The big problem with my blogging is that I get really fantastic ideas at inopportune times. Usually when I'm in the shower, or about to drift off to sleep. Of course I'll then forget what I wanted to say. The problem is that I can't write things down! I haven't kept blognotes since I left university. I really only use it to maintain my Joaquin Rate List (JRL) so that I can have the names in front of me when I update the JRL. But besides that, everything else is improvised on the spot by me. It could potentially explain the declining quality of the posts, but also is responsible for the increased output compared to previous years. So it's a double edged sword, really.
There is a massive problem in Australia at the moment. Here is the simple truth - 99% of the people in Australia are illegal immigrants. Australia belongs to the indigenous Aboriginal population. The first white settlers came here illegally, and promptly took over the land under the mistaken belief it was unsettled. This was a fact they knew not to be true, because they considered the original inhabitants to not be civilised or human enough. They then took the land and killed the native people and throughout hundreds of years disenfranchised them and discriminated against them. In fact, Aboriginals only received the right to vote well within the space of a lifetime ago. The Australian High Court realised that the land wasn't unsettled when the white settlers first came, but there has been no restitution or reparations since then.
Now we have this (not so) new thing where politicians have capitalised on the fear of everything ethnic to win votes. Xenophobia is the order of the day, as fears of an Asian invasion have given way slightly to fears of boat people or refugees seeking asylum from war torn nations. Both sides of government have labelled these people as queue jumpers, illegals, potential terrorists and criminals. It is under this basis that anyone caught making the dangerous trek to Australia by boat are usually taken by our navy at gunpoint and herded into detention centres in isolated parts of the country. Or at least they used to, until offshore processing occurred. Now they are shipped off to overseas places and placed in centres which resemble concentration camps. They are kept behind razor wire, with abusive security guards, with inadequate facilities. A lot of them develop psychological trauma and resort to hunger strikes, rioting and what not to be heard. They are essentially treated as criminals for the right to seek asylum in another country. That's simply not right. It's hypocritical! Australians are surrounded by so much space and natural resources, they really don't want to share it with anyone else, and that's a fact. There's a belief that if you're not white, you're the 'other'. You're not one of them. They believe in treating everyone 'fairly' but that is all just for show. The hostility and hatred is all there, just wait to keep your ears open behind closed doors.
An asylum seeker was killed just last week in a detention centre overseas. And the government seems to be involved in cover ups and lies about the situation. They've engaged in censorship and a lack of transparency that just typifies all governments, but is exemplary of the conservative style of government. Aren't all the young liberals/republicans (for my US friends) all just a bunch of whingers and whiney bastards? These are the people who become your government when you vote them in. Always quick to criticise, but never provide solutions or alternatives. The worst part? The public doesn't even really care. They are apathetic because both governments have done such a supreme job of dehumanising immigrants, even the ones who arrive by plane, merely because they look different. Such hypocrisy and thuggery. We don't deserve any goodness. We don't deserve mercy. To future waves of asylum seekers, I'd say don't even bother. Go somewhere else, a place that will celebrate your talents and welcome you with open arms, because it won't happen in Australia. We are a tarnished people consumed by hatred and greed. We are the epitome of what's wrong with western society. Become intelligent, become leaders, and then immigrants should take over the land, even illegally. Even if not seeking asylum. That is the Australian way. Then kill the natives, disenfranchise us. Discriminate against us. That is the Australian way. Take our land from right under us. That is all we know. To our Asian neighbours who watch as we thumb our noses at everyone else, when the missiles must be launched, target us first. We don't deserve what we have if we're not willing to share it. We don't deserve it if we can't help others. The clock is ticking. We will not change the tide of time. The inevitable happens. We get swamped. The Australian way of life is nothing but a mirror to the people who happen to be living in it at the time. It is not static. It is ever changing. We will be gone, and hopefully it will be back in the hands of those who really deserve it.
Ahhh rescheduling is a bitch. Throws away your best laid plans. I just want to lie down with a good book, but I guess I have to wait. Anticipation is wonderful. I have some sort of idea, but I could be wrong. Who knows? Only facts can change what I think. Only facts can confirm what I know.
I'll keep this one there.
Joaquin out.
