“At the end of the day, it’s just love, I guess. You fall in love with something and you’re impelled…”

Friday, April 22nd, 2016

“At the end of the day, it’s just love, I guess. You fall in love with something and you’re impelled to make it better, willing to forgive it all kinds of faults and improve it inside your head.”

Diane Duane

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At Work Inside Our Detention Centres: A Guard’s Story

Friday, February 7th, 2014

At Work Inside Our Detention Centres: A Guard’s Story:

bourbakiaxiom:

aivley:

even if you’re not australian, this is important.

This is excellent and important. 

And I might mention that in our Orwellian nation, where refugees are called “queue jumpers” and “illegals”, I have a specific problem with the term “detention centre”. One can detain someone for days, or for health quarantine reasons plausibly for some weeks; but beyond that, it is imprisonment, plain and simple. 

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