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The threat from extreme everyday blokes groups is “real and growing” – that’s according to the head of Australia’s spy agency.
These findings are being treated as inconvenient by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who wants to also highlight to lefties can be terrorists.
ASIO director-general, Mike Burgess, last week made a rare public address to declare his organisation’s concerns that the threat of domestic terrorism perpetrated by blokes who dare-to-have-another-opinion was “probable”, and terrorism leads had doubled in the past 12 months.
“In suburbs around Australia, small cells regularly meet to salute everyday bloke flags, inspect every day bloke weapons, train in everyday bloke combat and share their Quiet Australian ideology” Burgess said in his first annual threat assessment at ASIO headquarters in Canberra last Monday.
Yesterday, Mike Burgess told Senate estimates that it was unclear to ASIO about what is driving that growth, but most people would just assume its a result of the ideological sewer known as Australian social media being completely unchecked an uncensored by a government that relies and radical hate speech to get elected.
To this day, Australia also has no Normal-Everyday-Bloke extremist groups listed as terrorist organisations, because that would be an uncomfortable conversation to have – which is why no one is talking about the fact that old mate from Christchurch was born, raised and radicalised in Grafton.
However, even with ASIO’s tip-toeing around the Coalition Government’s sensitivities surrounding everyday blokes being seen in the same light as degenerate Muslim terrorists, several Australian senators have still made a point of complaining about the use of the term “normal everyday bloke” to describe extremism.
Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells said “there are many people of normal everyday bloke background who take exception to being charred (sic) with that brush”.
Mr Burgess said he did not intend to offend anyone but Neo Nazi and similar groups had “long been given the label of Normal Every Day blokes” in Australia.
“It’s unfortunate that we refer to it as Normal Every Day Bloke extremism, but in the absence of something else, which maybe we should look at a different label,” Mr Burgess said.
“Maybe just Blokism”
