Hello Marilyn, It’s been a while. How lovely it is to make your acquaintance again.

Whatever the case in Sri Lanka, we in Australia have got to SHUT DOWN the onshore asylum seeking option, and work on the issues there diplomatically.

As I’ve said to you many times before, if you got your way, the rate of onshore asylum seeking would greatly escalate. That would cause a greater conflict within Australian society and a greater demand that our politicians close it down. A much stronger resolve would be exercised to close it down and a much larger number of people would get caught in the middle.

It is much better that the boats get turned around or people get sent back now so that the pull factor is eliminated.

Some sort of half-hearted effort, which would result in a relatively small number of boats continuing to come here makes no sense. We need to close it down decisively.

Hopefully CHOGM, with all the Commonwealth countries sending their reps, will be able to work out how the international community can best help Sri Lanka, especially those who might be inclined to jump on rickety boats and head for Australia.

Why is there no investigation into Bob Carr getting a $500,000 pa consultancy with Macquarie Bank within months of him resigning as Premier of NSW.Bob was in a position to line up prime contracts for Macquarie Bank.Surely this should be viewed as a conflict o interest.

Bob Carr is also a friend of Henry Kissenger,globalist and member of the elite Bilderberg Group soon to meet in London and determine our demise.

When a regime is a vicious enemy of the people from whom it has filched the right of self-determination by brute force it can count on the unstinting support of the Australian secret political police (founded on postwar McCarthyism) and of Mr Bob Carr.

The captive people both of West Papua and of the Tamil lands on the island of Ceylon will find no sympathy in official Australia.

Speaking to Leigh Sales Mr Carr could not bring himself to utter the words "West Papua", repeatedly correcting her to his grovelling term "the two Papuan provinces", and he pays unswerving homage to the killers suppressing the people of the Tamil lands.

This determination to send Tamils back into the power of the murderers is reminiscent of those Swiss officials who sent boatloads of refugee Jews back across Lake Constance (Bodensee) to the German murderers during the war. How much we have forgotten in a little over half a century!

Trade Union Alliance (Sri Lanka) organised a token strike on 21 May to highlight the plight of the working class to the recent electricity tariff hike. The convenor Wasantha Samarasinghe claimed that 941 trade unions supported the strike. There is a rival pro-government trade union alliance which professes patriotism as in allegiance to the Lankan rulers. The Lankan daily Island reported on 21 May the convenor of the patriotic outfit SAD Jagathkumara, “The strike was organised by a separatist group supported by terrorist rump, NGOs and conspirators”. Ask the Lankan High Commissioner in Australia Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe and he will give the same explanation for the strike. One needs minimum common sense and intelligence to dismiss this. But Bob Carr (the only Australian) will agree with Thisara! Remember in the mid-thirties an Austrian ex-WW1 soldier blamed the non-Aryan minorities for all the ills of Germany? The Lankan rulers claim Aryan lineage.

Bob Carr's acclamation of Sri Lankan democracy may be a bit over the top but he is not entirely wrong.
1. There is wide spread discrimination in Sri Lanka and this needs addressing
2. The movement to seek a separate state is at least as old as Sri Lanka itself. In its history of over 2500 years there have been a number of attempts to split up the country. Many successful ones too
3. Each time the violence has been severe,lethal and against all human rights
4. Hands up any country which will obey human rights if there is a serious attempt to split the country? Can anyone say the English civil war was fought with each side obeying human rights? A modern example would be if Scotland or England decided to use violence. I cannot imagine either side saying we will not do x,y or z because of an international convention on Human rights!

The English Civil War was not a war to break up the country. It was a war to determine who was to rule all of it. The American Civil War was a bid by the slavers to break up the country, and getting 360,000 decent Americans killed to keep the seceding slave states on board was a colossal mistake which has poisoned American social and political life ever since.

A standard pretext by colonialists is to designate a colonial possession (or one which pretenders like the Argentinians want to make into one) as "part of the country" and to call upholding independence as "separatism". The war in Ceylon was and is a grab by a colonialist government for possession of a country that is not theirs. Bob Carr and the Australian secret political police have joined forces with the colonialists for venal trade reasons, as Gareth Evans & Co joined forces with Indonesia over East Timor.