Gullibility Without End
There are two kinds of refugees in the world: those fleeing from tyrants and murderers and those looking for a better socio-economic life. The latter are called “economic refugees”. Whilst their aspirations and ambitions are understandable they give the former kind of refugee a bad name.
Economic refugees all too often attempt to game the system by masquerading as genuine refugees. Australia, for the last five years, has deliberately refused to distinguish between genuine refugees and economic refugees. As a consequence it is now regarded as a soft-destination for economic refugees. The boats keep coming. Paul Sheeha, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald exposes the defalcation of the Australian government on this matter. Any government which loses control of its borders has ceded sovereignty. Worse, it has meant the government is complicit in self-deceit and in lying to the people. Paul Sheehan believes it is a key reason the Gillard Government is despised by the electorate. Continue reading