It's been a white-wash encapsulated by the coroner saying ...

"But he added that gunman Man Haron Monis "deserves to be the sole focus of our condemnation".

That's the cop-out in a nutshell.

No one is to go home from the coroner's presentation with their pants or skirts around their ankles. Reputations are protected, PC and cronyism wins the day.

apologist shenanigans.

So many holes in it you don't know where to begin.

So I won't.

Central to the whole saga of the Lindt Café siege was the fear that Man Monis would set off a bomb if the police tried to breach.

No condemnation was made against the criminal idiots who released Monis on bail while he was facing a whole category of very serious charges. The idiots who let him back onto the streets should be doing jail-time for Criminal Irresponsibility that was an endangerment to Public Safety.

But no, as usual, Leftwing liberal-progressive ideology has won the day again.

Everybody goes home happy.

mothra wrote on May 25^th, 2017 at 9:52am:


I looked but didn't see this.

So!

Your comments please, before I go out and do some more chainsawing now that the morning has warmed up a tad.

Don't disappoint me.

Such a review is normal procedure.  Meantime back at the Bat Cave, the police and others involved would already have done a de-briefing immediately after the incident, and would have derived 'lessons learned'.  As a result, changes would already have been implemented.

It is important to de-brief and do so several times over so as to ensure that memory is not clouded by too much thought and re-think, and so that, with several versions of events from the same contributor, cross-checking of memory can take place.

Not sure how the police are going to get around the need for crisis intervention officers to also do other duties.... a dedicated counter-strike force is very expensive.

As for intervention by the military forces - already covered... ONLY in the event that the situation has escalated out of control of the civilian forces may the military be asked to intervene.  Mind you - the Commando teams in Sydney would already have had their plans ready to go at a moment's notice, and undoubtedly had at least liaison present and troops ready for rapid deployment, so I think the television generation can back off a little here and realise it's not all Rambo without notice.

There are rules on the use of military forces on home territory, for good reason.

I haven't read the whole thing from the Coroner, but it would seem that he (she?) has glossed over such things for reasons of 'security' - which is a bit silly since, to me anyway, all this is common knowledge.

Lord Herbert wrote on May 25^th, 2017 at 9:49am:



There needs to be a mass hanging.

There was a host of people along the line that did not do their job,, any one of them could have stopped the murders, had they done their jobs

What was Monis asking for?

cods wrote on May 25^th, 2017 at 2:51pm:


On a telephone?

Who better to negotiate a deal and save lives than Abbott?

Fuzzball wrote on May 25^th, 2017 at 3:07pm:


He was under orders not to fire.