http://carlton-uca.org/news/2009/07/06/power-and-love/ A Uniting Church in Carlton Wed, 09 May 2012 13:51:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://carlton-uca.org/news/2009/07/06/power-and-love/#comment-8 olivia Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:38:44 +0000 http://carlton-uca.org/news/?p=1161#comment-8 After April's fatal explosion on board a boat carrying asylum seekers, Australian PM Kevin Rudd said people smugglers were the <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/17/2545748.htm" rel="nofollow">"absolute scum of the earth" who should "rot in hell."</a> Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside was asked in a radio interview to comment on this view. He said, remember that favourite family musical, <em>The Sound of Music</em>? In that film, the Von Trapp family were the refugees and the nuns were the people smugglers. In the same period, celebrated people like Oskar Schindler were also people smugglers. Kevin Rudd should ask some refugees about the people they're running <em>from</em> to learn a bit more about the scum of the earth After April’s fatal explosion on board a boat carrying asylum seekers, Australian PM Kevin Rudd said people smugglers were the “absolute scum of the earth” who should “rot in hell.”
Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside was asked in a radio interview to comment on this view. He said, remember that favourite family musical, The Sound of Music? In that film, the Von Trapp family were the refugees and the nuns were the people smugglers. In the same period, celebrated people like Oskar Schindler were also people smugglers.
Kevin Rudd should ask some refugees about the people they’re running from to learn a bit more about the scum of the earth

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