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Paul,
Yes, your right. But you avoid investigating the reason for that.
Check out the African continent, count the number of countries therein, that are currently waging such wars and causing refugees as a DIRECT result of their actions.
The U.S. has now instituted an AFRICAN FIELD OF COMMAND, please explain to me, why this was done !
Australia, sycophantly slavishly supports their foriegn policy and sees nothing wrong with it, whilst we don't have (not publicaly aknowledge as yet) any boots on the ground there, our Govt has NEVER ever, spoken out about the U.S. interference within African countries.
Explain to us all, why that would be, moreover, how come you don't express any concern on this issue ?
You also need to visit the U.N.site, and avail yourself of interpretations/meanings of International laws and OUR obligation under humanitarian statutes, I'm sure you will pretty quickly see where WE, Australians have lost the plot entirely.
The U.S. is on public record as stating they wish to achieve World dominance in their PANPC release in Sept 2000 with their document labeled 'Rebuilding U.S.'s Defences', Google it and read it, spells out very clearly what it is they hope to acheive, note too, that it is a public available document available for anyone to read, so they make no secret of their direction. It also states very clearly, what they are prepared to do to ANY nation that may challenge them for that dominance.
Australia supports them 100% in their objective, so you'd better prepare yourself for a whole lot more refugees yet to come, unless we change our view pretty quickly.

Australia supports them 100% in their objective, so you'd better prepare yourself for a whole lot more refugees yet to come, unless we change our view pretty quickly.

Look! I don't want any-more boat-floaters. The reasons are quite clear.....piss-off:) This is our land, and I think we should all lobby the Governments quickly, before it all turns from champagne to sh@T.

( what did the old blokes-Australian solders died for, and what was it for again?)

Refugee policy needs to be about more than boats!

"I suggest target practice"

and that folks, comes strait from my gran-father. He is not happy about it at all.

And why are we giving this great country away for?

BLUE

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If that is the way Gramps feels Blue he should support the current policy on boat people. In fact there are several advantages over his suggestion. The current policy avoids the international and local hostility which would arise from using an armed force to kill defenceless and desperate people. It would also spare Australian servicemen the considerable trauma resultant from committing such atrocities. And were the Navy to sink a boat or two, the boats would stop coming. By keeping the current policy, far more refugees will continue to die brutal and senseless deaths.

It is a strange world where people wishing to be compassionate should cause more brutal and senseless deaths than those proposing brutal and senseless violence.

If that is the way Gramps feels Blue he should support the current policy on boat people.....yes but at what cost to the Australian people.....and Gramps would also love to know...is why his pensions are so low. A more sterner approach bar the killing part..... and lets not forget,we must stay human now just for the ones that are seeing the injustices or the proverbial rug from under the feet trick. However I see the point, on which lines of a gentler approach would make a softer media pillow.

See...over-population of a country will see many rats leave the ships, and with the unfairness that many can see, anger will rise or its like if you were on an island by yourself, and 200,000 people just dropped in.....fear comes first, followed by panic, then the words, why has this happened.

With military force......we just might save our own island.

http://tinyurl.com/2dgbn77

http://tinyurl.com/2eaq5wm

http://tinyurl.com/ywzpt4

A billion dollars...mmmmmm

I think the mathematics speaks for its self.

And 21 million....on the driest continent on earth, with might I add....infrastructural problems.

Stop them coming here....will solve the problem.

The world has a people crisis, and Australia cant solve it them by saying...... more the merry a....because of our humanity and kindness.

Shut the gates, before its too late.

All this, just to keep the world turning..lol..I hope you know what is going on around you, and just not the dollars signs.

I can see the candles burning at both ends......can you?

BLUE

Fester...from the link THE DRUM.....please read the comments that are made.

These are the real Australia people that want none of this nonsense...and Iam one of them.

Hopefully the last no brainer of 2010. Votes. Howard went tough and milked it to the end, eventually his own. Rudd/Gillard went softer pre election to get the Green preferences. Political death was their option.

"Under 5,000 alleged refugees out of 200,000 plus migrants annually. Sell them all a one year holiday for $20,000 each and let them apply after they arrive by air. If they dont apply and arrive that way then they are illegal immigrants. Simple. No boat people, no tragedies at Christmas Island and a lot less very expensive resources and better still, fewer empire building bureaucrats overcome with their own significance."

Just says it all I think.

BLUE