Dear SPQR,

I called the boat people asylum seekers, and that is what I was talking about. The fact that terrorism is a threat and is more of a threat in the Islamic community than in other sections of the population I agree with. I think the boat people are less of a threat than those who got here through regular channels. They have been built up as a bogeyman.

SPQR - Something you missed the Victoria police made the following unprecedented statement. Quote "Police have expressed concern over new figures that show Somali and Sudanese-born Victorians are five times more likely to commit crime than the wider community." "A lot of the offences that we're concerned about are assaults and street robberies,"
This is a rather general statement but I believe assaults and street robbery are usually not crimes associated with working people so here we probable have welfare bludgers as well.

Dear SPQR,

<<I think the boat people are less of a threat than those who got here through regular channels>>

And how can you make that determination, David ?

Our “regular channels” , and the regular channels of both the US & the Afghan govts, are incapable of
vetting/determining who is a genuine recruit and who is a Taliban implant!

For many years Australians were told (by our betters in the refugee industry) that:

1) All “asylum seekers” were thoroughly vetted.
2) That those we accepted were “proven to be genuine”
3) That they sought sanctuary in OZ because they aspired to our pluralistic values

Recent events are showing that all of the above have been a fantasy.

Anyway David, I leave it there, I can see you are set in your ways.
And you no doubt have something more pressing to do this fine spring morning --like maybe, picket a detention centre.

Hi PhillipS,

<<you missed the …Somali and Sudanese-born [crime rates] >>

No PhillipS I didn’t miss it.

The refugee industry has already formulated its response to that finding/charge –it’s all to do with “DISCRIMINATION”

The police are “agen ‘em”
The law is “agen ‘em”
The system is “agen ‘em”

I was watching a Q&A session a couple of months back where representatives of our new East African citizens were complaining, in broken English, that they were finding it hard to get jobs and it could only be because of discrimination.

Cheers

SPQR - they like to bring out the discrimination and racist card when it suits them, but the facts don't lie in this instance.
I remember about a year ago a whole group of Africans went around the CBD in Melbourne bashing and robbing people who were by themselves a number were hospitalized 1 seriously.

The good news is that the Greens drop in primary vote is not just a statistically blip, as the results from council elections show that they got hammered at local government level too.