Miranda Devines take on the March in March madness. Couldnt have put it better myself: ...you’d think now that people are no longer drowning at sea that refugee activists would be pleased. It’s been 90 days today without a boat arriving, without another person drowning, without another arrival in a detention centre, and without another bill added to the $11 billion already spent on the Rudd-Gillard border disaster. It doesn’t really make sense that activists would be upset that Scott Morrison, the Immigration Minister, is saving lives, emptying detention centres and reserving humanitarian places for refugees fleeing from real danger in, say, Syria. But they seem angrier than ever. It makes sense only when you look at some of the people who are being foiled by the Abbott government’s border protection policies. Take Iranian Arash Sedigh, who was the star of the ABC’s 730 program on Monday night, appearing in footage taken by asylum seekers who were being towed back to Java in what they angrily called a “f...ing orange boat”. Sedigh admitted he had been refused entry to Australia through the skilled migration program and so: “We decided to go there in illegal way, to make them accept us.” But when the people smuggler’s boat he was on was intercepted by the Royal Australian Navy he was outraged. “I couldn’t tolerate. I told them, ‘I will kill you if you don’t take us to that ship. I have nothing to lose. I will kill you’.” Finally we see this charmer atop the orange lifeboat which is chugging back to Java after being cut loose by the Australians. “They put us in this f...ing orange boat and sent us back to Indonesia. F... Australia. If later on you said, ‘Why they do that to America on September 11?’ you should know the cause of it is your very deeds. Remember 9-11 for United States. All the world should know why. Australian government, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, Immigration — all of them are the smugglers.” Then the footage shows two of his compatriots giving the finger to the camera: “F... Australia!” So there you have it: “F... Australia”. “F... democracy” “Kill Abbott”. dailytelegraph.au/news/opinion/angry-lefties-mad-as-a-march-marcher/story-fni0cwl5-1226858471614
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 05:13:25 +0000