Asylum Seekers – Christmas Island
So last week about 150 Asylum seekers broke out of the Christmas Island detention centre. They say they’re sick of living in the conditions of the centre – but what they fail to realise is that these conditions are a shit load better than where they’ve come from.
Do these people also realise that at least they have a roof over their head and food/water in their mouths? AND at our expense, yep I go to work every day to support these people! That's even still alot more than some of our fellow country people here in Australia have!!
See below the blog from Derryn Hinch on this issue, I couldn’t agree more with what he has said...
The living conditions they have been living in at your expense are still far superior to the countries they fled from. Still better than some of the other countries that they deliberately bypassed on their way to Australia.
It is true some of the temporary lodgings they burned down were tents that had been temporary accommodation for more than a year.
But compare that to what the people of Christchurch went through a few months ago. And what hundreds of thousands of Japanese are enduring this very day.
While these homeless, lawless destructive bastards, were smashing and burning on Christmas Island they were at least getting more food in a day than many people in a devastated Japan have seen in a week. And fresh drinkable water.
These rioters put other people’s lives at risk.
I can hear the bleeding hearts now. These poor people are rioting because they have been waiting six months without being processed. They should be let out into the community while their bone fides are being checked. Yeah, right.
These riots and escapes have been going on all week since asylum seekers apparently received a letter from Canberra informing them that security checks would be undertaken next month. What’s wrong with that? What are they afraid of?
No country has a total open door policy. It is true that the problems have been exacerbated by over-crowding. If that’s the case why not re-open the expensive taxpayer facility on Nauru which has been mothballed?
Be smarter than stubbornly continuing with Julia Gillard’s top-of-the-head, panicked, election policy to pursue the East Timor option. A so-called regional facility that no other country wants a bar of.
In the meantime, as Federal Police used tear gas to quell about 250 rioters, it is hard to feel sorry for the boatloads who came here illegally.
Not when, on the same news services, you are seeing thousands of people sifting through mud and rubble and wreckage where their towns and homes used to be in Japan. Demolished towns that are now tombs.
They had no say in the destruction of their lives, their hopes, their dreams.
Save your sympathy and thoughts for them.
UPDATE: A further 105 detainees from the Christmas Island detention centre will be moved to the mainland following another night of riots.
Hundreds of detainees rampaged through the centre overnight setting fire to a number of buildings and holding Federal Police at bay for more than three hours.
Tear gas and beanbag bullets were used to bring the situation under control.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says the ongoing violence will not speed up the visa process.
EARLIER: Federal Police are back in control of the Christmas Island Detention Centre this morning, following a night of rioting.
Several buildings were destroyed when more than 250 inmates moved through the centre, throwing petrol bombs and rocks.
They held police at bay for three hours and a number managed to escape into nearby bushland.
Sandy Logan from the Immigration Department says the overnight violence was the culmination of a week of unrest at he facility.
Meanwhile, it's still not known how a young Afghanistan asylum seeker died at a Detention Centre in far north Queensland.
Staff at the centre found the man in his room but were unable to revive him.
Police are now investigating.
