The Eighth Circle.

Once upon a time, I was willing to give Labor the benefit of the doubt.

You know what? Rudd has given up the right to the benefit of the doubt. Fuck him. Fuck Rudd, and fuck Labor too. They can rot alongside the Liberals for all I care.



Once, I had hope for Rudd showing signs of being a human being.
He has just proved that this was a vain hope.

Do not forget the context.

His ‘crime’, remember — the only thing they could hang on him after twelve hours of questioning and two weeks of turning his life over with a fine-tooth-comb — was that he gave a SIM card, worthless to him, to his cousin a year ago. And as Julian Burnside points out, there are several layers of the betrayal of the presumption of innocence. He is to be imprisoned under the severest of conditions for an otherwise innocent act in another country to a person whose own guilt has been presumed. (Remember, technically, he is not guilty until a judge has found him so.)



This is neither the action of a rational executive, nor a sign of a free country.

If you're not angry, you are part of the problem.