This week’s current event involves what I have come to believe is going to be something prominent in American news soon. This takes place in New Zealand, and seems to be spreading throughout many traditional media platforms. One day after a mass shooting that left 50 people dead at two mosques in New Zealand, a lawmaker in Australia who blamed the attack on Muslim immigration was struck on the head with an egg by a teenager. The Australian senator Fraser Anning, from Queensland, spoke to reporters at a meeting of his Conservative National Party in Melbourne, as young man stood nearby listening. The teenager then raises his phone and uses his other hand to slam the egg on the back on Anning's head. Anning immediately turned and hits the teen in the face, and then hits him again before the two were separated. The 17 year old was tackled to the ground and then arrested by police. They did not identify the young man but he was released after taking his details. They said they are investigating the entire incident including the actions of Anning and others at the scene. Although the major act of the shooting brought great destruction on the people’s safety, it doesn’t help when common men are going against authority as well.
This can be closely related to the assault a few years ago in where a man identified as an Iraqi journalist threw shoes at, but missed, President Bush during a news conference in Baghdad, where Bush was making a farewell visit since the US-led invasion of Iraq.
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