Antinuclear

Nuclear Power ,Civil Liberties, Australia – theme for January 2014

We’re in an extraordinary climate of nuclear “spin”, as the powerful USA nuclear lobby works with some greedy Australians to get Australians to support tax-payer funded nuclear power.

The pack of  lies surrounding nuclear costs, the new untried nuclear designs, the supposed need for nuclear submarines,   the myth of nuclear fixing climate change, and especially the myths against renewable energy –   all these form a nexus of deceit.

This deceit will be sold to the Australian public during 2014.    To my mind,  this pervasive deceit is a Number 1 offence against human rights  – against the right to know the truth.

There are other civil liberties lost, in the context of nuclear power. Australia has a shameful history of violating civil rights – in the secrecy, and harm done to Aboriginals and other communities, and soldiers, of the nuclear bomb tests of the 1950s.

Even the less extensive radiation-heath problem of Hunter’s Hill, NSW, was covered up, and cancer victims never got recognition and justice.  Similarly, with past uranium mining, where radiation monitoring was non existent, and cancer victims had no redress.

Today, Australia hosts the secret Pine Gap US military site, and is likely to increase its role in the USA’s military nuclear “umbrella”. With increasing nuclear facilities come increasing (and necessary) security, censorship, crackdown on dissent.  Nuclear countries – USA, France, India, China, and Japan experience the crackdown on anti-nuclear protestors.  Australians can expect increasing loss of civil liberties if we let the nuclear lie prevail in this country.

December 20, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina themes