What follows is a transcript of the meeting between CRAG and the DIBP employee after the letter blitz to the Fed Attorney General threatening legal action over illegal detention of asylum seekers on the basis that they have performed no criminal act in their means of seeking asylum. It demonstrates a world of public servant conversation where the rules of engagement are agreed upon and the rules of what is allowed to be spoken has been written into the work contracts and everyone has agreed to sign over their rights and obligations to voice, sometime back in their youth. Bureaucrats cannot be held accountable to any but a higher bureaucratic authority and are not to be made responsible for the words spoken on behalf of the state. Ah well, at least they are not just doing their jobs. I hope, against hope, that CRAGs conversations provide an avenue to get these people out of Manus Island and Nauru concentration camps. (The response of the representative indicates that they are not detention camps - but they are in fact actual concentration camps). I do apologise for such a plebeian response/commentary. In fact I want to hold each person accountable to themselves for the words and actions that they undertake to deliver. In Australia now, we sleep like the Germans in socialist pre WW2 Germany. And many of us are tools of oppression. But now in Australia, that is the acceptable way to be. I fear that such engagement is merely agreed to because it stalls any opposing legal action. At least we can say (with some degree of irony albeit) that the CRAG representatives have taken an acceptable route that cannot be inflated into radical action on its public disclosure. Support CRAG in this action. It is at least an engagement.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:21:53 +0000
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