Rabbit Proof Fence

The aboriginal people were never given any respect or rights.  They were treated as though they were invaders in their own lands, animals that can be dismissed and forgotten without regret or consideration. The aboriginal people faced unimaginable trials and painful struggles. In the chapter “the decline of aboriginal society” there are explicated statements of their dehumanization when the colonel white man came into Australia, “the Nyungar people, and indeed the entire Aboriginal population, grew to realize what the arrival of the European settlers meant for them: it was the destruction of their traditional society and the dispossession of their lands,” this of course violates what it means to be a moral equal human being. The treatment of the people is unexcitable but the mindset of the white man towards these people is that they were in fact no more than a simple and inadequate form or man, and nothing more. This destruction of home and all humanity was beyond violation of human rights standards today; man is granted full “right to own property.” When children were being taken from their home or families being forced to relocate because of the arrival of settlers these rights where never granted. Part Aboriginal children were brutally taken from their families and homes, “patrol officers travelled far and wide removing part aboriginal children from their families and transported them hundreds of kilometers down south.” How is this in any way humane? Especially when dealing with children, any fool should be able to recognize how fragile adolescents are, the effect on those victimized still brings fire to their eyes. This of course is in direct violation of both the “freedom from interference with privacy, family, home and correspondence” law and the “right to life, liberty, and personal, security” law contracted by the United Nations.

            The United States own history is very similar to that of Australia because our natives faced nearly the same discrimination and torment, even our honored napoleon was a vicious antagonizer to this sort of cruelty. People believed they where “distend” to spread there culture across America and bring light to less civilized cultures, this belief was latter to be known as manifest destiny. The lesser beings that the European settlers often referred to where native Americans, who were feared and seen as savages, when in actuality they were just trying to protect there home from the white invaders. This is very similar to the “civilizing” of aboriginal people in Australia because they two thought of this culture as a lesser entity and being, they believed the only way to truly bring forth peace is to change the children of that culture and integrate them into the other more European lifestyle.

            

The source of this violence was fear, nothing more, nothing less. The relocation of the children was brought on by the fear of the differentiating cultures and lifestyles. The fear that these people who were  less civilized; if not taken and changed in someway there would never be peace. There is no moral justification for fear because it is one of the most horrid traits and emotions of mankind. It leads to violence, especially in this instance. It leads to rash decisions of good people, and it leads to blindness of right and wrong.