... SACK THIS CORRUPT GOVERNMENT..!! ~ NOW..!! Scott Morrisons foul bet on torture Bookies, as everyone on the wrong end of a losing bet knows, are a heartless lot. But even the most hardboiled of bag-swingers, even those not averse to hiring large tattooed gentlemen to collect unpaid debts, would baulk at framing the odds on a punter having her toenails ripped out or his genitals clipped to a truck battery. The current Australian government has no such benevolent hesitation. The Minister for Immigration, Scott Morrison, is planning to increase the stakes dramatically in deciding whether his nation should send an asylum seeker away to the dungeons and the hands of brutes . And he wants to put a figure on the ghastly business. Yes. He’s offering an each-way bet, set a bit shy of 50-50. Applicants for asylum on the basis of fear of torture must establish, under his proposal, that there is more than a 50 per cent probability that they will be subjected to agony or even death if returned to the country they have fled. In short, if there is a mere 49 to 50 per cent chance of escaping being hung by one’s thumbs from meathooks while being thrashed by a length of electrical flex, that’s good enough for Mr Morrison. They can be sent to whatever fate might await them. m.theage.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/scott-morrisons-foul-bet-on-torture-20140625-zsll1.html
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:39:55 +0000
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