Pixelated Semantics

Violation nation

Today Australia is not only a country that violates human rights, (for one by detaining and deporting its own citizens including young children who are effectively "hostages" against people-smuggling), we have also made it onto the agenda of the International Labour Organisation meeting in Geneva which is investigating labour rights violations around the world. As the ACTU President observes, we are being looked at "on the basis of the current legislation" and the examination "doesn't go to the dreadful violations that will occur if the Government's current proposals are proceeded with". It's impossible to see the Government's behaviour as anything but ideologically driven extreme right anti-worker bullying. With statements indicating an increasingly slippery Man of Steel is demanding States "hand over their systems or he will take them over his own way", notions of fairness and democracy seem as distant as colonies today - & like our "hostages" in Baxter, Australian consciences lately seem to disappear when inconvenient.

Note on contemporary tyranny: There may not be jackboots in the streets today, but they march instead around the apathetic minds of citizens who seem content to fabricate their own cultural concentration camps and lock themselves in with the mass media for guards. There is as yet no precise term for this "virtual totalitarianism", though suggestions will be recieved by the Editor.

Item posted by AutoEditor at 9:05 am ::