Immigration Is Damaging Britain...You Don't Say....I Didn't Know That!!!

Shalimar said:
Oops, typo on my last post. Merde, this oold computer will not permit me to edit anything. Aargh. I meant to say migrants, not infer that Oz is locking up it's children. Eeewwww! Pleeeez don't feed me to the sharks. Mea culpa.
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Our sharks are being very well fed at the moment thanks, a worrying number of close encounters happening. Oh and Australia does lock up children. Not just refugees but Aboriginal kids as well......but that's a whole other story.
 

I have been writing to politicians about the poor treatment of asylum seekers for at least 15 years. I am always polite and I exhort them to be more humane, especially to the children. I passionately believe that no-one has the right to steal childhood from anyone, whether it is by sexually abusing them or by locking them up behind razor wire. IMO both are crimes that cannot be excused.

When Amanda Vanstone released the children, albeit to home detention in the community, I wrote to her to thank her for her actions. When I was moved into a new electorate I wrote to my MP (who was newly elected to parliament at the time) on this subject but I was whistling in the wind and I now just send off the occasional email.

I don't involve myself in Indonesia's or Syria's domestic affairs. I have a pretty poor opinion of the Syrian regime and I remember what the Indonesians did to the East Timorese but what good would it do for me to write to anyone in power in a foreign regime? I am Australian and the Australian government acts in my name, only what they are doing to asylum seekers if anathema to me and I will say so loud and clear to anyone who will listen.

I note that some European countries and Canada are looking at us and thinking that they should follow suit. That is why I'm becoming vocal on this forum. Don't do it unless you want to lose your nation's heart and soul.

I realise that some people think that I am fixated on the subject of guns. Not entirely true. I am fixated on the welfare of children and on anything or anyone who hurts them with callous disregard. I also care about what happens to vulnerable people like refugees. But for the grace of God I could be one too.
 

Warri, I recently read that the father of the Syrian toddler recently pictured lying dead on the beach blames Canadian obstructive red tape in the delay re his emigration to Canada. He holds our gov't responsible for the death of his family. On behalf of my country, I am beyond ashamed. I pray that when Canada votes on Oct. 19, we end the repressive stranglehold that the conservatives under the iron evangelical grip of Harper have held over my country for over a decade.
 
There have been a number of versions of the events leading up to that drowning, all of which blame the father. One says that he was seeking a dentist and new teeth. Against that we hear that the Syrian regime held him captive and pulled out his teeth. Of course he would like to get his mouth fixed so that he could eat properly but the primary motivation would have been to get his family as far from the Assad regime as possible. Another says that he himself was the people smuggler. The counter story is that the boat was in trouble as soon as it left Turkey and the smuggler jumped overboard and swam away. The father says that he tried to steer the boat but it capsized.

I don't know the true story here and I don't trust early newspaper reports. What I do know is that if I was in Syria, stuck between Assad and ISIS I would want to flee and take my family with me. I'd get out any way I could and I'd keep going until I found safety and a future for the family.

I grew up with a girl whose parents fled Ukraine to escape the Russians. They went west to Germany and were in Berlin at the end of the war, under the bombing. Her brother died of dysentery and the parents and my friend eventually ended up in Australia. They would have preferred Canada but had little choice about it.

They were split up and sent to migrants camps - the father to one and the mother and daughter to another until he was assigned work washing railway carriages and then they were reunited as a family. What happens today to asylum seekers who arrive by boat is ten times worse than this because there is no hope that things will ever get better.
 
Yes Shali, I know that that family, who had been in Turkey for some time, could have been saved under family reunion, but that it was denied. That's when people get desperate and get on unsafe boats.
 
Pookie said:
Here in the US, I made the mistake of wearing a t-shirt with the American flag on it on cinco de Mayo. I went grocery shopping, and the manager of the store told me to leave.
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I didn't know that there are any Mexicans in NC, we were just in Garner in April for a wedding, and went for lunch at a "Mexican" restaurant. Being from California we all craved some good Mexican food. Food was just O.K., I suspect the owners were from some other Latin country, maybe Guatemala or El Salvador.

I don't know why your grocery store manager made a big deal out of Cinco de Mayo, it's just observed to commemorate the Mexican army's victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.

In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken to be Mexico's Independence Day—the most important national holiday in Mexico—which is celebrated on September 16
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo

A lot of Americans use Cinco de Mayo as an excuse to go out drinking, much like St. Patrick's Day.
 
Susie said:
Just love the above; very helpful, boozercruiser!!! :cheers1:
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Thank you for that Susie.:D
I had thought about posting this to anyone here who is being 'orrible to me...

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But of course I am not at all like that, so I send my 'opponants' this instead !

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Warrigal said:
I have been writing to politicians about the poor treatment of asylum seekers for at least 15 years. I am always polite and I exhort them to be more humane, especially to the children. I passionately believe that no-one has the right to steal childhood from anyone, whether it is by sexually abusing them or by locking them up behind razor wire. IMO both are crimes that cannot be excused.

When Amanda Vanstone released the children, albeit to home detention in the community, I wrote to her to thank her for her actions. When I was moved into a new electorate I wrote to my MP (who was newly elected to parliament at the time) on this subject but I was whistling in the wind and I now just send off the occasional email.

I don't involve myself in Indonesia's or Syria's domestic affairs. I have a pretty poor opinion of the Syrian regime and I remember what the Indonesians did to the East Timorese but what good would it do for me to write to anyone in power in a foreign regime? I am Australian and the Australian government acts in my name, only what they are doing to asylum seekers if anathema to me and I will say so loud and clear to anyone who will listen.

I note that some European countries and Canada are looking at us and thinking that they should follow suit. That is why I'm becoming vocal on this forum. Don't do it unless you want to lose your nation's heart and soul.

I realise that some people think that I am fixated on the subject of guns. Not entirely true. I am fixated on the welfare of children and on anything or anyone who hurts them with callous disregard. I also care about what happens to vulnerable people like refugees. But for the grace of God I could be one too.
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Warrigal
I do of course realise that you are a very caring and lovely human being, and if there were more people like you on this planet, then the world would be a far better place.
And NO.
I am not patronising you.

BUT, do you know that the UK already contributes more than 13 BILLION pounds in overseas aid?
In fact we have just contributed another billion just to upkeep the camps out there for refugees.
And that we have just commited ourselves to taking in 20,000 of those refugees from those camps?

The above figure does not include the hundreds of thousands who are still coming in through other methods.

I repeat, MASS immigration is damaging the very fabrick of our society, and must be stopped.
NOW!


 
Warrigal said:
Fine Boozer but how are you going to do that without persecuting people?
The end does not justify the means that Australia has been employing.
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I really do not know Warrigal, and it is beyond my brain exactly how the situation regarding regugees
(as opposed to economic migrants)
gets sorted. All I do know is this...
From whatever direction one is coming from, polititions are making a right old mess of it!

As they do!
 

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