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Weep
One Man's Web > Politics
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refugees > Weep
Posted 11-8-2003
She
told us of her visits to the detention centre. Her soup was uneaten as she
related the most appalling stories of abuse. It is right to call them
concentration camps. It felt wrong to be eating tea. Some of us didn't
finish. Exclamations of disbelief echoed around despairing faces. Where is
our nation going, with a government telling us all is well in the face of
continuing "institutionalised sadism" and "systematic
degradation and torture." Why do we believe the lies when there is so
much evidence to the contrary?
He is 17 and passionate. He learned little that was new. Yet to sit opposite
someone at the table was "so confronting." He wept in the car on
the way home. Today at school they watched "Bowling for
Columbine." He has come home, too upset to continue.
He is a good Australian. Unlike that walking cadaver who doubles as an
Immigration Minister, he can still feel. Ruddock is not strong. There is no
strength in brutalising those who have already been brutalised. It is not
doing a good job- it is evil. God help us when we lose the strength to feel
and be compassionate. God help us when we lose the courage to call evil by
its name.
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