Like I said, bread and circuses.

The issue is about the law. The issue is about whether or not politicians have the moral backbone to either abide by the law, or change it.

The issue is about politicians doing everything they can think of to avoid either abiding by the law, or changing it. It's about spin, propaganda, the collusion of the mainstream press, and the construction of a reality that serves political ambitions but has very little to do with anything else.

If you believe its about anything else, if you believe it's REALLY about a few boats, you're dreamin' The asylum seekers are pawns in the political game, and so are we. Time we called the politicians on it. I for one won't stop doing my bit to call them.

/// Something I cant let pass without commenting on ///

There are a couple of excellent posts by franklin on this thread:
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11466#195454
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11466#195456

He succinctly cuts through the fog of half truths spruiked by
advocates --I recommend them for a second of third reading.

I for one will be citing/referencing them on future threads, and I look forward to reading many more posts from the writer who goes by the name of franklin.

"Illegal" is used

In a pejorative way

To conceal racism

"Racism” is oft used

In a pejorative way

by those most pompous

And

Haiku when oft used

In bastardised ways

Outs muse as show pony

It’s really quite amazing how so many posters have completely ignored the thrust of my article and instead seized the opportunity to launch their pet attacks on refugees and advocates.

This proves what I’m saying in the piece. Thank you for that validation.

The propaganda has been so effective that many people cannot even see the emotional manipulation of voters for political gain, and that is the case whether you are for or against boat arrivals.

It is staring you in the face – if you want to stop asylum seekers you change the law and you withdraw from the Convention. That will be the end of it.

It is that simple.

It is a no-brainer.

If politicians aren’t willing to do that, why don’t they simply observe the law, and the Convention?

A law we made, a Convention we voluntarily signed?

Now ask yourselves, why will no government do EITHER of these things?

Instead they spend billions and billions of taxpayer dollars trying to find a way around the law, and around the Convention.

A law we can un-make, a Convention we can un-sign?

Doesn’t this situation strike anybody as a trifle insane?

briar rose, as you say most people that post on most forums are only interested in getting their point across.
Most are so blinkered that it is amazing how they find their way across a street.
I see that xenophobia is alive and well here. It shows that there is a hangover from the “white Australia policy”.
Indeed I am guilty of it myself and have an irrational dislike of the Middle Eastern races.
I do not want Australia to become like the UK where there are nogo areas for people of obvious white descent. Yes it is time that the law was changed.