Rondelet: "Reduce the size and population of the state."
"Ensure that even though the people have tools of war (...) they will not use them (...) they will be reluctant to move to distant places because they look on death as no light matter. (...) Bring it about that the people will (...) find relish in their food And beauty in their clothes, Will be content in their abode And happy in the way they live." Tao Te Ching, LXXX. Transl. by D. C. Lau. (Penguin Books).
Population
Cut sex: immigration will stop
Population
Well almost: miscegenation
Humans put sex at utmost top:
Aids herpes chlamydia crop up
Population
(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2012
Federal and State agencies
For nearly one hundred years
Removal of children
Many families feared
Even Church Missions
Got in on the game
The taking of children
That they had no right to claim
Reasons were varied
To why this was done
As they knock on their doors
And a point of their guns
Miscegenation
White racial purity
The take of the kids
Family obscurity
The Half-caste acts
An outright disgrace
To creates these laws
When it's not their place
Project yourself back
One hundred years
If they were your kids
Do you feel their fears
13th of February 2008
A date in time, for these children to wait
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
A formal apology, to the Stolen Generations above.
http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/australia.php
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