Dissemble and delay, pray the crisis goes away. Like bushfire preparedness, like pandemic shortcomings, like climate change policy, the Prime Minister was told we had people who needed to be rescued long before yesterday. Maybe it was just the usual gross incompetence – or maybe the government didn’t really want to import any more Afghanis than it absolutely had to.
Source: Michael Pascoe: Australia is an accessory to the Afghanistan disaster
ADOLF EICHMAN’S DEFENSE “JUST DOING MY JOB ”
Scott Morrison the Minister for NO INFORMATION says AHRC allegations of self harm and sick children on Christmas Island are “sensational”. Yet his department head confirmed 128 recorded instances in the past 15 months. Martin Bowles said improvements had been made. I’m sure those i
improvements are more about information suppression and ridiculing attending doctors should they be found to reveal restricted information. International Health and Medical Services were explicitly told to withdraw figures showing children were suffering high levels of mental illness by the Immigration Department.
Scott Morrison who consistently refused to attend the AHRC inquiry is quite open to run it down as he is the report by nine major Christian Churches which labelled the detention of unaccompanied children in processing camps and centres as state sponsored child abuse.The church task force report contains remarkably strong language invoking the holocaust in its critique of Australia’s detention policy.
The Immigration Minister’s office says Scott Morrison hasn’t seen the final report but says claims of state-sponsored child abuse are shocking and offensive and categorically rejected by him. Morrison is embodiment of ministerial evil” We know that one doesn’t need to be fanatical, sadistic, or mentally ill to persecute unaccompanied children and asylum seekers in detention. It is enough to be a loyal follower eager to do one’s duty for an inhumane,insane government detention policy. Wasn’t this Adolf Eichman’s defense?
UPDATE
Scott Morrison’s LIES
“This decision means that those [asylum seekers] who were previously living in India will now be unable to take advantage of the humanitarian offer being made by the Indian government, secured by my visit to New Delhi last week, that would have potentially enabled their return to India,” Mr Morrison said in a statement.
“There will also now be around 50 more children on Nauru, many of which, if not all, could have been going back to India.
“It is disappointing that this opportunity has been squandered. If these decisions were taken on the advice of lawyers, then not only have the passengers on this voyage been duped by people smugglers, it would seem they have also been let down by those who are supposed to be looking after their best interests as well and claim to be on their side.”
This seems to be a straight out lies on the part of Morrisson as:
“Now they’ve secretly smuggled them out to Nauru to keep them away from lawyers and advocates and this Government is making policy up on the run.”
George Newhouse
Mr Newhouse says the asylum seekers not were given the chance to talk to their lawyers about their options before they were moved to Nauru.
“We have not had opportunity to inform our clients of their rights and options,” he said.
“These people were trafficked under the cover of darkness. This is the second time they’ve been disappeared.
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