Do you think that by sending all our refugee children back to imprisonment on our Pacific Island for Christmas is meant to send a message to ‘people smugglers’ ?

Just an off hand question Patti K asked on her Suicide Radio programme last night. Didn’t really get an answer. I mean, there were a couple of deep sighs .. though that could have been the wind too.

I like Mr Peters take on this ‘letting the kings god look after our interests’ mish mash. (He certainly does a good job of it – the god, I mean. You’d think they’d have their own god who would look after their interests better than our’s does … Perhaps Shnottys not praying to their god – nasty bugger. Probably legislated him (or her) out of Australia. I’m not sure that actually works but it’s an attitude that’s certainly destroyed much of the world over the past few centuries – No ones God but Mine.)

Na, what Peters reckons is that he’s sending a message to the Aussie people. Toe our line or die. The old rule by ‘fear of law’. What with all this Deportation stuff, denial of Medical Treatment and now, Food, for those of us stupid enough to have grown up with a different vision of Australia’s future, those of us too stupid to have invested in private corporate ventures due to our belief in humanity and democracy. Now were told that only the kings god is the true god – and you’ve got to be sitting on the right side of him (or her!) for him – or her – to hear the message. You’d think we could send up a bit of our medical technology in the way of a left side hearing aid .. too expensive?

True, the old fucker would probably throw it back down in the form of lighting bolts. Brings to mind .. how’s Barney the Dunce doin with all that rain out there for the drought? Haven’t heared much on that lately .. must be an election coming up.

“The legal sphere is only one small forum for discussing behaviour, and the standards you need to prove to discuss whether something happened or not, are very high. If those standards can’t be met for whatever reason, there are social, moral and political spheres in which we can discuss those behaviours. We can still decide for ourselves to continue the conversation.” – Karen O’Connell