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Rudd, has put a call out to Indians in Australia to not break the law,
in retaliation against attacks. Obviously Farrukh Dhondy has caused a
stir by asking Indians to organize and fight back. I agree with
Dhondy totally that in any civilized society, it would be perfectly
legal to use any means available in self defence. Just as the attacks
themselves are not very considerate of what is legal, why should the
retaliation be? I'm not sure why this point has not been brought up
to make Kevin Rudd shut up.
But let's spare a thought for what Australia is really up against.
For many years, Australia had a "white only" immigration policy. In
other words, they made sure whoever immigrated to Australia legally
had to be white. Now if that is not being racist, what is? It is in
their very national psyche to be racist, and never mind the great big
embrace of a progressive culture many Australians genuinely subscribe
to these days.
At some level, if you have made an enormously stupid decision in
national policy, somebody is going to pay for it at some point in
time. If China wasn't importing Australian coal and India wasn't
sending so many students to fuel Australia's economy, that country
would pretty much have nothing going for it. It isn't as if all
Indians would come running back to India and put an abrupt halt to
their four billion US dollars worth of educational income
contribution. Bank balances take a while to react to events like
these.
However, what is likely to be eroded away is the image of Australia as
a modern, diverse, progressive society. Every act of Australia is
going to be viewed through a lens of suspicion. If this gets any
worse, and it is almost certain to - Australia will pay a very heavy
price socially. Even though these attacks have been largely Melbourne
centric, and apparently in economically backward areas, they have a
way of polarising how people view one another, and the contribution
that ethnic Indians make to Australia will be a lot more close minded
from now on.
Why this is guaranteed to get worse is that negative energies always
have to run their course till the worst repurcussions are felt by the
average Australian. Karma runs in big circles where national policies
are concerned. Anger, resentment, hatred, prejudice, and the
inevitable member of this club, stupidity, all feed upon each other
rather well, and grow in size and variety, and really flourish when
unleashed like this. Ah, today we have a report on television that
the neighbours of racial attack victims are feeling scared, of
reactions, and are not coming out after dark! How lovely that people
who had nothing to do with these attacks, except for belonging in the
same nationality of those idiots have to pay a price already!
Today, an Indian cab driver in Australia was kicked and punched by
Michael Hurley, a football player, when he asked for the fare.
Putting it down to the influence of alcohol, from which there is a
"lesson for everybody", Victoria PM, Brumby has called the footballer
a "good kid" after being arrested at the scene of the crime. Sure
there were the usual noises, but certainly drowned in appreciation of
how "good" this "kid" was. Bloody donkeys these Australians I tell
you. What a disgrace to the few decent people that must live there.
Our college students in Australia are not "good kids", most definitely
not when they don't get drunk, don't beat up people and don't get
arrested. Or else for some reason, maybe racism, none of the
Australians ever used this wonderful term to describe a single Indian
as a "good kid". It is time Indians turned out to be good kids, just
like their Australian counterparts, got drunk and started beating
people up. Couldn't they be told when they get their visas what
Australia considers "good" behaviour?
It must be "excellent" behaviour when it takes seventy Australians to
beat up three Indians. Those numbers are simply astounding. Our boys
took a pounding and survived? Hats off, boys! Australia has managed
to arrest six people in connection with this excellent incident. The
local authorities have apparently decided to open up Hindi helplines
and have asked Indians to call when they are being attacked!!
Today, Peter Verghese, the Australian High Commissioner to India, made
the usual reconciliatory statements to insist Australia is with India
on Arunachal Pradesh. Last month, Australia joined China in scuttling
an ADB loan to an irrigation project in Arunachal Pradesh. China had
lobbied for support, arguing that the Bank cannot fund projects in
Arunachal Pradesh as it is a disputed area. When did Arunachal
Pradesh become a disputed territory? At this rate, I might lose my
house to Mozambique!
Verghese actually went on record saying today that their vote at the
ADB was neither pro-China nor anti-India, but really was in line with
a resolution passed by the management of the ADB. Smooth talking
chap, who gives me something else to think about - the alleged
Christian conspiracy to block India's progress. I wouldn't be
surprised if this fool was a member of some think tank that believes
India's progress can be stopped by scuttling some loan for some
irrigation program.
It is clear that Australia is losing it. They need the money China is
throwing at them for their coal, India is throwing at them for their
increasingly dubious educational system and institutions, they're
looking real bad being one of the most polluting countries in the
world, their people are behaving terribly, and now fear is gripping
their society. Fantastic ingredients for progress, mate?
- BSK.
1 comment:
Keep it up, Senthil! These Aussies need to be told off. Not that it will make a great difference to those "good kids" who can probably barely read and write.
They are scared of competition and are envious of every successful nation. Pretty apt that their colours are yellow and green: baggy green, no less. LOL
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