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My early childhood was growing up in a caravan park when my parents first came up to QLD.
Say I got lost in the park and someone in a nice mobile home found me wandering around and took me in.
That doesn't mean I'm now entitled to an upgrade and live in the nice mobile home van with a built-in toilet permanently because sending me back to our piece of crap franklin caravan with the busted leaking annex might have a negative or detrimental effect on my life, now that I know what the good life is.

I said earlier, I accept their refugee status from Sri-Lanka to India.
I don't accept their refugee status from India to Australia, I think they were migrants, and that means they entered illegally.
You've got to go back out and then come back in through the turnstiles the right way.

If you want to support the 'right' position, then that would be that India should have some provision themselves for refugees;
In which case they wouldn't have had to risked their lives making the trip here in the first place.

In regards to other cases or exceptions you mentioned.
These temporary protection orders don't automatically entitle someone to permanent residency.
And why should they if the situation in their home country stabilises?
- I told you I believe in the ethics of fairness, that means what you do for one you do for the other.
First find the position that's ethically right, and then treat everyone fairly and equally on a basis of merit under that system.

I'm happy for these people to stay if the local community wants and supports them.
But they've got to out and come back in properly.

Hey SF,

"Armchair Critic's antisemitism is an utter disgrace. From what I hear he has posted antisemitic comments for years. He is a paranoid antisemite."

Who decides what an anti-semite is?
- Semites (with the approval of those who support the PC agenda)

This in itself is the same flawed argument I raised attention to in my first comment on this thread, about Spencers use of an immigrant to support the immigrant point of view.

Let's look at the Bigger Picture there.

Is use of this 'anti-xxxx (nationality example)' distributed on an equitable basis?
Do New Zealander's run around screaming you cant say that it's anti-kiwi?
Do Mexicans run around screaming you're anti-mexican?
Does ANY other race do this or is is a privilege reserved only for them?
Is this not an example of Jewish exceptionalism?
And if so where else do we see that?

'God's chosen people'.

The have the Noahide laws (previously mentioned) where one of them is that you cannot criticise the religious authority?

And so, is it not fair to question whether the use of the word anti-semite constitutes a theocratic position being imposed upon me?

This is not Israel or a religious theocracy, this is Australia.
Where my right to think for myself and question things is supposed to be protected.

Maybe you think the 'holocaust' is a reason why they have this privilege?

But lets think about that example.
The word Nazi is used freely enough as a term to denigrate there's plenty of examples of this, but no-one suggests that it's used because of an unrelenting hatred for German people.
It's freely accepted then that it's about 'the idea' not about 'the people' associated with said idea, as I tried to explain earlier.

- Though it's a little more complicated than the Nazis, when the idea is part of the religion.

But I want to be clear.
I do NOT wish any Jewish people any harm in any way.

Do you all actually get that Israel BOMBED 4 different countries in under 24hrs?
Who gets away with that?

Israel Bombs Syria & Iraq After Alleged Rocket & Israel Caught Violating Lebanese Airspace, Again
http://youtu.be/yYERhfKwvPc

Armchair Critic,

<<If letting them stay leads to a political or legal path that results in more boats coming and potentially more men women and kids drowning, then that goes against the greater good, and therefore is NOT the right path.

ScoMo says he 'can't in good conscience'.
- And I agree with him.>>

It's time ScoMo and the govt. practised their obligations to UN International Law for asylum seekers. I stick by that approach to the Tamil family. Where's the evidence that keeping them here will lead to more illegal boat arrivals? Aust has enough legislation in place to stop that.

If it's OK for Peter Dutton to make an exception for the 2 European nannies, he can do it with the Tamil family and return them to Biloela.

In November 2015, Lisa Millar reported for ABC News Brisbane, Qld:

"Australia's asylum seeker policies have been heavily criticised at a session of the UN's leading human rights body in Geneva.
Key points

Australia's asylum seeker policies heavily criticised at UN human rights review
Concerns raised about detention of asylum seekers on Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru
Australia's delegation says border policies have saved lives at sea
Expert says Australia is a "pariah" on human rights issues

"More than 100 countries spoke during the three-hour session, with many calling on Australia to abide by international law.

"Australia's border control policies, which have seen asylum seekers — including children — detained on Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru were a key point of contention.

"The criticism came amid unrest on Christmas Island following the death of an asylum seeker who tried to escape the immigration detention centre.

"This is the second time Australia has faced a periodic review by the Human Rights Council, which looks at every country's record once every four years".

Countries at the UN that spoke against Australia's treatment of asylum seekers included the United States, Great Britain and Canada.

"Sweden's delegate told the session that Australia was the only country in the world that used offshore processing and mandatory detention of asylum seekers", http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-10/australias-asylum-policies-heavily-criticised-at-united-nations/6926032

Hey Armchair critic....
I'd like to answer your post....but I can't understand HOW.
this is not an easy site to navigate.

IF you see this,,,I'll reply to your comment.

GodsGrace

GodsGrace,

What a lovely pen name you have, especially on a secular forum like this.Welcome!

The current Minister for Education and Minister for Industrial Relations in Queensland is The Honourable Grace Grace MP. She has a double dose of grace in her name.

I wonder if she knows that grace is a central concept to the Bible, Christianity and the world. It expresses God's promises given in Scripture and is seen in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jerry Bridges wrote: '[Grace] is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against Him'.

'Grace is the opposite of karma, which is all about getting what you deserve. Grace is getting what you don’t deserve' (Justin Holcomb).

<<Hey Armchair critic.... I'd like to answer your post....but I can't understand HOW. this is not an easy site to navigate.>>

I agree that it's not as easy a forum to navigate around as on others I've used.

However, if you can find your own post here, on that page is an icon on top and bottom, 'New Post'. Click on that and away you go with posting to whomever. For me, I normally compose in email and then copy and paste to OLO.

I trust you'll enjoy your time with us.