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Fobbing off our human rights responsibilities : Comments

By Adam Ferguson, published 22/5/2006

It’s time to stop using refugees as political pawns.

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The reactionary apologist class always come out in force when a commentator questions the motives for bribing weaker states to be complicit in Australian human rights violations. Sometimes I think it is a pity the aborigines could'nt apply the same tests of 'suitabiiity to migrate' these bastions of fair play hold up as their right. The comment that refugees probably would never have had it so good as in the Australian funded gulags tells us a lot about where the author resides on the food chain. Ah, the 'banality of evil'!
Posted by Kraken, Monday, 22 May 2006 3:32:08 PM
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Leigh and Sage are deliberately being obtuse again, jerking their knees on their bigotry and ignorance and I am tired unto death of it.
1. Since the 1967 refugee protocol there is no requirement for the refugees to stay in the first country, they are allowed to go wherever they can get to. We made this law in 1973 when we adopted the protocol and wrote into law in 1992. This was done simply because millions and millions of people were being stranded in limbo in countries that were sending them back to the torture and murder. It was done so we never have another holocaust.
2. The notion of country shopping was Ruddock's brainless lie because people won't line up like the stamps in his stamp books. The very fact that almost every person who came on the boats after transiting other places were given refugee visas gives the lie to the proposition.
3. The reactionary hatred for fellow human beings and the sustained nonsense makes pawns of innocent human beings.

Sage is asked - who gave you the god given right, Good question, who gave any of us the god given right when it was our ancestors who stole the country in the first place and we are all interlopers in an aboriginal nation.

The problem with the refugee convention is just that it irritates the liberal government to have to uphold human rights that they willingly signed on to do.
Posted by Marilyn Shepherd, Monday, 22 May 2006 3:49:12 PM
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"asylum seekers" , another overworked ideology, another load for the Australian backs to carry.
I would suggest that first we work out the difficulties with Aboriginals, the Lebanese problems,Multi culture and all the other problems and calls on the tax payer before we enter in to any more asylum arguments.
We have lawyers for two women who were taken into care wanting millions of dollars compensation for that care being given.
We have dysfunctional societies in our land who need setting right before we can do justice to overseas people.
Charity should begin at home.
Posted by mickijo, Monday, 22 May 2006 3:50:03 PM
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The vast majority of Australians are either immigrants or descendents of immigrants.

Refugees from Europe built the Snowy Hydro.

How easily we forget.

Steve (Still alive :))
Posted by Steve Madden, Monday, 22 May 2006 7:23:04 PM
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When too many people try to get into the lifeboat,do we overload it so all will perish,or decide enough is enough and save ourselves?

Most of the world's starving billions can be classified as refugees since they are oppressed by hunger.Is it not better to help them in their own countries?The more we give ,the more the population problem worsens.Every African has been given over $5000.oo and they are worse off now than 40yrs ago.The problem now is just too big for anyone to solve.Just look at the successful Cultures on this planet and the emerging economies of India and China.Look at the reasons for their success.

The real pawns in this debate are the hardworking Aussies whose taxes pay for all this nonsense and have no say in how their money is wasted.
Posted by Arjay, Monday, 22 May 2006 10:38:51 PM
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Arjay, being hungry doesn't make people refugees for convention reasons which are a well founded fear of persecution due to religion, race, social group, political opinion and so on.

Hunger doesn't differentiate. Do you like the fact that we wasted $3 billion sending people to Nauru and then bringing them back to live here anyway? Or the $2 billion to bomb Iraqis or the millions to bomb Afghans and therefore make more refugees.

We don't suffer one iota here except from laziness, cruelty and mind numbing indifference.
Posted by Marilyn Shepherd, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 3:05:51 AM
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