From my Liberal perspective

i pride myself as a true political liberal, not the kind you find in the Sydney Morning Herald who rattle off hackneyed positions without conscious deliberation. Genuine liberals are open-minded and distrusting of human nature and the mob, friendly to all religions even if they have their own viewpoints and concerned for the welfare of all peoples, races, tongues and religions. True liberals never condone violence, oppression or coercion of any kind, not even for the greater good. There is no greater good in the implicit approval of evil. i am a true democrat and will always be one, notwithstanding my conservative evangelical religious beliefs.

i booed the American evangelical lobby for turning a blind eye to sin in the previous administration and i've attacked Richard Dawkins for his stupid empirical delusions that human beings need help from religion to kill each other. we don't. I've always stood for multiculturalism and tolerance outside the major Australian cities.

Violence to settle disputes is never justifiable. Especially not when settling disputes over words. i was on the ground in KL on friday when the fire-bombings of churches and christian property began and i know the majority of my Malay and Muslim friends do not condone these actions even if they disagree regarding the issue at stake. From my study of group dynamics, i know that such disturbances and mob behaviour never arise without agitators and saboteurs.

these people must now be located and incarcerated under the maximum sentence. They are subversives and a threat to the internal security of any civilisation. I believe in the process of law and the courts. Under the infamous Internal Security Act, which exists for such situations, these denizens must now be arrested. Yes, their case must be tried by judicial process and openly but the state in which these crimes have been perpertrated must now show its political will to act if it is truly sincere about peace and harmony.

Some names are worth dying for; but there is no name which is worth killing for.