Refugee Crisis ... Another Labour Stuff-Up

Lefty Journos lay refugee stuff-up at Libs feet. .. Uuhh?

In light of the recent tragedies unfolding around Christmas Island, just about every news bulletin at the moment seems to be laying the blame for Australia's ongoing refugee fiasco at the feet of the Liberal opposition. Howling that Abbott should bow to Gillard's wishes and give in to the Malaysian Solution... I don't understand. Isn't that solution bad for refugees?

Let's put some facts on the table and scrape away some of the bullshit.

When Labour came to power they threw out a perfectly sound package of Liberal policies that had stopped people smuggling in its tracks. They did this purely for political reasons.

Labours bleeding heart policies allowed people smugglers to get back to business with a very saleable package. Allowing people (Not necessarily refugees) to jump the queue, at great expense and considerable danger, to catch leaky boats to Australia. While the genuine and poorer refugees waited in line behind the queue jumpers. 

Very quickly a trickle of boats grows to a flood, as more and more people smugglers become involved in this very lucrative trade. (Getting paid even though some of their customers were lost at sea). Until we have an ever increasing boarder protection mess.

Gillard stabs Rudd in the back and scrapes into power with the support of the Greens and a gaggle of independents.

The refugee problem gets that bad that Labour must now rethink their failed policies, and after a couple of botched attempts (Onshore processing, the Timor solution and other pie in the sky suggestions.) They finally decide on the Malaysian Solution. Anything to avoid admitting they were wrong in the first place.

The Malaysian Solution then runs into problems, not least of all with our human rights laws. With some comparing the treatment of refugees in Malaysia to our live cattle export problems. (An exaggeration of course, but you get the drift.)

Now everyone opposes the Malaysian Solution, Australian Law, Labours allies in government (The Greens and Independents) and the Opposition. But does that dissuade Julia?.. Nooo! She wants to legislate to change our human rights laws so that she can exchange 800 asylum seekers with Malaysia for 4000 confirmed refugees. Even if you disregard the lopsided numbers in this "deal", what will happen to the poor 800 people who would be shoved off to Malaysia without human rights assurances? 

So now that her allies in government have refused to back her halfwit plan to change our human rights laws so that she might have a political win. She suddenly turns the blame for the failure of  her ill conceived plan on the Opposition.

But if that is not bizarre enough, the labour leaning Journos of this country, instead of questioning the incompetence of the Government and the lack of support of their Green and Independent allies, decide that it is the Opposition that is at fault. No matter that the policies that they stand by have already proved successful. 

And now that the Opposition has suggested a compromise on the basis of common ground. I.E. voting to make secure law for off shore processing in all countries that are signatories to the UN refugee charter. They are still portrayed as the bad guys because they won't include Malaysia in the compromise. But as I asked before...Isn't that deal bad for refugees? 

My questions are, in light of the failure of just about every major policy the current Government has presided over, including during their time under Rudd. 

Would you sign off on a totally untested scheme which, on the surface, condemns asylum seekers to uncertain human rights in Malaysia? 

Why isn't the popular media pressuring the elected government (Including the Greens and independents) for compromise? Considering that they don't want to back flip to policies that worked.

Why can't that band of happy little Vegemites (Labour, Greens, and Independents) sit down and thrash out a solution? After all they're supposed to be allies and have the numbers in government.

Why is it the fault of the opposition that the elected government can't swallow their pride and go back to the proven solutions of the Howard Government?

Please, it's the greatest failed government since the Whitlam era. This is yet another disaster by a government that lurches from bad policy to bad policy, all made for political reasons more than for the good of Australians.

Julian Assange .. Hero or Hypocrite?

Did he go too far in his quest for recognition?

From a nuisance computer hacker, some would say a thief of intellectual property, to an internationally renowned exposer of stolen secrets and alleged sexual molester. 

It seems that for most of his life Assange has been taking something that doesn't belong to him and using it for his own benefit no matter the consequences to other people.

His comparatively small following of supporters think he is a hero and like many other so called "Do-gooders" have no regard for what the rest of the world may think, or how their action may affect us and, dare I say, them in the future.

There is no doubt that some of the atrocities which Wikileaks exposed were in the public interest. However some of the US diplomatic cables which he exposed, put in jeopardy the very laws and security under which he has the good fortune to live.

We live in a world today with enemies who prey on the very freedoms our democracies provide. They sneak around hiding behind women, children and religion always looking for a chance to strike at our soft underbelly, and increasingly the men and women who protect our lives and our way of life, have to rely on secret intelligence to keep one step ahead of these lunatics and fanatics. They have to gather this intelligence in ever increasingly covert ways so that it continues to flow from genuine sources, and when these sources are exposed, our enemies win the a fight in this dangerous new war. We don't need self righteous brats like Julian Assange and his group of left wing fanatics batting for the other side.

If they wish to play at investigative journalism, they would do well to work for the goodies. Do some hard yards and expose the secrets of the baddies who want to harm us and our way of life, not of those who are trying to protect us. If they want to create a free and open world as they say, start at the difficult end where human rights are violated every day and political murder is a common occurrence. Put yourself in danger, not others.

Use the technology for something that benefits the world at large, not the mongrels out there. The rules of engagement are not black and white these days, sometimes we have to fight in the shadows. 

Now people are digging into your secrets Julian... How does it feel?

Who's Running The NRL?

Freddy Fittler Gets On The Red Phone To Gallop!

Well we have a brand new Commission to run the NRL now but nothing seems to have changed. NSW and the NSW oriented Channel Nine commentary team are still in charge. 

NSW loses the first State of Origin match and Freddy is straight on the phone to Gallop, with a couple of disgruntled refs in tow to demand the head refs sacking.... (Is that you with your hand up the back of Freddy's shirt Gus?).

Bill Harrigan best ref.

Bill Harrigan was arguably the best ref the game has seen with daylight second. He made the blokes running around today in the NRL look like rank amateurs, even though there are almost twice as many of them officiating at each match.

I hear that their main gripes are that he didn't watch the refs officiate at the recent Australia V New Zealand test or at the City V Country Match. Most decisions on their performance would be made after studying the tapes anyway wouldn't they? I think the whinge is more likely to be "Why didn't I get a gig at the first state of origin?"

Paul Kent from the Telegraph, in his biased article on the 31st May (Not a renowned Referee), suggests that Russell Smith or Tony Archer might replace him. Pleaseee! lets run through their litany of mistakes over the years, both on the field and in the box.

And enough of this nonsense about "great refs don't always make great coaches". How about "your only as good as the cattle you've got".

We all know that at the heart of the matter is the Inglis try decision. Please, lets be honest, Farah deliberately kicked at the ball and in your wildest imagination you cannot say the Inglis played at it when it hit his forearm. So it was a try. And as I mentioned in a previous article, examine Uate's first try and you can find a knock on by him if you look hard enough.

I guess the only way to please the NSW sooks would be to put Gus and Freddy in the third refs box next game. Or perhaps they could let the broadcast go to the third ref like the old days. That way he could hear all of the biased commentary. 

Here's the thing. If you keep changing the team (or "officials") every time you lose, you might keep on losing. You'd think the NSW boy's would have caught on to that by now.

Leave Hollywood alone, he'd be a tremendous loss to the game. I'm not sure that his persecutors would be.