The Cartel’s War on Melbourne Nightlife
There's been 30+ night clubs, bars, restaurants, strip clubs and brothels that have been targeted in the past few weeks in Melbourne, plus a couple stabbings, shootings, home invasions and kidnappings as part of this groups ideological war against Melbourne and its nightlife.
This is a rather interesting blog/news article, interviewing one of the members of 'The Cartel' who is currently waging war on Melbourne nightlife, for ideological reasons.
https://mediacowboys.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-cartels-war-on-melbourne
>The Iraqi-led Cartel does not view nightclubs, bars, brothels or strip venues as legitimate businesses to be shaken down for cash. They see them as embodiments of moral decay and unacceptable Western decadence - dens of debauchery, open drug markets, rampant alcohol abuse and behaviour by Australian women in these spaces that they regard as utterly intolerable. Payment is not optional; it is submission to their authority and principles. Refusal is met with fire, bullets and, as we’ve seen, rapidly escalating terror.
Its interesting how the media is advertising this as the next step in the tobacco war, but the group responsible and those close to it are waging war on ideological reasons.
We've got some serious social cohesion issues in Melbourne festering under the surface and we're all shuffling the deck chairs on the titanic.
Whats your thoughts, how do we clean this up?