Extracts from another activism email by me are below. This was one of those emails that I wrote a draft of, then let it sit over night, and wrote something much better the next morning.
It also included some information on a local resource which I have published here.
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Dear Member for _, I was very pleased to read (on The New Daily website, at https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2023/11/22/cyber-security-strategy-2)
of the actions being taken to promote our digital safety. Digital
services are a major staple of modern life - of at least, and possibly
more, importance than services such as roads. Every action we take to
ensure that importance is acknowledged and protected is an action
towards a better society for all - particularly those who are unable for
health/disability reasons to move about much (or at all) outside their homes. Well done to all involved in those actions. I
am, however, less sanguine about reports that [state] police have been
exceeding their role - to the point, in my opinion, of abusing their
power, to lobby for unjustifiable and double punishment of immigration
detainees - links given below. It is the
job of all police to enforce the laws enacted by Parliament - not what
they think the laws should be. One of the concerns I have long held
about police is that damage is done to police wellbeing
because of society's excessive expectations of police - and, indeed, of
all emergency service workers. Continuous exposure to the worst of
society may, in my opinion, distort police views of groups in society,
and I consider police need to be rotated from "front line" duty to other
roles to restore a balanced appreciation of society (which means we, as a society, need to pay for at least twice the numbers of police that we have). (I have written often about this, but at a State level.) It
may be that these views are the damage we as a society have caused
speaking, which makes us, as a society responsible. Nevertheless, as
also expounded in the links below, punishment is to be as society
determines, not as police, who have possibly been affected by our
unreasonable expectations, want. It is the role of Parliament to
determine what punishments are appropriate, which, in this instance,
also means it is up to our National Parliament to rebut and refute
communications from any state police force - that, sadly, is
particularly the case with the [state] police, who have problems such as
decades of homophobia and transphobia (reported on recently at an enquiry), and questionable conduct at protests. The links I referred to on this matter are:
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Assumptions / basis
In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following:
- this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan
Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
If they are of any use of interest, the activism information links from my former news posts are available in this post.
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