Dear CH,

Thank You for letting me know
your feelings about the way I post and express myself.
I can assure you that I do not regard myself as being
"superior," in any way to anyone else.

I cannot help the way that I express myself -
that is the way I have been brought up. It is also
partly due to the way I have been educated. I attended an
all Girls' High School where we had an English Mistress
who insisted that we speak "properly." Not shorten words,
for example - we had to enunciate everything. And I mean
everything. Also, don't forget that English was not my
first language. My father spoke 8 languages. And we were
multi-lingual at home. I therefore took everything on board
that my English mistress taught me.

I do try to answer questions as best as I can.
I don't have the answers to
the big questions in life. I'm still on my own road to discovery.
I have been incredibly lucky, but everything is relative,
everything has its own story, and everyone has obstacles to
overcome. They are our greatest teachers.

All I can do is speak openly from the heart. My intentions
are to speak my mind without malice or anger - but just from
the depths of my truth.

Certainly there have been moments when I have said to myself
afterward - "I shouldn't have said that, or maybe I should
have said it differently." We all need to work on our presentation -
it is important to be conscious and compassionate and act with
civility. But I feel that we should also be secure and unafraid
of speaking our own mind. The only path to happiness is to
really be all that you can be.

As a wise person once wrote:

I'd rather be standing at the bottom of the mountain looking
up than at the top of the mountain looking down.

Cheers Foxy. Thank you for understanding and not taking offense.

Dear CH,

Thank You for being so patient and equally
for understanding me as well.

The topic begins: "Europe needs to adopt our border controls." How?

What nearly all people haven't covered on this topic has been where people have been jumping onto and into trucks to get into other countries in Europe to travel further - so in reality "to adopt our border controls", (with Australia surrounded by water) makes no sense.

In fact its impossible (to adopt our border controls) and the below link, with vision to watch shows that reality.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11675760/Video-showing-swarming-migrants-storming-UK-bound-truck-in-Calais-goes-viral.html

Will Australia be "turning back the trucks?" No and we can only truly really do that at Australian state/territory borders - and that's generally fruit and vegetable related.

//Europe Needs to Adopt our Border Controls//

Has it occurred to anybody that Europe is a vast continent composed of many sovereign nations and with very porous borders?

And that Australia is the only continent and sovereign nation in the world that has no land borders with any other nation?

How can our situation be translated into european? The politics are different, and the geography even more so.

Toni Lavis,

You have appealed to logic, reason and common sense. You do not belong on olo.