AUSTRALIA
The Courier
By Amanda Vanstone
Dec. 21, 2015
We like to think of ourselves as being civilised. We ban discrimination of all sorts. We believe you are innocent until proven guilty and that everyone is entitled to proper process. But there’s an ugly side to humankind that occasionally reverts to animal instincts.
Hunting in a pack is very primal. Rules go out the window. We go looking, desperately, for blood. We become hunters and if you’re the hunted, watch out. What’s ugly about this is not just the hunt but how few people care.
I have always found George Pell to be a decent, honest, intelligent man.
The slip into animal instincts often happens when we sense a wrong has been perpetrated and that our civilised system just hasn’t dealt with the perpetrators.
George Pell is the latest to fall prey to this ugly side of humanity. We know that children in institutional care and in the churches have been abused and we know it’s been covered up. It’s been hidden in the Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Salvation Army and seemingly endless state institutions. The crimes have been horrific. Now we want blood.
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