Racist White Australia Targets Pacifists & Muslims

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By Gideon Polya

Al-Jazeerah, September 17, 2005

Racist White Australia has had a violent history involving invasion, genocide, dispossession, slavery, the anti-Asian White Australia policy and continuing participation in Anglo-American imperialist wars. Australia, the UK and the US are among the World's oldest democracies but in the post-1950 era have variously had an appalling record of violent occupation of non-European countries. While their supporters justify current Australia-backed UK-US violence as "democratic imperialism", others use terminology such as "democratic Nazism", "democratic tyranny" and "state terrorism" (as distinct from "non-state terrorism"). Anglo-American imperialism has played a substantial part in the post-1950 avoidable mortality (excess mortality) that totals 1.3 billion for the World, 1.2 billion for the non-European World and 0.6 billion for the Muslim World - a Muslim Holocaust 100 times greater than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (6 million victims) or the "forgotten" WW2 man-made Bengal Famine in British-ruled India (4 million Hindu and Muslim victims).

Politician and media hysteria over jihadist "non-state terrorism" has enabled the extreme right-wing Australian Government (with substantial support from the cowardly and demoralized Opposition Labor Party) to enact draconian security and "border protection" laws. Immigration laws in recent years have permitted thousands of (largely Muslim) refugees (men, women and children) to be imprisoned without charge in concentration camps - indeed some children have lived the first 3 years of their lives behind razor wire.

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On Saturday 10 September 2005 US teacher, environmentalist and anti-war activist Scott Parkin was publicly seized by 6 Australian Government security officials in a popular restaurant area of Melbourne. He was subsequently imprisoned for 6 days without charge in a prison for dangerous criminals awaiting trial. He was attacked as a "security threat" by Federal Government Ministers acting on "secret advice" from un-named secret police and was denied access to media, although not to legal representation.

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If Australian politicians, media and government comprehensively refused to acknowledge the reality of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust we would be quite reasonable in concluding that Australia was profoundly racist and specifically anti-semitic - yet they comprehensively refuse to acknowledge the WW2 Bengal Famine and the publicly-available UN data indicating the horrendous post-invasion avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories that now total 2.0 million and 1.6 million, respectively. We would be quite reasonable in concluding that - for all the public "political correctness" - White Australia remains profoundly racist in relation to Asians and other non-Europeans.

The fundamental racism of White Australia is clearly illustrated by the ZERO public response to the following letter that was recently sent to ALL members of Federal Parliament and to a wide range of State politicians and mainstream media in the public interest:

Read that letter here.