Archive for 'Power'
Powerful child abusers are a protected species
Posted by John, May 28th, 2015 - under Power, Powerlessness.
Tags: Catholic church, Child abuse
Comments: none
Louise O’Shea in Red Flag writes that the powerful are protected no matter what they do. Child abuse, whether it be in religious institutions, orphanages, through forced poverty or in immigration detention centres, is acceptable so long as it is carried out by the powerful. Seen in this context, moral panics about protecting children have nothing to do with concern for children. They are rather a cynical pretext for attacks on people’s rights and the demonising of minorities.
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Power, police and paedophile priests
Posted by John, November 14th, 2012 - under Paedophilia, Police, Power, Priests.
Tags: Catholic church
Comments: 5
The problems are systemic and require systemic solutions, not band-aids. All capitalism can give us, given the importance of the police and religion to the system and the power they have, is band-aids and Royal Commissions.
Until the privileged position and power of the police and priests is overthrown there will be more deaths and injuries at the hands of police and ongoing abuse of children by priests and others.
Does the Australian working class have the power to change society?
Posted by John, April 1st, 2011 - under Power, Resistance.
Tags: Australian working class, Fighting back
Comments: 1
One-sided accounts of the weakness of the working class by left wing writers, even if motivated by sympathy for workers, only reinforce the power of the bosses and the state by making it seem as if resistance is useless. Such analyses are a godsend for the union bureaucracy, which likes nothing better than a seemingly left wing argument to justify its own passivity. They are, therefore, a dangerous diversion and need to be vigorously challenged wherever they appear.
The Chaser’s war on the powerless
Posted by Leonie, June 6th, 2009 - under Imperialism, Indian students, Muslims, Power, Powerlessness, Racism, Refugees, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor.
Tags: Aborigines, Afghanistan, ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Classes
Comments: none
The Chaser team should do a skit on those kids Rudd’s troops have killed or whose deaths Rudd ignores as imperialism around the world (of which Australia is an integral part) destroys their lives.
Priests, the abuse of kids and state intervention
Posted by Leonie, May 21st, 2009 - under Northern Territory Intervention, Power, Powerlessness, Sexual abuse, The Catholic Church, Wage slavery.
Tags: Aborigines, Abuse, Bikies, Child abuse
Comments: 7
We invade the Northern Territory to ‘protect’ children. We outlaw bikie gangs for alleged crimes. Why not the same for the Catholic Church?