THE BOATPEOPLE OBSESSION

The right-wing of both sides of politics has now moved to make the boatpeople issue the centrepiece of the upcoming election. Both Liberal and Labor racists are now scrambling to outdo each other in the chase for the racist voter within Labor’s ranks.

Liberal voters are already committed to voting for Abbott. However, there are many voters out there who would traditionally vote Labor but may reconsider who they give their vote to if the Liberals come up with a ‘better’ final solution to the boatpeople problem to that of Labor’s. By ‘better’ I mean less expensive because the knee-jerk Labor solution that flies everyone that arrives here by boat out to PNG with no chance of ever settling in Australia is going to be massively expensive. And, while it may slow the boats down, it will not stop them.

Now the Liberals have come up with a new plan; they want to use the Australian military to somehow stop the boats though they haven’t revealed exactly how they’re going to do this. They’re going to call it Operation Sovereign Borders. With a name like that, anyone would think we were at war defending our shores against a foreign invader – but that, of course, is exactly what they want people to think.

Both parties are now pandering exclusively to Australia’s racists in order to grab power. The boatpeople have become a political football with each side telling the voter that they are going to be tougher on boatpeople than the other side. The issue has become an obsession. The Labor excuse is that it will stop the drownings while the Liberals use every other excuse under the sun as to why boatpeople shouldn’t be allowed to come to Australia ranging from ‘terrorists sneaking in among them’, to ‘queue jumping’, to ‘economic refugees’, etc.

But we all know the real reasons they don’t want them here; it’s because they are racists. Pure and simple.

UPDATE

Details of Abbott’s ‘Operation Sovereign Borders’ can be found here.

 

THE SICKEST RACISTS ARE THOSE THAT USE DEATHS AT SEA TO KEEP BOATPEOPLE OUT OF AUSTRALIA

There are several kinds of racists in Australia. There are those that make no bones about their racism and simply tell you that they don’t want non-white or Islamic immigrants in Australia no matter how they arrive. These people are the die-hard rednecked white supremacists in our midst.

Then there are those that tell us ‘I’m not a racist, but…’ These are the racists that believe there is a place in the world for other peoples… but not here in Australia. These are the monoculturalists who believe that multiculturalism is upsetting the status quo of the society they believe they should dominate. These people are intolerant of the changes in Australian culture that result from the influx of migrants who have different cultures.

Then there are the most disgusting type of racists of all; those that deny they are racists and pretend to be sympathetic and even caring of those they actually prefer not to have in Australia living among them. These are the people who would deny boatpeople access to Australia on the pretext that they care about the potential of lives being lost at sea as they try to reach Australia. Instead they would prefer to have those that do arrive in Australia flown out to places they don’t want to be and into camps that operate in appalling conditions and for unknown durations. These are the sickest of racists who have jumped on the patronising bandwagon of pretending to be ‘tough to be kind’. These sick racists are prepared to lock up innocent and often traumatised men, women and children in places they don’t want to be, in camps that offer no hope of certain freedom and for unknown periods of time. And all this, they are quite happy to admit, is just to deter others from trying to reach Australia.

Make no mistake; these people are as racist as all the others. The only difference is they try to worm their way into the hearts and minds of those of us that truly do care about refugees that want to come here and know that there are other ways of getting asylum seekers safely to Australia without getting on leaky boats.

Beware the caring pretenders; they are the sickest of racists.

RUDD CAVES IN TO RACISTS FOR THE SAKE OF POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY

With an election looming, Kevin Rudd has caved in to Australia’s Labor voters who, like their Liberal counterparts, dream up every conceivable excuse as to why boatpeople shouldn’t be allowed access to Australia while trying desperately to avoid being labelled ‘racists’, a characterisation which they emphatically deny.

Most of those who were dead-set against allowing boatpeople into Australia seem to now applaud Rudds latest plan – at least from the point of view of no more boatpeople coming to Australia. But now, one has to ask, where are the excuses that the racists used to argue their point? Now that they’re to be shuffled off to PNG, it seems that the ‘queue-jumping’ label has gone out the window. Suddenly the racists couldn’t care less about the ‘queue’. Has the ‘queue’ disappeared? And will the racists who pretended to care about the safety of boatpeople during the crossing to Australia by boat still be as vocal about ‘stopping the boats’ coming to Australia now that they’ll be moved on to PNG – if they survive the crossing?

And what of the cost? Will Australians be prepared to pay PNG the huge amounts of money that this undertaking is likely to cost? If there’s any arguments from the Liberals about the cost of all this, it will only be because there’s an election looming and they didn’t come up with the idea first. But then, how could they? They needed to be in government in order to have negotiated the deal with the PNG government.

The reality is that the cost of the deal is far more than it would cost to simply allow boatpeople to stay in Australia and get them working to pay their own way. As a result, one can almost see a formula developing whereby the acceptance of the excessive cost of the deal over and above having them in Australia is directly proportional to the extent of racism in Australia. In other words, the real measure of the extent of Australia’s racism will be how much they are prepared to pay in order to keep boatpeople out of Australia – and it’s shaping up to be a lot.

What Australian’s need to do is face up to is its global responsibilities. When a country goes off and invades another – for whatever reason – then the invader needs to be responsible for the repercussions. And the same applies when one country applies sanctions against another. Australia has been a part of both types of actions against nations. We were part of the invasion of Afghanistan even though Afghanistan was not a threat to Australia, and Australia was a part of the immoral, if not illegal, invasion of Iraq despite Iraq also not being a threat to Australia. It is now a part of a sanctions program aimed at Iran over its nuclear weapons ambitions, despite not a skerrick of evidence suggesting Iran even has a nuclear weapons program. And we are wondering why Iranians are fleeing Iran?

If the West left these places alone to find their own way in the world, we’d all be a lot better off. Instead we make up lies and find excuses to continue to do what the West has always done; invade, dominate and loot the wealth of countries with different cultures to ours and then deny them the right to share their culture with ours. The racist haters of multiculturalism seem to be winning. Are we really going to let that happen?

BOLT DISPLAYS BOTH HIS HOMOPHOBIA AND HIS RACISM

In his column today Bolt writes about last night’s Q&A program complaining that the Left was over represented because only two of the six on the panel were right-wing. In complaining, however, Bolt exposed both his homophobia and his racism in just one sentence. One of the panellists was newsreader Narelda Jacobs who Bolt described as “lesbian Aboriginal newsreader Narelda Jacobs”.

For some reason Bolt failed to describe Defence Minister Stephen Smith, another of the panellists, as “heterosexual white European politician Stephen Smith”.

I can’t think why Bolt would be so remiss!

BOLT, BLAIR, AKERMAN, ET AL: THE FACES OF AUSTRALIA’S MAINSTREAM MEDIA RACISTS

Within Australia’s mainstream media there exists a core of ‘journalists’ who between them are responsible for Australia’s current spate of xenophobic racism; a racism that has been inspired by their hatred of boatpeople, Islam and multiculturalism.

Leading the pack at the gutter end of hate-mongering journalism are the likes of tabloid propagandists Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair and Piers Akerman who relentlessly offer their coterie of regular bloggies a never-ending stream of hate-filled posts which their salivating followers are invited to comment on. Meanwhile, pretending to be a little more up-market by passing themselves off as serious political and social commentators yet who peddle exactly the same message of hate and fear, are the likes of Janet Albrechtsen, Greg Sheridan, Gerard Henderson and Miranda Devine.

These are the hard core propagandists within the mainstream media who are largely responsible for Australia’s growing reputation – yet again – of being a racist, xenophobic and intolerant nation.

Their modus operandi is simple. They follow an age-old formula that propagandists have used for years. They cherry-pick a fault of an individual or group who happen to be from a culture/race/religion that is the propagandists target de jour and then, either implicitly or explicitly, say that the fault – and it could be anything – is because of their culture/race/religion. This is then extended to all people of the same culture/race/religion inferring that they have the same fault when invariably the fact that a person is of any culture/race/religion is purely incidental or that the individual or group has abused their culture/race/religion and misrepresented it. The misrepresentation in that case would be ignored by Murdoch’s propaganda crew. And, yes, all of the above mentioned propagandists work for Murdoch either directly or indirectly.

As has been mentioned in the past, if these people were merely wing-nut conspiracy theorists on the edge of the blogosphere pushing the fear-mongering nonsense that Muslims want to rule the world then they could easily and effectively be ignored. Trouble is though, they’re not. These people are wing-nut conspiracy theorists that have centre stage and a huge audience and are able to reach the gullible with ease who readily accepts the hate-filled garbage of Murdoch’s propagandists.

They need to be challenged, not ignored.

BOLT CALLS FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST ISLAM AND MIGRANTS

With a headline screaming “Terrorise the gangs as they terrorise us” Bolt makes a thinly veiled and implicit incitement to violence toward those who he implies are Islamic migrants. In doing so Bolt gets close to crossing the line of provoking racial violence just with the headline alone.

He also implies that the law should be discriminatory by having the police and other law enforcement agents target ‘gangs’ and that they should then be further discriminated against by the judiciary who Bolt suggests should give these people jail sentences for trivial offences or, in a direct reference to migrants, deported.

While Bolt has been very careful not to refer specifically to Muslims in this particular article, Bolt’s almost daily well-known and relentless anti-Islamic and anti-multicultural tirade elsewhere at his blog and in his writings make it quite clear exactly who Bolt is referring to in this particular article.

Bolt’s article should be at least reported to the Australian Press Council and the article’s headline should be investigated as to whether or not Bolt is inciting vigilante violence or has even committed an offence.

IN BOLTWORLD, THE GREENS HAVE BECOME NAZIS

Bolt has sunk to seriously delusional depths today. As he has done in the past, he attempts to equate today's Greens of Australia with the Nazis of the last century.

Because many Germans between the wars took to ideas that today might be considered ‘green’, Bolt seems to think that ‘greenness’ is somehow part of Nazi ideology and that, therefore, today's modern Greens are actually Nazi. This kind of Boltologic demonstrates how grossly delusional he has become.

The reality is that Bolt is far closer to Nazi-style ideology than any other political grouping in Australia. The only difference today between the Nazis of Germany in the 1920s through to the 1940s and Bolt’s extreme right-wing ideology is that the Nazis anti-Semitism has been replaced by Bolt’s own peculiar style of racism which expounds hatred of non-white Australians and all things Islamic. Bolt’s penchant for Australian militarism, support of wars against Islamic nations, hero-worshipping of Australia’s military dead, war-mongering propaganda against Islamic governments, hatred of multiculturalism, denial of Aboriginal persecution, and hatred of the Left are all characteristics of the kind of ideology that was Nazism – and today is known as neo-Nazism. In other words, all Bolt is doing is projecting his own neo-Nazism on to those that he hates.

BOLT PUSHES HIS RACIST NONSENSE WHEREVER HE CAN

In his column today, Bolt attempts to introduce a racial element into an incident where no racial element is known. Bolt just assumes there must be a racial element involved. His article implies that the violent incident might have been a ‘cultural’ thing and suggests that the original reports of the incident should have included racial descriptions of those involved. Bolt’s bloggies then pick and run with the racist abuse in the accompanying comments.

Bolt must be getting desperate. Pushing racism from stories that have nothing to do with race really is gutter journalism. It also exposes Bolt for what he really is, and a more blatant piece of non-story racist propaganda would be hard to find anywhere else… except maybe at Murdoch’s other propaganda blogs where the likes of Tim Blair and Piers Akerman hang out.