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I hate (hate, hate, hate, hate) the politicians who demonize refugees for being "queue jumpers". Where's the queue when your life is in danger? In the world's worst places the queue is a myth; dishonest politicians misrepresent how the system of international immigration laws work. They present genuine refugees as a menace whose purpose is to somehow suck a rich country dry. They feed lurid horror stories to lower middle class joes who are swept into a wild fervour of calls to "blow them out of the water on sight". They then further feed on this hate to win elections.
The cunts who currently run my country went into the 2001 election with a pack of lies about illegal immigrants; they lied and said these boat people threw their own children into the sea, they spent obscene amounts of money building pre-fabricated Gitmo like prisons in the middle of the Pacific Ocean - all to keep them out of Australian territory and in a legal limbo that will last years.
These people practice self-harm and riot because of the conditions in our desert detention centers. All the while our vile Prime Minister crows and preens himself because the 2001 election was won on the backs of refugees and his "legacy" is now intact. I will try to dig some informative links for people who are not familiar with this issue and what happened in Australia.
I'm sorry to be writing this because the story above really is wonderful and I don't want to take away from a really nice story about kind hearted people.
I was going to write what I wrote sooner or later and I hope after I cool off a bit I can get some positivity or constructive discussion from this thread.
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