[LINK] Tampa or St. Louis?

[Tony Barry]

At 9:50 AM +1000 29/8/01, russell@Ashdown.net.au wrote:
>I received a phone-call from a colleague in the USA who asked me
>if it was really true that the Australian government had sent a
>warship and was threatening to sink the Tampa rather than let the
>refugees land in Australia.  He had heard the report on TV.  He
>finished by saying that this is the stuff that makes great movies.

What is happening is moving past inhumane and edging twards evil. 
Despite my feelings of impotent fury about what the government is 
doing about the Tampa and my disdain at the apparent acquiescence of 
the opposition it IS out of scope for link.

Tony
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