I'm sure it's a mixture of motivations and complicities. Kids often play such a bizarre, fetishistic role in political life -- e.g. as pawns in the whole Northern Territory intervention debacle. But regardless of such pitfalls, I do think the vulnerability of children should be an ethical beacon that can shock people into awareness and action; here's something I put together from the testimony of a little boy who escaped from Woomera and hid in our camp, back in 2002: http://eviltwin.com.au/woomera_boy.html -- it's possibly the most heartbreaking thing I've ever heard.
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Date: 2008-11-09 08:33 am (UTC)