Refugees Australia dumped on Manus Island are subject to constant intrusive surveillance. Guards take notes about how they look each day and about who talks with whom. When they make phone calls, the guards listen.

They are threatened not to talk with journalists, and their supporters have been arrested and deported without seeing them. All this is at the behest of the Australian state.

Sooner or later, the Australian state will arrange to waterboard them, or stick burning cigarettes into their testicles. Or behead them — videos of that would sure scare any would-be refugees away from Australia.