This thread, not unlike many on the same subject is a battle field.
On one side the blame Labor mob plans its next insult.
A team of let them in thinkers sits sneering in another.
Rudd is trying to fix it.
Come! enlightened commentators know, surely they do?
Rudd got blindsided and got is wrong, well let them in team scream NO!.
Can we avoid the battle lines?
Be brave! say just how we would stop them.
Hint, ALP failed 12 months ago, failed its self and our country.
If they then put every Howard era plan in place!
We now would know we need another way, it just will not ever work now.
And?
The truth Tony Abbott is uninterested in stopping boats, betrays his party and our country, by not assisting in stopping the boats.
Because he feeds on the boat arrivals and deaths.

The truth Tony Abbott is uninterested in stopping boats,
Belly,
That's probably the silliest thing you've said thus far.

came from a suppressed Communist country, that you would show support for a group of people that are striving to & will suppress the very freedoms
Jayb,
Lexi isn't either all that bright or more than likely is a member of the group that does the suppressing. I think she is a hypocritical fake.

Lexi, a very good article by Denise Allen on Racism in Australia. As an active Green I can say, engaging with people on the asylum seeker issue, racism is alive and well in Australia. Not unusual for a "redneck" to unleash a tirade against these people and then qualify their whole racist diatribe with "You know, I'm not a racist!"
Its not difficult for politicians, like Howard and Abbott, to play the race card, fuel some voters fears and suspicions, while all a long being careful not to be directly seen as racist. It does win them votes, no doubt about that. However it is a dangerous game for these moderate conservative politicians to play, given the right circumstances, the extreme in society can hijack the issue, and building on the groundwork of these moderates, turning society to their extreme way of thinking. Those that appeal to 2% today can easily appeal to 50% tomorrow,
As so many here like to generalise about people from a Muslim background, shocked by Ed Husi swearing on the Koran, by the way, the Koran is not my book, Ed could have done his swearing on the Melbourne telephone directory for all I care, but it was his right to do so. The same people must be shocked that The Greens in NSW voted for Mehreen Faruqi, a migrant from Pakistan, to replace Cate Faehrmann in the NSW LC. Regardless of politics you could not meet a better Australians than Mehreen and her family. Mehreen for me proves the general lie some like to propagate here about Muslim people.

Beach, When will the Greens be held accountable? I suppose when you come to power, we can expect a late night knock on the door.

individual,

It seems to me that the intelligence of a poster can be assumed to be in inverse proportion to your suggestion. that they are 1. "stupid", 2. "a moron", or 3. not that bright"

On an adult forum, a poster should be expected to possess a little more argument and cogent substance to his assertions other than calling those with opposing views "stooopid".

Paul,

Not everyone that wants to stop the boats are racist. Some don't like thousands of people drowning, others just don't like human trafficking, or simply bludgers and crooks living off taxpayers money.