Australian "terrorists"?

While the Murdoch tabloids rage about the would be "terrorists" see here with captions in bold type of the nasty things these guys said about Australia, it is perhaps time to put some of this in perspective. The last time I checked this was still a free country and people were allowed to call us infidels, be happy that bushfires killed lots of non muslims, and call us a "filthy people". It will be very interesting to see what type of sentence they get in the new year, because it seems to me that these goofballs are guilty of not much more than being loudmouths and bignoters. They never obtained weapons, or got further than "talking" about doing something rotten. In fact I would argue that if the police had never discovered this "plot", nothing would've happened?