galvanic and erudite gentiles, caught sputtering by butterflies in mai tai's
i said to the Dae as it rose "can we really be so unique?"
are we so singular in our experiences that we share nothing in common with the general populace?
he shrugged his beatified shrug and i made him a coffee.
the issues laid out by our opposition party, around border 'security' should be dead. this parochial concern with those seeking asylum from war, rape, famine and persecution being some how not entitled to sanctuary is so stunted i do not fathom it.
we very simply do not have an embassy in afghanistan or iraq,
there is no queue to jump.
there are more british nationals in the country, illegally over staying visas, this year, than asylum seekers that have come to this country in the last 10 years.
the debate is pointless,
the accusations of border insecurity are fear mongering and painfully skewed,
and if tony abbot is our prime minister in september i'm leaving the country until he is not.
oh, and i might need to start making friends in melbourne, very soon...
hint hint.
are we so singular in our experiences that we share nothing in common with the general populace?
he shrugged his beatified shrug and i made him a coffee.
the issues laid out by our opposition party, around border 'security' should be dead. this parochial concern with those seeking asylum from war, rape, famine and persecution being some how not entitled to sanctuary is so stunted i do not fathom it.
we very simply do not have an embassy in afghanistan or iraq,
there is no queue to jump.
there are more british nationals in the country, illegally over staying visas, this year, than asylum seekers that have come to this country in the last 10 years.
the debate is pointless,
the accusations of border insecurity are fear mongering and painfully skewed,
and if tony abbot is our prime minister in september i'm leaving the country until he is not.
oh, and i might need to start making friends in melbourne, very soon...
hint hint.
Labels: asylum seekers, border in/security, fall, queue jumpers, scooter vaction
posted by Run for the Dawn | 7:11 PM
2 Comments:
Elegantly expressed! This is an imaginary-but-revoltingly-persistent debate.
[Scooter vacation? Melbourne hints? Hints taken. I think. They may have been taken against their will.]
The current Government are not that much better. The whole debate seems strangely euphemistic to me - all this talk of "border security" and "turn back the boats" feel like metaphors than an articulation of the real fear, the real sense of threat.
I think that many swinging voters are frightened of asylum seekers (we used to call them refugees - don't know why we stopped) - but I want to hear their arguments laid - [WE INTERRUPT THIS COMMENT BECAUSE YOU HAVE JUST KNOCKED ON MY DOOR AND WE HAVE JUST HAD TEA AND NOW I AM WAVING YOU GOODBYE AND NOW I AM CLOSING THE DOOR AND NOW I AM SITTING DOWN AT MY COMPUTER AGAIN ONE HOUR LATER]...
...ahem, I want to hear their arguments laid out in full about what they think will happen if we don't turn back the boats, and if we don't stop them from coming. What will happen to us then? How bad would it be?
This was a great post. And the title is amazing - you write the way you paint - with dark abstraction and brilliant glimmers.
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