bogarde73 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2013 at 2:05pm:


So you think its okay to let them all drown because 1 or 2 have done soemthing to make the boat sink? How compassionate of you.

SOB

Instead of "stopping the boats" lets look at options for these people.

If we stopped politicising this issue and looked at the claims made for immigration - how many would be legitimate?

If it's over a certain %, you would think that there are other options (planes etc) that might make more sense than housing people on an island costing us billions a year.

Chicken Kev making noises about the convention and tightening up the criteria for selection as refugees and not a word from the luvvies.  The silence is as deafening as when Labor excised the mainland from its migration zone. 

Imagine if Howard has made noises about taking a fresh look at the convention and tightening up the criteria, the weeping, wailing and lamentations of the luvvies would be lifting the roof.  There would be screams of racism, instead, nuffin.   

Smacking silence.  Typical hypocrisy of the left but I am no longer surprised by the duplicity.

And still waiting for the memorials at Canberra by the usual rent a crowd now that Labor has well and truly surpassed the death toll of the Howard years.

You lefties need to take a long hard look at yourselves and your flexible outrage.  Or does support for the left silence and trump your own personal convictions? Wankers.

Datalife wrote on Jul 18^th, 2013 at 3:43pm:

Howard would never look at anything because like wank Tony, Howard didn't recognise that the issue was global. He did what he did best: put blinkers around people's eyes. 

In any case, the argument from the left has always been the same in that the solution must be humane. And it must be humane; towing boats back to a farked up Indonesia without the slighest of protection is inhumane.

And for your term flexible outrage, that my friend is your own. It's very convenient for the xenos to argue against the problem because of the death, but the underlying debates over "welfare payments", "salad bowls" , "integration", "terrorism" tell us the entire story:



So the entire flexibility of the outrage is yours and yours alone.

Verge wrote on Jul 18^th, 2013 at 4:00pm:


Because there are no "PUSH" factors Verge.

We have DOLE they come ONLY for that.

Besides if we examined WHY they come with any intellect it might not fit the slogans

smithy, who cares why they come? Let them get in line where we make the decisions about who, when and how many.
Or do you think it's OK for us to be blackmailed into accepting anybody with the threat of suicide?

Peter Freedman wrote on Jul 17^th, 2013 at 8:00pm:


Wrong.

The UK has tens of thousands of unidentified foreigners wandering the country as absconders from the assessment process.

Peter Freedman wrote on Jul 17^th, 2013 at 8:00pm:


You can't be serious. 90% of these people are Muslims. What culture are you going to teach them? They will all be destined for Sydney's Muslim ghettoes where the English language is not necessary. There's nothing they want from us culturally. All they want is our supermarkets, our welfare and Aged Pension system, our high wages, and our mosques.

Peter Freedman wrote on Jul 17^th, 2013 at 8:00pm:


Wrong. No extension. And most of all ~ NO Refugees Tribunal Board stacked with leftwingers, hand-wringing clergy, homosexuals, members of our ethnic communities, etc etc like an audience of a Jenny Brockie 'Insight' show. 

Peter Freedman wrote on Jul 17^th, 2013 at 8:00pm:


(I'm grinding my teeth here, but okay, I'll let this one pass). Every man and his dog knows that the main tactic with pro bono lawyers for asylum-seekers has been one of wearing down the tribunals through sheer attrition... endless appeals).

I'll add another item to your list : No more 'Ministerial Discretion' loopholes for enabling rejected claimants to stay upon the sympathy of the minister for immigration.

Peter Freedman wrote on Jul 17^th, 2013 at 8:00pm:


Nonsense. The Tamils can migrate to Tamil Nadu just across the waters just the same as coming to Australia on rickety boats. The Sri Lankan government is sorting out some residual problems after their 23 year war.

Peter Freedman wrote on Jul 17^th, 2013 at 8:00pm:


Rabid insanity on methamphetamines. (Don't take that personally. Experimental commentary here).

These People Smugglers are not criminals but heroes to those among the boat-people who are genuinely fleeing for their lives in the same way as Jews were assisted in escaping from the holocaust by being taken over the Pyrenees mountains into Spain.

Peter Freedman wrote on Jul 17^th, 2013 at 8:00pm:


Nonsense.

I look forward to you submitting your second draft as a corrected edition of the above.

Don't despair. I too suffered many rejections before hitting my full potential. Courage, man, courage!