Question: is anyone willing to join me? Ive just read the Guardian article - theguardian/commentisfree/2014/nov/06/dear-bill-shorten-youre-the-opposition-leader-not-me-its-time-to-drop-your-soft-bipartisanship?CMP=soc_567 Seems we need to push the barrow and we need to shove the refugee barrel all ways. Julian Burnside is presumably still sending letters through to refugees. Ive had David Bushbys office try and tell me that they cant send letters because I dont have individuals names. They can make anything we do to try and get through to refugees impossible. People are engaging in civil disobedience by praying in pollies offices. We are protesting. Etc. Is anyone willing to join me in what I am coining as Civil Obedience, in the campaign Ive already started on, personally? That is, by writing to refugees, thus drawing attention to the inhumane treatment meted out to them by our government. This inhumannity is that of not allowing them contact with people who support them. then there is the unconscionable treatment of citizens by blocking our very civil efforts to keep in touch with people who have asked for our help. After all, refugees have the right to correspondence, especially if it is totally non-controversial correspondence. I am riled by the pretence from Bushbys office that they cant pass my letters and postcards along. Senator Leyonhjelm is obviously aghast at our lack of an Opposition. We must, in this issue, become our own Loyal Opposition. I suggest we start this by drawing attention to the evident lack of duty of care towards refugees by taking, giving/sending as many letters as we can, constantly like a drip-feed to our representatives of all stripes, asking them to get them to refugees on our behalf. If we take them in to the pollie offices in person and they say they cant get them delivered, we ask, Why not? It is a fair question. If we post them to pollies offices, I suggest we include a note saying that we presume that politicians have the right to act on our collective behalf as citizens and that we would like them to get these cards delivered. Over time, if they say they cant - then we ask what is wrong with our country that they would make it so, and that we should accept such draconian stupidity in such an innocent matter. It is a choice, after all. This is not civil disobedience; this is World Citizenship Obedience, using the concept that we should be able to do positive things in others defence and our own, to foster our own rights and duties as national and world citizens. It seems innocuous. It IS innocuous. But I would love to see it become a flood, and thus important innocuous. I ask that people mentally commit to whatever they can do. One letter a week. Two? One letter a month. A personal note. A piece of paper with a cut-out picture on it. Something small, something simple, something beautiful, something constant. I would like to see a campaign of Civil Obedience, Civil Kindness. Would people join me in this? Would people help this grow?
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:46:26 +0000
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