Over the weekend we saw yet another awful consequence of the implimentation of The Greens' policy on asylum seekers. A refugee boat sank off the coast of Indonesia en route to Australia with the drowning of over 200 people.
The broadsheet press are trying to pin the blame onto a certain people smuggler who is being described as "a snakehead". But aren't they missing the point? The whole people smuggling industry had been closed down by the Howard government in the early 2000s with the Nauru solution and offshore processing. When Labor came to power in 2007 there was one asylum seeker in detention. Only 43% of refugees processed under the Nauru solution came to Australia, the rest were either sent back home or resettled in other countries. All that changed under Labor which dismantled the Nauru solution in 2008 and brought in what they touted as "a more compassionate approach to asylum seekers". Australia was open for business again, a new generation of people smugglers came onto the scene and Australia was swamped.
Under Labor and The Greens over 500 people have drowned trying to come to Australia. My my, what a compassionate approach to asylum seekers!
During the year we saw several silly thought bubbles by Gillard regarding possible "solutions" blurted out before anybody was ever consulted. First she said a detention centre would be built in Timor-Leste. Oh no, said the Timorese, we're not going to wear that. Then she said the Manus Island detention centre would be reopened. The Papua New Guineans quickly put the kybosh on that. Then she came up with the so-called Malaysian solution. The Greens stomped on that by deserting their coalition partners and refusing to vote for it in parliament. In a breathtaking display of failing to see the wood for the trees, she and others in the Labor party tried to blame Tony Abbott. As a consequence we now have The Greens' open door asylum seeker policy in place. Come one, come all. Disappear into the general community, live off Centrelink benefits and bring your relatives in a few months. Is it any wonder the people smugglers are now doing a roaring trade with thousands rushing to get onto the boats?
The awful immaturity and naivety of The Greens and their moronic far-left policies has been exposed by the screams of the latest asylum seekers as they disappeared under the water and their dead bodies floated away from their sunken boat. The Greens are as guilty of mass murder as if they boarded the boat themselves with semi-automatic weapons and opened fire.
The Greens are now the Martin Bryants of politics. How anybody can consider still voting for them after this outrage is totally beyond comprehension.
