Port Arthur

[emo_snal]

Saturday, February 23rd, 1856 - the small schooner comes into the cove and luffs up, the small experienced crew needing just a few gestures from the captain for directions. Amidships the prisoners are lined up on deck, their chains clanking, under the supervision of red coated soldiers. The forested hills surrounding the cove are starkly beautiful

Comments

[fluttershy]

Absolutely beautiful pictures. I have always wanted to visit Tasmania! My fiance, an Australian man, is a gun aficionado and we often discuss the Port Arthur massacre and the consequent gun buyback. The reality is that the country is changing; immigration (primarily Somali) has seen the crime rate increase exponentially, especially in urban areas such as Melbourne, where street gangs dominate the crime sector. Perhaps gun laws will have to be reevaluated soon to fit this new Australian order, because the truth is criminals who want guns will, and do. acquire them. Just ask the Sudanese mother of a jailed gang member who says she needs larger Centrelink payments to stop her six children from taking up a life of crime.

[nemophilist]

So pretty!

All the recent shootings have me so depressed. :(

[emo_snal]

Its so awful, I was reading about another one that happened the very next week except the kid attempting it his gun jammed after only a few shots, so he only was able to kill one (like a kindergartner, he had gone to the elementary school for his shooting!), so it didn't really make the news. But they say these things literally happen every few days! In the one I was reading about the teenager really idolized past shooters, which is why I thought it was remarkable and probably a very good thing that the Port Arthur's name is largely never mentioned.

[fbhjr]

Port Arthur is one of the prettiest places I've ever seen.
The look doesn't fit the history.

[emo_snal]

Yeah I felt rather the same way!

[wantedonvoyage]

This sent me down a wiki rabbit hole. I had to know what a panopticon prison was, and that made me think about a prison in Philadelphia that you can see from I-95. I'd always thought was Eastern State Penitentiary (now a museum), but I learned recently that it isn't It's actually Holmesburg Prison, still in limited use, which was the site of gruesome medical experiments on prisoners, at the behest of Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson and the University of Pennsylvania, into the middle of the last century.

[emo_snal]

Oh wow!

I love wiki rabbit holes though ( :

[pundigrion]

This guys that one Doctor Who episode with the Panoptican a whole new layer!

[emo_snal]

I've only ever seen one episode of Doctor Who. It involved space whales.

[pundigrion]

That was a pretty good one!

[emo_snal]

I particularly liked that they used rotary phones on a space ship