Posted by Kim Every assylum seeker and refugee has a story; most are too tragic for those not exposed to poverty and injustice on a first hand basis to truly understand. Ms Hanson's sentence and indictment are to be amended, and an acquittal will be recorded. In effect, she was an innocent person being subjected to an injustice. For what it's worth, I believe as Christians, we should fight all fights against all injustice; not simply pick and choose which ones suit us at the time. Whilst my intention is not to glorify Ms Hanson, surely her case could be, in part, compared to that of Aung San Suu Kyi? An injustice is an injustice. The hurt and suffering of people and their families in these situations is real. Is it maybe that Ms Hanson isn't the smartest cookie in the barrel, or maybe her outspoken nature, or maybe just her continuing case of foot-in-mouth disease that somehow makes people think that she "got why she deserved", or didn't deserve the support she received? I don't think it's up to us to judge people. We should just do what we can, when we can, for all victims of injustice; be it political or social. Anyway, for what it's worth, that my two cents worth. And although I partly disagree on you with this one Father, I still hold you with great esteem and want to clearly state that. Thanks for the opportunity to voice my opinion. Kim --Previous Message--
on November 19, 2003, 6:20 am, in reply to "Justice, Pauline Hanson, and others!!"
By no means am I a "Pauline Hanson supporter", however, you surely cannot be inferring that by having an innocent woman incarcerated is not an injust thing?
: What a bizarre turn of events last week in
: Australia. One Nation founder, Pauline
: Hanson gets a jail sentence and the place
: goes nuts!
: Talk-back radio is flooded with calls;
: Channel Ten in Sydney have the highest ever
: response to a phone poll on the severity of
: her sentence; everyone from Bob Carr to John
: Howard have a go at the judge who passed the
: sentence and One Nation membership takes a
: terrific boost.
: At the same time, a family from Iraq, held in
: detention here for four years, accepted a
: Government offer of plane tickets that were
: intended to take them to Syria where they had
: hoped to get visas. They arrive in Vietnam
: and are thrown out and land in Thailand -
: tossed into a small room and then expelled
: because Syria would not grant them a visa.
: In 48 hours they return to Australia and end
: up in the Port Hedland Detention centre -
: locked up again - Mother Father and their
: children.
: But who cares? Not us evidently - hardly a
: ripple on the airwaves. A little mention in
: the papers and that's it!
: But Pauline - everyone's on her case!
: A little out of whack don't you think?
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