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Sanity -> RE: Heartbreaking -- Drowned Syrian Boy -- Whole Family lost but Father (9/7/2015 6:36:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle
Congratulations Sanity you have managed to turn a thread about destitute refugees fleeing war and disaster into something all about you. Such a notable intellectual achievement to upstage homeless and destitute refugees, people without a voice of their own. I'm sure it will garner you all the respect it deserves though there might be more than one opinion about precisely how much respect is appropriate in this instance.
It seems the flood of sympathy for the refugees has melted one of the hardest hearts - that of the most virulently anti-refugee politician, the Australian PM Abbott. Abbott has been forced to concede that Australia will up its intake of refugees from Syria, though true to form, this will be achieved at the expense of other refugees from elsewhere who will lose spots on our refugee intake system, and not by expanding the total intake of refugees. I suppose I shouldn't be too critical, it is an advance in its own way. And a climbdown of monumental proportions from someone who last week was lecturing Europeans that the only way to cope was to stop the refugee boats completely by adopting the same brutal punitive policies that Abbott has introduced here - turning the boats around sending them back to wherever they came from and legislating to remove the right and the possibility of asylum to any one arriving unlawfully (ie all boat refugees) and holding all refugees in mandatory detention in appalling (concentration) camps on poverty stricken Pacific islands until they are forced to agree to go elsewhere.
Here, we are witnessing the same outpouring of sympathy for refugees among the people. This is a big deal here, as refugees have been cynically used by right wing elements to spread fear and hate, and up to now, have not enjoyed the sympathy of all Australians. Abbott's brutal approach enjoyed some support in the community though many of us were horrified by them. So even in the midst of this horrendous suffering there are a few bright spots that give one confidence that humanity and human values will triumph in the end.
Little leftist trolls like you dont care about the harm Islamists inflict on the innocents they encounter
[img]http://ste.india.com/sites/default/files/2014/09/15/273455-is700.jpg[/img]
You just want to selectively use the image of that kid to try to throw the Wests borders wide open, so our world can become more like theirs
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