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If you cry over the consequences, then change the causes
How disgusting is Bolt. Yesterday it was posting picture of burning bodies. Today a picture of a drowned three year old. When pictures of Palestinian kids in Gaza were shown Bolt yelled fake and foul. He also did it to a cartoon.
The current picture is to promote Abbott's way. Prohibition makes $$$
Did prohibition ever stop anything? On alcohol, on drugs, on homosexuality, on pornography, on crime, on stopping the Nth Vietnamese on Cuba etc. Just how many losing wars does Bolt expect us to keep partaking in for little else than political advantage and profit. $55 mill to resettle 4 people in Cambodia that's a winner. Children raped and driven mad on Nauru that's a winner. None to be talked about because like the Nazi's we are ashamed but call it "operational matters". However because we can't control the media cycle the internet or social media Dutton advertises the fact that we have to do this to deter others from coming.
Is this ISIS in reverse or is it what ISIS is doing? Dutton gives those in ISIS who use the internet reason for wanting to one day fight arseholes like us. It also recruits right wingers here to the cause.
Didn't Hitler say that to the Jews "No Way you will not call Germany or whever we rule home" They even went a step further.
Not the principle but the (union) side
Link News Corp Paywall
" There is no suggestion any former union appointees have been biased…"
Whatever happened
to Michael Lawler appointed by Tony Abbott and now accused of much more than just
bias. Even Bolt wonders why he still has his job and is on full pay and
not there.
Not refugees. Not a responsibility but a threat
For Andrew Bolt it's not about refugees it's all about Islam
" The illegal immigrants in no way are “refugees”. Even those fleeing, say, Syria, were in relative safety once they’d crossed the border into Turkey, which, incidentally, is a country sharing the Muslim faith of most Syrians." Bolt
He adopts the voice of the extreme right wing and "I blame Germany for saying it does not have a responsibility to accept these hundreds of thousands of people crossing its borders." and as he says "Oddly enough, this is exactly the policy of Tony Abbott. " that needs adopting which is extremely facist and right wing.
Bolt talks of sneaky omissions and says "I note the crying over the poor three-year-old Syrian boy found drowned on the beach of Turkey. Why do not Fairfax journalists point out that scores of such children also drowned under Labor until Tony Abbott stopped the boats?"
1200 would not have drowned if Tony Abbott had passed the agreement Bowen and Gillard had reached with Malaysia. But they now prefer Manus ,Nauru,and a failed $55 mill resettlement program in Cambodia that's resettled 4 people and bought Hun Sens people more luxury cars.
Sneakiness goes beyond just this. Bolt fails to point out that at present the EU is faced with accepting 0.15% 750,000 of people on the basis of humanitarian aid only and if matching Australia's meagre agreement they could only accept 500,000. However Germany has offered to take all the Syrian refugees plus others an intake of a possible 800,000 and don't consider itself incapacitated that's 1% of it's total population and population or a factor of x10 compared with us. Should the EU decide to be able to take 0.5% The problem faced is not and invasion per se which is just Bolt's political scaremongering but rather a logistical one of processing such large numbers through so few entry points and trying to stop their flow by places like Hungary. EU right wing politicians are taking advantage and are exacerbating a problem that isn't what Bolt is making it out to be.
Nevertheless, the number of refugees in Europe is still small compared to some other countries. Germany has received more applications for asylum than any other European country, but its six refugees per 1,000 inhabitants is less than a third of Turkey’s 21 per thousand, which in turn is dwarfed by Lebanon’s 232 per thousand.
Refugees living securely in countries that border their own are less likely to attempt hazardous journeys to remote regions and more likely to return home once a conflict is resolved. International support for countries bearing the greatest refugee burden also makes economic sense: it costs Jordan about $3,350 (U.S.) to support one refugee for a year; in Germany, the cost is at least $13,000.
If those who claim asylum in a nearby country were sent to a refugee camp, safe from persecution, and supported financially by aid from affluent countries, people smuggling – and deaths in transit – would be eliminated. Moreover, the incentive for economic migrants to seek asylum would be reduced, and affluent countries could fulfill their responsibility to accept more refugees from the camps, while maintaining control of their borders.
Turning away people who manage to reach one’s country is emotionally difficult, even if they are being sent to a safe haven. But we should also have compassion for the millions of people who are waiting in refugee camps. We need to give them hope, too. Peter Singer
THE MIGRANT CRISIS: HERE'S WHY IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK
Any wonder the NYT has said
Some European officials may be tempted to adopt the hard-line approach Australia has used to stem a similar tide of migrants. That would be unconscionable.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has overseen a ruthlessly effective effort to stop boats packed with migrants, many of them refugees, from reaching Australia’s shores. His policies have been inhumane, of dubious legality and strikingly at odds with the country’s tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and war.
New York Times: It Would Be 'Unconscionable' For Europe To Follow Abbott’s 'Inhumane' Refugee Policies
A
UN inquiry into the conflict in Syria criticises the "global failure"
to protect the country's refugees, saying it has fuelled Europe's
migrant crisis.

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