Border Security Rudd Weak

[Calliope]

That wasn't intended as a personal attack, although your posting and language make your political bias fairly clearso I can understand how someone looking for balance can appear threatoning. I was merely responding to the need to try and denigrade the opinions of others with derogative terms by offering a counter view. By the way, sentences without question marks at the end are generally not questions.

You are in no position to give me a lesson on punctuation, until you brush up on your spelling.

As usual, your questions (comments?) are just nitpicking.

 

[Mofra]

You are in no position to give me a lesson on punctuation, until you brush up on your spelling. QUOTE]
I would think a typo or two is a little different to a complete misunderstanding, but then again that is probably just nitpicking hey?

 

[McCoy Pauley]

Interesting to see today's Australian where three of their op-ed writers (Greg Sheridan, Dennis Shanahan and Paul Kelly) have all laid the boot into Rudd for cutting a deal with the Sri Lankan asylum seekers and then trying to deny that he's done the special deal.

Not sure whether to take their articles at face value at this stage. The Oz's bias is fairly self-evident, I would have thought.

But they do raise some interesting issues about Rudd's personality. As the first term continues, it seems to me (at least) that he's an ALP version of John Howard - everything needs to be in control for Rudd and if it isn't, he'll deny knowledge/responsibility.

 

[Tink]

No, the plane arrivals applying for refugee status was my reference as per my post.

I'd like to know how you can substantiate the claim for handouts being specific to boat people - in my experience refugee claims for support are not significantly different regardless their route of arrival. It is also worth noting that many of the plane arrivals are non-genuine refugees as well so are refused status and sent home.

I personally don't see the importance in noting difference between method of arrival - an economic migrant is not a refugee is not an economic migrant, and method or arrival does not change this fact.

Good post Mofra. Its all scaremongering

Just like those copy and paste forward emails we got plasted in every thread.

What a load of baloney

Yawn.

 

[c-unit]

Disgrace that a country like ours can be held to ransom by boat people. If they want to jump in the water, let them. They took the risk of attempting to enter illegally and they got busted. Bad luck. People criticise old Wilson for speaking his mind. Yet it is the same people that criticise other politicians for speaking rhetoric and having no backbone.

We need to take a hard stance on this. It is not fair to those families trying to enter Australia legitimately and whom have been patiently waiting for years.

ETS + soft stance on border protection = Australia stuffed.

 

[Calliope]

Good post Mofra. Its all scaremongering

Just like those copy and paste forward emails we got plasted in every thread.

What a load of baloney

Yawn.

That sounds like sour grapes Tina. Haven't you learned how to do it?