Comments on: Guilt and Innocence III http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:07:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: s0metim3s http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-159 s0metim3s Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:47:15 +0000 http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-159 It's really hard to stomach. One of the Report's authors has said canceling the permit system is an error. Asked about this, Brough stayed with the message of "protecting women and children". I'd need a lawyer (maybe) to parse what leasing land for five years under "just terms" means exactly, though I gather it's a reference to the conditions under which the Govt can constitutionally seize land/property. But I wonder if any determination of "just terms" would or not include an assessment of potential profits from resource extraction, eg, uranium - which I hear is about to be a booming industry, for saving the planet of course, just as paramilitary occupations are for saving children ... It’s really hard to stomach. One of the Report’s authors has said canceling the permit system is an error. Asked about this, Brough stayed with the message of “protecting women and children”.

I’d need a lawyer (maybe) to parse what leasing land for five years under “just terms” means exactly, though I gather it’s a reference to the conditions under which the Govt can constitutionally seize land/property. But I wonder if any determination of “just terms” would or not include an assessment of potential profits from resource extraction, eg, uranium – which I hear is about to be a booming industry, for saving the planet of course, just as paramilitary occupations are for saving children …

]]> By: WildlyParenthetical http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-132 WildlyParenthetical Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:44:45 +0000 http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-132 I think you're probably right, s0metim3s. I haven't been able to stomach the glut of politicalspeak about it for the past day or so, and so I don't have a proper grip on the questions of land and property rights etc. My only thing to add at the moment is that the canceling of the permit system, which seems to be what's happening, is a serious incursion (and I've heard some concerns about mining companies gaining access which are likely well founded) not least because it counters the supposed thrust of the plan of producing a community which protects its own (kids): without a permit system, where does the right to exclude those seeking 'access' to children? I think you’re probably right, s0metim3s. I haven’t been able to stomach the glut of politicalspeak about it for the past day or so, and so I don’t have a proper grip on the questions of land and property rights etc. My only thing to add at the moment is that the canceling of the permit system, which seems to be what’s happening, is a serious incursion (and I’ve heard some concerns about mining companies gaining access which are likely well founded) not least because it counters the supposed thrust of the plan of producing a community which protects its own (kids): without a permit system, where does the right to exclude those seeking ‘access’ to children?

]]> By: archive : s0metim3s http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-127 archive : s0metim3s Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:11:55 +0000 http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-127 <strong>National Emergency</strong> The introductory sketch from a draft below. See also the posts and discussion at Influxus, Wildly Parenthetical, Hoyden. And just let me say that I think those people who, rather than criticise the welfare measures announced, clamour (in the putativ... National Emergency

The introductory sketch from a draft below. See also the posts and discussion at Influxus, Wildly Parenthetical, Hoyden. And just let me say that I think those people who, rather than criticise the welfare measures announced, clamour (in the putativ…

]]> By: Blood and guilt: Federal jackbootery roundup. at Hoyden About Town http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-118 Blood and guilt: Federal jackbootery roundup. at Hoyden About Town Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:32:39 +0000 http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-118 [...] Parenthetical has Guilt and Innocence I, II and III, which centres around a guilt/innocence binary being applied to the government’s constructed [...] [...] Parenthetical has Guilt and Innocence I, II and III, which centres around a guilt/innocence binary being applied to the government’s constructed [...]

]]> By: s0metim3s http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-116 s0metim3s Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:54:35 +0000 http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-116 It's taken me a day or so, but I'm at the point where I feel pretty clear this declared emergency has little to do with child abuse, and much to do with the privatisation/transfer of communal landholdings. It’s taken me a day or so, but I’m at the point where I feel pretty clear this declared emergency has little to do with child abuse, and much to do with the privatisation/transfer of communal landholdings.

]]> By: wildlyparenthetical http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-88 wildlyparenthetical Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:03:56 +0000 http://wildlyparenthetical.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/guilt-and-innocence-iii/#comment-88 Forgot to say something about the presumption that child sex abuse in these communities will be resolved by these punitive measures being applied to those who live in them. Yet much of the sex abuse, so it would seem, is perpetrated by non-indigenous people who come into these communities from elsewhere. How is a ban on alcohol going to stop this? And is there not a risk that such a ban might be taken advantage of by precisely those who seek access to indigenous children? Forgot to say something about the presumption that child sex abuse in these communities will be resolved by these punitive measures being applied to those who live in them. Yet much of the sex abuse, so it would seem, is perpetrated by non-indigenous people who come into these communities from elsewhere. How is a ban on alcohol going to stop this? And is there not a risk that such a ban might be taken advantage of by precisely those who seek access to indigenous children?

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