Felix the Cassowary: Sarcasm?: I think the final line reads as sarcasm. I might be missing something, but the violence they saw on tv, I imagine would be \"at least one officer punching a man accused of public intoxication\"—that, after all, is what the cameraman taped.

Of course, it\'s easy to assume the worst in this current climate. I haven\'t been paying much attention to the news at the moment (Uni and all), but I was reading a bulletin put out by my local federal member, Kelvin Thompson of the ALP. Anyway, one of the articles on the front page was about a push by Kim Beazely to have extremism stamped out in schools. i.e. not letting teachers and students hold and/or promote extremist views.  (Because, you see, all the many terrorist attacks that have occurred in Australia have been committed by Australians who got those views from their teachers, or something.) This method of indoctrinating educating our students in the correct way of thinking has worked so effectively elsewhere... I was too terrified to read too far into that article, so I might\'ve missed it\'s point...