Who exactly needs to be brought to account?

Funny you'd say that now, seeing as you instigated this dialog. Kitchen a little too hot for you, Princess?

terrorists

Are you referring to the incident on the Silverton Tramway?  The disaffected groups attacked the train en route to a picnic?

And we seem to have conveniently forgotten the Broken Hill incident....

What happens when another person tries it who is Catholic or something will that be classed as terrorism , most probably not, just another idiot with a gun.  All he was after was his 15 minutes of fame and he got that!

Why do we need an article on where he got the gun? That's hardly a relevant thing, and publishing a 'how to' for others is hardly sensible.

Buying a gun legally is not that hard, buying one illegally is arguably even easier.

This incident reminds of Australia's first run-in with Islamic terrorists at Broken Hill on New Year's Day 1915 - 100 years ago yesterday:

http://www.brokenhillaustralia.com.au/about-broken-hill/local-factbook/turk-s-attack-on-the-picnic-train/

Think about it:
- Disaffected Muslim(s), including a "Sheikh/Imam"
- A war over in the Middle East involving an Islamic Caliphate vs the West
- Innocent people targeted and killed by a gunman in a very public attack
- Gunman shot dead by police
- Silly revenge attack by locals afterwards (I suppose the ADL loons last week in Lakemba might qualify?)

Lots of parallels.  And we seem to have conveniently forgotten the Broken Hill incident....

Wasn't it known as the Ottoman Empire at that point?

Great-sounding name isn't it - 'put your feet up and relax - you're in the Ottoman Empire'.

Wasn't it known as the Ottoman Empire at that point?

Great-sounding name isn't it - 'put your feet up and relax - you're in the Ottoman Empire'.

This incident reminds of Australia's first run-in with Islamic terrorists at Broken Hill on New Year's Day 1915 - 100 years ago yesterday:

http://www.brokenhillaustralia.com.au/about-broken-hill/local-factbook/turk-s-attack-on-the-picnic-train/

Think about it:
- Disaffected Muslim(s), including a "Sheikh/Imam"
- A war over in the Middle East involving an Islamic Caliphate vs the West
- Innocent people targeted and killed by a gunman in a very public attack
- Gunman shot dead by police
- Silly revenge attack by locals afterwards (I suppose the ADL loons last week in Lakemba might qualify?)

Lots of parallels.  And we seem to have conveniently forgotten the Broken Hill incident....

This was where the name for one of these Ottoman's came from actually the Ottoman Empire. They were used in Turkey long before they became fashionable elsewhere!

Make no mistake, this was a terrorist attack.

An international definition of terrorism has never been formally agreed to, and various definitions are controversial, but the number of perpetrators is never the reason why.

One person can be a terrorist, it does not take a team.

The faux sheikh's sole aim was to intimidate the civilian population, and to attempt some amendment to the government's policies and operations. Of note is that he attempted to achieve this by taking hostages (and intentionally or otherwise) killing two of them, whilst: a) armed, and b) threatening action with alleged explosives.

That's the basic trifecta that is almost unanimously agreed to internationally as being a terrorist act.

Add in the fact that he requested an ISIS flag to hang up and thus only a twit would suggest that this was not designed to be an act of terrorism.

I'd be interested to know that if the person in question was a white catholic, and asked for a Union Jack, whether everyone would still be using the term "terrorist"? To me, it's a term that is far too over-used in modern day vernacular, and is a favorite buzzword for the commercial media (News Corps et al). The guy was a nutter, and that's about the size of it.

I can be pretty sure that if the offender was a Ku Klux Klansman who imprisoned a shop full of aboriginals and threatened to string them up, the outcry from the bleeding heart set would have been deafening, with calls to ban the K.K.K. and arrest ALL it sympathisers as racist mongrels.

There would have no prevaricating like there is now, that this was just one disaffected white person who society mistreated and he didn't represent the KKK or all other white supremacists and that the atrocities committed by some neo-Nazi's are "not a reflection on the truly peaceful nature of Nazism and fascism..........."

But of course, it's open season without question on terrorists with a Western cultural background, but hypocritically, the same outrages and ideology from the poisonous Salafist Islamic political ideology, have troops of apologists, in total denial, lining up to make excuses for it.