Thursday, May 19, 2005
Aboriginals play the race card
The aboriginals in Australia are having a fit after four of them were spotted breaking into a farm. Two farm workers caught one of their number, restrained him with a noose around the neck and roughed him up some. The BBC reports Wednesday:
"Aboriginal leader" Bernie Button chimes in, too, threatening violence:
Compare to what happened today. Graham Staines was a Australian missionary who had worked to ease the suffering of lepers in India for thirty years. In January 1999, he and his two sons, Timothy, 10 and Philip, 8, were sleeping in his car in the village of Manoharpur, India, when the following happened:
Of the mob, one man was sentenced to death last year, while 12 were handed sentences of life in prison. Thursday, a judge opted to reduce the death sentence to life, while all the others were released.
Result? Well, no white rioting in Australia, at least.
Henrik
Update:
The Staines family before father and sons were burnt to death: http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1604/16040221.jpg
Update 2:
Gladys Staines, the wife of Graham, decided to stay in India nevertheless, to continue helping lepers in the clinic she and her husband had lived in. Now, to add insult to injury the Indian government, that thursday released 12 of their killers last year, slapped a 10 million rupee-demand on it. The land the clinic lies on was given as a gift 102 years ago by a local Maharaja - ie 45 years before India even came into existence. Now, the Indian government has decided that it needs to "regularise" the gift, and needs 10 million rupees to do that.
Mr Davies said the farm had suffered frequent break-ins and local police had given the owner permission to restrain offenders.Of course, presented with such an obvious opportunity, Aboriginal representatives choose to overlook the fact that the boy was caught committing a crime, and pulled the race card instead. Says "aboriginal activist" Murrandoo Yanner:
"It's a pity they didn't have the hindsight to put a rope around his waist and not his neck," he told the court.
"I bet if two black fellas had gone out and done that to two or three white children, we would not be receiving an A$800 fine," Mr Yanner was quoted as saying by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Aboriginal leader" Bernie Button chimes in, too, threatening violence:
"This is going to incite racial violence," he said.Bernie Button knows people will take his threats serious, too. When an Aboriginal native of Palm Island died in November last year, the island saw aboriginals riot and burn down the police station and court house. The previous February, rumors spread in Sidney that police were to fault for the death of a 17-year-old (he had crashed on his bike and was impaled on a metal fence). As a result of his crash, the local Aborignals rioted, torched a railway station and injured 40 policemen.
"The justice system stinks. It's saying it's all right for non-indigenous people to go and put a rope around someone's neck and drag them up and down a river and give them a flogging. We're saying that's not on."
Compare to what happened today. Graham Staines was a Australian missionary who had worked to ease the suffering of lepers in India for thirty years. In January 1999, he and his two sons, Timothy, 10 and Philip, 8, were sleeping in his car in the village of Manoharpur, India, when the following happened:
All three were burnt to death by a crowd of Hindu fanatics as they slept in their vehicle outside a church in January 1999. The missionary and his sons tried to escape the flames but the mob, armed with axes, prevented them.
Of the mob, one man was sentenced to death last year, while 12 were handed sentences of life in prison. Thursday, a judge opted to reduce the death sentence to life, while all the others were released.
Result? Well, no white rioting in Australia, at least.
Henrik
Update:
The Staines family before father and sons were burnt to death: http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1604/16040221.jpg
Update 2:
Gladys Staines, the wife of Graham, decided to stay in India nevertheless, to continue helping lepers in the clinic she and her husband had lived in. Now, to add insult to injury the Indian government, that thursday released 12 of their killers last year, slapped a 10 million rupee-demand on it. The land the clinic lies on was given as a gift 102 years ago by a local Maharaja - ie 45 years before India even came into existence. Now, the Indian government has decided that it needs to "regularise" the gift, and needs 10 million rupees to do that.
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