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[dreamer_easy]

From New Scientist, Doctors implicated in abuse of Iraqi prisoners.


ETA: Australian Democrats Press release: Government Overboard: The Democrats called it from the start. Includes a sort of history of the children overboard affair in the form of extracts from previous press releases.

And another: Labor Joins Government To Guillotine Marriage Bill. How govt and opposition combined forces to ram through the gay marriage ban, regardless of a Senate inquiry already in progress.

They're playing games with peoples' lives and they don't even care.

Comments

[vindaloo-vixen.livejournal.com]

Argh! Cruk! What is wrong with the Powers That Be here??

I don't understand 90% of what goes on in politics so I usually hold back on commentary. But the gay marriage thing? Even apart from the obvious bloody issue of human freedoms, what possible frigging benefit do they think is going to come from these bans??

I was even saying to a friend today that it just makes you want to go and get gay-married to make a point. (Which we might have, except she's straight and I'm asexual, and we don't much fancy each other anyway, so we might have been missing the point as much as making it. :) )

Point still stands, anyway. So stupid.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking it must have something to do with money - not giving gay partners access to super or whatever. But then I remember that in the US, you used to not to be able to get married if you weren't the same race, and I can't figure out how that directly saved anybody cash.

Labor: homophobic t*rds or chicken sh*t?

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From my point of view, Labor seem to have manuevered themselves into a corner on this one. Either they honestly support the ban, in which I case I won't vote for them, or they're not willing to make a moral political stand on this issue, in which case I won't vote for them.

It's often commented that people have more and more trouble telling the two major parties apart, and on such an important issue it seems that Labor have managed to once again fail to take a moral standpoint. I also believe it's what cost them the last election, a certain moral cowardice fueled by political fears.

Thhpt to the lot of 'em, I say.

Ant

Re: Labor: homophobic t*rds or chicken sh*t?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I was going to chastise you for saying "t*rds" when I realised you had actually said "t*rds". I'm so PC. At least you didn't say "t*rd*s".