The Vulgar God botherer who spoke in tongues and denied everything. Was he paid forward for AUKUS?
His record as a bungling advertisement of malice also included his time as immigration minister, when he became Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s attack dog in the “turn back the boats” policy. Refugees and asylum seekers arriving by sea were demonised, lacerated and condemned, to be towed out, made to disappear in watery depths or – much the same thing – taken to Pacific Island concentration camps (Nauru, Manus Island) to be sadistically tortured, sexually molested and left to moulder. When the New York Times interviewed Morrison on becoming prime minister, the paper noticed something grotesque: “His office features a model migrant boat bearing the proud declaration ‘I Stopped These’.”
Pity, then, that the man himself has not been stopped, a vulgar reminder about where Australian politics went grossly wrong, and where its vulnerable, already trimmed sovereignty went.
Source: Scott Morrison: A blight on Australian politics – Pearls and Irritations
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Clearly, human lives on this planet are not perceived as being of equal value/worth when, morally speaking, we all definitely should and even could be. In fact, human beings can actually be perceived and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic and relatively civilized nations.
A somewhat similar inhumane devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in protractedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken nations. The worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news. …
It’s wrong to criticize desperate people for doing what we all likely would do if in their dreadful position. But then all that no longer matters when they die in their attempt at arriving. Like in January 2022, when a young family of four from India froze to death trying to access the U.S. via sub-zero southern Manitoba, Canada [near the US border].
Meantime, conservative politicians exploitively play political games with migrants, people — human beings like the rest of us — that can feel and be hurt. I hope those politicians don’t consider or call themselves Christian. The death of genuine Christianity may have begun the moment Jesus ascended!
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