By Martha Clemens
TO THOSE who want to make fear of refugees and boat people an election issue, and to those whose votes are swayed by this issue I have this to say.
You’re a despicable pack of xenophobic redneck mutants. You scum-eating fiends should be put in stocks on busy street corners and flogged.
You should be publicly exhibited for your cowardice and cruelty toward the most helpless and desperate people on the planet.
This goes out to all those who claim to talk “tough’’ on border security by locking kids up in detention centres as a “deterrent’’ to potential boat people.
To wit: There is nothing “tough’’ about being afraid of refugees. And there is nothing “tough’’ about punishing them to get at people smugglers.
Those who want the toughest border security are the ones cowering in fear. They’re afraid they’ll lose their job, they’re afraid that Australia will be overrun with refugees and they’re afraid a terrorist might get on a boat and come to Australia.
Some politicians actually want you to believe that a terrorist will pay a heap of money to get on a rickety old overloaded fishing boat and risk their life on a 50/50 shot at making it to Australia before the boat sinks.
As for the other arguments; there is no evidence to show that refugees and boat people are pinching peoples jobs and there is no evidence that we are about to be overrun by refugees even though the government has supposedly “lost control’’ of Australia’s borders.
The Liberal and National Party is heading down the grotesque political path that will again make refugees – in the guise of border security – an election issue.
Given this is the case it’s time to take a bat to the talk back radio thugs, cripple the howling rightwing columnists and hammer the clusters of political miscreants prepared to bully the helpless and exploit the ignorant.
This is an opening salvo at the scum that try and generate fear. The fact is, only punks beat up on refugees.
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Could not agree more. Abbott’s policies are a disgrace, and I am ashamed to be called Australian everytime he discusses asylum seeker issues.
It has to be one of the lowest forms of political wedges, and a disgrace to the concept of human rights.
Not only this, but Abbott parades his policies as stopping ‘illegals,’ but the FACT is these people have a legal mandate to seek asylum in our country. Either Abbott is under-educated, or he is trying to draw votes from a prejudiced and under-educated public. Either way he should be ashamed.