[Green-Activist] Howard messing with our minds

[frank]

I totally agree with u, as far as u go Roy, but i think there's more to it than the traditional Abbo bashing and an election ploy.

I don't know exactly what the grand plan is, but i think there's seeds being sown to give Murris some sort of freehold, or identical, title to vast tracts of Australia, then rob them. 

What we're seeing now, is not just what u say, but a move to cement the positions of certain indigenous people in power and get rid of, or silence people who oppose them.  You see, they can't rob the Murris without inside help.  Wouldn't want stirrers around.

Remember, they've always robbed the Murris by claiming they're helping them.  They're not that original in their thinking.  They keep using the tactics which have worked in the past.

frank brown

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roy Garner 
  To: maillist for Green Activists 
  Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 3:52 AM
  Subject: [Green-Activist] Howard messing with our minds


  Dear Activists,

  What has dominated the media, and the attention of the nation, for the past week?

  When the papers reported Howard's initiative against alleged sexual abuse of children in indigenous communities, there was at first little or no mention that the report, Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle "Little Children are Sacred", which triggered Howard's so-called "national emergency", had been commissioned not by his government, but by the Northern Territory, http://www.nt.gov.au/dcm/inquirysaac/.

  If the indigenous leaders haven't identified the areas that need most attention, why should the Howard government know better? 

  But concern for Howard, not the children, is what really motivated this most cynical of our prime ministers to call in the troops—concern for what would otherwise have dominated the weekend TV chat shows: the unpopular pay rise for politicians http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1956154.htm in an election year that has seen mortgagees go to the wall http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/surge-in-families-forced-to-sell-their-homes/2007/06/29/1182624165339.html, and $11 billion earmarked for five new navy ships http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21936956-5006787,00.html.

  The "national emergency" came in a week that saw Labor still riding high in the opinion polls. The massive diversion of funds from welfare areas to defence was followed by Friday's massive diversion of the nation's focus, away from this misuse of funds to generations of neglect of the needs of indigenous communities; suddenly, after 11 years in office, the Howard Sorry Initiative Please Vote For Me Committee sent the army into indigenous communities, having decided, apparently by osmosis, what is best for them. 

  The aboriginal 'genocide' continues while politicians attempt to explain away the tragedy by attaching different labels to it for mass consumption. Theirs is the genocide of systemic neglect that sees them die young or struggling to rear their families and pass on their culture to a new generation; that sees the young disoriented and confused through drugs, alcohol and petrol sniffing. 

  This is the real emergency, and we must fear that a few media grabs for the evening news of boots and jungle greens and the encircling paternalistic whites will be lost in a cloud of red dust as the road show moves on, leaving only the sorrow that continues to corrode the lives of many indigenous communities.







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