Personally, I'm against this. Throw him out by all means, Australia, but we don't want the vandalizing w***er back...
A British protester who painted 'No War' in red paint at the top of Sydney's Opera House has pleaded with immigration officials not to deport him. Will Saunders, a 42-year-old astronomer, has been living in Australia since 2000 on a work visa sponsored by the Anglo-Australian Observatory. New South Wales state police arrested him and his Australian accomplice David Burgess, 33, within hours of their stunt last Tuesday and charged them with malicious damage, an offence that would normally carry a fine. But the federal government, which has 2,000 troops fighting with the British and American forces in Iraq, told Mr Saunders last week that he would have to explain why they should not deport him.
| "'Splain yourself, Lucy!" |
After meeting federal immigration officials today, Saunders said his fate had yet to be decided and that he wanted to stay to defend himself in court on April 16. "I love Australia, and I will settle here if you will have me. I apologise to any Australian who feels I have been ungrateful in painting their Opera House," he said, adding that he also planned to raise funds to pay for the cost of cleaning up the graffiti.
Listen, space cadet, how would you like to have found Auzzies defacing your home town with idiotic slogans in red letters twenty feet tall?
An Immigration Department spokesman said the case was still being considered.
| Toss him, Aussies. You've got a large and fertile country. You can raise your own nutbags. You don't have to import them. |
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