Polly overboard

[TomB]

True or not, you'd think these stupid Liberals would wait for verified information before shooting off at the mouth about refugee misadventures. Barnett's a complete cock and I hope his rash statements about the latest tragedy bite him on the arse.

[Jovial Monk]

They probably want Rudd to start sabotaging refugee boats in Indonesia again, like the Rodent did: hundreds of men women & children drowned because boats were sabotaged so as to sink in mid-ocean. Bah!

Mike Steketee in the OO puts it in perspective:

These are the killer stats from that Steketee article:

“The latest report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says asylum applications in Australia increased by 19 per cent last year, from 3980 to 4750. How many came by boat? Actually, 179 or fewer than 4 per cent.

This year the number of boat people is already higher, at 221. But it still is tiny compared with those coming by air. And total refugee flows to Australia are much smaller than those experienced by other countries”.

From PB

Ever get the feeling that the Libs are overplaying their hand a wee bit?

Bob Debus, Home Affairs Minister handled this well: priority is for safety of life at sea, defused all the hysterical Fib crap. Nice to see after dog whistling & racism of the Rodent years!

[Jovial Monk]

Meanwhile, a dirty little racist wrote:

Whereas it appeared that illegals tossed children into the water in Johnny's Australia, in Kevvy's they blow themselves up.

Perhaps they heard the news that since they left Afghanistan a couple of years ago there had been a federal election and now they can not expect the same kind of prosperity they once could.

Children overboard was a fucking lie, what happened on that boat is not yet known. And the GFC/recession is worldwide. No wonder he couldn't really blog!

[Jubial Priest]

Ahh the Leftard- writhing and sliming their way out of being bitch slapped by reality.

Meanwhile, a dirty little racist wrote:

How is that racist you stupid fuck? These are illegal fucking immigrants- not refugees. Learn the difference retardo

[Jovial Monk]

Some sense from comments to Larvatus Prodeo:

I know ths can be hard to stomach for RWDBs - but Howard’s policy was a disastrous own goal in terms of a goal of reducing arrivals:- by denying family reunion under the TPV, it meant *more* people - ie women and children - came by boat. Not less. Before that, fathers and husbands had made the dangerous journeys alone. We never had so many onshore arrivals as the two years after Howard “got tough”. His policy was strictly for domestic consumption only.

Even so, the primary driver was refugee-producing conflict in Afghanisan and Iraq 2001-3/ That was the main reasons we received more in those years than before or since. Niow there’s a slight upswing again - Sri Lanka and resurgent Taliban being the main examples.

Even so, it always has been a mere trickle comared to numbers arrving in Europe. Its really no big deal at all in a global sense. The nonsensical uproar about the tiny numbers who arrived on our shores made us look like a bunch of really pathetic whiners among contries who actually deal with significant numbers.

And thousands of unlawful arrivals arrive by plane and overstay their visas. The numbers of boat people have always been pathetically small.

[Jovial Monk]

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/20 ... calculator
Possum gets angry at Bolt's racist column

Hehehehhe a spew worth reading!

[Jubial Priest]

Looks like pissant possum is frothing at the mouth. He should really be pointing the finger at himself, after all he helped to get the real instigator of the problem elected and being another fuckwit leftwing blogger is responsible for encouraging the smugglers and I suspect the reason for his vitriol is that the fucking idiot knows it too.

[Jovial Monk]

Jack the Insider gives the opposition a good hard kick:

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/ ... m_seekers/

Mike Steketee, possum, Jack all reply with commonsense and data to the ignorant rednecks stirring up hatred and xenophobia.

[Jovial Monk]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0214/p06s02-wosc.html

http://news.trend.az/index.shtml?show=n ... 72&lang=en

Afghan refugees being driven out of a pakistan that is disintegrating. So a few more have made it here.

[Jubial Priest]

The last lot of boat people learnt that reacting and burning their transport got them into the county and fuckheads like Monk championing their cause.

I can't wait for these new arrivals to get a speeding fine or to be down on their luck after the leftys have handed everything to them on a plate. As far as they are concerned, if you create more chaos not only do you get away with it, you get fucking idiots egging you on.