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Originally Posted by dlish
for those unfamiliar with the australian bushfire season and the psyche of australian firebugs, let me just clear a few things up.
a very large number of bushfires in australia every year are started intentionally by firebugs. why they do it i do not know, but thats something different altogether.
bushfires obviously need fuel, oxygen and a catalyst. the fuel being the trees. obviously oxygen is everywhere, but its very rare to find acatalyst, not matter what happens.
a catalyst can be a lightening strike, a stray cigarette, broken glass magnifying the sun, or a firebug with a cigarette lighter. more often than not its the latter.
there arent any groups like the KKK in oz that i am aware of. im sure there are white supremacists, but no group would want to claim responsibility for killing so many people.
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I voted don't know because I don't have a clue.
So it's a known thing in the outback that some people start fire intentionally? Never heard of this. Is there any chance that any of these fires benefits large land owners? I know back when the Europeans first settled the area I'm originally from, the Willamette Valley in Oregon, they often used fire to clear large tracks of land to make farming easier. So could there be a benefit at all? Or are the options just basically bored people pissed out of their brains on beer and maniacs bent on destruction, life and property be damned?
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
thus begins the witchhunt for someone to blame all of their natural disaster woes upon. I feel sorry for the john Q they try to pin this on.
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Do you seriously think all law enforcement are simply looking for some poor sap to pin stuff on? Ever think they might actually want to find the person and or persons responsible?