on 14-01-2014 09:16 AM
on 14-01-2014 09:23 AM
A desperate act by desperate people. Asylum seekers are not criminals, yet, they are treated as such. If they must be held in detention centres then they need to be treated with dignity and respect. Shame on this, and former governments, for their lack of humanity.
on 14-01-2014 09:39 AM
shame on everyone who made these desperate people scapegoats be it for political reasons or any reason.
Those who rejoiced and blamed Rudd and Gillard and said that they had blood on their hands when lives were lost, those who shouted out loud messages like multiculturalism is ruining this once great democratic country of ours (do we go back hundreds of years?) , that our economy is in dire straights and these people are to blame,those who grabbed any headline they could to instill fear and hatred and promote a stereotypical Asylum seeker/ terrorist connection.
All those who encouraged a shift in attitude and a false emergency ...which became an election issue and indeed winner
on 14-01-2014 09:43 AM
those people John Howard said we didn't want in this Country ...didn't throw their children overboard either .
Did this country apologise for that ?
on 14-01-2014 10:49 AM
Is this the DY political history channel?
on 14-01-2014 11:05 AM - last edited on 14-01-2014 12:59 PM by luna-2304
@donnashuggy wrote:
Reports of them sewing their lips together
Proof of this please
on 14-01-2014 11:08 AM
Since you are unable.......
on 14-01-2014 11:09 AM - last edited on 14-01-2014 12:59 PM by luna-2304
@nero_wulf wrote:
@donnashuggy wrote:
Reports of them sewing their lips together
Proof of this please
tis all going wrong as predicted. if you oppress people this is what you get.
they do seem to be hiding a lot.
on 14-01-2014 11:28 AM
Family members are increasingly being separated from one another in detention
Broaden your horizons nero and read more widely 🙂
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/14/lips-sewn-together-asylum-seekers?CMP=twt_gu
on 14-01-2014 11:36 AM
What about the guy from Lebanon that was being transferred to another detention center... apparently he was so distraught that he said he had a bomb strapped to his body. Caused great distress to all those on board the plane and he had to be tied up and the federal police were forced to storm the plane when it landed.
Is Lebanon a place that is so dangerous to live? Or is he an economic refugee?
I read a very good article a few years ago about how refugees that claiming asylum but were being denied decided to sew their lips together to garner support. It has now become a regular occurrence. The majority of people that did this were actually not true asylum seekers.
And before you throw your arms in the air and say that this man must be for detention centers that is actually not true. He was a psychologist working for a detention center in Melbourne and he is against locking people up. He says we need to process them faster and either let them into the community faster or deport them immediately if they do not pass. he says the ability for people to use our court system to delay their deportation stopped the fast flow of processing.