When they cant find anything to say they all pander to one unverisal mistruth.

Tony Abbott and supporters are racist. never mind THE FACT THE first aboriginal elected to parliament was from the liberal party.

Whenever these scum dogs run out of words they come up with the old racism line DESPITE Julia's policy being on boat people being similar to Abbott she's not a racist but Abbott is?

There was always the option to do the same as  Fraser, Hawke and Keating and to just leave the card in the deck.

In the Howard era they found that playing the card was worth votes.

I agree philperth, and Labor lost votes to the Greens because people did not respect their pathetic pandering to all those seeking to demonise refugees, led by Tony Abbott.

My wife asked me, "How the heck do the Libs think they can promise to stop the boats?"
I told her they just had to return to treating refugees like the worst criminals in society, and locking them up in maximum security hellholes for years, like they used to, because the refugees won't want to come to a place that treats them so cruelly and unfairly.

All the Lib voters are fine with cruelty being directed at refugees, because it works, and they can justify it to themselves by believing that refugee=terrorist.

It is a very tough call to make, because the cruelty policy works, people just have to decide if they are prepared to accept their share of the responsibility for promoting that cruelty?

mozzaok wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2010 at 8:56am:



Re : "How the heck do the Libs think they can promise to stop the boats?"
Look at it this way, these poor asylum seekers are presently very few in number, but if allowed to continue, the numbers have a high likelihood of growing massively.  These people are displaced, without representation or protection, and prone to being brutalised and taken advantage of, they are being placed on boats that are considered disposable in Indonesia etc.  These boats are death traps. The people smuggling business has the potential to become the "Armada of Death", they are not seaworthy.

Do you want this on your conscience?  Wouldn`t you rather try to save the lives of many by discouraging this horrible practice?  A hard line is needed here, once the news of the futility of this practice gets out, the people smuggling business will all but dry up.

mozzaok wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2010 at 9:51am:


And here`s me thinking that lead was dense!!!

[quote author=helian link=1282420237/0#9 date=1282441366]
Australians hostility towards asylum seekers arriving on boats is not motivated towards stopping them due to any fear or concern for their seaworthiness, it is motivated by an hysterical and irrational fear of invasion by cultural foreigners, atavistic of the Yellow Peril hysteria, [quote]


That is completely untrue.
The point is that these people who arrive on boats have no skills, no wealth, no education - therefore nothing to offer to benefit this country.

I was of the same view in Britain regarding the Romanians, Poles and Hungarians - they are the same colour as us.

Race or colour is irrelevant.

It is about keeping out poo people who offer nothing.

If they want to come to Australia as economic migrants, there is a process in place.

If they are genuine refugees, there are a shedload of countries closer to where they have come from.

philperth2010 wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2010 at 9:06am:



Tell that to the thousands of homeless living in cars when illegals get 4 star motels hot food shopping trips and free medical?????

Your delusional and is precisely why labor got baseball batted.

mantra wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2010 at 11:47am:


mantra, you really are dumber than crab pot bait.