Right Pulse

Risk the lives of your own children and navy personnel by burning your own vessel for emotional blackmail purposes – which results in 5 dead – and according to Rudd you apparently are entitled to entry visas into the country. I have not heard much from MT about the issue, apart from this:

Malcolm Turnbull said there was no question Mr Rudd had softened the policies of the previous government, a development that people-smugglers had noticed and which they were using as a marketing tool. “We’ve seen in the media numerous examples of that being confirmed,” he said. “The people-smugglers are selling the message Australia is a soft target. That is being believed by their would-be customers.”

WA Premier Colin Barnett is calling for their visas to be revoked.

Mr Barnett slammed the Rudd government for granting the 42 men asylum ahead of the coronial inquiry set up to investigate the fatal fire near Ashmore Reef in April, which police say was deliberately lit. “I think a full inquiry should be completed, and certainly anyone who was implicated in that should not be given the right to stay in Australia“, Mr Barnett told Fairfax Radio…

Mr Barnett said yesterday the police investigation had vindicated his remarks. He accused the federal government of sanitising the truth, saying it was in possession of the same information as he was when he made his original remarks.

Philip Ruddock is also predicting thousands of new illegal arrivals.

UPDATE

The ABC is once again engaged in advocacy journalism for Rudd, running a headline piece on their website that Rudd really has been trying to stop illegal immigrants arriving in Australia. Apparently, according to Rudd’s media office and therefore the ABC, a phone call to Indonesia from the PM is all that it takes to stop people coming illegally to Australia. See, simple stuff, no need to worry. Well if a phone call is all that it takes, then where was Rudd before and after the deaths of 40 people; deaths that were a direct result of his softened immigration policy?

Rudd is now saying that he makes no apologies for his tough stance on illegal immigration after his phone call to Indonesia. Does he take us as fools? Only the ABC, which is dutifully reporting Rudd’s latest spin and double talk, would believe that Rudd is tough on illegal immigration, when ah em errr ahhh, he really isn’t. Well on some days and not on others, or is it the other way round?!?!?!?