From New Matilda, April 29, 2015 …
If you believe the rhetoric, then Prime Minister Tony Abbott understands the widespread anger at the execution this morning of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, two of the ‘Bali 9’ caught trying to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin out of Denpasar Airport in April 2005.
“I would say to people yes, you are absolutely entitled to be angry, but we’ve got to be very careful to ensure that we do not allow our anger to make a bad situation worse,” Abbott told reporters.
But don’t believe it. It is just rhetoric.
It’s the sort of thing politicians say when they want you to focus on their words, and not their actions.
And it’s not just Abbott. In truth, what our government is saying publicly, and what it, and a succession of governments before it have done quietly, are two very different things.
For despite what both sides of Australian politics will tell you today, Australia does support Indonesia’s policy of executing drug traffickers, and we have done for more than two decades.
There’s one simple reason for this: politics …
Read the full article in New Matilda HERE
New Matilda, on April 29, 2015
