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Oh the hypocrisy!

Don't you just love human nature - or, to be more precise, the predictability of corporate greed and lack of humanity.

The best example of callousness going around at the moment - apart from the Australian immigration bastards who whisked away the caught Woomera escapee boys so their Dad couldn't see them - has to be the big chiefs of New York and the bun fight on at the moment to redevelop the area around where the World Trade Centre used to be.

Now, it's not even a year since the tragic event and while US politicians, including my mate George Dubya Bush, are wringing their hands and demanding revenge - it seems that the thousands of people who died (and their families) mean much less now than they did back then.

Plans to redevelop the site are copping a lot of flak from the public because the New York and New Jersey Port Authority, which owns the land, is wanting to include one million square metres of offices and 55,742 square metres of shops in any project.

In fact, a memorial to those who died doesn't seem to take up a lot of space in the minds of officials. That is, of course, until they want to start limiting people's freedoms, or bombing the crap out of other nations, then it's hands over the hearts and "Remember September 11."

A father of a fireman who was killed trying to rescue people during the tragedy summed it up best after a huge public meeting to try to persuade officials to show a bit of decency.

Lee Ielpi said: "It was important to see that question mark raised over the sincerity of the officials who came here."

Let's face it, it doesn't really matter what country you live in around the world, big business and politicians are all the same. You don't matter one iota - until they want your money or your vote!

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