The hunger strike in Oslo

[martinemonster]

This horrible thing is happening. Our new government has shown itself to be just as bad as the old one in showing mercy to suffering people. For those of you who don't know: About thirty afghan refugees are going to be forced back home to Afghanistan because it is now deemed safe to send them home. I for one believe that it is only common sense that before we deem it safe that refugees go home, we send back our special military forces that are doing "classified work" in said country. Obviously our new social democratic government do not share that belief because their asstards! These afghan refugees have now been on a hunger strike for three weeks and now the police came and removed the sickest of them (apparently to the police station where they dumped them so they could walk back to the church they're living outside of) and destroyed their tents. This is horrid. The government needs to be made to understand what's going on here. This is not acceptable.

Comments

[reve-lucide.livejournal.com]

Wow. Sounds like things are just as screwed up where you live as where I live. It's sad, really.

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

I know! And I actually had this naive belief that governments are there to help and protect people...sad and disillutioned now!

[reve-lucide.livejournal.com]

Well, they should be there to help and protect the citizens, but I guess that's just a little too much to ask. They'd rather just regulate the shit out of us, and spend our money on stupid and hurtful things.

[akselwestlund.livejournal.com]

Things usually aren't as fucked up as this. Or they didn't use to be, anyway. This really came as a biot of a nasty shock to me. The thing I don't get is this: if it's all safe and cozy for them to return to Afghanistan, then WHY THE HELL HAVE WE STILL GOT SPECIAL FORCES STAITIONED THERE?

That makes no fucking sense.

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Agreeing with aksel here...they're usually not this bad. But I am shocked that our new government, that I helped bring into office, is doing this. It actually hurts.