Lego that's a fantastic post.

<<Lego that's a fantastic post.>>

I second this.

Still, I do not agree with Aristotle, at least not on this account, but it doesn't detract from the beauty of LEGO's post.

Yes got it in a nutshell Lego.

The only answer for the elitists to your post, is to pretend they didn't read it.

JON: We wage illegal wars on behalf of our "great and powerful friend". War crimes are committed. Yet the word "accountability" seems to have disappeared from the lexicon.

Hmm. Lets see these people are being persecuted by a Religious Government. We go to help those people & they leave anyway. We change the Government then the others leave. In other places they say they are fleeing persecution, but it's not form the Government. It's from the Taliban, but not their Government. So what makes them refugees.

You say "We" caused the problem, yet this is where they come to. Isn't that strange, aren't "We" "the enemy."

JON: The current misreporting over Ukraine followed the sustained misinformation campaigns that date back, at least in my memory, to the Vietnam War years.

So are you saying it's the Ukrainians fault not the Rebels & their Russian allies. Going against the grain again are we James.

JON: Not the least of the appalling results of government policies and media cheerleading is that a majority of Australians think the refugee policy is a "good thing".

James, you have got that back to front. It's the people that are influencing the Government here.

JON: Ultimately it is the end of democratic society governed by the rule of law.

Are you upset because your lucrative scam is drying up James

PhilipS: The Convention is over 50 years old and does not take the current climate of world events into consideration as is demonstrated by the country shopping refugees.

I agree. The Convention was designed for a Eurocentric refugee problem of Christian & Jewish people. not a Middle Eastern problem with Islamic people hell bent on destroying Western Civilization slowly at first.

Bulla: All the land illegally occupied by perpetrators like this land MUST be put in control of UNO for administration

You think you have problems now. The UN take over. I'd like to see that. Maybe all people that aren't aboriginal should leave Australia remove ALL Western influences & return it to the bus it once was. You, of course realize that means NO western things like rifles, fishing lines, tinnies, cars, houses, ciggies & phalgons, etc, & no clothes, especially no clothes. None of these things were here before the arrival of the European. Australia, to be left in its "original state."

JON: @ Misanthrope. If you crawl out from under the rock of anonymity I will introduce you to the law of defamation.

It's OK @Misanthrope. JON threatens everybody with defamation. Not a Lawyer, just a Grumpy Old Man who can't get his own way. You know JON if you feel that the West is to blame for everything that goes wrong you should move to North Korea. You know somewhere nice.

beautifully put JayOM. Here, here.

Mr O'Neill the fact that you're a lawyer doesn't necessarily confer any moral nor legitimate right to attack the opinions of others ! I too have spent many years adversarially confronting all stratum of the criminal bench. It's for this reason I'm so puzzled with your affected and condescending style, that gives rise to an apparent perception of your manifest superiority to all of those who seek to furnish their own opinion(s) herein ?

Furthermore you seem to imply because of your legal training, those who seek to question much of what you assert should beware, lest they render themselves perilously close to some action in Tort ?
You and I both know you're just kidding when you threatened that other 'poster' MISANTHROPE about the laws of slander weren't you ? Even a freshmen law student understands that particular suite of lectures apropos Defamation et al. ? In what measure by the way, do you consider you were Defamed ? As a potential plaintiff, may I draw your attention to the many Defences available to that particular discipline of 'Defamation'.

In conclusion Mr O'Neill, I don't know whether you're are a legitimate advocate, articled clerk, suburban solicitor or an eminent silk, but in this Forum, we are all equal, we all have an opinion, and provided we confine our comments to the Rules of this Forum, then all opinion is both valid and valued in equal measure. So, please just enjoy yourself, simply as James, individual.