US Peace Activist "Hippy" Deported from OzThis
might be an overreaction, but he sure seems like a flake.
Scott Parkin, a 36-year-old teacher based in Texas, was escorted onto a flight to Los Angeles, four days after being arrested on the advice of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO).
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock told Australian radio Parkin was arrested because his visa was canceled. And it was canceled, he said, because ASIO had given an "adverse security assessment" relating to concerns about "politically motivated violence, including violent protest activity."
Liz Thompson of the National Anti-Deportation Alliance worried that the incident was "an attempt not just to intimidate Scott, but all those working for social justice and progressive social change more broadly."
Parkin was doing nothing wrong, she said, describing him as "a hippy giving workshops on peace, non-violent direct action."Remember Brainster's definition: Leftwing "justice"= Socialism/Communism in 99% of all cases. When they say "social justice" it's more like 100%.
Here's the
goofball website of the group that Parkin belongs to: The Houston Global Awareness Collective. Check out their
manifesto:
We are DANDELIONS breaking through cracks in the pavement. Our roots will side-step middlemen and crumble pyramid schemes of every stripe. We are activists against passive complicity. We conjure open dialogues that inspire ears to listen and voices to sing. We reject all saviors and their offers of pie in the sky-we will have our pie NOW (and eat it, too)-and we will always keep extra pies on hand to serve to any self-proclaimed savior. We will rupture a schism in -isms and tear down the fences that rend our psychic landscapes to embrace a sensual politrix of joy and generosity. We labor for a truly FREE market where love, life and laughter bear no price tags and money's only value lies in its potential as paper airplanes and tiddlywinks.Yeah, communists.
Hat Tip:
Pam Meister (at
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