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By Thu-Trang Tran, published 29/7/2014I am a refugee. I don't speak of it freely.The word has not sat well with me, except when I was a young girl in Vietnam.
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Posted by Matthew S, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 6:57:44 PM
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mikk "No one WANTS their country wracked by war and chaos."
And presumably you support our massive pancultural immigration program? Social chaos and its inevitable consequence, war, will come to this land too, thanks to such utopian nonsense. I don't want to leave Australia either. But "Australia" is leaving me. It's vanishing before my eyes. Yuyutsu "The idea as if certain people own a whole continent (just because centuries ago their ancestors had better gun-ships)" Why does anyone own anything? Because they can defend their property, either by themselves, or through a proxy (courts/armies/etc.) Groups of people, not just individuals, own things or are entitled to them because of ancestry. Otherwise you couldn't inherit your great aunt's jewelery. Such a notion of collective ownership (especially by ancestry) exists in all cultures and eras. It is a universal human concept. "a right to kick everyone else out of it" Keeping people out is not kicking them out. They're already out. They were never in. Matthew S "Why is the mind structure of those like this author so fragile and so unsure of its grounding" Because lurking somewhere in their unconscious is a little smirking monster whispering "You don't belong here. These are not your people". He will never shut up, their entire life. Stressful, no? Posted by Shockadelic, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 7:04:46 PM
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Hi Matthew
At first I thought Ms Sarah Hanson-Young - that nice Green lady with the lovely, lovely, Eyes http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/p526x296/10927_145655865605178_8458557958425717917_n.jpg - must have been talking about Sri Lanka. But no, that unimpeachable source, The Australian, reveals http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/green-sarah-hansonyoung-slammed-for-slur-on-india/story-fn9hm1gu-1227004879747 : "AUSTRALIA’s Indian business community has slammed Sarah Hanson-Young, saying it is “completely inappropriate” for the Greens senator to trash India’s reputation and compare it to terrorists because for decades it has offered refugees a haven." I think the only recourse is an erotic spanking - if Sarah (of the lovely eyes) asks my very, very, nicely. Cheers Posted by plantagenet, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 7:40:20 PM
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Pete,
<<I think the only recourse is an erotic spanking - if Sarah (of the lovely eyes) asks my very, very, nicely>> LOL When Jacqui Lambie got castigated for being too graphic about her preferences in a recent radio interview. I did a little thought experiment as to how people like Sarah or Christine (if they were being as equally upfront) might have handled the situation...quite entertaining, but I couldn't print it on OLO Posted by SPQR, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 8:08:42 PM
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Dear Dear Hasbeen, you are such a sad person with such a weird and twisted point of view. May I suggest you get some therapy? Here is a great refugee story; a young woman coming to Australia and making good. And by the way her taxes probably pay your pension
Posted by fancynancy, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 9:18:59 AM
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There is absolutely nothing stopping Thu-Trang Tran from giving 90% of her income towards helping those less fortunate than herself on this plantet. The country that has given her such a good life also gives her the opportunity to do so and I would be the first to admire her for it. To demonise Abbott or our Government while cashing in on the spoils is gross hyprocrisy. Somehow Thu-Trang Tran seems to have adopted the leftist mentality that it is great to spend tax payers money as along as they can still be on the public purse.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 10:08:01 AM
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Is this racist? What if the Indian populace take offense at some white privelleged women calling the government and leaders they all democratically elected to be their representatives, filthy names and accusing them of being immoral, corrupt and murders of the persecuted who flee their grip?
What if Indians in Australia started to openly express they are offended and they feel Sarah Hanson’s comments are racist and bigoted? Would the leftists maybe at that stage still not see through the haze they mostly manufactured to deal with their own class’s guilt from massive colonial crimes their direct forefathers committed?
Also – does the average Sarah Hanson leftwit comprehend that such claims are very similar to those that many normal white Australians may have made about third world cultures and systems as well as about those leaderships in our now mix of tribes that may parallel the same ones overseas like the Indian leadership the Greens despise and believe corrupt and criminal, perhaps even genocidal.