Steele you profess not to like the people who post on this site. The feeling is entirely mutual. Most of us posting here don't like condescending smart asses, who think their droppings don't stink.

How do I know that description fits you? I think I must be becoming psychic in my old age.

It was refreshing to hear the echoes of M2 staccato once again albeit 30 yrs down the track...an RAN Attack Class patrol boat was rumoured to have let a few bursts of .50 go over the bows of a prahus in 1983. Skipper reprimanded evidently, all hushed up by the Silver Budgie. But oh the good it would have done back then. A little bit later - 1986, while serving in Army Water Tpt on LCM8's I mentioned it to a cook who was on an LCH we used as our mother ship up in Shoalwater Bay Training area...as it turned out he was the cook on the boat involved, sure enough the facts were as we surmised.

No denying there are genuine "refugees"...the others need not apply. Use the correct channels thanks.

More $ for NORFORCE patrols, new patrol boats & P3C flights needed, not funding the DIAC,DEEWR, & bleeding hearts brigade espousing their pscho-babble.

Go inside these Detention Centres and just see what is going on at Wickham Point, Smith St Astor apartments, Darwin Airport and the Coonawarra facilities as I have, and please tell me we are getting our tax dollars worth from Serco while veterans from the Voyager Disaster, The Blackhawk Disaster, wounded from the War on Terror and others so traumatised get the rough end of the pineapple - left seeking proper debriefings, appropriate care, recognition and such.

Please who ever is in government...seriously consider sending the irregular arrivals on their SIEV's back on a big cruise liner, it will be far cheaper than the Serco gravy train we now endure.

Dear Hasbeen,

Really I'm just like you, just another bloke pining for the old days, back when a fella could be proud to be an Aussie.

When we weren't allied to countries that tortured.
When we looked after desperate people.
When we didn't put children in concentration camps.
When we didn't hand naval ships over to governments indicted by most of the Western world for serious human rights abuses.
When we could properly mourn the sinking of a refugee ship without the crescendo of political point scoring.

I just happen not to think very highly of those who have eroded and corroded that legacy.

So why don't you tell me where to look for our humanity because from where I'm sitting its been scared off by the likes of yourself and I'm not going to apologise for getting cranky about it.

I mix with a lot of different people who profess a wide range of views but there would not be too many of them who would read this thread and like what they saw. I do wonder if a younger Hasbeen might not have been one of them.

SteeleRedux, I wasn't going to bother posting to this obviously racist rant of a thread, but I just had to say that I like your style : )
Cheers,
Suse.

SteeleRedux,

You sound an awful lot like an awful little Belgium private dick that used to bedevil this forum till a short time ago...

Same choice of subjects,same ALL RANT NO REASON posts--little wonder Suzie finds in you a kindred spirit!

Cut all the crap about asylum scammers being desperate people.They are "desperate" in the same way these are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh7NlvtsI_U

And in case you haven't figures it out. They are *desperate* to get their hands on the free sugar that Rudd & co put on the table.

You and Suzie (and the third sister in the covern) ought to be ashamed of yourselves for encouraging them--shame--shame--shame!

SteeleRedux,
Why not offer a solution ? Don't you want one ?