bubbly and lovely: i'm too poor for therapy.
been there and back again. too many thoughts and opinions and hormones get me in trouble.
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6.21.2002
we are one world
from cnn:
PORT LINCOLN, Australia --Controversial small town mayor Peter Davis has made
headlines again, this time suggesting asylum-seekers held in Australian detention
centers should be shot if they cause trouble.
The Advertiser newspaper reports Davis saying asylum seekers should be told to
"settle down" or "they might get buried".
"We'll only have to shoot a few to get the message across," he is quoted as saying.
Australia has a policy of mandatory detention for all illegal immigrants attempting to
enter the country. Several thousand are currently being held in prison-like facilities.
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The majority of those in detention are from Afghanistan and the Middle East and are
brought to Australian shores on rickety boats hired by people-smuggling networks.
Davis says the boatpeople should be turned away at sea.
"I don't hold anything against people of Islamic origin -- I happen to love their Persian
rugs and their banking system," Davis said. "But they beat to a different drum."
Davis was responding to suggestions asylum seekers could be moved to regional towns in
South Australia which have been suffering from dwindling populations.
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As mayor, Davis's outspoken opinions have attracted attention in the past.
In 1996 he offended many by labelling the children of mixed-race parents as "mongrels".
also, in yesterday's new york times there was a story on how denmark was keeping an iraqi man seeking refgee status in an asylum center, living on $129 a month. this man was no slacker. he was fluent in english and had taught himself to read and write danish. he left iraq because he saddam hussein's government wanted to put him in jail for his outspoken views. he was trained as a doctor at the top iraqi school.
yet even with men like this guy, denmark has passed laws limiting the rights of asylum seekers. they cannot marry, and even danes have a hard time trying to marry asylum seekers. refugees over 60 are discouraged from entering the country, however that is done,
this all makes me very sad.
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