Now you would have read or heard that President Trump spoke to Australian Prime Minister Turnbull and effectively bit his head off before hanging up.
But if you are not Australian you may not be aware of the refugee deal which Mr Turnbull and President Obama agreed upon - and why it is happening.
It goes like this:
Many refugees from Iran and other places have risked their lives to travel to Australia on boats. This has been facilitated by people smugglers who charge enormous sums of money to put people on leaky boats with a promise that they will get sanctuary in Australia.
Many of them drown - but some get through.
Australia has decided that it does not want people arriving this way so instead of accepting them and processing their refugee applications in Australia it has set up gulags in places like Nauru and Manus Island.
The purpose of this is to discourage people from attempting to find refuge in Australia.
The gulags are hell holes. They are tent cities set up in some of the hottest places on earth. They are run by private companies whose only interest is to make a profit.
There are rapes and murders and bashings and self-mutilations and psychological problems in spades.
Children are going crazy in these places because they are confined there permanently. These children will be damaged permanently.
There is anger and frustration and hopelessness. These people are refugees for fucks sake and they are being treated much worse than murderers.
These places are so bad that the government:
1: Sent big teams of medics, psychiatrists and social workers to help with the problems: or
2. Passed legislation that anyone who talked about the problems in these camps would go to gaol for two years.
Yes the correct answer is 2.
The government has said that anyone who try to enter Australia ‘illegally’ will never be admitted. Let us pass over the fact that by definition a refugee cannot be ‘illegal’.
Hence the deal between Mr Turnbull and President Obama. You take our ‘illegals’ and we will do something for you(we do know yet what it is).
President Trump has probably said what a stupid idea. I don't even want my refugees let alone yours.
Me?
I am ashamed of my government for what it has done. I never talk about this because it cannot be defended. It is a horrendous stain on the character of Australia which is a nation founded and sustained by immigration.
If I had my way I would put all of the politicians in gulags and make the refugees politicians. I am sure it would turn out fine.
Badger, you have the privilege of living in a great land, the USA, that is momentarily under the spell of an evil asshole. When somebody invents a way of neutralizing that intruder, America will once again become America. Sadly, our native land has no such joyous future in sight. Consequently, I see no way of waving a magic wand that might make Australia great once again, even if we were to neutralize the current PM and all his mates… and replace them by Aborigines who’ve been educated, say, in France. So, mate, my humble advice is: Stay where you are in Indianapolis, at least for the next few years. Unless, of course, you and your wife had plans to get elected Down Under, with plans to settle all boat people into Australia as much-needed labor to build the nation’s future.
ReplyDeleteAustralia to me at the moment is beyond comprehension. But we sure as hell cannot stay here forever.
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