#war of extermination

[yazanabed]

Hello my friends, I am Yazan, a university graduate who had my own business, a graphic designer. After we were displaced from death to death and from hunger to hunger, I lost my own business, my phone and my supplies. Today, I have nothing but myself. Please help me. To get out of this catastrophe (we are dead while alive)😭🍉(The picture is before and during the war)

https://gofund.me/99587cd7

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Despite Stephen’s rhetoric advocating impartiality, he already had a history of strong bias when it came to proposing how to treat Aborigines in the Australian penal colonies. Born in the West Indies on 20 August 1802, Stephen was educated in England where he read law. He set sail for Van Diemen’s Land in 1824 where he took up the position of Solicitor General. Stephen’s arrival in Van Diemen’s Land coincided with a marked increase in conflict between Aboriginal people and colonists known as ‘the Black War’ (1824–31). In 1830, Lieutenant Governor George Arthur approved a quasi-military operation, ‘the Black Line’, to round up all the remaining Aboriginal people in Van Diemen’s Land and corral them down Tasman’s Peninsula.

At a public meeting held in Hobart Town on the eve of the Black Line, Solicitor General Stephen made an extraordinary statement regarding the island colony’s original inhabitants. Prefacing his remarks by claiming that he was speaking as a private citizen, Stephen reasoned that as Aborigines were waging war upon the colonists:

you are bound to put them down. I say that you are bound to do, in reference to the class of individuals who have been involuntarily sent here, and compelled to be in the most advanced position [convict stockmen in remote areas], where they are exposed to the hourly loss of their lives. I say … that you are bound upon every principle of justice and humanity, to protect this particular class of individuals, and if you cannot do so without extermination, then I say boldly and broadly, exterminate!

It is remarkable that a man in Stephen’s profession and position in colonial society was willing to go on the public record, albeit as a private citizen, advocating the extermination of Aboriginal people.

While Stephen was Solicitor General in Van Diemen’s Land, an Aboriginal woman was murdered at Emu Bay while being pursued by some colonists. When Lieutenant Governor George Arthur sought Stephen’s advice about whether to prosecute, the Solicitor General claimed that there was confusion over whether common law or martial law prevailed at the time. He opined a trial ought not to be held because it could ‘result in indiscriminate murders under Martial Law, or, if Common Law were held to run, colonists would hesitate before going out in Capture-Parties, when a death might very well bring them to the gallows’. The alleged murderers were never brought to trial.

Stephen’s opinions on how to treat Aboriginal people extended beyond Van Diemen’s Land. In the mid-1840s, an Aboriginal prisoner Koort Kirrup was in Melbourne Gaol for sixteen months. He was charged with murdering station owner Donald McKenzie and his shepherd at the Portland Bay district in 1842. The man was unable to stand trial because of the lack of an interpreter. The Chief Protector of Aborigines for the Port Phillip District George Augustus Robinson and Assistant Protector William Thomas raised concerns in relation to Kirrup’s lengthy incarceration. Colonial officials in Melbourne were also worried, as it was illegal to hold prisoners for lengthy periods without trial. Stephen proposed a solution to the dilemma: hang Koort Kirrup! Stephen showed no compunction in advocating the extermination of an Aboriginal man allegedly involved in attacking colonists. However, his advice was ignored and Kirrup was released from gaol.

How then, would the Aboriginal inmates in Maitland Gaol fare under a colonial judge with a history of proposing extermination as a solution to colonists’ ‘Aboriginal problem’? At the time of the Aboriginal defendants’ trials, the circuit courts were newly constituted in New South Wales. Circuit courts were expected to deliver considerable benefits to outlying regions. It would take far less time and money to access justice. Landowners would no longer have to send their servants to the cities to bear witness where they could be tempted by vice. Local juries could better appreciate local contexts. And punishments delivered locally were thought to have a great impact on local populations who could view the events rather than hearing about them days later.

Most of these anticipated benefits did not apply to Her Majesty’s Aboriginal subjects. Appearing before local juries in situations charged with emotional intensity and heightened by frontier conflict further disadvantaged Aboriginal defendants. When the seven Aboriginal defendants were put on trial in Maitland in September 1843, rumours were circulating that twelve or thirteen white men had been massacred by Aborigines. At the same time, an abundant harvest was on the verge of being reaped. With a heightened fear of potential losses of life and property, local settlers were unlikely to form an unbiased jury."

- Kristyn Harman, Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan and Māori Exiles. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2012. p. 88-92.

[whamgram]

Charlastor Week - Day 2 - Heaven AU

Where Alastor is The First Man (Who Matters) and Charlie is his lieutenant. 😇🔪

Alastor lived the same life as a serial killer in the 1920/30s and again meets his untimely end from a bullet to the head. But the higher powers thought he was a real swell guy, taking it upon himself to exact justice on the wicked, so he goes to heaven.

Unable to satiate his bloodlust up there, he becomes envious of the violent, crowded realm of hell where sinners can kill each other over and over again with little consequence. He begins to spread propaganda about hell’s overpopulation and the threat of an uprising, and when heaven becomes desperate for a solution, he suggests starting the exterminations.

Charlie, the daughter of the High Seraphim Lucifer, still wants to help sinners. Alastor convinces her that the best way to help them is to exterminate them. Oblivion is a mercy compared to eternal suffering.

He starts scheming a way to use her to overthrow the angelic council and seize power for himself. Then WHOOPS he catches feelings. Everyone in heaven is all sunshine and rainbows but Charlie’s specific brand of sunshine and rainbows makes his heart go all doki doki. She’s initially wary of him and how he even got into heaven in the first place, but when she starts to see the genuine good inside him, she falls for him too.

What’s scarier than the guy who killed you finding you in hell to kill you again? Him letting his starry-eyed seraph girlfriend do it, who cheerfully whispers “you’re welcome” in your ear before your consciousness fades permanently into the void.

[news4dzhozhar]

[riza-hawks-eye]

"Don't talk to them when they are wearing their SadWarCriminalBlankets™"

[princegaza]

Please support @amjadshiltawu . His account was banned in the shadow of the attack on Palestine and Amjad needs massive support to reach his goals.

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[agentfascinateur]

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Not Terra Nullius...

[breakandbuildfiction]

Looking Into All The Destroyed Souls

After learning that one of the things that made Pariah Dark so evil was his willingness to destroy a ghost’s core, basically killing their very soul, Danny demands to be kept aware of anyone doing anything similar. And sure enough, there was a dimension a hop and a skip away where apparently thousands or even millions of souls were killed EVERY YEAR. Clearly, something was seriously wrong over there and Danny wants to know what the Hell is going on and put a stop to it.

[marimeeko]

My Lil Guys 😭❤️

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

These are the same people who insist that October 7 was justified, yet rather than claim the hostages were justified, they pivot to them being "propaganda" or even "lies." But it was "justified", right?

This is what cognitive dissonance looks like.

[justmenoworries]

It just occured to me that the trailer scene with Vox going "They're gonna fucking die!" is most likely him watching the exterminators come for the Hazbin Hotel.

Can't wait to see TV-man's shit-fit when they do not, in fact, fucking die.

[stadam]

anyway thinking about adam coming down to hell to make use of the clubs, bars, brothels, etc. because these indulgences are banned in heaven, and he's the biggest hypocrite ever & doesn't see it as wrong when he's the one doing it. the communion wine just isn't cutting it, sorry sera :)

[di-le-mma]

[hana-bobo-finch]

wasps are suddenly the cutest and coolest little fellas I’ve ever seen and I blame bug fables for this