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Dr Louise Hansen 🌷🕊

21 Mar, 9 tweets, 2 min read

Asylum is a crime: “Under Australian law seeking asylum is now a crime. Cause ain't no politician in this country got a spine. Time after time, each party towing the line. Detaining ‘em offshore. Out of site out of mind. 1/9 #TimeForAHome #EnoughIsEnough #March4Justice

Forget human kind. We do this despite. It breaks the universal declaration of human rights. Shhh. man. What would Jesus do? Cuz I'm pretty sure he wouldn't lock em up in Nauru. So heartless. Even locking children in prison. In the most appalling & inhumane living conditions. 2/9

In 1951 we ratified the refugee convention, that prohibits asylum seekers being penalised in detention. Imagine if your people got bombed at will. Imagine if your friends and family got tortured and killed. 3/9

Finally get a chance to escape and be free. And the land you arrive in lock you up indefinitely. See this the only country where detention's mandatory. The legacy of a white Australia policy. With golden soil and wealth for toil. We girt by inequality. 4/9

With people on bridging Visas living in poverty. Denying asylum political parties don't care who dies. Sending back the boats, but that's how their ancestors arrive. Those who come here are only trying to survive. We're destroying there futures. We’re destroying their lives. 5/9

We stand on occupied lands. Stolen by the white man. Straight to expanded manus island. This is their new plan? We supported invasions of iraq and Afghanistan. Made those countries war zones, so victims journey this land. 6/9

We’re part of the problem sending troops to their home. Don’t wanna deal with situations we created and own. Our government use it to capitalise in elections. Appeasing to ignorance, intolerance and border protection. 7/9

Now their bringing in Orwellian laws, making impossible for people seeking freedom, to come to these shores. Politicians happy to utilise anything for votes. Around the world it’s not illegal to seek asylum by boat. 8/9

Scapegoats focusing on this fear and hate. For seeking safety, we condemn refugees to a brutal fate. Forcibly displaced cause of religion or race. Australians let us hang our heads in disgrace.”

Source: ‘Asylum is a crime.’ Song by Pataphysics (2013). 9/9

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