Inherited Guilt Quotes
Up until 1970 many Australian Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes and “adopted” or brought up in institutions to “civilize” them. In 1997 the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission found the practice “genocidal.”
Lieutenant Redulivitch, an Air Force officer, was discharged from the Air Force on the grounds that he was a security risk. The Air Force stated that they had no reason to question his loyalty, but that the Lieutenant’s father read communist literature and associated with suspected communists, but refused to provide any evidence to the press, the Lieutenant or the father. The quotation illustrates the degree that McCarthyism and the Red Scare had twisted the national security apparatus of the nation.
