Pixelated Semantics

Freedom from humanity

Man of Steel tell us he does not "like children being in detention but it was not an issue the government had created", and furthermore, mandatory detention is a "necessary although regrettable element of the policy". I never realised how children could lock themselves up, or that governments found it so easy to implement and maintain policies they regret. After the government's policy victories with the detention and deportation of children, deportation of Australians, abusive detention of Australians and asylum-seekers, it's hard to see how the government could possibly take responsibility for their failures, when Howard makes clear that their "regrettable" policies and practises must have implemented themselves. Just like the children that threw themselves in the water to accomodate their own lifetimes of detention and abuse, it's the children that therefore created the issues and the detention solutions themselves. Surely the man's biggest challenge must now be figuring out who to punish for it all. The unemployed, sole parents, the disabled, the indigenous, the asylum seekers, the mentally ill, all have their hands full at the moment performing mutual obligation by becoming scapegoats for failed and inhuman policies that implement themselves. Having never seen Man of Steel accept accountability for anything at all, I expect that this will probably either be the Union's or Labour's fault at the end of the day, if none of the other media-friendly targets can be buggered dragging themselves away from the whipping posts of our society long enough to line up for another flogging on the news. And don't even mention the children...

UPDATE: in a disturbing development, a Liberal MP in Canberra has described to the SMH the government's real position on detainees as coming from a "government" that is "in danger of using innocent individuals as a shield in defence of a wider security policy - which we can defend on its merits". That is, detainees are being kept as hostages, as "human shields" as a disincentive for others - and not only has the Government admitted to behaving exactly like the "terrorists" they are supposedly fighting a "war" against, it is "defensible" and right for them to do so. And in this case is the exposure of the massive fraud of a "government" that has now become the same as the "enemy" once reviled for the use of the same hostage-taking tactics.

Let me put this in plain english for everyone: we are governed by people who feel good about using children as hostages. Full Stop.

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