History/Politics

SCOTT MORRISON IS RIGHT: VOTERS ARE NOT MUGS

The silent majority are fast becoming sick and tired of bleeding heart lawyers, like Julian Burnside and others, who represent the ‘Café Latte Society,’ in their objection to the Abbott Government’s sensible immigration and border protection policies.

The outstanding success of former Immigration Minister, Scott Morrison needs to be acknowledged. If Chifley Government minister, Arthur Calwell was the Father of Immigration then Morrison has been the saviour of the program.

The scandal of boat people –chiefly economic immigrants,not genuine refugees, was reduced to nothing under Morrison. Under Labor the figures soared as did deaths at sea.

Under Labor there had been some 2000 children behind the wire but Morrison reduced that number by 90 per cent. Triggs and her Star Chamber saw fit to commission a report on the Abbott Government but the Rudd -Gillard years, the years of irresponsibility, were the untouchable years!

As for Opposition leader Bill Shorten, known as Stabber Jack, or sometimes just BS, he has no credibility on the matter. When a tentative Richard Marles MP said a future Labor Government would also consider turning back the boats, if approved by Indonesia, he was censured by his leader.

Shorten will never become PM because Australians will never support politicians that need the imprimatur of a foreign country to act in Australia’s best interests.

 Indeed, recent threats by Indonesian security minister, Purdijanto, to release 10,000 boat people to Australia do not play well with the Australian voter. If Indonesia is mad enough to try that on then watch the groundswell here that favours cutting of all foreign aid. Further there will also be support to free West Papua–free, of course, from Indonesian occupation.

Indonesia should be very careful of making threats and instead remember what happened in East Timor?

The Abbott government deserves support, not carping criticism from the likes of Julian Burnside QC.

Burnside was demolished by another lawyer, Geoff Bloch, after his ludicrous statement that Abbott, and journalist Andrew Bolt’s, Islamophobia is a bigger threat to our way of life than terrorism.

According to Burnside boat people are fleeing extremists; Islamophobia is the new anti-Semitism; the Lindt Café atrocity was the act of a madman and it was irrelevant he was a Muslim; most Muslims are not terrorists; bail provisions should not be tightened; Bolt is an alarmist and responsible for increasing anti- Muslim sentiment and that Abbott is somehow ‘dog whistling’ over Muslim terrorism. The latter assertion belongs in a Star Chamber.

Burnside should use words more carefully. Tripe words like xenophobia, Islamophobia and homophobia are tiresome and simply used to intimidate and shut down debate. As the late Christopher Hitchens, from the political Left, rightly said, “such words are devised by fascists, used by cowards for the benefit of morons.” Burnside can work out for himself where he fits in that trinity.

Does Burnside really think there is any comparison between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia?  The Jews, except in Israel, have always been a helpless, non aggressive minority in various countries. Militant Islam is a threat to the World,  a murderous , bigoted religion/ideology, demanding everything while conceding nothing. It is rightfully reviled, rightfully feared and Australians have every right to expect their government to heed those concerns.

Burnside can sneer as much as he wants. But illegal entrants have no automatic rights to choose Australia as a home. Australians do want national cohesion and are tired of the whining, particularly from Left leaning lawyers.

If Burnside cannot recognise the legitimate concerns Australians have, based on 1400 years of Muslim aggression, and current day atrocities and demands, then he is simply a fool professing to be wise. In contrast, Morrison is wise and responded to the real concerns of the public when Immigration and Border Protection minister.

When Spain last year moved to compensate, and grant citizenship to the descendants of Sephardic Jews, for atrocities against them at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, Muslims demanded similar rights.

They conveniently forgot that they were a hated colonial power, in Spain, being finally driven out after centuries of abuse. On their feverish reckoning the Germans and Japanese should be compensated for being run out of the countries they occupied in World War II.

Morrison knows his history, has good instincts and he will not be intimidated by empty vessels making loud noises.

Middle Australia considers Morrison as steadfast, tough and determined: A man that can fix problems rather than talk about them or seek popularity. In short: one of us.

The new Social Services minister has a tough job to rein in the welfare spending but the man who stopped the boats, and is respected by Middle Australia for doing so, certainly has the capacity to make those changes. Already there is a different style to his public persona in his second difficult portfolio.

The minister is not frightened to express support for traditional values, either.

Morrison is not for turning on the demands for same sex marriage. He rightly argues that a child does have a natural right to a mother and father; that historical traditions tested over centuries are more convincing than contemporary fads and demands; and that weakening a bedrock institution is of no advantage to society.

He labelled forced marriages of children as an “assault on Australian values,” and an “abomination,” on September 28 last year. This was after a 14 year old girl, accompanied by her uncle, was prevented from going to Lebanon for an arranged marriage.

His words and actions contrasted with the deafening silence from the ‘lame-stream’ media.

Forget Turnbull and Bishop for leadership. When the time comes for renewal, perhaps in the second term of government, Scott Morrison, now 46, will be the one the Liberals turn to as leader.