the time always comes

"I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Thursday, October 11, 2007

1. A young Sudanese man gets bashed to death by three white* youths.

In a filthy, insensitive, manipulative vote grab, Kevin Andrews uses the man's death to highlight the Sudanese community's 'failure to assimilate'.

2. Not long after Andrews' comments another Sudanese youth is the subject of a violent racist attack. Coincidence?

3. Today a policeman was bashed by a 'group including Sudanese youths' and Mr Andrews leaps upon it as an opportunity to give the hackneyed epithet 'un-Australian' yet another work-out.

Just imagine how it feels to be the family of Liep Gony, the young man who was bashed by members of the Australian community (NOT the Sudanese community) at the moment. To be blamed for violence by the very people who killed their son.

Are the perpetrators of the first two crimes 'un-Australian' too Mr. Andrews? Or are you really trying to say, via your high pitched dogwhistle, that Sudanese equals un-Australian? We all know the mean-spirited answer to that. And I'm sorry to say that the voters who heed the call of the dogwhistle are dogs. Scrap that. It's an insult to my dog.

It's nothing short of fucking disgusting. Andrews, you are a bigger creep than Ruddock, If indeed that's possible. It's the same tired election ploy they used with Tampa. What depresses me to my very marrow is that it obviously works.

Congratulations Australia!



*Note that you have to search the small print of the better newspapers to find out the ethnicity of these people, who are shielded by 'virtue' of being minors - but it's there. They're white.

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3 Comments:

Blogger davey said...

This is unbelievable. It never fails to amaze me how some people can opportunistically use others peoples hurt for their own gain.

Thanks for the update Susanna, not seeing a lot of Australian news over here at the moment.

7:02 pm  
Blogger susanna said...

no worries davey - welcome! i was in london for the 2004 election and cast my vote at australia house. it was very exciting... until the result came in. hopefully you'll enjoy this one!

10:03 pm  
Blogger Susanne said...

Un-freakin'-believable. I can't believe Kevin Andrews put the spin on it that the Sudanese weren't assimilating when a Sudnaese person was the victim of the crime.

I can only hope the voting public is a little more savvy now and won't fall for the Howard's government's scare tactics, as they did with the children overboard scandal.

12:51 pm  

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