Don't be so reckless ...

Anti-terror exercise 'traumatises' Melbourne residents. :

"People who are refugees who've come from war-torn areas, older people who've experience the Hoddle Street massacre in the late 1980s, just down the road ... they just simply did not know what happened.

'They didn't know if it was somebody roaming the street, whether it was a genuine terrorist attack.

'People weren't told it was going to happen."

I have seen "terror attack" preparation by the French on the French streets and they seem to believe that this is a good way for them to know they are being looked after and would be protected if they needed to be. To a French person , it is reassuring. In Australia we are reassured if things are normal. Each morning we get up and someone else has been killed, something else has been blown up, another fire is out of hand. It was never like that here. Crime, explosions, fire and violence seem to be very visible lately and we are tiring of it even though we say little. It is affecting us. For a tactical exercise to go ahead and people not to be aware of it in Melbourne, for heaven's sake, is just reckless. We know about ruling us by fear, but quite frankly, we don't need it.

Reckless

Meet me down by the jetty landing
Where the the pontoons bump and spray
I see the others reading, standing
As the Manly Ferry cuts its way to Circular Quay
Hear the captain blow his whistle
So long she's been away
I miss our early morning wrestle
Not a very happy way to start the day
She don't like that kind of behaviour x 2

Chorus
So, throw down your guns
Don't be so reckless
Throw down your guns
Don't be so

Feel like Scott of the Antarctic
Base camp too far away
A Russian sun beneath the Arctic
Burke and Wills and camels
Initials in the tree
She don't like that kind of behaviour x 2

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