Garry Linnell neatly sums up the attitude behind every act of genocide, torture, rape, and brutality the world has endured. “We should have no qualms about executing people like Peter Scully if found guilty because they have forfeited what it is to be human. Once you stop treating him as a fellow being, the rest comes naturally.” Once we stop treating anyone as a fellow human being, all acts of violence are permitted. I have no doubt that Peter Scully is a reprehensible human being who has committed appalling acts of evil, but he is still a human being.
It seems we are now to have a weekly dose of Linnell’s morally questionable, shock jock diatribes. This marks a serious decline in the standards of the SMH. Hopefully his tenure will be short lived. One can only agree with Michael Gordon that “Australia’s badge of honour is really a badge of shame” in relation to our refugee policy. Both our major political parties have pandered to our baser elements. They weep crocodile tears over lives lost at sea, but demonstrate their true values by imposing inhumane and intolerable conditions on the very same people if they have the temerity to survive the journey and reach our shores. They have convinced a fearful electorate that the ends justify the means. As a nation we are truly diminished by these shameful policies.
– Neil Ormerod, Professor of Theology, Australian Catholic University, Sydney
While I’m on the soapbox, I’ll draw attention to the utterly pathetic attitude of the churches toward blatant human rights abuse within Australia.claiming the separation of church and state excuse. Interestingly, these entities have no issue with bitching about the plight of poor little illegals although they conveniently forget to mention the millions of dollars that comes their way from both private donations and official sources. I seem to recall a matter in which JC did his nana about the churches of His day embracing commercial interests whilst completely ignoring the plight of the more unfortunate members of their society. It seems to me that hypocrisy is alive and well in contemporary churches.
I’ll scream the next time I see someone bitching about poor little illegal immigrants, not because of any lack of sympathy for their plight, but because those crapping on incessantly about the rights of non-citizens conveniently ignore the fact that tens of thousands of Australians are being victimized, abused and exploited by guardianship racket perpetuated by the criminally incompetent kangaroo courts (AKA civil and administrative tribunals) and their incestuous bedmates the Public Guardians and Public Trustees. These evil operations have been endowed with total protection against any form of review, the appeal process has been disabled and judicial review rendered inaccessible. Certainly there are plenty of human rights organizations in Australia but their exclusive focus is queers vs straights, women vs men, and aliens vs locals. There are also lots of human rights lawyers who want thousands of dollars up front but who aren’t prepared to upset the kangaroo courts. The guardianship racket returns tens of billions of dollars per annum to consolidated revenue and to the corporate masters of our ostensibly democratic governments. Since there are no conventional remedies in Australia, a group of advocates will shortly publish a name and shame website which is hosted in a jurisdiction inaccessible to the perpetuators.