> I think it's about time we put away the notion that Australia is a
> "generous" country.
>
> Alison
A while back I ripped off something Kafta said and wrote something
like:
The shame, the terrible shame of being an Australian citizen.
A supervisor (for my research degree) hung out a banner saying:
refugees welcomed here; over a highway bridge and that was considered
by others to be a brave act! Oh, how I cringe with shame to think
this would be considered a brave act!
I think Candice is wrong to argue the WTC collapse is about United
States national issues, although to be fair, Candice is responding to
a post that puts it in national terms. Something else is going on,
which I don't pretend to understand.
Really, the number of people who died in the WTC is much smaller in
number compared to the scale I dealt with in a pass life I have now
retired from. I was also going through an episodic time of ill health
when the Towers collapsed and had bombed myself with legal and
illicit medication and it didn't really affect me at the time, except
to ponder if friends who worked there were still alive. It wasn't
until I recovered enough to start mixing with people that I then saw
the affect. It startled me somewhat that the response was so
intense. People actually believed the world had now changed, for
example. The only explanation for this I have is the deployment of
affect by the various governments, Bush, Blair and Howard, here in
Australia.
The WTC collapse is connected with what is being currently done to
refugees in Australia, for starters. The racism, I must admit, I find
almost frightening. Are we heading quickly towards a fascist
Australia?
best
Chris Jones.
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