Very droll, Custard. Er... you were trying to be funny, weren't you?

CJ... wins the award for hypocrite of the year :)

"It'll be messy, but inevitable"

No..it won't just be 'messay' it will be freaking GENOCIDE.

But the all wonderful, sweet moment of utter exposure of CJ's hypocrisy is this.

a) He absolutely knows that 'tribalism' will "inevitably" produce a horrific human body count in Afghanistan.

b) But that 'tribalism' will NEVER EVER occur when those same 'tribal' people are transplanted to Australia !

OF course they won't bring the same attitudes... nope... They won't feel the same about members of the other tribes who are here ...nope..
and

Utopia will reign :)

Onya CJ...we are all kacking ourselves...thants to Horus dilligence at scoping you out. Most of us don't worry enough about your views to even bother :)

Well. Border protection should boil down to just one issue.

"We decide...who comes here and in what circumstances"...

End of story.

You (whoever 'you' might be) can shove your Green watermelon 'international obligations' into the nearest landfill.

CJ Morgan,

I was being funny, to an extent and only to that extent...

Quite simply I see no reason why 'illegal immigrants' should receive ANY MORE than the least well-provided for Australian Citizen.

Why on Earth should they receive more? They most assuredly haven't earned it, or demonstrated their entitlement to it, have they?

The money we provide in order to meet with our "Obligations" (And I for one disagree with the suggestion that failure to meet our obligations with the UN would see us ousted as a pariah state, it hasn't hurt anyone else, has it?) could then be used to ensure to the benefit of the Aboriginal Communities they are accomodated within.

Personally I think that would be the sanest compromise to date... Put the people we don't want with the people whom we don't want to acknowledge exist, and see if the "rights" and "benefits" the UN supposedly require us to provide one, might also help the other.

It might also teach them a little about the Country they want to move to. It will certainly hit the media, 'nobody' will like the conditions these people are 'forced' to live in... It might lead to some real, measurable improvement.

How amusing to be called a hypocrite by Boazy, who is probably among the most frequently hypocritical contributors to this site.

Custard, just because we treat Aborigines appallingly is no reason to extend that inhumanity to other people who have been marginalised and abused in their homelands.

CJ :) just because we treat reffo's as kings and queens is no reason not to treat Indigenous people the same.

Or...back from the Watermelon twighlight zone that CJ lives in....

We decide.. who..when..and how.. and if I had my way.... 'we' (i.e.the democratically elected 'us') would be very very picky about 'what' those who seek to come here bring as ideological baggage.

Bruce Haigh has just given us his latest Aussie bashing rant..and suggested we should have open borders.. (that's how I understand his article).. but he (like CJ it appears) doesn't believe we would experience the same tribalist 'racism' that these people have inside them from their old countries..nope... as soooon as they hit Australia's shores they are *instantly* transformed into idealistic, benign, utopians who will do nothing but pursue their newly found 'fair go' and never ever demonstrate against our foreign or migration policy..no..not ever.

Please don't go away CJ :) we need you to highlight why we are right ^_0

No, that is true.

But until we treat ALL AUSTRALIANS equally, we have no business importing queue jumping, country shopping scam artists.

Until we get justice over the shooting by Whittington (http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supremecourt.nt.gov.au%2Farchive%2Fdoc%2Fjudgements%2F2006%2Fntsc%2Fpdf%2F20060811ntsc64.pdf&ei=p_cpTK_7F8qGkAWP26zmAw&usg=AFQjCNG7rSfjBdoEtQE6AOEg_XmATg1oYQ&sig2=iWZANVl8jO1ivJC21Z3i8Q) of a young man (blindly discharging his firearm because he was 'scared', yet he got off because he wasn't charged for over 2 months), and for the poor bugger cooked in the paddy wagon...

Why on earth should anyone sanction spending money on the less deserving? I mean, it defies rational belief, these people aren't refugees according to the UN definition, so they have no right to be here, whereas the ATSI people have more right than you & me to be here. Why pass the buck?