Dr. Xanthe Weston

Was it well punctuated?

And that's been something that's been a question over all of these bombings.

No demands have actually been made.

So I did wonder whether...

they don't actually necessarily want anything from these specific businesses it's not about we want a ransom from you particularly it's just about putting the fear of god in all of these hospitality businesses so that when somebody does come knocking on your door and say you know we want some money sell these products you're not going to say no because it's like look what happened to your competitor down the street we firebombed them three times in two weeks

So it's a warning.

Is this a warning that these demands are coming?

You can harm a small group of people

But do it in such a way that you cause fear amongst a whole city.

How long before this spreads to, if it works, Sydney and Brisbane and other places?

I'm interested by that message, though, because apart from the lack of punctuation, which does upset my OCD, saying you're after your salts, this to me doesn't sound like somebody who's a native English speaker.

The way that was written, to me, that sounds like something written by somebody where English is a second language.

Don't you think?

Can you see most people who are sending a threat that are English-speaking going, we want your souls?

It's a bit over the top.

The soul is actually nothing to do with it.

What they want is for them to sell the illicit tobacco or alcohol or whatever.

I know that to me sounds really strange and makes me wonder who wrote that.

I do.

Yeah, yeah.