Tag: Victim blaming

Police Accoutability

Demented Policing: Tasering the Elderly – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Demented Policing: Tasering the Elderly - The AIM Network

A local community advocate, Andrew Thaler, holds little hope for her recovery. “I don’t think there’s going to be a recovery. Tasers take out bulls and fully grown men. She’s a slip of a woman.”

A number of conversations have been generated by the incident, mostly avoiding the reality of Tasers. There is much chat about dementia and the need for better understanding. “It is not just about memory,” says one touted expert on the ABC news network. “We need people to understand that our brains are slowing down.” And not just dementia sufferers.

It would be useful if such an understanding would extend to the police. But these recruits are not exactly renowned for their intelligence, emotional or otherwise. Cotter is adamant that the video and audio coverage of the incident, captured by the body cameras of the two police, would not be released. It was “confronting” and “not in the public interest” which, in Australian institutional terms, tends to mean that disclosure should take place.

Australia is a country addictively hostile to the elderly. Despite being a continent that speaks to immemorial origins, respect for those who age is uncommon. In The Lucky Country, that seminal, repeatedly misunderstood text, written in frustrated, sour prose, Donald Horne observes that Australia is not a place where one should grow old. And so,…

Source: Demented Policing: Tasering the Elderly – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Putin

Russia Executes Company Commander After His Men Desert | Crooks and Liars

Russia Executes Company Commander After His Men Desert

Viktor Sevalnev was recruited by the Wagner group and made commander of his company after the previous commander died in combat. According to the Russian site, The Insider, he was allegedly executed after his men deserted from the front.

Source: Russia Executes Company Commander After His Men Desert | Crooks and Liars

Informed Comment

The loneliness of a long-term Opposition Leader – » The Australian Independent Media Network

My thought for the day

A conservative outcry: Poverty is the victim’s fault, but wealth comes from virtue, and both are the natural order of things. ( John Lord )

Source: The loneliness of a long-term Opposition Leader – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

ScoMo ‘Sales’ through political storm, narrowly misses floodwaters and prayer rooms

Faced with a tsunami of complaints Morrison foldsFaced with a tsunami of complaints Morrison folds

Scott Morrison has deserted Queensland flood victims, refusing to co-fund our $741million flood recovery package. This package would have helped thousands of Queenslanders rebuild their lives. The Prime Minister’s response: that’s not my problem.

Whether anyone seriously believes ScoMo’s claims of copping criticism for helping flood victims, this ridiculous sideshow manoeuvre by the PM can hardly be considered a credible excuse for the leader of a nation to refuse help to people in a catastrophe. Regardless, it should only be viewed with disgust and may well seal his fate. Because, hopefully, it will not only be the victims of floods, or the victims of bushfires who remember this Prime Minister’s callous disregard for his fellow Australians but voters nationwide.

Source: ScoMo ‘Sales’ through political storm, narrowly misses floodwaters and prayer rooms

LNP, LNP Corruption

Someone Else To Blame – The ‘unvaccinated’, the queue, and the guinea pigs – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The new dawn looms. Where the unvaccinated are Morrison’s scapegoats and our children are used as guinea pigs. Sometimes making people do something can be tricky. Some go for the gentle encouragement method. Others go for the ‘scare the crap out of them’ approach. It’s sad to see NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and some in our media taking the latter approach. In what has now finally been declared a race to vaccinate, I personally feel the scare tactics have gone a step too far. I listen to the daily updates of the hundreds of COVID-19 cases in NSW and hear the daily death toll as we all do. But like many others I wince when I hear the victims of Sydney outbreak described not as loving mothers, or cherished sons, but as ‘unvaccinated’. Like that is the most significant thing about their life. We all want to see more people vaccinated, but I think this public branding of a victim is both perverse and disrespectful. It borders on victim blaming.

Source: Someone Else To Blame – The ‘unvaccinated’, the queue, and the guinea pigs – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Gun Control

Florida Shooting: Donald Trump says guard ‘didn’t have the courage’ to intervene – Donald Trump’s America – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

And the kids got in the way of the bullets ot the gunman was a bad shot. (Old Dog)

via Florida Shooting: Donald Trump says guard ‘didn’t have the courage’ to intervene – Donald Trump’s America – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)