According to Amnesty International's 2007 Report the world is being polarised by the "politics of fear" & this has resulted in a serious erosion of human rights.

Unsurprisingly, the report delivers a stinging rebuke to the human rights policies & abuses meted-out by the empire of evil on the people of this planet, without sparing its own.

"Fear thrives in myopic & cowardly leadership. There are indeed many real causes of fear but the approach being taken by many world leaders is short-sighted, promulgating policies & strategies that erode the rule of law & human rights, increase inequalities, feed racism & xenophobia, divide & damage communities & sow the seeds for violence & more conflict," the report says.

The global human rights organisation pointed specifically at our prime rattus & president bushit (amongst a good many others) as playing on fear among their peoples, to help them push their own political agendas & in many cases, expand & strengthen their political power.

"Through short-sighted, fear-mongering & divisive policies, governments are undermining the rule of law & human rights, feeding racisms & xenophobia, dividing communities, intensifying inequalities & sowing the seeds for more violence & conflict," said Irene Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International.

Predictably, our little rattus indignantly rejected the findings of the world’s pre-eminent human rights organisation.

Whilst guilty of perpetrating numerous human rights abuses over the past decade, the rattus government has also provided a classic example of Amnesty’s thesis, moving to wind-back basic freedoms, whilst constantly engaging in fear-mongering at every opportunity.

Relying on the short-term memory of the awstraylen electorate, has rejected the characterisation of Australia & her human rights record, as spelt-out in the annual report.

The prime rattus said that: ‘the report's treatment of Australia amounts to little more than a shoddy caricature”.

“Australia has a proud record as a tolerant, fair & open society, second to none in its generosity & its contribution to upholding human rights around the world. I believe many Australians will be as offended by this report as I am,” said rattus.

Thos refugees imprisoned on Christmas Island; those awstraylen citizens rendered to the tender mercies of the evil empire, whilst not having broken any awstralyen law; those citizens illegally imprisoned & deported; David Hicks & Mamdouh Habib – illegally rendered, tortured, imprisoned without trial & legal representation, subjected to show trials & then locked-up again; the aboriginal people of this country; the tiny Muslim minority, vilified at every opportunity by rattus & his “shock-jock” mates: all would doubtless shake their heads in disbelief at the words of Amnesty’s report, knowing, as they do, that their human & legal rights have been fully protected & secured by awstrayla’s number one Amnesty member & its principle law officer, darth ruddock.

Awstraylens know who the real “caricatures” are, as Gus has demonstrated numerous times on the pages of this site.