The Spectacle of Silence.

"Operation Sovereign Borders"

It has a fascist ring about it

Public interest not of concern

A military solution
To a human problem
That sounds like an intervention
And once it's military
We, the public, are on a need to know basis
And, frankly, we don't need to know
Except that this is Australia 2014
Not South Africa 1974
(comparisons have been made)

So human rights go out the window
Like keeping children in prison
Torturing and detaining ligitimate
Asylum seekers in offshore prisons
You out there voted for these cretins

Heeding their call to arms

"Australia is being invaded!"

It has been for forty thousand years

And the locals have learned to accept

Waves of invaders as traders

But not this lot because the immenent threat
Is the most visible
Make it invisible and it goes away
Yet the stigma stays
The stain upon our national character
That we don't treat these people
Like the human beings they are
We are too busy

Digging into the guts of this terra nullius

Scraping out whatever we can find

Wealth beyond imagining

Tie that into terrorism

And anything becomes illegal

Even broadening your mind

© shaun patrick green 2013