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Friday, February 17, 2006
Death penalty and the Bali Nine
It made me feel sick this morning to read Dennis Shanahan in The Australian - “As tragic as it is for the parents and families of the convicted, this is a good result.”Here is a man – supposedly of the Catholic right - saying that judicial murder is an unavoidable consequence of police operations. He was playing down the death penalties handed out to some of the Bali Nine saying they were “immaterial” to police objectives.
Yet Shanahan is the man who made the disgusting slur against Bob Brown claiming that the Senator was associated with ‘Nazi style eugenics’.
The hypocrisy of the right knows no bounds.
‘Right to life’ only sometimes
Hypocrisy seems to be the theme of the week. While some of Christian Right have been in overdrive against RU486, that same zeal doesn’t seem to have appeared for those of Bali nine sentenced to death. Where is Tony Abbott’s and Steve Fielding’s campaign for them?
It seems that for the Right, the ‘right to life’ is only sometimes an overriding principle.
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