CHERFUL —

"You take the side of the Tamil Tigers agains the Sri Lankian government."
Is that outrageous slur a result of prejudice against me? Or are you just too stupid to comprehend what I've written?

FWIW I have never ever supported the LTTE. I supported the Sri Lankan government's right to crush them, just as I support every country's right to crush all terrorists within their borders.

I was referring to the government's treatment of civilians after the LTTE was defeated. I made it clear I was not referring to former combatants.

cheerful: The fact that the Tamils immigrated to Sri Lanka and then tried to carve the country up is hardly a good reason for Australia to allow them into our country.

I see the same problem happening in Australia with the moslim population eventually. It's happening in Europe now. That's why we should not allow moslims to immigrate into Australia.

Aidan,
Alleged treatment of Tamil civilians, the testimony of people who have a strong motive for lying can be taken with a grain of salt, weeding out and shooting enemies after a ceasefire is also perfectly reasonable behaviour on the part of the Sri Lankan secret service.
Tamils have a whole state in India which welcomes them with open arms, there's no reason for them to even be in Sri Lanka much less be given control of 1/3 of the country.

No doubt Bruce Haigh is right.

The asylum seeker issue has really shown up some ignored, unhealthy and infantile traits as to the mentality of many Australians.

Scared little children, hiding in the dark, in case the coffee skinned bunyip comes after them and it is pathetic.

Jay,
A lot of evidence of human rights abuses in Sri Lanka is from those without a vested interest, and it's quite disingenuous to pretend it didn't exist. But even if you do take claims with a pinch of salt, that doesn't justify failing to investigate them.

Far from being reasonable behaviour, weeding out and shooting enemies after a ceasefire comes into effect contravenes the Geneva Convention. Judicial execution is permitted but summary execution is not.

"Tamils have a whole state in India which welcomes them with open arms,"
No it doesn't. Sri Lankan Tamils have no more legal right to settle there than they do here.

"there's no reason for them to even be in Sri Lanka"
It's the country of their birth and the land their families have been in for generations, so of course they have a right to be there!

"much less be given control of 1/3 of the country."
I didn't say they should.

Yoo hoo, Bruce Haigh.

If you want to turn people away from your pet causes, just keep wagging your finger at them, and tell them that they are all disgusting because they do not agree with you.

I think that this is the primary reason why you lefties are on the nose with the public. Lefties presume to be the new religious leaders who think they they are the keepers of all that is good and holy. Real intellectuals in the past always laughed at moral puritans, and it is insightful that todays pretenders to intellectual activism have become moral puritans themselves.

Memo to Bruce.

There are 7.2 billion people on planet Earth and for the last fifty years this exponentially increasing population growth has occurred in third world and fourth world countries who just refuse to get their population growth under control. Give them just half a chance and a couple of billion of them will be heading for Indonesia and booking passage with people smugglers to come to Australia.

You only have to look at what is happening to Europe right now because of the stupidities of people like yourself. Telling us that Australia should emulate Brussels, Rotherham and Cologne and make our societies unliveable, just so that you can preen your moral delusions of moral superiority, is not going to cut it.

The funiest thing about third world immigration comes from America. There are people like yourself supposedly disgusted at Donald Trump's declaration that if elected President, he will build a wall between the USA and Mexico. These people are all claiming that if Trump is elected, they will all immigrate to Canada. The question begs, why don't they all immigrate to Mexico?

The answer is, of course, that however much they strut and preen themselves with their moral superiority, and claim that preventing South American illegal immigration is racist, they all still want to live in a white society where they feel safe