Do not forget the context.

[catsidhe]

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.

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[enrobso.livejournal.com]

I have no anger left for this government. They are villains to a man and they show no hint of resiling from their villainry.

I am angry at their enablers, those who they believe they are reaching with this stunt, the people more scared of their property value not increasing than their next-door-neighbor being hauled away in the dead of night for being an enemy of the state.

If I'm angry, it's not at the government, but at the fact that I feel ashamed at being Australian right now because of my fellow Australians.

[cthulu-for-pm.livejournal.com]

I have no anger left for this government.

Same here. Fuck 'em all with a rusty chainsaw, is what I say...