Fisking a leftist’s response to The Howard Plan to save indegenous children

The left have been oh so quiet about indigenous issues of late, probably because they know that they are ,to a large extent, responsible for the desolate landscape that is indigenous Australia. But now that John Howard has made some very wide ranging reforms, with bipartisan support from Kevin Rudd I might add, The old “rights agenda and accusations of “racism” get trotted out . All quotes come from this piece at “The dead Roo”

Howard’s big black attack

Today, the 21st of June, will go down as a dark day in the history of black Australia. Howard has announced sweeping “reforms” in the Northern Territory, they’re being called the “national emergency response to protect aboriginal people”.

It’s to happen in the Northern Territory where there is no obstacle to government power in the form of a pesky state constitution, or pesky clauses in the federal constitution. It’s the biggest attack on black rights since the stolen generations, and it could well be the wedge that wins Howard the 2007 federal election.

Here’s the government’s media kit outlining the plan.

Other’s are covering the comparisons to the Tampa election quite well.

Now for my review… in short, I cannot find a single redeeming feature in the governments disgusting plan.

Kieran is of course all up in arms here about The rights of indigenous people but what about the rights of the children who are growing up in fear and suffering sexual and violent abuse? That is after all the reason that such measures are necessary.

The measures include … introducing widespread alcohol restrictions on Northern Territory Aboriginal land.

Alcohol and drug abuse are the side effects of government neglect, the stripping of services from communities, and the complete lack of an economic future.

But no, the federal government will instead blame the victims, aboriginal communities, and punish them by instituting prohibition. Prohibition will of course completely fail to deal with the underlying problem, not to mention it is a gross affront upon the rights and dignities of aboriginal communities.

Well I think that prohibition has a good chance of working given the isolation of many of these communities and lets be clear that the rights and dignities of the abused women and children will actually be enhanced by these measures. So as with so many of these things we have a competing rights situation. To my mind the rights of women and children trump the rights of drinkers every time.

Introducing welfare reforms to stem the flow of cash going toward substance abuse and to ensure funds meant to be for children’s welfare are used for that purpose

Food stamps. Again, an affront to dignity and human rights. Aboriginal’s will no longer has the same welfare rights as white Australians.

The purpose of a large proportion of welfare for people with children IS for the needs of those children and there are already provisions in the regulations to ensure that the monies are used for the correct purposes. Those monies are paid to parents on the basis that the children will actually be clothed and fed properly. As a Parent I cannot think of any problem with ensuring dysfunctional people are prevented from pissing their children’s futures up against a wall.

Enforcing school attendance by linking income support and family assistance payments to school attendance for all people living on Aboriginal land and providing meals for children at school at parents’ cost

A disgusting affront to the personal freedom of aboriginal people.

Sadly such things are necessary as the only way to prevent the intergenerational transmission of the disease of indolence and ignorance is to insist that this generation of children get a good functional education and the key to that is the same requirement of attendance that is expected of all other children.

Introducing compulsory health checks for all Aboriginal children to identify and treat health problems and any effects of abuse

The requirement for consent before medical treatment is considered one of the most basic human rights in the field of human health, it is the most basic statement of individual control over their own body. The federal government will abolish this, for blacks only of course.

Do you seriously expect that such consent will be withheld? Oh come on, you clutch at straws here. In any case if parents are incompetent due to substance abuse the state is empowered to act in their place and give consent on behalf of such children.

Acquiring townships prescribed by the Australian Government through five year leases including payment of just terms compensation

The federal government will seize black lands. Talk about serious déjà vu, not to mention the complete denigration of communal property rights.

As part of the immediate emergency response, increasing policing levels in prescribed communities, including requesting secondments from other jurisdictions to supplement NT resources, funded by the Australian Government.

Again, not dealing with the problem, but instead blaming and punishing the victim. The government will seize the communities, and turn them into mini police states. Instead of communities of despair, we’ll have communities of fear. Anyone willing to take a bet that black deaths in custody will significantly increase within a year of the introduction of these measures?

Ah the Hyperbole of the left, such a wonderful sight in the morning. Leftists like Kieran just can not let go of the idea that indigenous society is some wonderful example of a socialist ideal. That was the impetus for the likes of Nugget Coombes and the Whitlem Government. But the evidence of the status quo shows that we don’t have a myriad of socialist utopias in remote Australia but a spectrum of Dystopias that are the shame of the nation.

Requiring intensified on ground clean up and repair of communities to make them safer and healthier by marshalling local workforces through work-for-the-dole

Great, we’ll put those black bastards to work picking up all the rubbish… Just another measure to ensure these communities are under complete federal control. Anyone wanna take odds on violent and organized black resistance to these measures?!

Take away the grog and a lot of the violence will fade away and do we not expect that every citizen should maintain his or her living spaces in a manner that is fit for human habitation? I bet that if some one in say Wodonga was to have their garden strewn with rubbish. they would be expected to clean it up . These remote communities are no different.

Improving housing and reforming community living arrangements in prescribed communities including the introduction of market based rents and normal tenancy arrangements

“Normal” tenancy arrangements. Ie, normal by white standards. Ie, forcing the standards of the white community upon the black community. Wow, we used to just call this assimiliation or the White Australia Policy. It’s also known as cultural genocide.

Hang on a minute don’t we live in AUSTRALIA? This is not South Africa circa 1970 where the standards for black and white people were different. In all other parts of Australia if a house is provided to you by the government (via the housing commissions) a tenant is expected to keep and maintain the building in a fit state. Why has it been possible for houses to be wrecked by indigenous tenants and for there to be no repercussions when they do so?

Banning the possession of X-rated pornography and introducing audits of all publicly funded computers to identify illegal material

WE WILL POLICE YOUR LIVES. Come off it, there’s not even the skerick of a rational explanation for that one.

The clear evidence of the ‘little children are sacred” report is that indigenous children as young as three are acting out behaviours that they have seen in such films because there has been insufficient parental discretion about exposing children to such things. Responible adults do NOT allow their children to watch such things until they are eighteen when the law says that they may do so.

Scrapping the permit system for common areas, road corridors and airstrips for prescribed communities on Aboriginal land, and;
Improving governance by appointing managers of all government business in prescribed communities

Yep, complete government control. No indigenous control at all. Why not just get it over with and call these “prescribed communities” missions and call in the nuns?!

Read the reports Kieran, the permit system has been instrumental in allowing so much of the violence and abuse by preventing the scrutiny of the wider community. And by creating save havens for the kiddie fiddlers and substance abusers. Strangely they don’t like the light. And the left wants to keep the world in the dark as much as they do.

“You have failed to live your life to the standards we expect. We will now live it for you.”

Howard intends to win this election by declaring war on black Australia. Let the genocide re-commence.

In this country we do not sanction suicide, certainly if some one succeeds in killing themselves they can have no punishment in law. However there are legal sanctions for assisting some one to commit suicide and lets be real here, what we see in indigenous communities is not genocide it is a sort of cultural suicide, by Grog, Ganga, and Gasoline. No one should stand by and whine about “rights” when one person is standing on the edge of a cliff and threatening to jump off so why is it that the minions of the left want to mutter so loudly about rights when so many indigenous communities are collectively standing on a precipice? Surely inaction on this pressing problem is going to result in some thing more akin to the notion of genocide that Kieran invokes here than John Howard’s plan. Because there is no dignity in the status quo continuing for our indigenous brothers and sisters, there is only the prospect of a slow cultural and actual death.

Cross posted at Iain Hall