More on the Howard Governments Xenophobic Attitude Towards Refugees

If you read my blog post from yesterday titled Another typical anti immigrant stand by the Australian Federal Government you would already have a rough idea how I feel on the situation.

Well this has become huge news in Australia, so today, I am going to blog a lot more about it, starting with what really has been the start of this entire situation.

Last week Liep Gony, a Sudanese refugee was fatally bashed out side a train station, in an outer suburb of Melbourne.

The Australian Government response to this has been racist at best, xenophobic at worst. The governments mentality has been to blame the victim rather than the monsters who committed the crime:

IMMIGRATION Minister Kevin Andrews is at the centre of a race row amid claims he "whipped up" a reason for cutting African refugee numbers on the cusp of a federal election campaign.

Days after Mr Andrews cited the failure of Sudanese people to integrate as a reason for cutting the African intake, the Government has been accused of playing "ugly race politics" and launching a Tampa-style scare campaign to win votes.

The row was sparked this week when Mr Andrews was asked about the fatal bashing of 18-year-old Sudanese refugee Liep Gony in the outer Melbourne suburb of Noble Park.

Mr Andrews said the refugee intake from countries such as Sudan had been cut amid fears that some groups "don't seem to be settling and adjusting into the Australian life as quickly as we would hope".

Link: Coalition Accused of Race Politics

Now going by the last paragraph I quoted above, I take that statement to mean, that because in the eyes of the government people from Sudan aren't settling into the Australian way of life, that it is their fault if they are bashed. After all it was the fatal bashing of Liep Gony that has sparked this; yet another xenophobic controversy from with in the Howard government.

Yet the crime rate from with in the Sudanese community of Victoria is a mere 1 per cent of the bigger Victorian population. And still, our government would blame the victim rather than the monsters who did this. Now, why would the government do this? My take is simple... it appears that the monsters allegedly responsible for this crime, may have been Caucasian. One of possible Italian decent, the other of possible Irish or Scottish decent. And with our federal government being as racist as they are won't dare admit any wrong doing by white Australia now, will they?

Now this leads me to my personal experience with people from Sudan, and other parts of Africa. As you already know, I work in the security industry, so I came across a lot of people from all parts of the world. The most arrests I have made during my years as working as a covert loss prevention officer have been people of Greek, Australian, and Asian decent. Not once have I ever arrested a person from Africa.

The man who I thought was going to shoot me down in cold blood last week was white. In fact it isn't people from Africa who scare me the most, it is the white gangs that haunt the area I live that scare the crap out of me.

The people from Sudan and entering Australia on humanitarian grounds, and the Australian government forgets that.

I worked with a bloke from Sierra Leon and the stories he told me about his country, it is no wonder these people seek a happier life elsewhere.

Bring on the election, I cannot wait to see the back of the miserable, xenophobic Howard Government.