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The quality of mercy : Comments
By Bruce Haigh, published 18/11/2011A Sri Lankan refugee is caught in the Kafkaesque grip of ASIO and the Sri Lankan government.
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The whole asylum seeker and refugee industry is undemocratic, for them and for us.
The SERCO prisons have to be closed down as soon as possible and we can't tolerate TPV's or offshore processing, it's an insult to the dignity of the nation. (That is to say the dignity of the Australian people as opposed to the state, which posesses no such quality)
The wider problem is that we can't live under multiple legal jurisdictions, we need to do away with the concepts of International law and human rights altogether, allowing external, extra national legal systems to supersede the laws of individual nations is insane.
Again, true Australian patriots railed against rule from abroad and demanded responsible government, are we seeing our responsible government being usurped by extra national or internationalist powers and made subservient to their laws?
I'd say we are experiencing just that scenario.