{"id":20021,"date":"2010-09-02T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=20021"},"modified":"2010-09-02T18:21:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T08:21:04","slug":"i-support-the-darwin-breakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=20021","title":{"rendered":"I support the Darwin Breakout!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPrisoners celebrate life behind bars<\/a> in Curtin prison in March 2001.<\/em><\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> : Hopes of copycat escape bids after asylum-seekers’ breakout<\/a>, Lex Hall and James Madden, The Australian<\/em>, September 2, 2010: “SCORES of Afghan asylum-seekers spent last night in the Darwin watchhouse after a dramatic mass breakout from the city’s immigration centre, amid hopes the incident could spark copycat escape bids from other detention facilities.” Those involved in the break-out are gonna be transferred to the Curtin prison in Western Australia. The prison was closed in 2002 “following a series of riots and incidents of self-harm by prisoners”, and re-opened in June 2010.<\/p>\n

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Asylum seekers stage break-out protest<\/a> (David Coady, ABC): ‘More than 90 Afghan asylum seekers have broken out of the Darwin detention centre and are holding a mass protest on the side of a busy road. The asylum seekers are holding signs which read: “Please help us”, “Show us mercy”, and “We are homeless, defenceless and we seek protection”…’<\/p>\n

I support the Darwin Breakout, and so did Sham 69. In 1978<\/a>, in fact, when they wrote a song in anticipation of its occurence. And do did Extreme Noise Terror when they covered Sham 69’s musical contribution to prison liberation in 1991<\/a> (see below).<\/p>\n

Incidentally, following the Woomera Breakout<\/a> of March 29, 2002, police in Melbourne searched Barricade infoshop looking for escapees. They didn’t find any, however, as a kindly wizard from New Zealand had cast an Invisibility Spell<\/a> upon them.<\/p>\n

True story.<\/p>\n

Refugee advocates say<\/a> the men are Shia Muslims, a minority group often targeted for violence in Afghanistan because of their beliefs.<\/p>\n

The break-out follows disturbances at the center in Darwin Saturday and Sunday involving a group of Indonesians accused of smuggling asylum seekers into Australian waters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Darwin Detention Centre, the prison from which the 70 or so men briefly escaped, is one of many prisons to be owned and operated by a private company: Serco Australia Pty Ltd. Serco is “a joint venture company formed in 1993 between two global service support companies”, the multi-billion dollar Serco Group (UK) and Sodexo (France). Serco won the much-coveted ‘War Profiteer of the Month’<\/a> in February 2009; Sodexo has to be content with a website called Clean Up Sodexo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note that the policy of sticking asylum seekers in prison commenced in 1992, under then Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Gerry Hand (Hand has since gone on to enjoy a career in the mining industry). The policy enjoys the support of both Labor and the Coalition (although renegades occasionally make squeaking noises<\/a> in protest), so it’s unlikely that the prison gates will be thrown open any time soon. Rather, the major parties have been engaged in relentless squabbling over who’s toughest on crime \/ seeking asylum in Australia — thereby seeking to capitalise upon widespread paranoias<\/a> — and their kinky<\/a> behaviour doesn’t look like it’s gonna come to a climax any time soon…<\/p>\n

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