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Our fragile liberty : Comments

By Bruce Haigh, published 25/2/2013

As long as Australia does not have a bill of rights, transgressions against individual freedoms are made easier.

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Murali has been co-opted to advertise to prevent asylum seekers leaving Sri Lanka, there is no law on the planet that allows for such a thing to be done as everyone has the right to seek asylum.

With further evidence of war crimes committed by Sri Lanka surfacing daily who are we to behave in this way? It's contributing to genocide just as we are in Pakistan where we have cops and spies working illegally with the Pakistan intelligence services to prevent Hazara leaving.

The Australian polity and lazy, racist media have convinced themselves that we own the borders of other countries and the oceans are totally under our control except when it comes to safety of lives at sea.

Now that useless coward Gillard is using the same abuse and threats against the prisoners on Nauru as Ruddock did and she does this because she hates refugees, feels they are contemptible and not worthy migrants like her racist self and loved Nauru when she went with Ruddock.

White Australia is taking over again and it is terrifying.

But Carr is the worse FM in my memory, he cluelessly struts around the world on our dime and dollars taking Helena when she does not need to be there and will not help any Australian in trouble.

But regardless of all their efforts Ässange is an eligible elector on the electoral roles and will sit for and win a seat in the senate.
Posted by Marilyn Shepherd, Monday, 25 February 2013 2:40:39 PM
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with such dreadful treatment of people and such mean handouts it makes you wonder why thousands risk their lives getting here. You would think they would head to an Islamic nation, or communist nation, or a hindu nation. Oh that's right our early settlers built schools, hospitals, roads and welcomed people from many nations. What an evil bunch.
Posted by runner, Monday, 25 February 2013 3:38:03 PM
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Dear runner,

The early settlers of Australia also exterminated Aborigines and drove them off their land. They had the doctrine of Terra Nullius which meant that they considered the land unoccupied by humans.

Welcomed people from many nations? They also murdered the Chinese who had come here. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/30919629 tells about the riots against the Chinese in Brisbane in 16 May 1888.

The White Australia policy was an exercise in bigotry.

Of course not all of the settlers were evil, but some were most evil murderers.
Posted by david f, Monday, 25 February 2013 3:59:24 PM
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Our early settlers might have built schools but what does that have to do with jailing men, womena and children who have asked us for help?
Posted by Marilyn Shepherd, Monday, 25 February 2013 4:25:12 PM
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Tempting - but no thanks!

Accepting a bill of rights from the state, would imply that the state had a right to rob our freedoms away in the first place, then only by its gracious grace it was kindly willing to bestow back on us some of our (chewed up) God-given freedoms, so we can thank it for ever and ever.

No deal!
Posted by Yuyutsu, Monday, 25 February 2013 5:39:18 PM
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david f

no one denies that evil has been done by aboriginals, whites, Asians, Europeans, Maories etc etc. To be so selected and to ignore the majority is plain deceitful. The aborigines were not exactly living in Australia peacefully as many try to fantasize about. The reality is that most the world now want to come and live in this country largely built by those evil despised 'whites'.
Posted by runner, Monday, 25 February 2013 5:54:00 PM
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