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From 2001 to 2007, and again since 2012, people seeking asylum in Australia have been taken to the Manus Regional Processing Centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and held there. On 26 April 2016, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea found that a constitutional amendment made to permit such detentions violates the PNG constitution. The amendment had permitted "holding a foreign national under arrangements made by Papua New Guinea with another country"; the court said the provision was at odds with the guarantee of "the right to personal liberty" elsewhere in the constitution.
A lawyer representing over 900 "current and former" detainees said he would file on 2 May a request for A$125,000 per person and would be "seeking to enforce the judgment against the Commonwealth of Australia."
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- BBC News on the ruling
- ABC on the ruling
- ABC Pacific Beat (audio)
- ABC on the lawsuit
- Radio New Zealand
- Neos Kosmos
- stuff.co.nz editorial
- Daily Mail
- AAP via The Daily Telegraph
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday May 03 2016, @01:01AM
Was the pressure from a foreign country? Did revoking prohibition allow incarcerated bootleggers to go free? Did it change their citizenship or residency status?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by BK on Tuesday May 03 2016, @01:06AM
You were going to look that up. I'm pretty sure that it was all tied up with some group or other getting voting rights. They wanted to suffer I guess.
What it did do was change the USA constitution. Twice. And each time it meant what it said. It was like it was a constitution or something.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @02:48PM
While I disagree that somehow the word "constitution" and "amendment" are magickal power words that mean the same things across nations, even nations that sprang from a similar culture, at least you've correctly identified the feminist involvement in alcohol prohibition.
Of course, feminists of the day learned that if they threw black men under the bus, they could get the USA, in seeming straight-forward violation of its very own 9th amendment, to make something else that offended their busybody senses without even needing to go through the whole amendment process. Thank goodness we're finally get that brain damage repealed. Won't be long now until that great legacy of the temperance movement and great example of feminism's cozy relationship with racism is history.
Feminism should have been disbanded after they achieved suffrage. Rosie the Riveter and the whole situation of World War 2 probably did more to get women in to the workforce than feminism ever has. Feminism has utterly failed to abolish the womyn-born-womyn who of her own fucking free will chooses to be barefoot in the kitchen and pregnant. Instead, feminism has somehow convinced all of us that we have to fund her by giving her subsidized housing, food stamps, and even cash benefits. That's not even getting into the quagmire of child support and alimony.
So, even your beloved "Constitution" power word at the end of the day doesn't even really mean anything any more. I've been saying it but nobody listens to me. I think the FDA is a good idea just to pick one agency among many I don't think I'd want to live without. It's not prefect, but fucking amend the constitution so it has a constitutional basis to exist. Otherwise as far as I can tell, 9th and 10th amendments say it's unconstitutional. The DEA and the Controlled Substances Act are unconstitutional, feminist inventions. In the case of those, let the 9th and 10th amendments continue to ring freedom as each state decides it's had enough with busybody feminist policy and it's time to tap an entirely new market. Just imagine what kind of a blow big pharma will suffer when everyone can grow their own anti-depressant* or pain suppressor, one that's nearly completely unaddictive--at least nowhere near the addiction that SSRIs and opiates cause--, in their own closets. Down with bored rich white bitches hanging off the arm of some rich guy. Down with feminism.
The prison-industrial complex is just a happy consequence of failed policy as far as the lizard people are concerned.
This off topic rant brought to you by... meh, who cares. Now have a completely off-topic footnote.
* Don't believe once the federal "research" that shows that cannabis causes depression. Say it with me: correlation is not causation. There are a lot of people suffering from depression, no exercise doesn't work, no fake it til you make it doesn't work, no a fucking sun lamp doesn't make a difference, no nothing fucking works, and they deserve to have access to one of mom nature's various cures for depression. Every person is different, which is why a lot of entheogens need to be fucking legal. Also repeat after me: it may be natural, but so are poisons, but not every fucking thing that feminists don't want you to have is a poison. You have to accept that DARE and Nancy Reagan and every busybody authoritarian measure going back to the suffragettes (after they achieved their venerable goal and needed something to direct their busybody energies at) may have lied to you.
P.P.S. Please note the role of the cisfemale hunnies in Reefer Madness. The feminists have been playing the cisfemale hunny card for quite a while now, and it really gets people who would otherwise be opposed to the feminist agenda up in arms, just to make sure the cisfemale hunnies are safe and protected like the fragile, vulnerable flowers they apparently are.