Yesterday (26/5) an ABC Breakfast interviewer used the bleeding heart term: ‘Behind the wire’.
Can we expect better from our national carrier?
He was intervewing the
Australian Human Rights Commissioner after she and the Commissioner from the United Nations, who was visiting our country, went on a tour of our detention centres. With earnest consternation she said they we’re ‘inhumane’, enouraging suicide, when Chris Uhlman interviewed her on the 7:30 Report the night before. Quite rightly he referred to the immigrants/seekers paying upwards to ‘$15,000 to people smugglers’. The UN representative then ducked and weaved. She had no answers. She had no idea except emotive tub thumping to make
her point.
The Human Rights Com-missioner from the United Nations has no right to come into our country and tell us what to do about our situation. The United Nations hardly deserves our respect anyway. In fact: where or when has it really succeeded?
A few more points:
1. Malaysian camps are diseased – often caused by rats.
2. There is the use of the bamboo stick (called the rattan) quite viciously, which could be seen as ‘barbaric’.
3. Children are given rough treatment
4. If the inmates protested as they did in Australia (setting fire to buildings, sitting on a roof) they would most likely have been shot in Malaysia.
The Rudd/Gillard regimes should be put ‘behind the wire’ for telling us the Howard Government’s Pacific Solution was ‘barbaric’ when we know it was very effective as a deterrent, stopping the arrival of boats.
Now the Gillard Government does a ‘swap’ with Malaysia after its other failed attempts.
Do we now call it the ‘Swap Solution’?
Malaysian muckup, more like it.
Warren James
