidents in Melbourne that meet the exact criteria of a terrorist attack and not once have they been they declared as such.
Because some organisations have more money than others.
Unfortunately for the indigenous people of this land, they don’t have the same power as international organisations to get their complaints dealt with due to lack of $$$$
I mean, check out the government’s invite check-list to see who gets first dibs on complaints.
Check skim colour …. Ahhhh mental illness?
Can I ask why does the use of the word “terrorist” have to involve any meaning or ideology?
It’s in the word! “Terror” all these attacks create terror in a public space despite the reasonings behind it.
Had to wait for a bigger story/stories to push it from the front page
PSA: terrorism is a made up concept and thus legally always very grey. A concept generally used for political purposes (often racist). This episode just highlights the hypocrisy… when it was a known hoax “targeting” Jewish Australians (Dural caravan) there was a rush to deploy the terrorism label to enable political actions (pushed by dodgy media, pollies etc)
Insert Family Guy colour meme here.
Potential terrorist attacks get declared quickly if someone dies or property is destroyed
Cops should take their time before charging people or declaring potential acts. People complain.aboit America, this is a big difference to us
I agree! Like how they didn’t charge the person who firebombed the synagogue in Melbourne with terrorism, they just don’t seem to care
Slightly off topic, but those big fuck off machine guns didnt stop this.
Because if he’s white, then he cannot possibly be again anyone…
Racism.
Neeexxxttt.
We all know the reason
Because this needs to be done properly. Nine days is no problem.
Racism /end