At the 2015 Labour Party Conference, Kelvin Davis gave a report on his visit to the NZ citizens being detained on Christmas Island. It was pretty horrific…
…now I’ve not been a fan of Davis. I didn’t like the way he took out Hone in Te Tai Tokerau, but one has to applaud his role, courage and tenacity in standing up for prisoner rights.
His leadership on the NZ citizens detained on Christmas Island puts John Key to shame. Describing the manner in which these prisoners are moved from Australia to Christmas Island is disturbing. The Prisoners are not forewarned of their departure, a specially trained riot squad sneak into the cells at 3am and burst in, beating the prisoner and handcuffing them and renditioning them straight onto a plane for a 13 hour flight to Christmas Island.
The severity of the treatment is due to the laws being used to deport these NZ citizens – they’re anti-terror laws!
Laws and treatment green lighted for the worst and most dangerous terrorists are being exploited and used against civilians who have nothing more than a basic 1 year imprisonment crime.
This is utterly unacceptable. To have our own civilians treated with such brutality by a country that claims is our friend and who wants a seat on the UN Human Rights Council is a sick joke.
This is Australia’s dirty war and intelligence industry hard at work. Using up funds and building budgets to implement brutal policy on civilians that was justified under the threat of terrorism. It’s politics at its most ugly.
News that a riot has taken place demands the kind of leadership Kelvin Davis has displayed. It is time for the Prime Minister of NZ to visit this dentation camp and see for himself the injustice being meted out to our citizens by our supposed mate.
“The severity of the treatment is due to the laws being used to deport these NZ citizens is based on anti-terror legislation”.
This line is the key. The bullshit that is being perpetrated throughout the western world in order to “protect” us is actually being used to restrict us and destroy our quality of life. I wish NZ’ers and Australians would stand up and reject the politicians supporting this authoritarian, fear based approach to social issues.
Surely it is not a “dentation camp” but a detention camp. It has though put serious dents into the reputation of Australia, I reckon. John Key was dodging questions and did not give much in the way of answers to journalists today, so the news reported.
He even considers the NZ camp inmates to be there “voluntarily”, as they would have the “free choice” to come back to New Zealand otherwise, and await their appeal outcomes.
That is of course John the Useless Key of No Hope, who blindly trusts an Australian PM, who gave assurances human rights lawyers in Australia have already rubbished.
No hope for Key to take any action, that is the reality. Send a protest flotilla, with Kelvin and others from Labour and Greens and Mana at the helm, I suggest.
“Detention Camps”?
I better reminded of Gulags, from the former Soviet block. Now Australia has one (two?) of it’s own. Well done Aussies. Will it be a One Party state next?
We all knew the governments would exploit the anti terror laws for their own agenda and against human rights – now we have clear proof – what is going to be done about it?
“These are people who theoretically are staying on Christmas Island, choosing not to come back to New Zealand because we know under the advice we’ve had from the Australian Government they could do that.”
Yeah don’t expect john boy to lift the lid off this mess any time soon
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11542480
From my old mate Bob Ellis…
The Christmas Island Mutiny
Posted by Bob Ellis on November 9, 2015
9.20 am
Recent events on Christmas Island show how hard in this, the age of the mobile phone, it is to keep secrets any more.
A government facility has been wrecked, and may be in flames; its guards have fled; an insurgent mob, including some New Zealanders, are in command, like the Bounty mutineers, and Dutton, the responsible Minister, in his usual posture, under the lino with his toes in his ears.
It seems he has harried and burdened an oft-suicidal Kurd by withdrawing his hope, though he has been found to be a genuine refugee, of settlement — after five years! — anywhere better than Cambodia, and refused him medical treatment each time he has tried, many times now, to kill himself. He has thus breached so many UN conventions he should be in prison himself.
But Turnbull, ever the smooth-talking wuss, will meekly stand by him; he has much more evil to enact after all and so sate the bloodlust of his party’s bizarre right wing, whom Malcolm has to daily palliate — like the further torment of the rape-swollen Abyan, now in her eighteenth week; the reward in hundreds of millions of the rape facilitators Transfield; the further persecution of Nauru-dwelling Syrians who have refused to go back to certain slaughter in their homeland. This is a valuable Minister, a measure, one might say, of the evil that lurks in the hearts of men, and the stupidity that marks John Howard’s party.
12.31 pm
Why is there no live helicopter shot of the burning compound? Would an overflying news crew be shot down? In this, a democracy? Really? What Border Force on this, the day of the strike, is preventing Four Corners or al-Jazeera from coming ashore like D-Day troops with cameras rolling? It’s entirely bizarre that secrecy can so readily be imposed on island of this, our homeland and no newsgathering entity dare challenge it.
How amazing that Bishop is still assuring Australians that we are eligible to serve on the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. We lock up innocent Kurds and long-resident Maoris and throw away the Key. More to come.
John Key fussed and fretted while Labour’s Kelvin Davis actually did something. Key’s reaction was to spit the dummy because Davis stole his thunder and made him look like a jackass.
Agreed @ ike – people need to REJECT THE FEAR MONGERING POLITICIANS.
Wheres’ the humanity in this? Where is the tolerance, the fair suck of the sav? You do the crime you do the time BUT why the extra punishment? What the fuck do our so called leaders think will happen to them when they knock on their metaphorical “pearly gates”. Maybe we need to send Key to a hut on the Auckland Islands for a year or two to get some perspctive.
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