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Reply #375 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:26pm

Approximately 13 000 refugee places have been granted under Australia’s Humanitarian Program each year (since 2000).

SO there IS a queue.

There are millions of refugees worldwide in camps, most of them waiting for resettlement for years, as there are only about 20 countries that do resettle refugees.

If there were no boat arrivals, all 13 000 places would be filled by such refugees, waiting for years, in some cases.

Every boat arrival, by paying roughly $15,000/head to people smugglers, elbows aside a camp-dweller - by definition, a poorer, less fortunate, longer-suffering refugee.

SO boat people are queue jumpers, they are paying to be able to shove aside the less fortunates.

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Reply #376 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:27pm

culldav wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 11:21am:

What gets up my nose is these illegal queue jumpers think that the detentions centres are not good enough for them when they originally came form poo-holes in the ground in the first place. Then they don’t spare a minute thinking about the 300,000 homeless Australians every night who have nowhere to sleep besides under bridges, parks, alley ways and in the streets. O think the homeless people in Australia should be given priority accommodation in 4 * hotels before this riff-raff.

Your 300,000 figure includes people who are classed as "secondary" or "tertiary" homeless. Most of these people are housed in crisis refuges or medium-term accommodation run by charities in the community.

Almost all developed countries place refugees in similar accommodation. Australia is unique in placing refugees in detention until their applications are approved - a policy that began with the Hawke/Keating government.

Detention is usually reserved for people who have been tried and convicted for serious criminal matters. More than 90% of boat asylum-seekers detained in refugee detention centres are found to be genuine refugees. Under the Refugee Convention, it is legal to seek asylum in another country, so they are not "illegal" and have broken no laws.

Asylum-seekers who arrive by plane, and who make up the bulk of refugee claims, are allowed to live in the community.The High Court has recently ruled that detention for boat riff-raff as opposed to plane riff-raff is unjust under Australian law.

Not "good enough for them"? The Australian High Court of do-gooders has found this to be correct.

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FD Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 100329	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #377 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:28pm Soren wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:26pm: There are millions of refugees worldwide in camps, most of them waiting for resettlement for years, as there are only about 20 countries that do resettle refugees. Really? Where did you get this number of countries from?
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Reply #378 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:28pm

buzzanddidj wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 11:55am:

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The Afghanis can be suspected Taliban, the Iraqis suspected ex-Republican Guards, those from a middle-eastern background suspected Al Qaida

Not to mention many Irish arrivals in Australia being IRA members, donors and supporters

My great-great grandfather was a member of the Whiteboys (the precursor of the IRA).....

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"I just get sick of people who place a label on someone else with their own definition.

It's similar to a strawman fallacy"
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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #379 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:34pm Times were when people were sensible but they were emotionally bullied into accepting the Irish as well.
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skippy. Gold Member Offline Posts: 20882 Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #380 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:37pm Soren wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:34pm: Times were when people were sensible but they were emotionally bullied into accepting the Irish as well. Yea Australia is a great place swallow, we even let in those who like Danish,lol.
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Reply #381 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:40pm

Soren wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:34pm:

Times were when people were sensible but they were emotionally bullied into accepting the Irish as well.

You DO realise that that was done as a joke??
And the lines were turned around 100%?

Everyone in the town, in the movie Blazing Saddles, was named Johnson.....and Johnson is a fairly common Irish name....(English translation of MacShane)...

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"I just get sick of people who place a label on someone else with their own definition.

It's similar to a strawman fallacy"
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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #382 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:49pm What? Blazing Saddles is a comedy? Are you sure?? Nooo.... I thought it was social history.
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Reply #383 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:03pm

skippy. wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:37pm:

Yea Australia is a great place swallow, we even let in those who like Danish,lol.

Is there anything that doesn't start off your homo fantasies? You remind me of Derek and Clive - Derek and Skippy:
http://www.phespirit.info/derekandclive/ad_nauseam_13.htm

SKIPPY: Whenever I see the word "and" in a book .....I get so smacking horny, "This" gives me the horn, "that" gives me the horn. They said, "Lie on the bed and, erm, er, masturbate." And, er, I said, er, "What is my motivation?" ..... and, er, he said, er, "the". And as soon as he said, "the" .....
DEREK: You're off.

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Reply #384 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:22pm

Soren wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:03pm:

skippy. wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:37pm:

Yea Australia is a great place swallow, we even let in those who like Danish,lol.

Is there anything that doesn't start off your homo fantasies? You remind me of Derek and Clive - Derek and Skippy:
http://www.phespirit.info/derekandclive/ad_nauseam_13.htm

SKIPPY: Whenever I see the word "and" in a book .....I get so smacking horny, "This" gives me the horn, "that" gives me the horn. They said, "Lie on the bed and, erm, er, masturbate." And, er, I said, er, "What is my motivation?" ..... and, er, he said, er, "the". And as soon as he said, "the" .....
DEREK: You're off.

Lol ,you're the one who had " I like Danish" as part of your signature ,swallow.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Grin

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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #385 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:33pm Told you what it meant, twice, but you still can't get the d!ck out of your head....
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Reply #386 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:33pm

gizmo_2655 wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:28pm:

buzzanddidj wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 11:55am:

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The Afghanis can be suspected Taliban, the Iraqis suspected ex-Republican Guards, those from a middle-eastern background suspected Al Qaida

Not to mention many Irish arrivals in Australia being IRA members, donors and supporters

My great-great grandfather was a member of the Whiteboys (the precursor of the IRA).....

Almost everyone who emmigrated to the New World between the 16th and 19th centuries did so for political reasons. Most were persecuted for terrorism or various political crimes. Continental European protestants headed to America because of the political climate back home. Irish Catholics emmigrated or were transported for the same reasons.

Instead of terrorism, they called it treason.

Interesting that modern ethnic suburbs are now called ghettoes. If you visit any old gold rush town from the 1860s, you'll find the German section, the Chinese section, the Irish, Kanack and Indian sections.

It's funny how some things never change.

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Reply #387 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:37pm

skippy. wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:22pm:

Soren wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:03pm:

skippy. wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 12:37pm:

Yea Australia is a great place swallow, we even let in those who like Danish,lol.

Is there anything that doesn't start off your homo fantasies? You remind me of Derek and Clive - Derek and Skippy:
http://www.phespirit.info/derekandclive/ad_nauseam_13.htm

SKIPPY: Whenever I see the word "and" in a book .....I get so smacking horny, "This" gives me the horn, "that" gives me the horn. They said, "Lie on the bed and, erm, er, masturbate." And, er, I said, er, "What is my motivation?" ..... and, er, he said, er, "the". And as soon as he said, "the" .....
DEREK: You're off.

Lol ,you're the one who had " I like Danish" as part of your signature ,swallow.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Grin

No - not that there's anything wrong with it. We take in all types here. Danes, Musselmen, Taliban, Al Qaida, Kaos.

You name it, we take in every shoe-shiner and bit of riff-raff we're given.

All 15,000 of them a year.

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JC Denton Gold Member Offline Posts: 5492 Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #388 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:37pm Bunch of dicksucking queers in this thread.
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skippy. Gold Member Offline Posts: 20882 Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #389 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:38pm Soren wrote on Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:33pm: you still can't get the d!ck out of your head.... Or in your case............ not that there's anything wrong with that.
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