time for australia to harden up on boat people, page-64

"Nine out of every 10 people who come here seeking asylum are allowed to stay here.

This means that of the hundreds of people locked away behind razor wire during the Howard years, 90 per cent should not have been incarcerated.

In other words, our Government got it wrong 90 per cent of the time. If 90 per cent of people in a regular Australian jail were innocent, there would be an extraordinary public outcry."

I think it is more likely that 90% of them were allowed to stay because of impassioned rhetoric such as your.

Indeed with every law some one will find an argument as to why it is unfair. This is our legal system, a system built on endless precedents. However, each new precedent does not prove an error in the law itself.

You are advocating that we have no law with respect to how people arrive in this country, come-one-come-all you cry. However, when one (even if it is only one out of ten thousand) of these people decides to run amok and it is proven that they have committed mass murder in their country of origin, the rhetoric will be just as loud and condemning of the government.

Even now we have complaints when this person or that person arrives for a visit and the foreign affairs department has not picked up that that person is disliked by one faction or the other I.e. The person wrote denied the holocaust or they once belong to a fascist party (the list goes on and on).

How does a government agency discover that a person is a legitimate asylum seeker without checks? Who cares you say!