This is Australia in 2016
When it comes to Australia’s torture and abuse of people in their human rights abusing detention camps, NZ is silent.
Let’s remind ourselves of the horror Australia has committed.
The terror of what Australia has allowed to occur in their refugee detention camp on Naru has been laid bare by the independent Moss review...
An independent review into sexual abuse inside Australia’s detention centre on Nauru has found evidence of rape, sexual assault of minors and guards trading marijuana for sexual favours from female detainees.
The review, conducted by former integrity commissioner Philip Moss, found no evidence that Save the Children staff on Nauru had coached detainees to embarrass the Abbott government.
The scale of the abuse of the most vulnerable is pretty sick…
…but NZ doesn’t have anything to say about that because they are refugees and they aren’t white. Even our own citizens, most of whom are Maori, get nothing but contempt from NZ as John Key screamed in Parliament that they were all rapists and murderers (they weren’t).
So the question now becomes, will NZ finally find its voice in the wake of evidence that Australia is torturing white people…
Exposed: Alleged abuse of detained youths in Northern Territory
Horrific video has emerged of an Australian teenager strapped into a mechanical restraint chair, wearing a ‘spit hood’, as part of his punishment in a youth detention centre.
The disturbing footage, which aired on the ABC’s Four Corners programme, was part of an investigation into the mistreatment and abuse of youths at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Darwin.
The boy in the footage was identified as Dylan Voller, a 17-year-old boy who was a detainee at the centre.
He suffered multiple incidents of alleged abuse over a five-year period from October 2010.
He is also one of six boys held in isolation cells at the detention centre, where they were tear-gassed in 2014.
…take a good hard long look NZ. I know we’ve turned and looked the other way when Australia abuses people who aren’t white, now you can see your teenage son, cousin, Grandchild tied into the torture seat, will you continue to be blind?
NZ is gutless when it comes to telling it’s mate they are abusive arseholes.
“…take a good hard long look NZ. I know we’ve turned and looked the other way when Australia abuses people who aren’t white, now you can see your teenage son, cousin, Grandchild stupid into the torture seat, will you continue to be blind?”
Australia HAS LOST IT’S SOUL, NOW SINCE THIS IS APPERING TO BE WIDESPREAD AND ACCEPTED HOW SAD, AND ALL UNDER A CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT, AS WE HAVE HERE SO WHAT’S SO “CONSERVATIVE HERE WE ASK?
Definitions
Collins English Dictionary
adjective
1. favouring the preservation of established customs, values, etc, and opposing innovation
2. of, characteristic of, or relating to conservatism
3. tending to be moderate or cautious ⇒ a conservative estimate
WHAT “established customs, values” IS IN TORTURING THESE INMATES?????
Criminal behaviour has taken over conservative values that’s what.
New Zealand has lost it’s soul too the longer it remains silent over Australia’s shocking atrocious human rights abuses that includes sexual abuse of innocent little kids, and no doubt other extremely vulnerable persons that aren’t allowed to have a voice and that can’t fight back. Shit, do people no longer have a flaming conscious or a moral code anymore? What people are doing to each with government sanction angers and disgusts me. The world has become an insane exploitative shithole of monumental proportions.
I heard about these young people being kept in solitary confinement and tear gassed last night on RadioNZ, and I’m not embarrassed to say I balled my eyes out. I know what it’s like to be trapped and subject to violent abuse of power at a vulnerable age, with any attempt to defend oneself or escape the situation used as excuses for further escalation of the abuse. This is one sign, among many, of humans beings so stuck in habits of institutionalized violence that they have completely forgotten the purposes of the institutions they work for. For the sake of our humanity, we can and must do better.
Hey, if we can leave our fellow citizens living in moldy flats, garages, cars..well, I’m pretty sure we can not give a toss about this too.
As our beloved Leader would say “I think you’ll find that, at the end of the day, most people don’t really care”.
I think our beloved leader is reflecting more about his own “couldn’t care less” attitude than those of the general public. If people really didn’t care, this would be a nasty, brutish, failed state we’d be living in. Actually, more like surviving than living.
The New Zealand Police will be keen to keep a tight lid on what they have been up to in various cases, where minors and also adults have been physically abused while in the lock up.
The MSM “cared” to report on the misdeeds in the Northern Territory, at least our two major news channels did so tonight, bringing this as their lead stories.
Maybe they saw fit doing so, as Australian PM Turnbull had already called for a Commission of Inquiry of sorts. That has the official “sanction” to it, to perhaps be “valid” concerns, that need a closer look at.
I bet New Zealand is NO better, when we do a bit of digging, this also just showed some extreme footage, it is too easy to point the finger at Australia, as we have enough scandals about failures in mental health and other “service” areas here, we could do with some official inquiries as well, I bet.
Our governments react fairly quickly when it comes to condemning abuses by Islamic State, and other terrorists. But not so quick when it’s our own neighbour. Or the US in Guantanamo. It’s sickening what we can get away with when the colour of skin is a license to behave with impunity that in some jurisdictions would constitute a war crime.
NZ is Australia’s, Ireland. What will it matter what we do/say?
A question for bloggers…. do you have any friends, relatives or old uni chums who are prison officers?? I am guessing the answer is NO.
So why not, again I will offer some answers to my own question, you consider the occupation beneath you, talks cheap so much easier than action, you are scared, it’s much easier to critise online that do anything real.
So, assuming your accept there is a need for prisons, where do those front line staff come from. I don’t mean the 3rd rate grads at head office (like lawyers) none of them have ever set foot in a prison except when everyone is locked down.
So who are the prison officers, well mostly working class men and women who need a job and have very limited options.
Others are cowards and bullies who need a uniform to make them feel tough and important, a job that will give them power, or at least a delusion of it. It gives them a supply of weak targets to abuse, and also a supply of violent criminals they are terrified of who they run around after like their personal valet.
So you are recruiting, there are a 100 places to fill, existing staff are already doing 12 (or even 24) hour shifts to have minimum cover in the units, so do you wait for sophisticated, educated, qualified people to apply…that will be a long wait, you take what you can get.
OK now you have the job, you have virtually no training just a set of keys. You will be fighting a war on many fronts, physically intimidating inmates testing how you will cope, jail house lawyers who are making notes of everything you do and say in the hope they can report you to the inspectorate and get you fired or disciplined, people with mental health problems that you have no training to cope with and where there are no resources to call on, abuse from other staff, pitiful management, a head office that is clueless whose only skills are cover ups and getting promoted ….. you may want out but if you need the money you stick it out.
It gets worse, you are doing your best but all you get for doing a public service job is abuse, riducule, maginalisation …. its a lonely job.
You find yourself totally involved into prison life, no one else wants you as a friend, even if they did the long hours and shift work makes mixing with anyone out side is difficult.
If you do find yourself in outside company never tell people what you do for a living, you would me more welcome if you are a former inmate than a prison officer, so you end up with no connection with anyone outside.
So you try to do a decent honest job, you see abuse so you consider reporting it – but you know if you do you will be signing your own death warrant, if you have no other qualifications it is likely you will never work again, you have a family to support so what do you do.
Well you can join in, become one of the gang, you can try to move to a unit that keeps you away from the gang but they hunt you down, you can stick it out and try to be an island of decency in a sea of abuse, you can contact outside agencies….human rights commission, inspectorate ….human rights lawyers….members of parliament, let me make it quite clear there is NO ONE to support decent honest staff.
Now management and head office know you are a danger you are untrustworthy, in case you don’t know danger in the corrections department means you are likely to tell the truth, untrustworthy means you can’t be trusted to support the cover up, you now have a target on your back, you must be removed by any means.
Maybe you are stupid enough to employ a lawyer (free lawyers only work for criminals) so you endure months or years of stress and abuse, lose your savings, house and job only to be abused and defamed by government lawyers and their lackeys running the courts.
So you are now totally alone, broke, unemployed, your best bet…hang yourself, it might give a few people a laugh but no one will care or notice and your pain will be over, the left wing bloggers are much to busy supporting career criminals and self promotion to worry about you.
So stay behind your safe computer screen, be smug, superior and critical, give a platform to career criminals and continue to be part of the problem.
You think you know it all …. you know nothing…….
Incidentally am sure this commission will throw up people who did their best to help these kids and expose the abuse. I know what will have happened to them, they will be as damaged as these kids, the main difference will be these kids will have lawyers on their side and they will (hopefully) get compensation and support. Those who lost it all by trying to be honest and decent will remain in the gutter with nothing and no one.
Have you ever met a whitlseblower who avoided being ruined.
Incidentally the 5 star accomodation operators and fancy restaurant owners in the NT can expect to have very good year, all those (tax payer funded) lawyers will have to stay somewhere, and they all have to eat well. There will be a lot of judges, lawyers, public servants who are set to make a lot of money out of this.
The retired judge who did the last commission got a million bucks… Look up Dyson Hayden, I wish Peter Cook was still alive, he could have done a brilliant skit on that sanctimonious odd ball.
So keep kidding yourself that you make a worthwhile contribution to society, don’t go on strike the economy will grind to a standstill…..
Strong piece Bin, I’ve Known a few prison officers, all were guy’s that I’d worked with in different jobs before entering the prison service.
They’ve all left bar one, due to hating the job so much and having other skills to fall back on.
The anger you express for a system broken in so many ways. The intimate knowledge you have in this field and that in the coarse of your employment you too have witnessed similar abuses to inmates says to me, its wide spread problem.
At the same time I think you gave a clear picture as to some off the contributing factors that create a total breakdown in human rights. This must be hard when some locked away, are only human when it suits them.
This can only be compounded by a third of prisoners having mental health issues, with untrained staff and rules that don’t fit the model of care for Mental illness.
But I don’t think that you will find anyone, who has not been tarnished by a system so broken, who wouldn’t speak out against such blatant human rights violations.
You desperately need a new job Bin the picture you paint makes me feel you’re employed in a 1943 Nazi death camp.
With all sincerity (Good Luck) mate, I hope you make it out.
We have the power of Petition. Forget about Key and his muppets.
Strong piece Bin, I’ve Known a few prison officers, all were guy’s that I’d worked with in different jobs before entering the prison service.
They’ve all left bar one, due to hating the job so much and having other skills to fall back on.
The anger you express for a system broken in so many ways and intimate knowledge you have in this field, shows that in the coarse of your employment you too have witnessed similar abuses to inmates and says to me, its wide spread problem.
At the same time I think you gave a clear picture as to some off the contributing factors that create a total breakdown for human rights. This must be hard when some locked away, are only human when it suits them.
This can only be compounded by a third of prisoners having mental health issues, with untrained staff and rules that don’t fit the model of care for Mental illness.
But I don’t think that you will find anyone, who has not been tarnished by a system so broken, who wouldn’t speak out against such blatant human rights violations.
You desperately need a new job Bin the picture you paint makes me feel you’re employed in a 1943 Nazi death camp.
With all sincerity (Good Luck) mate, I hope you make it out.
Not ALL Australians: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/20/the-terrible-true-story-of-mr-eaten-fish-manus-island-cartoonist
This one has been keping the candles lit for a long time now.
ATL is the comment: “Even our own citizens, most of whom are Maori, get nothing but…”
Are there no spare pixels for a weekly, fortnightly, dammit even monthly, report on our assorted nationals languishing in one of these tropical gulags? And the other unfortunates, too. Just as often as for our own.
And do we have to keep divisively banging on about ethnicity/colour? They’re people being given a hellish time thanks to similarly divisive rhetoric. Oooh! The Others! Wicked!
All we end up with is, “Let their own look out for them. Send them back! Put them in the van! They’ll cost too much in health care now we’ve munted them.”
How about we try for a better ending?
How about we try rarking up that McCully person and get him to earn his outsize pay?
Or ‘write your Congress rep’ – if we can remember who it might be?
Oh. And ask our local tribal leaders to help, eh?
The picture that accompanies this question is of Dylan Voller. I don’t think he is white, as the question suggests. I beleive he is a First Nation Person. But agree with your point that Australia has an appalling history and current policies twds indigenous, non-white migrants & refugees and NZ govt should challenge the ongoing human rights abuses.
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