red baron wrote on Apr 13
th, 2012 at 9:38am:
If JULIAR (there will be no Carbon Tax in a Country I lead) GILLARD was to do the same thing as the New Zealand Prime Minister and say, "you are not coming here." The whole dirty people trade would die overnight.
I do feel sorry or the loss of human life. But Gillard by her IN ACTION has created the market, so people take the chance.
I have commented separately on reasons why I think this trade should be stopped on this site.
Red, seeing you are a decent guy I'll try to explain:
As a lifetime wordsmith, I know the meaning of words is crucial.
A lie is a statement made with the intent to deceive. If when she made the statement about the carbon tax, Julia Gillard
INTENDED to introduce a tax anyway, then she lied. But there is no evidence of that.
Gillard
BROKE HER WORD which is quite different from a lie. She promised not to do something, then changed her mind and did it.
But she did not tell a lie.
The current NZ government is taking a different line from the previous Labour administration which, out of friendship, helped Australia out by taking some surplus asylum seekers. They were quickly processed and moved out into the wider community.
Red, nothing, repeat
NOTHING will stop desperate people from trying to get to Australia. It makes sense to recognise that and deal with them sensibly and humanely.
The numbers are not large. Why Australians have such a "thing" about this topic I do not know. To an non-Australian the attitude of many Aussies, including your good self, does not seem to be very Australian.