Bazz,
You must be pretty desperate if you're going to label an entire culture because of a few individuals involved in a single police raid.
On that basis, could I judge all Australians to be racists by the actions of a a group of people at Bondi Beach a few years back?
Oh, wait, if I read through this thread, I would come to the same conclusions.
The word for the day, Bazz, et al, is "bigot" can we all spell "Bigot" boys and girls?
Anthony
http://www.observationpoint.com.au

Anthonyve,
Yes, the Vietnamese are a striking example of a people adapting to another way of life. Australian tourism to Vietnam is at an all time high, same can't be said about Lebanon, Afghanistan & Arab countries. What does that tell you ?

Indi,
You need to think a leeeetle bit more.
How many Aussie tourists were taking package tours to Saigon AT THE TIME that Vietnamese boat people were coming here?
Er, that would be none.
Comparing apples with apples leads us so much more sensible conclusions.
Anthony
http://www.observationpoint.com.au

Anthony, the size of specialist police squads gives an indication.
How many of our police forces have French crime squads ?
British crime squads?
How many have Norwegian crime squads ?

We have Asian crime squads and Middle Eastern crime squads.
It has to have some meaning.

History Lesson of the Tamils in Sri Lanka

The Tamils immigrated to Sri Lanka, segregated themselves into a fundamentalist Religious tribe, thus causing a division in their host society. They then wanted to carve off a piece of this country that welcomed them as immigrants. To which aim the Tamils then fought a 20year terrorist War or should I say territorial war to achieve this separatist state.

This a damn good reason, possibly the most glaringly sensible reason to not invite them to immigrate on leaky boats or whichever way they want to come to this country.
After all how many countries do they want? First they left their own country, then they wanted a piece of Sri Lankan country and now they are immigrating here.

apples with apples
Anthonyve,
No matter what excuses you may come up with, facts don't change. All I can conclude is that you don't have Australia's future at heart. Are you a back-door immigrant yourself ? You certainly have a box full of excuses for them.