Liberal Senator Gary Humphries recently tabled a petition to the senate calling for a "http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/one-nation-wrapped-in-a-blue-ribbon-20110218-1azky.html">10-year moratorium on Muslim immigration. It's one of those moments when your head whips around and you realise that it's not as bad as you think it is, it's much much worse. But it makes a terrible terrible sense. Hate sells. Hate gives you power, and the liberals want it. And Labor is bleeding lefties to the Greens. They tried to play the fear and hate card last election, BUT JUST NOT HARD ENOUGH TO WIN. As that article reveals, since November - since the regroup after the last election, in fact - the liberals new policy is to run Islamaphobia as hard as they can. They think it's their ticket to power.
And what's truly frightening is already they're able to get away with this shit. That the environment is so filled with bullshit they can table this kind of insane, unrestrained bigotry without expecting a backlash. That means we're in trouble. The groundwork is being laid. This is not the beginning; we're long past that. Since September last year a war has been waged by the Liberals and their cronies to pump so much fear and hate and ignorance into the public sphere they can light a match and explode into victory.
And let's be clear: we know exactly what the consequences of these policies will be, because they're ALWAYS the consequences. An agenda of fear and hate leads to discrimination, repression, exclusion, violence and murder. Without a doubt, these policies will put real human lives at greater risk. To them, this is an acceptable price for winning reelection (and deceiving millions of people is just an extra fun bonus).
Somedays, I wonder if I'm just too damn paranoid and histrionic. Then you have days like this where politicians, without an atom of shame or subterfuge, build an altar of corpses simply to feather their own nests. And there's just not enough paranoia to go around.
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