SICK and starving asylum seekers hid from Indonesian authorities for six weeks before floating for seven nights at sea in the wooden boat that blew up off the West Australian coast last week, survivors claimed yesterday.
Dirty, malnourished and ill with blood poisoning, they survived in the jungle for up to five days before boarding the boat.
Three of the burns victims flown to Royal Brisbane Hospital over the weekend spoke of their odyssey for the first time yesterday, as they sat up smiling in their beds to thank medical staff for their treatment.
Their journey involved three mystery flights, followed by six weeks being ferried around Indonesia in buses and vans.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...
Burning Boats, Bridges & Humanity as White Australia continues to dog-whistle to the rednecks to score some cheap political points.
KEVIN RUDD: People smugglers are the vilest form of human life. They trade on the tragedy of others. And that's why they should rot in jail and in my own view rot in hell.
That is why this government is absolutely committed to dedicating all resources necessary to fight the fight against people smugglers to maintain a hard line tough and targeted strategy in maintaining this country's border protection.
We are dedicating more resources to border protection than any previous Australian government. And we will continue to calibrate the resources we need to the challenges that unfold.
Why is it that human smugglers during the Holocaust were thought of as saints but now they are vilified?
Is it a mask for White Australia Policy?
This week shows that it is just not all fun and games, to make these journeys !!
The treatment of boatpeople remains a sensitive issue in Australia after the previous conservative government incorrectly accused asylum seekers in 2001 of throwing children into the sea to avoid capture by the navy.
Australia condemns 'scaremongering' over refugees
Why were human smugglers during the Holocaust, heros? But not now, Kevin747?
The best way for the White Australia to put up a Notice to say Whites ONLY then people will know to avoid the Ass End of the World.
So Kevin747 issue a retraction and succession from international treaties: ICCPR, ICERD, ICESCO, ICC and then i guarantee you NOONE will try to come. Show some balls and stop hiding behind your HYPOCRISY !!
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why were human smugglers during the Holocaust, heros? But not now, Kevin747?
Burning Boats, Bridges & Humanity
kangaroocourtaustralia
On April 18th, 2009 M1 says:
Anyway ,
One answer to today’s quiz .
Because a big wave of boat people shipping colonialist criminal labour to Oz colonies united to made a constitutional land claim called Australia on the basis of race for British white settlers.
A class collaborationist deal was made by the big landowners with the small businesses and working class to lock out any future influx of competition called "cheap labour " from Asia or poor Europe. .Either of the wrong skin colour ("Two Wongs don’t make a White " as the labour politicians said , or what was viewed as different "races" at that time "Wogs " "Itties" ,Greeks Turks and the like)
As for the Holocaust time appeals to Australia for Jewish refugees met with a firm racist NO
With the Australian property and labour monopoly established " Australia" the
big landowners got to hang onto all the land stolen of the First Nation People all ‘legal" and the working class got a labour monopoly and a vote for restricting labour competition this was called "White Australia" Now, its only 20 million people but with a monopoly of the land and sea resources of a whole continent to exploit in a world of more than six billion .
In the past even stupid protected people did O.K with the arbitration system set up with a "basic wage" for white people .So no matter how stupid they may have been personally in some cases ,eventually a welfare state and protectionism ensured that most did OK in the sheltered workshop. In time most became a subsidised labour aristocracy "working class" .
These earlier arriving boat people get very hostile to the idea of any new boat people intruding on the continental labour monopoly .
Boat People like THAT coming to Australia are the worst of the worst. The lowest form of life and should be jailed for life according to the armed to the teeth old established boat people .