Today is a day I resent my country.

The black stain of fascism is now spreading through Australia like a terminal urethral cancer eating away at the insides of a seemingly healthy young woman. The economy is strong and incomes are high. But we are destroying our humanity.

New police laws coupled with ministerial jurisdiction and a xenophobic immigration system have put a grown man, a doctor, in a detention centre. Without charge after 12 days of police detention. He was granted bail by the courts, the minister moved swiftly to cancel his visa.

The justification is protection from terrorism. Protection from evil. Protection from inhumanity. But unfortunately, inhumanity breeds inhumanity. Wars create fighters. Ignorance for the rule of law in a society breeds a lack of respect for justice administered in that society.

The arrogance and power-greed of White Man trudge on, bulldozing the lives of life-givers, fathers, mothers and children.

If an individual looses faith in the established rules and order, because the rules have been designed to imprison and marginalise them, what avenues are left to voice their concerns?


Violence...perhaps?