Extremist paranoia at it's worst.
War = Armed conflict between two States.
You really think a few unarmed women and children constitute a national security threat ?
Your sort of people are the real threat.
Imo the uncontrolled invasion of our national borders is a state of war.
Imo the uncontrolled invasion of our national borders is a state of war.
Extremist paranoia at it's worst.
War = Armed conflict between two States.
You really think a few unarmed women and children constitute a national security threat ?
Your sort of people are the real threat.
I assume then that you support torpedoing refugee boats and machine gunning any survivors ?
I said nothing of the sort. The 'people smugglers' are the threat to our security. The unarmed women and children are the victims. (So are the unarmed men incidentally).
You use the term "war" very loosely.
People get deliberately killed in war. Whatever else people smugglers are, they are not armed combatants.
But they have been causing people to get killed by putting them in unsafe boats.
A bit like drug smugglers who cause people to get killed as well.
Ever heard of the terms, 'drug war' or 'war on drugs'?
How many governments and police forces around the world who are fighting drug wars freely dispense information to the public about their anti-drug operations?
Fighting people smugglers should be no different.
Different issue, but the "war on drugs" has miserably failed. The world is awash with drugs more so now that at any time in history. So whatever tactics the police forces are using against the drug cartels, they are useless.
Extremist paranoia at it's worst.
War = Armed conflict between two States.
You really think a few unarmed women and children constitute a national security threat ?
Your sort of people are the real threat.
........So whatever tactics the police forces are using against the drug cartels, they are useless.
btw way how much worse would it be if the police forces fighting drug wars* disclosed their operational information the way the Labor party wants disclosure of the Government's tactical information against people smugglers?
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Wow. Just wow.
Blinkers are on...
Depends on how you define "operational" information.
What you are going to do is operational
What you have done is not.
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Yes, yours certainly are
What bad news are they hiding. What ugly facts are they hiding. It's not like they were going to hide the the fact a detainee died.
I think the government has a right to maintain operation secrecy.
I think the government is being attacked on the secrecy aspect as it is the only avenue for attack. The immediate success of OSB has only highlighted the ineptitude of Labor's border control efforts.
Why can't everyone be relieved that the boats and drownings have stopped.
So releasing information about what you have done is just as compromising as releasing information about what you plan to do.
The rate at which the backlog is cleared will be interesting to watch. Along with boat arrivals, information on returns is also provided on a weekly basis. On this aspect, the backlog was reduced by 18 in the week to Friday including the 13 from the offshore detention network.The 6000 or more asylum-seekers in at least 16 onshore detention centres will need to be processed and returned, resettled or granted visas, along with about 25,000 around the nation on bridging visas or in community detention. And the same will need to occur for the more than 1300 on Manus Island, more than 1000 on Nauru and more than 1700 on Christmas Island.
Thirteen illegal maritime arrival transferees were voluntarily returned to their country of origin after electing to go home from an offshore processing centre””eight to Iran three to India and two to Iraq.
Four illegal maritime arrival detainees were voluntarily removed””three to Iran and one to Iraq.
One illegal maritime arrival detainee was involuntarily removed to Sri Lanka. Their removal from Australia is consistent with Australia’s obligations.
The flow of boats slowed sharply after the Rudd government signed the agreement with Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, to reopen the Manus Island centre and to resettle asylum seekers in PNG.
This agreement was the basis for Rudd's declaration that asylum seekers "will never be settled in Australia." The number of arrivals fell by some 40 per cent between that announcement and the September election.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...g-the-boats-20140228-33r3b.html#ixzz2uqN4loWe
The flow of boats may well have stopped altogether due to the PNG agreement, but the Abbott government could not take the risk that this would happen and prove Rudd correct, so they had to go on their own gung ho crusade and make sure they took the credit.
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