Refugee Weekend ended yesterday; enough already! Most of us wouldn't have heard about it if it hadn't been for one of the usual suspects who likes to start arguments and tell us what we should be thinking. These 'weeks' for this, that and the other go down like lead balloons in the wider community. I'm media savvy, but I haven't heard any mention of the pointless nonsense outside OLO. Perhaps the ABC was on to it, but I stopped taking lectures from them years ago.

Few people care, and so-called refugees continue to put it over gullible Western saps.

Hi there ALTRAV, RUNNER & INDIVIDUAL...

My comments herein have been expressed many times before, but alas to no avail. Many say I'm out of touch with reality, because in more recent times the previously overindulgent refugee checks & immigration screening, has improved exponentially since the days, where raids were necessarily undertaken on specific communities. Our politicians now claim many of the criminal class that attempt entry to Australia, are interdicted at our Borders.

To a certain extent, that may well be true I might be out of touch with the Lebanese Community since my retirement from the police, but I can still read, and I listen. And I've still got mates in the job, who tend to appraise me of what's going on. So I'm not exactly a friggin' mushroom?

I can say with absolute certainty, the new concern for the coppers is Africa Refugees & Immigration. Now we're confronted with groups of marauding African gangs, not only youths but adult participants, mostly from the Sudan & Somalia, countries where lawlessness has prevailed for so long, where corruption is endemic, not only of government but the police and military, such as they are? These people have no fear of the Police whatsoever. They contend our laws are so soft and pliable; they'll continue to be 'let-off' with S.556a of the NSW Crimes Act, 1900, over and over again? Why? Because we have a pathetically weak judiciary, that's why!

All African Refugee & Immigration from the Sudan & Somalia should cease immediately. Not even careful screening would assist in determining whether an individual from either Country could assimilate into the Australia culture.

If this Country wants to help either of these two Nations to improve their lot, best they send Aid & Technology to them. Rather than bringing those people and their problems here, to further 'infect' and 'inculcate' our people, with the same ideology of lawlessness, that currently exists over there.

Hi there TTBN...

As usual, you're so right! Fools like myself always seem to fall for the 'Social Bleatings' of the 'far left,' and yup I stepped right into it, didn't I? Sorry about that, but as you know I'm not that bright, so the inevitable happens, and whoops, I put my foot right in it again!

o sung wu, sorry I missed the meaning of that last comment with ttbn.
I don't understand sarcasm, and if it was not, I am surprised 'anyone' would challenge or question you.
As I said before, I find your stories and input invaluable, maybe because I relate to them so well, but mostly because YOU have lived it and you speak with authority.
Again you are right about, I was going to say shift from Muslims to Africans, but that would be wrong, because we have 'added' the African burden to an already overloaded security and legal system, with NO viable outcome in sight.
o sung wu, again you make sense, I have always preached your last suggestion.
In my version I quote the story of the man and the fish.
Instead of offering the man charity in the form of a fish, so he can feed his family for a day, why don't we teach him how to fish and he will never go hungry again.
I would like commentors to demonstrate just a little imagination or intellect and come up with ideas how these people can help themselves.
This way it's a win, win, win situation.
They don't have to be displaced or disenfranchised and all the social trauma attached to it.
And we also win because we will not have to worry about the criminal element that may slip past the scrutineers.
It's so easy, we were part of the original live sheep export trade and part of that scheme at the time was to teach them how to become vertically integrated or self reliant.
In other words, from paddock-to-plate.
This is very possible and can be achieved anywhere if there is the will to do so.

Refugee Week is Australia's peak activity to
inform the public about refugees and celebrate
the positive contributions of refugees.
Paul1405 started this discussion which appears to
still be ongoing.

Dear O Sung Wu,

Your opinion has always been as far as I remember
valued both by myself and so many others on this
forum in all the years that we've been here.
We've seen each other go through so many things
together - and shared so many experiences.
And not for one moment have I ever doubted your
expertise as a former police officer. Nor do I
in hearing your opinion now.

However, you I'm sure, will understand my occupational
habit of continuing to look for answers to solving
problematic and complex issues that arise from time to time.
I try to do research toward providing a more balanced
debate. And for that I often get attacked and accused of
all sorts of things. Never mind - it comes with the
territory especially here on OLO.

However, I want you to be quite clear I would hate any of
this to affect our relationship because as I said. I do
respect your opinion.

For anyone interested here is some research
from the Australian Institute of Criminology on
Sudanese Australians and crime - from police
and community perspectives:

http://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi477