Wednesday, 29 August 2012

FOREIGN AFFAIRS BLOCKS JOURNALIST VISAS

There is a cacophony of objection and criticism of the Papua New Guinea foreign affairs at the blocking of visas to foreign journalists who want to visit Manus Island the site of the planned refugee detention centre. Please click:

PNG minister bars foreign media from Manus Island

The blame is very much on the Papua New Guinea government.

Critics do not seem to have understood that blocking may have been done at request of the Australian Government, despite advice of Bob Carr, Australian Foreign Minister. 

Foreign journalists may want to come to stir up trouble with the Manus villagers.

The modern journalist can have a hidden agenda of changing world affairs not only commenting on events.

Foreign agents can pose as journalists. There would be asylum seekers being sought by their Governments.

We have to feel sympathy for all concerned. The refugees are ordinary people often seeking a better life for families.

Many have drowned in unseaworthy boats. Think of the hopelessness of parents struggling in the sea with drowning children. Daddy, help me.

Parents with more than one child have to decide on which child they will allow to drown.

Which of my daughters would I allow to die if we were all in deep water on the high seas?

Men may have to choose between saving a child or a wife. As it is, whole families are drowned at sea.

The Australian Government knows that the flood gates will open if there is weakness on the part of the Government.

But they do not have to worry.

The newcomers will not be shooting and poisoning the Australian population as the early settlers did to the aborigines.

There was no aboriginal foreign affairs to issue visas in the 1700s.

Settlers just clambered off the boats, built fences, ploughed fields and shot any trespassing aborigines.

That was the English Way. Take the land from the Irish and Aborigines. Send the Irish to the colonies in chains to work the land taken from the Aborigines.

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