I listen to This Story of a recently released 6Y.O. Iranian ‘illegal immigrant’ Australian Detainee, with anger, disgust, and tears in my eyes.
And with shame. Not in that my personal actions have resulted in these events but that my nation's have and that I felt prompted to look deeper only because the image of the child I saw on TV resemble my own son.
replaymedia may similarly ask again; “Why do we care?” …”I've never owned a slave, and neither have my parents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents nor to my knowledge has ANY ancestor of mine held slaves.”
But; admit it or not, our personal ‘inaction’ may have contributed to these events too.
Perhaps the plight of today’s or tomorrow’s children doesn’t even concern 12 because he has no children as, God in his mysterious ways is “cleaning out the gene pool...”.
Consider also the plight of children in Guantanamo Bay’s ‘Camp Iguana’.
Immoral is Immoral; whether other countries do it or not, whether your bible ‘interpretation’ says so or not.
A pox on the man that thinks this is right and a pox on his god if he thinks so too.
YES, YOU TOO: our (supposed) god ‘might’ judge you too Linda, and me too.
http://www.westnet.com.au/jackhsmit/rogalla.htm
“As a signatory nation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (the CRC), Australia gives a formal undertaking to 'protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence' while in care [31] and thereby guarantees a child's physical integrity. The CRC article 39 calls for 'physiological and social recovery' to be initiated immediately after neglect has occurred. Article 37 also protects children from violence and neglect, and prohibits torture. Yet violence and neglect are ongoing and continue throughout detention.”
“This little boy saw a whole range of traumatic events. He saw the aftermath of someone who had their wrists slashed to, who had attempted self-harm or suicide, he saw another detainee threaten to kill himself by jumping from the top of a tree, he witnessed rioting, the use of tear gas, water cannons.”
Parents to sue Ruddock for $750,000
May a TRUE God grant peace & justice to this child and may my country pay out of it’s bleeding a$$ too.
ON THE SIDE
Razorwire Hilton - at $130 a day “Shahid Qureshi thought he had seen it all when he emerged from Melbourne's Maribyrnong detention centre last September. But the 27-year-old Pakistani's biggest surprise was when the Federal Government presented him with an accommodation bill for $26,460.”
WHILE
“Just $30 more a night secures a room at the Novotel, Darling Harbour, while a little over $100 more pays for an executive suite at the Hilton.”
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posted on October 27, 2003 05:41:15 AM new
Most people think of slavery in terms of the antebellum south. The plight of those poor slaves when they were dumped without even "forty acres and a mule" is still being felt by disadvantaged black people today.
But slavery is not limited to the antebellum south as you can see from austbounty's information. Slavery is a modern problem all over the world. To dismiss the problem with a question, "Why should I care?" is so callous that it defies explanation.
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