Andrei.Hicks wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 7:15pm:


Well obviously.

Never mind their health well being or right to asylum, as long as they don't turn up to your country.

Your views are just pathetic bigotry AP, and I truly hope you will come to see these people differently.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 7:15pm:


Yes, clearly a race to the bottom is the right idea to approach a humaitarian issue

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Just to clear it up.  Are you attempting to inform this Forum that Abbott (and Rudd) did not go to the last election on the platform of destroying Achmed's business model so that people no longer drowned at sea?

Stratos wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 7:11pm:


That in itself is a big .00002 on the Giveacrapometer rating scale of 10.
The government is elected by the people to look after our interests, not simply be puppet to an obsolete 50+ year old UN Refugee Convention and turn a blind eye to the scourge of people smuggling.
The will of the people come first.
Western governments around the world are finally waking up from their slumber, and are changing the way in which they deal with this issue slowly but surely.
The lefts open door expectation left reality along time ago, and is totally unsustainable.

Mandy_oz wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 10:53pm:


Okay.....I'll go off on this tangent to humour you even  though the sales pitch (of both major parties) was to stop people drowning.

Operation Sovereign Borders is illegal, and I have posted why exhaustively, and no-one here has challenged that.

Aussie wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 11:09pm:


And why would it be challenged, except by criminal people smugglers and their supporters?
The government has kept an election promise to it's people in a timely manner.
It's that simple.
It's also a governments responsibility to ensure a country has secure borders.
And it's up to each and every nations government on the planet to determine the best way to achieve that.
Operation Sovereign Borders clearly works for Australia, and so therefore will remain in force during the term of a Coalition government.
And the people smugglers and those that support them can all go to hell.

chicken_lipsforme wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 11:26pm:


You seem not to have understood.  I have explained here why Operation Sovereign Borders is illegal.  Do you support anyone who benefits from or takes credit for illegal activity?

I don't.  What we are doing is illegal.

Aussie wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 11:35pm:


Who cares really.
The policy works.
That's what matters.
The people get what they voted for.
If it bothers you so much about it being 'illegal', petition the government to change the law to make it legal to you then eh.
Or take then to court yourself.
Otherwise, suck it up and accept the governments mandate and the peoples will to stop foreign criminal people smugglers in anyway they so choose.

chicken_lipsforme wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 11:36pm:


No, the 'clowns' as you call me have not forgotten anything, including that we remain committed to that Convention.  Abbott and his disciples like you will blow me right out of the water, if he took the simple step of announcing that Australia repudiates that Convention.  How hard is that?

I guess it must be.....because Abbott has not had the balls to do it.  Instead, he breaches it, and he like every other bastard who breaches those Conventions, one day, will be held to account at The Hague.

There, we knocked off Japan....because they were in breach of International Law about whales.

Not only do we submit to that Jurisdiction, we invoke it.