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@freakiness wrote:

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@my*mum wrote:

remember that if this family are assylum seekers, they have no papers, no hoistory prior to the ten years they spent in detention in Malaysia. We have no idea from where they have really come or with whom they have connections.

 

even if this family are innocent and genuine, we cannot open ourselves up to potential risk in the future by creating a precedent of circumvention.

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Who said they have no papers and no history prior to the 10 years in Malaysia?

Their stories are not all the same.

 

Do you seriously believe any terrorist planning an attack would go through the long process of waiting in Malaysia for 10 years before coming here on a suicide mission?  Surely they would arrive by plane.

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ummmm the fact they are assylum seekers kind of says that, doesn't it? Otherwise they could simply immigrate, couldn't  they?

All of the people on Nauru arrived by boat.

yes, who knows what a terrorist will do? maybe the plan wasn't to be caught for 10 years? maybe their part in a plan isn't to suicide.

I don't know, you don't know and neither does our government until such time as they have been adequately processed.

and in my mind, it isn't even just about this family, it is about the precedent for future assylum seekers who may not have had to wait for 10 years in Malaysia before arriving here.

Our country has protocols in place in an attempt to keep everyone as safe as possible. I have no issues whatsoever if those in charge follow those protocols to the best of their abilities pertaining to the circumstances.

This has now happened, instead of exhausting your energies here, go and learn what occurrs behind the scenes, learn everything that needs to be considered and everything involved and then go and talk to somebody who is in a position to intitiate change if that's what you want to happen. There is no point condemning me and my views (funny how those in agreeance with me aren't similarly scrutinized - but hey, ya get that) because I am not in a position to initiate change even if I did think it necessary.

You ask me do I think a terrorist would go through 10 years of a Malaysian Detention Centre. I believe that anyone who is desperate will do anything necessary, and not only do I have a mind open enough to consider the possibility, but obviously so too does my government and those charged with the processing of assylum seekers, otherwise they would have already been admitted into Australia. If there was no element of doubt, they would already be here.