I repeat.

"If these countries are willing to tow these boats back out to sea and wait for the passengers to die, then surely this is the end for our world."

Robert

'"If these countries are willing to tow these boats back out to sea and wait for the passengers to die, then surely this is the end for our world."

the history of the world is littered with cruelty. None more than the slaughter of the unborn. The world will end in God's timing. For now He gives people the opportunity to repent and receive forgiveness.

Robert, no it doesn't, civilisation is based on keeping barbarians out of your territory or empire, multi racial as their empire was to be a Roman you had to at least worship their gods, obey their laws and pay your dues.

The Anti Australia movement hasn't got a leg to stand on, they blame western intervention for the problems of the east then demand more western intervention to influence the outcomes of tribal squabbles abroad. Aceepting illegal Rohingya job seekers and insurgents means taking a side in the civil affairs of another country and as we've seen with the Tamil, Lebanese and Kurdish uptake they come with the aim of setting up committees and support groups to fund and direct the insurgencies and criminal networks in their native lands.
None of this is new, I remember back in about 1984 meeting a Christian Lebanese girl whose two cousins had just been sent off, with the backing of the community to fight in Lebanon, a few weeks later I heard that one of them had been killed. It's a pattern that goes back into Australian history with Fenians and later IRA supporters being the target of special branch surveillance and all of the post WW2 intrigue among eastern European migrants, ASIO and KGB.

Dear ConservativeHippie,

Perhaps the following website may appeal to you more.
It's written by a "somebody," Ben Doherty - whose credentials
are on the web, as are further articles by him on this
subject:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/31/stopping-the-boats-a-fiction-as-australia-grows-ever-more-isolationist-on-asylum

Foxy,
Ben Doherty like most other journalists is a Left Wing activist of the old school, there are only two types of journalists in the mainstream press leftists like Doherty in the majority and left liberals like Andrew Bolt in the minority.
100% of journalists support immigration, 100% are "anti racist" and 100% are against White, working class Australians having any say.
You can see the exact same sentiments in all mainstream discussion of immigration, the left just frame it as a moral issue the liberals as economic, the left see "racism' as a moral failing and the liberals see it as economic sabotage.

We come back to the old question, why do people with Brown skin get to choose where they live and people with White skin don't? Where's our better life?
I'm sure I could make a great life for myself in Burma if the government gave me a small monthly stipend, a house, priority medical and dental treatment, free language lessons, free public transport, legal aid, free education for my kids and the Buddhist charities clothed me, gave me food parcels, trained me to do a job and organised job placements ahead of the locals.
Yes Ma'am, I believe I'd be sitting pretty in a beautiful and hospitable country, trouble is, if I turn up there in a boat, pour sea water into the fuel tank then collapse to the deck in a swoon they're not going to give me what I want are they?

I am disgusted with the inhumanity expressed by some of the posters on this forum.
I have just read the paper this morning about all the Asian countries near Australia following our 'lead' and 'turning back the boats'.

https://overland.org.au/2015/05/the-last-time-they-turned-back-the-boats/

The only difference between this current humanitarian crisis of turning away boatloads of people in distress, and the times Australia has done the same, is that we are actually hearing about and seeing the consequences of this action.
Abbott and his Navy kept all their actions secret from the public.
I am embarrassed to be Australian re this subject.

Have we sunk so low as human beings that some applaud the actions of others turning thousands of fellow humans back out to the open seas for almost certain death?
Does anyone not think that these death voyages aren't known about before the desperate men, women and children embark on them?

And Runner, can we please just have ONE discussion on this forum without you preaching, or bringing up the dreaded 'unborn'?