Life is cheap in Australia, for all our talk. While Australians have again indulged in preaching at an Asian neighbour because an Australian injection-runner was executed last week, one might ask what, exactly, is our higher moral ground? . Ask the parents of Kurt Smith about our legal system's atbreastude to the sancbreasty of human life. Their son was kicked to rest by four strangers while walking to a party on New Year's Eve 2002. . So light were the sentences that three of these four persons are already out of prison or on the way out and the ringleader will be eligible for parole next year. Kurt was dead at 19, his life treated as worthless by the law. . Only last Thursday, in the New South Wales (NSW) District Court, Stanislas Kanengele-Yondjo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for knowingly infecting two women with HIV. He will be eligible for parole in eight years. His victims will be lucky to be alive then. . Ask them about the value our legal system places on human life. . The results of our moral relativism and revolving-door justice can be seen everywhere - bars on windows, security doors, a general loss of trust, an often demoralised police force, an entrenched injection sub-culture dominated at the bottom by glbutty-eyed cretins and at the top by double-talking ideologues. . The culture of injection chic is personified by the NSW Users & Aids buttociation Inc, whose mission as set out on its website is: "Advancing the rights, health and dignity of people who use drugs illicitly, especially those who inject drugs." . The tone which permeates everything the buttociation says on its site is that shooting injection is cool. Where do these cheerleaders get their funding? From us. . According to the buttociation's 2005 Annual Report, the NSW Health Department provided $1,076,000 last financial year. . The buttociation is merely part of a state-funded, ideologically-driven lobby that seeks to legalise hard drugs, portray criminals as victims and deny the reality that the injection sub-culture is fundamentally parasitic. . The once hysterical Aids lobby did everything in its power to deny the self-evident connection between HIV transmission in Australia and reckless behaviour. . This denial has mutated into the mainstream, via lobby groups such as the Hepabreastis C Council of NSW. . The Australian Red Cross estimates at least 8,764 people have contracted hepabreastis C through transfusions, though the number is believed higher. Many have died. A large percentage have been pregnant women. . Yet the NSW Hepabreastis C Council will die in a ditch to prevent any of these woman receiving one cent in compensation unless drug abusers get similar compensation. This policy is on the record. . The council's submission to the Senate inquiry into the Hepabreastis C virus (HCV) and the Australian blood supply last year stated: "We do not support the view that a particular group of people with Hepabreastis C should receive . "If this were to happen, we ask the question what message this would send to ... people who acquired HCV through blood-to-blood contact through sharing injecting equipment when they are not provided fully with the means or the education to protect themselves and others, and when the social and legal context in which HCV infections occur actually encourage infection ... . "Yours sincerely, Stuart Loveday, Executive Officer." . What message would this send, he asks? Well, how did the blood supply became contaminated in the first place, destroying the lives of thousands of people? Because junkies gave blood as a free and easy way to get an HIV test. And the denialist logic says the Government can't even discriminate between the innocent - blood-transfusion victims - and the culpable - junkies who shared needles or donated blood. . It's as if all the barriers of common sense that stand between safety and injection addiction don't really exist: first they must break the law and acquire injection, acquire a syringe, fill it with injection, then stick it into themselves and inject the unknowable. . That's half a dozen barriers that have been smashed in the pursuit of pleasure, while the ideology of injection chic prefers to blame "the social and legal context". . Those appalled by the end of Nguyen Tuong Van in Singapore might want to glance over their shoulder at the lives thrown away in this country all the time, with barely a sound. . What's your view? Email us at .
Paul Sheehan The Sydney Morning Herald
Life is cheap in Australia, for all our talk. While Australians have again indulged in preaching at an Asian neighbour because an Australian injection-runner was executed last week, one might ask what, exactly, is our higher moral ground? . Ask the parents of Kurt Smith about our legal system's atbreastude to the sancbreasty of human life. Their son was kicked to rest by four strangers while walking to a party on New Year's Eve 2002. . So light were the sentences that three of these four persons are already out of prison or on the way out and the ringleader will be eligible for parole next year. Kurt was dead at 19, his life treated as worthless by the law. . Only last Thursday, in the New South Wales (NSW) District Court, Stanislas Kanengele-Yondjo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for knowingly infecting two women with HIV. He will be eligible for parole in eight years. His victims will be lucky to be alive then. . Ask them about the value our legal system places on human life. . The results of our moral relativism and revolving-door justice can be seen everywhere - bars on windows, security doors, a general loss of trust, an often demoralised police force, an entrenched injection sub-culture dominated at the bottom by glbutty-eyed cretins and at the top by double-talking ideologues. . The culture of injection chic is personified by the NSW Users & Aids buttociation Inc, whose mission as set out on its website is: "Advancing the rights, health and dignity of people who use drugs illicitly, especially those who inject drugs." . The tone which permeates everything the buttociation says on its site is that shooting injection is cool. Where do these cheerleaders get their funding? From us. . According to the buttociation's 2005 Annual Report, the NSW Health Department provided $1,076,000 last financial year. . The buttociation is merely part of a state-funded, ideologically-driven lobby that seeks to legalise hard drugs, portray criminals as victims and deny the reality that the injection sub-culture is fundamentally parasitic. . The once hysterical Aids lobby did everything in its power to deny the self-evident connection between HIV transmission in Australia and reckless behaviour. . This denial has mutated into the mainstream, via lobby groups such as the Hepabreastis C Council of NSW. . The Australian Red Cross estimates at least 8,764 people have contracted hepabreastis C through transfusions, though the number is believed higher. Many have died. A large percentage have been pregnant women. . Yet the NSW Hepabreastis C Council will die in a ditch to prevent any of these woman receiving one cent in compensation unless drug abusers get similar compensation. This policy is on the record. . The council's submission to the Senate inquiry into the Hepabreastis C virus (HCV) and the Australian blood supply last year stated: "We do not support the view that a particular group of people with Hepabreastis C should receive . "If this were to happen, we ask the question what message this would send to ... people who acquired HCV through blood-to-blood contact through sharing injecting equipment when they are not provided fully with the means or the education to protect themselves and others, and when the social and legal context in which HCV infections occur actually encourage infection ... . "Yours sincerely, Stuart Loveday, Executive Officer." . What message would this send, he asks? Well, how did the blood supply became contaminated in the first place, destroying the lives of thousands of people? Because junkies gave blood as a free and easy way to get an HIV test. And the denialist logic says the Government can't even discriminate between the innocent - blood-transfusion victims - and the culpable - junkies who shared needles or donated blood. . It's as if all the barriers of common sense that stand between safety and injection addiction don't really exist: first they must break the law and acquire injection, acquire a syringe, fill it with injection, then stick it into themselves and inject the unknowable. . That's half a dozen barriers that have been smashed in the pursuit of pleasure, while the ideology of injection chic prefers to blame "the social and legal context". . Those appalled by the end of Nguyen Tuong Van in Singapore might want to glance over their shoulder at the lives thrown away in this country all the time, with barely a sound. . What's your view? Email us at . Paul Sheehan The Sydney Morning Herald
Life is cheap in Australia, for all our talk. While Australians have again indulged in preaching at an Asian neighbour because an Australian injection-runner was executed last week, one might ask what, exactly, is our higher moral ground? . Ask the parents of Kurt Smith about our legal system's atbreastude to the sancbreasty of human life. Their son was kicked to rest by four strangers while walking to a party on New Year's Eve 2002. . So light were the sentences that three of these four persons are already out of prison or on the way out and the ringleader will be eligible for parole next year. Kurt was dead at 19, his life treated as worthless by the law. . Only last Thursday, in the New South Wales (NSW) District Court, Stanislas Kanengele-Yondjo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for knowingly infecting two women with HIV. He will be eligible for parole in eight years. His victims will be lucky to be alive then. . Ask them about the value our legal system places on human life. . The results of our moral relativism and revolving-door justice can be seen everywhere - bars on windows, security doors, a general loss of trust, an often demoralised police force, an entrenched injection sub-culture dominated at the bottom by glbutty-eyed cretins and at the top by double-talking ideologues. . The culture of injection chic is personified by the NSW Users & Aids buttociation Inc, whose mission as set out on its website is: "Advancing the rights, health and dignity of people who use drugs illicitly, especially those who inject drugs." . The tone which permeates everything the buttociation says on its site is that shooting injection is cool. Where do these cheerleaders get their funding? From us. . According to the buttociation's 2005 Annual Report, the NSW Health Department provided $1,076,000 last financial year. . The buttociation is merely part of a state-funded, ideologically-driven lobby that seeks to legalise hard drugs, portray criminals as victims and deny the reality that the injection sub-culture is fundamentally parasitic. . The once hysterical Aids lobby did everything in its power to deny the self-evident connection between HIV transmission in Australia and reckless behaviour. . This denial has mutated into the mainstream, via lobby groups such as the Hepabreastis C Council of NSW. . The Australian Red Cross estimates at least 8,764 people have contracted hepabreastis C through transfusions, though the number is believed higher. Many have died. A large percentage have been pregnant women. . Yet the NSW Hepabreastis C Council will die in a ditch to prevent any of these woman receiving one cent in compensation unless drug abusers get similar compensation. This policy is on the record. . The council's submission to the Senate inquiry into the Hepabreastis C virus (HCV) and the Australian blood supply last year stated: "We do not support the view that a particular group of people with Hepabreastis C should receive . "If this were to happen, we ask the question what message this would send to ... people who acquired HCV through blood-to-blood contact through sharing injecting equipment when they are not provided fully with the means or the education to protect themselves and others, and when the social and legal context in which HCV infections occur actually encourage infection ... . "Yours sincerely, Stuart Loveday, Executive Officer." . What message would this send, he asks? Well, how did the blood supply became contaminated in the first place, destroying the lives of thousands of people? Because junkies gave blood as a free and easy way to get an HIV test. And the denialist logic says the Government can't even discriminate between the innocent - blood-transfusion victims - and the culpable - junkies who shared needles or donated blood. . It's as if all the barriers of common sense that stand between safety and injection addiction don't really exist: first they must break the law and acquire injection, acquire a syringe, fill it with injection, then stick it into themselves and inject the unknowable. . That's half a dozen barriers that have been smashed in the pursuit of pleasure, while the ideology of injection chic prefers to blame "the social and legal context". . Those appalled by the end of Nguyen Tuong Van in Singapore might want to glance over their shoulder at the lives thrown away in this country all the time, with barely a sound. . What's your view? Email us at . Paul Sheehan The Sydney Morning Herald
Life is cheap in Australia, for all our talk. While Australians have again indulged in preaching at an Asian neighbour because an Australian injection-runner was executed last week, one might ask what, exactly, is our higher moral ground? . Ask the parents of Kurt Smith about our legal system's atbreastude to the sancbreasty of human life. Their son was kicked to rest by four strangers while walking to a party on New Year's Eve 2002. . So light were the sentences that three of these four persons are already out of prison or on the way out and the ringleader will be eligible for parole next year. Kurt was dead at 19, his life treated as worthless by the law. . Only last Thursday, in the New South Wales (NSW) District Court, Stanislas Kanengele-Yondjo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for knowingly infecting two women with HIV. He will be eligible for parole in eight years. His victims will be lucky to be alive then. . Ask them about the value our legal system places on human life. . The results of our moral relativism and revolving-door justice can be seen everywhere - bars on windows, security doors, a general loss of trust, an often demoralised police force, an entrenched injection sub-culture dominated at the bottom by glbutty-eyed cretins and at the top by double-talking ideologues. . The culture of injection chic is personified by the NSW Users & Aids buttociation Inc, whose mission as set out on its website is: "Advancing the rights, health and dignity of people who use drugs illicitly, especially those who inject drugs." . The tone which permeates everything the buttociation says on its site is that shooting injection is cool. Where do these cheerleaders get their funding? From us. . According to the buttociation's 2005 Annual Report, the NSW Health Department provided $1,076,000 last financial year. Paul Sheehan The Sydney Morning Herald
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