Potential Terrorists YOU may be right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2kKnzW4d8w

http://www.youtube.com/embed/z9pD_UK6vGU

"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."

SM,
I totally agree, I want the boats stopped, I do not consider myself racist for wanting that. The vast majority of asylum seekers have been duped by human traffickers into paying to come to Australia. That does not make them criminals, they are simply people who want a better life for themselves and their families, can't blame them for that.
The question of how Australia deals with the problem is what the debate should be about, with flexibility and a degree of humanitarianism thrown in. All sides of politics have failed these people, and I include my own party in that, as well as yours, and the Labor Party. The issue has become far too politicized, when we should have been united we were divided, engaged in petty political games, simply for the purpose of point scoring with an eye to winning the next election. Whilst innocent people were drowning at sea we carried on with our petty politics, its a shame we have to live with.
Because of our divisions, it becomes fertile ground for the extremest to hijack the whole debate and sow the seeds of hatred, stigmatizing one minority group to gain leverage with the majority, for the sole purpose of pushing their extreme agenda. I don't want that for Australia, and I'm sure you don't either.

Someone attend to Jayb, please.

He's still in the playpen playing with his "Potential Terrorist" rattle.

And now he's got access to youtube......

(I've told you before to only give him the soft toys - he's not old enough for the big kid's stuff:)

The LNP policy of forcing boats back out into international waters with guns, as was done under Howard, prejudges asylum claimants without a process. Furthermore, Australia is responsible for human life under UN maritime convention so boat scuttling will carry on as normal. It appears Indonesia will not come to the party over a regional solution for Rudd or for Abbott.

The boats should be escorted in, as they are now, and the process should result in deportation of economic refugees. The process is the problem and the noises Carr and Rudd are making suggests that is where their attention will be directed over the next month or three.

Paul1405, "When will the Greens be held accountable?"

That is a serious question that deserves a serious answer. But the media is once again letting the Greens off Scot-free by not subjecting the Greens' performance and waffly policies to critical examination.

How many times will Christine Milne be allowed to rant for minutes after being asked a question? It is as though the Greens are a protected species as far as the media are concerned.

At least, My potential terrorist enemy, I answer questions in a straight forward rational manner. I do not deflect & refuse to answer the question because you know, we who know you, know that cannot argue against the truth. Therefore you are compelled to deflect. That's what your Islamic mantra tells you to do, isn't it.