Didn't they try appeasement with Hitler and the Third Reich.
I can't see much difference in the Rudd (and Labor) approach to
Indonesia.

Let's step back a bit. Genuine refugees are not working together secretly to plot and plan against our way of life - the poor bastards are fleeing certain death - it's no fun to be stuck in some sh!t-hole camp, year after year, just because you're from this group or that group - you've left behind everything you've ever worked and lived for, your sister or wife or mother has been r*ped and maybe killed, who knows - while out here, you and me, we've been watching some pap on Channel X.

So try and have some decency - in an ideal world, most of these 'refugees' would not be refugees at all, they would be happier to stay home. Those 'economic' refugees - yes, let them join the queue marked 'migrant'.

But the rest of us should just thank lucky our stars, while we push those other poor bastards off the ladder that got us where we are.

Individual, JayB, and SPQR, to name just a few,

I've read and digested your posts on this thread, but unlike Lexi, I don't have the time to read all the papers and watch all the political t.v. that she finds all her links from. Such snippets are for those who can't formulate their own opinions through dialogue with their peers, and need to rely on articles which are written with a reporter' bias, sources from overseas or reference to out of date ideas. It's very difficult to stay current on such quickly changing scenarios.

Lexi,
You must be either a speed reader extraordinaire, or have a team to help you find these articles. I suspect there are not enough hours in anyone's day to manage this task single-handedly - even for a busy librarian.
Unfortunately I now realise most of these posts not only don't help solve the original question asked on this topic, but are purely a form of entertainment for some posters, hence are completely unproductive and time wasting.

Worldwatcher,

I'll let you in on a secret, but keep it to yourself.

The OLO entity Lexi is not a person it's actually a internet bot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot
She doesn't actually read any of the lefty links she gathers (that should be obvious to anyone who studies her associated posts).
She merely aggregates all the nastiest bits from all the left leaning sites ala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
and links us to them in the hope that it will confuse most of most of the time.

The anti-Lexi forces play a role kinda similar to that played by Jeff Bridges in Tron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ay_H0p2YDk
combating the forces of darkness and repairing the damage.

SPQR,

More likely the "anti-Lexi" forces comprise all the rejects from the bar room scene in Star Wars.

(Kudos to whoever dreamed that line up)

worldwatcher,
I agree with you re Lexi. It's so typical of our public servants to have so much time at hand whilst collecting generous pay & benefits & then denounce those who pay taxes to keep the public servants. No wonder they vote ALP to keep the Gravy train rolling.