Four Sydney churches were

attacked within 24 hours.

Cronulla surfers have

apologised for Sunday’s mayhem.

Sydney police were apparently warned not to

antagonise Lebanese car smashers:

The Seven Network said it had obtained a police incident report
instructing officers to stay away from one of the areas - believed to be
Punchbowl Park in Sydney’s west - on Monday night ...

The network claimed the report showed some of those in the crowd were
suspected of being Middle Eastern criminals who had been involved in
malicious damage and civil disobedience offences throughout the Sutherland
Shire.

The report is believed to have said “a direction was given to police
about midnight not to enter the area and antagonise these persons”.

A goon has been
jailed
for his role in the aftermath to Sunday’s idiocy:

The man was arrested in Penrith, in Sydney’s west, about 2am (AEDT) on
Monday, armed with a tree branch, police said.

Trees are evil. More on the arrest and sentencing

here. Cronulla businesses are

hurting:

Yesterday businesses in the troubled beachfront suburb said they had been
forced to tell casual staff - mostly locals - they have no shifts. Some are
considering closing a couple of days a week to save money.

Various folk are calling for

curfews.

Boxer Anthony Mundine

declares:

I think people shouldn’t be condemned because of their colour or creed,
they should be judged on their deeds and their positive ways to their fellow
man, their actions.

Very well. Let’s judge people by

these actions:

Shots were fired at teachers’ cars, and parents and children were abused
at a primary school Christmas carol service in Sydney, the Catholic Church
has said.

And

these actions:

Steve did not have time to unlock the hostel’s front door, cowering in
an alcove while the youths pummelled him with at least a dozen punches.

He was also bashed with a steel bar and a lump of wood.

"I thought, ‘If I go to ground, that’s it’,” he said. “I just got hit
a lot in the head and I remember thinking, ‘They’re not going to stop, I’m
going to die’."

Some police—hopefully those not ordered to avoid antagonising gang
dimwits—are

better equipped than others:

Saw some Tactical operations cops out last night getting dinner before
hitting the streets. I noticed they have been issued TASERS and asked one
about them. He said they have got them but general police don’t.

And Mark Latham—remember him? no?—told a bookshop crowd that John Howard’s
Australia is

represented by the Cronulla riots. Possibly he then caught a taxi home and
beat up its

Lebanese driver.