Our lies and distortions are just that.

While Bob Carr is whining about 25,000 refugees here he is praising Lebanon for supporting the equivalent of 5.5 million here if we pulled the same weight.




Bob Carr Bob Carr ‏@bobjcarr 17 Jun
The world must recognise the extraordinary generosity shown by #Syria’s neighbours in sharing the burden of this crisis.

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Bob Carr Bob Carr ‏@bobjcarr 17 Jun
Speaking @ QT: #Lebanon hosts around 1mil Syrians, including 500k refugees - equivalent to 5.5mil refugees arriving in Aus in same timeframe

What we are doing is telling a victim of rape on the door step that we won't help because someone else might have been raped over in the next suburb.

@Marilyn,

<<While Bob Carr is whining about 25,000 refugees here he is praising Lebanon for supporting the equivalent of 5.5 million here if we pulled the same weight>>

The figure for Oz is actually more like 40,000 (and 200,000 if you add in all the relations who will inevitably be sponsored).

And here's the rub -- the reality check. The ONLY reason why Oz has not --as yet-- received 5.5million is becasue 5.5 million have not AS YET boated to our shores.

Our "border controls" wouldn't stopped them.
Our vetting processes wouldnt deter them.
And our Marilyn's would welcome them

Under our current approach, if 5.5 million set off for OZ, 5.5 million would get here, AND NO DOUBT (to quote the advocates mantra) OVER 90% "WOULD BE FOUND TO BE GENUINE"!

And our Marilyn's would welcome them
SPQR,
Yes & when it comes to support them our Marilyns would nowhere be found. I wonder how our Marilyns would react if we offered them the privilege of looking after all those they invite here. They could just sign their willingness of financial support on their tax form & their tax return could be used to support their friends. I'll gladly stay out of their way.

LEGO

I stopped supporting multiculturalism as a policy at least a decade ago, once I understood its real agenda. Multiculturalism has very little to do with the touchy-feely, global-tolerance image it cultivates. Its real agenda is to destroy cultures, to break down traditional tribal bonds and plant a worldwide individualistic, consumerist culture in their place.

Multiculturalism Western-style is about instilling a pervasive guilt among Westerners to accept the overflow of refugees from countries the West is destabilising, invading and bombing – that is, the refugees the neighbours of those countries can no longer cope with.

Sure, traditional internal tensions are rife in these countries, as they have also been in the West over many centuries, but these are being made irreconcilable by foreign interference. Unless Western foreign policy desists from its relentless destruction of other countries for financial and strategic gain, Australia’s puny Little Dutch Boy attempts to stem the tide of desperate people coming here will collapse over time, regardless of what political party is in power.

If you do not advocate multiculturalism, Killarney, then there is hope for you yet. I think you may be a border line trendy lefty who still has some socialist baggage inhibiting (his or her) thought processes, but I think you are smart enough to be deprogrammed.

The ones who can never be programmed think entirely in moral absolutes like Lexi and they are the intellectual equivalent of The Flat Earth Society.

Kilarney, After Sri Lanka the greatest source fir boat people Is Iran.There is no war or disturbance there. In fact they even hold elections where some people who hold different opinions to the dictatorial mullahs actually get elected.