The Pacific Solution

The chocolate terrorist is gone, along with two of his hostages. What a sad and pointless way to die.

I wonder what the reaction will be?

The paper says he was asylum seeker who came to Australia in 1996. They also say he is a lone wolf, possibly an angry man acting by himself.

It’s hard to eavesdrop on a lone wolf; there is little to monitor. If the security forces want to stop this sort of attack then they need to identify and target each and every individual who fits a profile.

And once identified they will have to be monitored for risk factors. I don’t think we can yet arrest people for crimes they might be thinking of committing? Maybe we can.

Of course they could always go the other way and push the suspects at risk into counseling and possibly also give them free holidays in Hawaii every 6 months. We could call this the Pacific (aka peace) solution.

This might work – it would be cheaper than shutting Sydney down every few months.