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| Issue Finally Sunk | |
The carefully orchestrated 'Children Overboard' witch-hunt came to fruition
today. Instead of causing the big splash the Left hoped for, it pretty
much blew up in the face of the protagonists. The inquiry, dominated by the Left, was carefully designed to embarrass the
government and the Australian Defense Force but
was cut short when embarrassing facts around the events themselves began to
surface. Little things - like the fact that an asylum seeker had
threatened to throw a child overboard (that was on
the video), the fact that people had then sunk their own boat (effectively
throwing everyone overboard, children and all), and the fact that 18 days after
this, a child was actually thrown overboard (details here) though
from another boat. But the worst thing for the Left was the timing of the final report. Nine
days after nearly a hundred Australians were murdered by terrorists in Bali,
Australians couldn't really care whether a bunch Pakistani asylum-seekers
pretending to be from Afghanistan threw their
kids overboard or not. They were more concerned with their national
security. And frankly, the difference between a) throwing children overboard
and b) threatening to throw children overboard and then sinking the whole boat,
seemed a little bit moot. And further reports of foreigners drowning due to
overloading their foreign boat off the coast of a foreign land barely raised a
ripple. The Greens may be
keeping up the water-on-stone treatment on this issue for a while yet, but
Simon (I-can-protect-our-borders-too) Crean just wants to sink this one as soon
as possible. The more he stirs it up, the wetter he looks when he tries to play
the strong-man. He just has to keep Carmen (unsinkable) Lawrence out of site
until the next election. Good luck, Simon - you'll need it!
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