Asylum seekers

[pct001wine]

 Whilst I agree with the tone of the statement, I think they may have rose-coloured glasses on regarding the acceptance of Vietnamese boat people.  They were greeted with the same fear, suspicion and loathing that we see every day here on the boards in respect of our current crop of refugees and asylum seekers.

Now that a few decades have passed, things are better, but they are still subjected to the same mindless drivel emanating from the mouths of the fear-mongers.

[karliandjacko]

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@village_person wrote:

No problem with sound but video fails in the first minute.

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maybe your broadband is not good for streaming.  iview works fine here.

[debra9275]

Fantastico!

[azureline**]

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@pct001wine wrote:

 Whilst I agree with the tone of the statement, I think they may have rose-coloured glasses on regarding the acceptance of Vietnamese boat people.  They were greeted with the same fear, suspicion and loathing that we see every day here on the boards in respect of our current crop of refugees and asylum seekers.

Now that a few decades have passed, things are better, but they are still subjected to the same mindless drivel emanating from the mouths of the fear-mongers.

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Perhaps the Catholic Church's role in that crisis was different? Our Church openly supported those refugees from Vietnam, we sponsored families in the neighbourhood. So, we would not have seen it as anything but supportive, there was not the widespread use of internet and other media that we have today either, so our immediate view was what we knew.

[baybizz]

"They blackmail us with our own decency"

[polksaladallie]

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@pct001wine wrote:

 Whilst I agree with the tone of the statement, I think they may have rose-coloured glasses on regarding the acceptance of Vietnamese boat people.  They were greeted with the same fear, suspicion and loathing that we see every day here on the boards in respect of our current crop of refugees and asylum seekers.

Now that a few decades have passed, things are better, but they are still subjected to the same mindless drivel emanating from the mouths of the fear-mongers.

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I remember the treatment of Vietnamese, and although they were not "boat people", the treatment of Greeks and Italians before that.  We as a nation can be nasty people.

[polksaladallie]

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@baybizz wrote:

"They blackmail us with our own decency"

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What decency?

[i-need-a-martini]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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I remember the treatment of Vietnamese, and although they were not "boat people", the treatment of Greeks and Italians before that.  We as a nation can be nasty people.

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The problem with Australia is that we have always had it good. Unlike Europe where there is a strong recorded history of suffering.

Thats why Europeans generally treat those less fortunate with compassion and we treat them like lepers who brought it on themselves.

(That's my theory anyway)

[baybizz]

>> #6: The sharia law they so deeply miss will not be discovered in Italy - they will need to seek other lands...

And guess where that will be:

www.telegraph.co.uk/france-immigrants-beseige-Calais-port-for-uk

France is not good enough - only Britain will do:

www.telegraph.co.uk/France-weak-link-in-European-migration-control

www.dailymail.co.uk/migrants-crisis-and-Britains-porous-borders

[polksaladallie]

The thread was about the initial treatment of asylum seekers, not where they eventually end up.

Look at how Italy treated the bodies of drowned asylum seekers.  Note the roses on every coffin, and the flowers and teddies on the coffins containing children.

I do not want to know what Australia did in similar circumstance. We did not do this. 

I do know that the government was forced to allow a child to fly to the funeral of a relative, or vice versa, I don't quite remember.