finally i would like to send a message to the perpetrators of these attacks, and their families. it was another terror attack in the seemingly never ending attacks that had been occurring on a regular basis throughout my adult life. even at vienna in 1683 we europeans still lost over fourteen thousand good men. what makes you believe you are european, not just an australian? “ we are disgraced, sons and brothers, who live in these days of calamities! you may fall.

in the fell clutch of circumstance i have not winced nor cried aloud. the europe of the future is not one of concrete and steel, smog and wires but a place of forests, lakes, mountains and meadows. your grand children? western culture is trivialized, pulped and blended into a smear of meaningless nothing, with the only tenets and beliefs seemingly held to are the myth of the individual, the value of work (productivity for the benefit of your capitalist owners) and the sovereignty of private property (to ensure none of us get grand ideas of taking the unearned wealth of our owners). the time for meekness has long since passed, the time for a political solution has long since passed. religion?