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2010-12-15 Down Under

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Posted by tipper 2010-12-15 06:52|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 are they muslims and if so is this supposed too be bad news?

Posted by chris 2010-12-15 08:22|| 2010-12-15 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2 God doing the work government won't.

Posted by Excalibur 2010-12-15 08:57|| 2010-12-15 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 The drowning of innocents is always bad, Chris.

Check at the dry cleaners: you might have left your humanity there with your shirts.

Posted by Steve White 2010-12-15 09:10|| 2010-12-15 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Excalibur and Chris, the definition of a jerk, according to Sidney J. Harris, is a person unable to look in a mirror and shudder at what he sees there.

Do not wish evil on anyone.

Posted by mom 2010-12-15 10:18|| 2010-12-15 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 There was an article on Facebook (don't have a link) that said a lot of Christians were fleeing the Middle East for anywhere they think they'll be welcome. I KNOW the Christians in Indonesia are looking for a way out, especially those in West Irian. Some of them have been hiking the 700 miles to Papua New Guinea. These refugees may be Muslim, but there's an equal chance they're Christians fleeing oppression.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-12-15 13:39|| 2010-12-15 13:39|| Front Page Top

#6 It really doesn't matter what religion they are, or even whether they had a right to flee to Australia or not: this is horrifying and tragic.

Posted by Secret Master 2010-12-15 15:09|| 2010-12-15 15:09|| Front Page Top

#7 More of the same can be expected, if boats are still leaving Indonesia for Christmas Island. The summer wet season is in full swing and the seas North and West of the W.A. coast are a cyclone (hurricane) breeding area. Even the standard daily storms are extremely violent- a friend was managing some buildings up that way, and after a storm he would have to go up on the roof and clean off all the jellyfish.

Posted by Grunter 2010-12-15 16:44|| 2010-12-15 16:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Check at the dry cleaners: you might have left your humanity there with your shirts.
The present Labor Government was trying to show its "humanitarian" and "compassionate" side when it started piling "sugar" on the table which lured these asylum shoppers to their death. But that's OK because good intentions which give you a warm fuzzy feeling is more important than good outcomes which sounds so mature and fuddy duddy.

Posted by tipper 2010-12-15 17:17|| 2010-12-15 17:17|| Front Page Top

#9 I doubt that anyone on Rantburg agrees with the Australian government's asylum policy, Tipper. But unlike Excalibur and Chris, most of us don't find 50 basically innocent men, women, and children being drowned to be a cause for pithy comments.

Posted by Secret Master 2010-12-15 17:43|| 2010-12-15 17:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Secret Master,
Well over a thousand of there asylum shoppers have drowned in the last ten years being ferried in leaky fishing boats by people smugglers, from Indonesia.
They have been told over and over till people are blue in the face not to cross or bring their children with them. But will they listen? Not a bit of it. Just more lies from the kuffar, they say.
Well they might listen now with plenty of footage of the disaster. If they don't listen, there is only the Darwin Award left for them.

Posted by tipper 2010-12-15 20:34|| 2010-12-15 20:34|| Front Page Top

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