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Update<\/strong> : see\/hear also<\/em> : Angry Anderson’s opinions on youth violence<\/a>, Shane McLeod, The World Today<\/em> (ABC), March 1, 2010. The report contains no reference to Angry’s observations about culture and violence | (March 4, 2010): Ethnic groups and crime<\/a>, Australian Institute of Criminology.<\/p>\n

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March 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

In September last year I began to write a post about Angry Anderson and his jihad<\/strike> crusade<\/strike> campaign against violence<\/strike> gang violence<\/strike> the use of weapons by violent gangs.<\/p>\n

Or something.<\/p>\n

Anyway, today news.com.au reports that Angry, speaking before a Senate Committee enquiring into yoof and violence, is angry about the impact foreign cultures have had on street violence, viz<\/em>, the introduction of weapons into fights where previously fists were considered sufficient.<\/p>\n

Y’know. Marquess of Queensberry and all that.<\/p>\n

Fairfax, on the other hand (and by way of AAP), has chosen to report Angry’s contention that The Young Need Discipline<\/em>, especially at skool. Precisely what Angry said to the Committee has not been published (at least not to my knowledge), but news has titled his contribution Angry Anderson blames ‘other cultures’ for corrupting good old Aussie violence<\/em> — the ‘other cultures’ nominated as being Lebanese, Indochinese and Pacific Islander.<\/p>\n

See<\/em> : Standing Committee on Family, Community, Housing and Youth<\/a> | Step Back Think<\/a>.<\/p>\n

September 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Huh. That’s odd. An article in today’s edition of The Age<\/em> (Streetwise trio calls for action on attacks<\/a>, Andra Jackson, September 19, 2009) describes how three men — rock singer Angry Anderson, youth worker Les Twentyman and Father Bob Maguire — have ‘announced a national campaign against what Mr Twentyman called ”a serious problem about carrying weapons, and about gangs”’.<\/p>\n

Mr Anderson said: ”Have we gone crazy? Have we lost the plot?” There were racial and cultural issues behind the violence that had to be faced honestly. ”These things can be changed \u2026 you can break the chain of events,” he said. The national campaign’s message is: ”It is not manly, it is not Aussie and it is not us.” ”In my day, if you knocked a person down, that was it,” Mr Anderson said. ”People fought with fists, but did not ‘put in the boot’.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Angry Anderson features on the new album, same<\/em>, by Sydney band T.H.U.G.<\/a>, lending vocals to the track ‘Gunnin’ 4 U’:<\/p>\n