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• @DCR12

  @Oli

  Banning refugees/closing borders is exactly the sort of knee-jerk xenophobic reaction that ISIS want to foment. Don’t fall into their trap by blaming the people fleeing massive violence because one or two of terrorists used them as cover.

  We won’t sort out terrorism by treating people worse, that’s for damn sure.

  You are right. I don’t blame the people fleeing the violence..Its just that a lot of the refugees aren’t fleeing violence at all, and are not from countries where the violence (in terms of Terrorism) is occurring.

  Also, I am certainly not xenophobic…I have Muslim family members, and grew up in a Muslim country before coming to the great land of Australia…. Its the best country on earth, with well defined borders, and it deserves to remain so.

  So you're an immigrant? Australia was a lot better before all the immigrants.

  I agree with @Brett. Australia is a fucking embarrassment. Pretends to be a bastion of goodness. Meantime in trouble with the UN Human Rights Council.

• The U.S. turned away Jewish refugees during World War II, not only out of anti-semitism, but because of fears that German spies would sneak in with them. History doesn't look back kindly on that decision and it damn well shouldn't. When fear trumps our humanity, we become less than we are. 

  [ insert sweet analogy about stowing your fear away and nailing a fast descent here ]

  From where I sit, you can't meet inhumanity with inhumanity. Families are fleeing their homes, trying to cross the sea in craft ill-suited to the trip, walking hundreds of miles with no real hope of finding welcome on the other side, because those gambles have better odds than staying where they are. It's an act of pure desperation. You don't turn your back on that.

• @LawnCzar

  The U.S. turned away Jewish refugees during World War II, not only out of anti-semitism, but because of fears that German spies would sneak in with them. History doesn’t look back kindly on that decision and it damn well shouldn’t. When fear trumps our humanity, we become less than we are.

  [ insert sweet analogy about stowing your fear away and nailing a fast descent here ]

  From where I sit, you can’t meet inhumanity with inhumanity. Families are fleeing their homes, trying to cross the sea in craft ill-suited to the trip, walking hundreds of miles with no real hope of finding welcome on the other side, because those gambles have better odds than staying where they are. It’s an act of pure desperation. You don’t turn your back on that.

  Spot on

• Fucking A. Well said.

• @Oli

  +1

• History repeating itself ad nauseum, perpetrated by the USA/CIA and continued to be supported by a clueless populace fed lies, hate and division by the NWO-controlled mass mainstream media.

  Obama is a war criminal in the same vein as Nixon, Clinton, Bush 1 and 2, and the biggest criminal of all, Kissinger. True evil still getting away with mass genocide in the name of money, oil and power, cloaked under the guise of Christianity and peace. It makes me sick.

• @LawnCzar

  Well said.

• @Harminator

  @DCR12

  @Oli

  Banning refugees/closing borders is exactly the sort of knee-jerk xenophobic reaction that ISIS want to foment. Don’t fall into their trap by blaming the people fleeing massive violence because one or two of terrorists used them as cover.

  We won’t sort out terrorism by treating people worse, that’s for damn sure.

  You are right. I don’t blame the people fleeing the violence..Its just that a lot of the refugees aren’t fleeing violence at all, and are not from countries where the violence (in terms of Terrorism) is occurring.

  Also, I am certainly not xenophobic…I have Muslim family members, and grew up in a Muslim country before coming to the great land of Australia…. Its the best country on earth, with well defined borders, and it deserves to remain so.

  So you’re an immigrant? Australia was a lot better before all the immigrants.

  I agree with @Brett. Australia is a fucking embarrassment. Pretends to be a bastion of goodness. Meantime in trouble with the UN Human Rights Council.

  I assume you're also including those who had no choice in coming out here a couple of hundred years ago?

• @Mikael Liddy

  Why not? If we're making sweeping generalisations about diverse bodies of people.