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 Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:05 pm |
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The eight untruths of a typical greenie
November 2 2009
David Burchell provides the theory:
"...the problem for the Greens is that, in parading their consciences and
seeking political advantage at once, they are led to become frankly
dishonest. It is simply not possible for Australia to responsibly settle
every person who may want to come here by boat. And if that is not possible,
we presumably have a duty to enforce processes enabling us to give priority
to the claims of some over others. Unless you can articulate some other
policy that could achieve the same end, you are dealing not in the currency
of conscience, but of moral humbug. "
I'll now provide the example - Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.
I've already noted this claim of hers about the 78 Tamils on board the
Oceanic Viking:
"The point is these people are desperate. If you listen to the stories of
the conditions in the camps in Sri Lanka, where people are fearful even to
say that they want to leave, the stories of people being persecuted and
executed simply because they say, "We don't want to be here anymore"; "I
want some future for my family.":"
Untruth 1
there is in fact no credible evidence that Tamils in those camps are being
executed.
Untruth 2
there is in fact evidence that the Tamils on the Oceanic Viking were fleeing
not Sri Lanka but Indonesia, where they've lived for years.
Was Hanson-Young embarrassed to have been caught telling things that were
not true?
Hell, no -
being "compassionate" means never have to say sorry for saying any old
thing, no matter how improbable or impractical.
Here she now is on Insiders yesterday:
"Well look I fear that in the end that these people may be forcibly removed
from the boat, put back in detention in Indonesia ..."
Untruth 3
"back in detention"? The Tamils weren't in detention but living in rented
accommodation.
"And, but what I would like to see is that we actually take the heat out of
this debate..."
Untruth 4
or a moral evasion. In fact, its Hanson-Young who has injected heat in this
debate with talk of executions.
"We're only talking about 78 people."
Untruth 5
almost no one is talking about just 78 people. If that were truth, we'd
almost all agree to let these few in. No, we're talking about the many, many
thousands of boat people who'd see this as a signal.
"If the Prime Minister had brought this boat home originally, had these
people processed, seen whether they actually are refugees - if they are they
can stay, if they're not they can go home - we wouldn't be having this
crisis and the hysteria would not be circling."
Untruth 6
if Rudd brought the Tamils here, after rescuing them in Indonesian waters
while responding to a phoney SOS, people smugglers would get the message and
this "crisis" would be repeated again and again.
"We've seen the Opposition try and gain mileage from this."
More a fudge than an untruth. Aren't the Greens - and Hanson-Young herself -
trying to gain mileage from this?
"We need to be doing a lot more in our region to encourage Indonesia,
Malaysia and others to sign the refugee convention."
Untruth 7
this is peddling a solution that Hanson-Young should know is pure snake-oil.
Indonesia can never be convinced to sign a refugee convention that will
oblige it to give haven to the thousands of boat people using it as a
transit point to Australia, or the thousands more that could motor over from
Malaysia or southern Thailand and claim persecution.
"Australia has to look at our humanitarian intake. We have a lower
percentage of our overall immigration intake than we did under the Howard
government, than we did under the Keating government. It's half as much as
the Keating government gave."
Another fudge,
to imply a much bigger cut in numbers than we've actually seen. The
humanitarian intake under Keating reached 15,000. Today it's 13,507.
"You know the easiest way to get to Australia is by flying. Most of the
people who seek asylum come by plane, 96 per cent of them. Five-thousand, we
had 5,000 last year alone that came via plane and sought asylum. That's the
easy option."
Untruth 8
If that's the "easy option", why do people come by boat instead? As for the
figures, nearly 2000 boat people have arrived so far this year. If they
really represented just four per cent of all asylum seekers, we'd have not
5000 asylum seekers coming by plane but more than 40,000.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/hew_the_greens_deceive_on_boat_people/
Warmest Regards
Bon z0
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville |
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