The following is my opinion, and I make no apologies for it, something must be done and this head in the sand of two wanna be ministers must stop.
I'm sure you all are just as saddened as me that the recent tragedy where an unseen and unstopped boat filled to over capacity with asylum seekers was to crash onto the rocks at it's destination on Christmas Island resulting in a heavy casualty rate and a tragic high proportion of lost lives.
It is believed that the people aboard, even those with life jackets, could not swim at all and feared jumping off the stricken boat hoping somehow they could be saved or that their boat would somehow survive the pounding it was taking from the swell hammering them into the unforgiving rocks.
When Rudd was elected in 2007 one of the things he did to make his government differ from the previous one was to change boarder policy which has led to a dramatically huge increase in boats operated by people smugglers making their way to any Australian territories, loaded with passengers willing to pay for the privilege of being effectively called a refugee until processing accepts or rejects their right to the title and either allows or disallows their status.
It was clear that the Rudd solution was not able to cope with the sheer numbers and saw a steady increase over his term until he was politically castrated by Gillard and her power monkeys who intimidated and pressured her into the top job to try to stem what was perceived to be imminent defeat for Labor at the upcoming election with lies, gagging of ministers and others and hiding the truth of what occurred from the people and refusals to act to try to make the policy which saw boats traversing the waters between Asia and Australia rise rapidly in numbers.
This year since January 1st 132 boats have arrived in our territories and that translates to 6425 asylum seekers and 335 crew that have now been detained, and even those who are most compassionate to the refugee cause must admit this is a significant number and the expense to do health checks, identity checks and criminal history checks as well as determine whether the people are genuine refugees is going to be pretty costly to the tax payer.
Without a majority at the election, it was an underhanded deal with independents and a member of the extreme left of Labor (the Greens) that saw Gillard form government and begin another term of Labor failure on refugee processing and control of our boarders.
Without doubt Oakshot and Windsor both knew what the extreme left of Labor (the greens) policy on immigration, particularly boat people, was and also that two long years of Labor had seen huge rapid increases in the number coming and that detention centres were over capacity, not able to process people without any documents fast enough and left our coast watch under manned and unable to even spot most boats until it was too late, they were already in trouble.
Oakshot and Windsor could have made a difference, they could have with their role as king maker demanded that some real solution be found to make it safe for refugees who would seek asylum in Australia, they had the power, they had the opportunity and they had the right to ask that something be done, of course you can't put Adam Bandt in the same category as the other two because he is just a Muppet saying and doing what his extreme left party boss (Bob Brown) wants him to do and that is get the gay marriage issue on the table and have the people go to a referendum to change the marriage act so that the greens can get a few more votes from gay people.
While Oakshot and Windsor play at being part of the government and bask in their own glory as they believe that they are the two most important men in Canberra, the number of asylum seekers continues to grow and their inaction has resulted in what has been one of the most tragic and shocking events in Australia's immigration history since the repatriation of English children after the war and the stolen generation where Aboriginal children were just taken from their families for living an alternative lifestyle to the new colonials.
Oakshot and Windsor have the blood of the asylum seekers who tragically died on the rocks at Christmas Island on their hands, it is their brand, it is there for all to see, they are responsible for those deaths as much as the people smugglers who took their money and sent them very accurately on their course to that Island, Oakshot and Windsor have negligently ignored an impending tragedy in the making for over two years and have aided and abetted this government in allowing it to happen.
Oakshot and Windsor are in my opinion guilty of the manslaughter of those people as sure as if they had pushed each one's heads under the breakers themselves.
8 comments:
Yes they have blood on their hands, but so do the greens only more so, the greens with their Marxist leanings prefer to deal with personal agenda's like gay marriage for Bob Brown and his partner rather than on policy that will genuinely save lives. I have no doubt that stopping people smuggling boats will save lives even if those lives have to wait a little longer to legally get into Australia. I also have no doubt that changing the marriage act will have a detrimental effect on society in general, but that fits with the Marxist way where individuals are all alike and family values do not exist, I'm still waiting to see one Koala saved by the Greens since the election, ain't gonna happen is it.
Julia Gillard needs to shoulder some of the responsibility. She is failing miserably as the PM. The bling on her left hand won't distract from the problems she and her party have created for this country.
Why isn't Australia working with the countries of origin to stop the boats even leaving? Surely this problem can be stopped at the source, even if Australia has to invest money into the solution. Wouldn't it be cheaper than what happens now?
Also the financial assistance offered to 'refugees' just entices more and more boat people. Shame we aren't looking after our own that well.
Why do you think Oakeshott
and Windsor were booted out
of the National Party to be-
gin with? Was it just because
certain people at Oakeshott`s
local branch took aim at his
part indigenous wife in a
derogative manner, or was
it because they already
knew back then that he
was an attention seeking
leftist moron who would
sell his soul to the Devil
for his own political
grandizement. And how
about Windsor, has he
taken a such a sudden
disliking to conserva-
tive pragmatic politics
because the Nationals
dumped him as the can-
didate for the state
seat of Tamworth in
1991 for alledgedly
drink driving, or was
he always a closet left
wing dork who will do
anything to settle a
childish score with
Abbott`s crew, even
if that requires him
to support irrespon-
sible foreign policy
by Gillard and Rudd
that only serves to
promote the continu-
ance of the people
smuggling trade.
I have heard the media and commontators on TV this week and the common theme seem to be"you can't blame Labor"
A couple of commontators last night actually said these deaths are the fault of Abbott and his opposition because they criticise Labors policy and that makes people smugglers think its ok to send a lot of people, have you ever heard such rubbish?
It's funny how the majority of those calling for increased numbers of boat people to be allowed to come are of self interest groups, e.g. muslims calling for more muslim immigration etc.
It just makes sence, if you want to stop people drowning at sea, first you need to stop them being at sea, that's the easiest way.
When is this gov, by default, going to set a limit of how many refugees, detainees, the Australian people can sustain? After all its our tax payers money paying for all of this.
I have compassion for real refugees, but how many 'boat' people really are refugees?
What are we to do with Australians who are living in poverty or are homeless? Surely we should be addressing our own problems first. Oh I know - stick them on a boat and take them to Christmas Island, at least they will have food on the table and a roof over their heads.
Shame on Julia Gillard and her Labor mob.
Lets put the blame at the feet of both parties for their real lack of Leadership on all things that are important.Both these current Leaders leave a lot to be desired and the shame is that both parties currently lack any potential in their RANKS to lead.
How wonderfully apolitically
non-committal you are Anon
7.36 Sometimes you find
you are talking b***shit
if you try and remain
unbiased. Better you
be constructively
biased than make
generalise what is
the responsibility
of the government,
not the opposition.
Gillard's typical response is to put together another steering committee, a device which many locals will know is used by our local useless wannabe political aspirants which does a lot of talk but acheives nothing.
What is interesting is that Oakshot has flatly refused to be part of it even though invited in the most urgent of terms, the man has no spine whatsoever it seems and is a political weakling so immature that when responsibility and accountability is requires he is running the opposite direction post haste.
As far as I know Windsor has not been invited to participate.
As we have seen locally, e.g. Greenbank school parking, steering committees are a vehicle for puffing up the ego's and profiles of those wanting to appear to be doing something but without the capacity , intellect or wherwithal do actually get anything done, the only outcome that will be acceptable from this committee is to stop boats coming, increase patrols and turn back leaking unseaworthy boats and basicly save lives. The committee must then raccomend that we find a way of beginning the process offshore so that the temptation to risk life and limb, pay life savings or owe a lifetime of debt is not seen as viable.
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