Islamists take 20 hostages in Sydney cafe siege

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The issue here is now how do they stop this happening again.

People have questions, valid questions about the who's, the whys etc regarding his aslyum, firearms licence and why he was taken off a watch list. This can cause blow back on Normal people. If western society sees any successful terrorist action like this as a success they see a failure of the state to protect them. They want more security, more invasive spying on emails and Internet activity. This can never happen. Again, think of the children. The downside is decreased freedom for joe public and the possibility of people being arrested whilst not actively having done anything wrong. Fine, if it's someone plotting to do something bad. But for normal "banter" on the Internet like "someone should hang the labour government" where do you draw the line? If they apply these laws evenly they end up with stupid situations we are now seeing with faith schools not being diverse enough or shovelling enough tolerance to other religions down kids throats when the laws was clearly enacted to deal with fundamental Islamic extremism in the "Trojan horse" school scandals of late not coming down hard on tiny coe village schools or such like.

They can never address the problem directly. It's that "death by 1000 paper cuts" scenario.