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Howard Sattler said that
"That up to 300 asylum seekers on Nauru are on a hunger strike should be welcomed by Australian taxpayers.
My rough estimates are that their refusal to eat for the past five days has saved us more than $50 000.
For that reason alone we should hope they continue their protest.
Howls of disgust from refugee advocates ignore that those who have taken the decision to go without food are acting of their own volition.
It is a challenge to the authority of the Australian Government to decide where their claims for asylum should be processed.
We can only assume their radical tactics are calculated to have the Gillard Government cave in to their demands to be transferred to the mainland.
They are being supported by the usual mob of bleeding hearts who believe their plight is more important than the thousands of other displaced people trapped in refugee camps around the planet by their lack of financial resources.
This hunger strike is the first major test of the government’s new “no advantage” boat people policy.
Five days into the protest it is holding the line.
In the unlikely event that the Nauru inmates reject sustainance for a protracted period and begin to fall ill it will be compelled to take action.
Should it cave in its policy will go down the plughole, surrendering the “asylum” to the ratbags who up till now have called most of the shots.
Before it reaches that stage, the government is entitled to take precipitous action to return the troublemakers to their countries of origin."
"That up to 300 asylum seekers on Nauru are on a hunger strike should be welcomed by Australian taxpayers.
My rough estimates are that their refusal to eat for the past five days has saved us more than $50 000.
For that reason alone we should hope they continue their protest.
Howls of disgust from refugee advocates ignore that those who have taken the decision to go without food are acting of their own volition.
It is a challenge to the authority of the Australian Government to decide where their claims for asylum should be processed.
We can only assume their radical tactics are calculated to have the Gillard Government cave in to their demands to be transferred to the mainland.
They are being supported by the usual mob of bleeding hearts who believe their plight is more important than the thousands of other displaced people trapped in refugee camps around the planet by their lack of financial resources.
This hunger strike is the first major test of the government’s new “no advantage” boat people policy.
Five days into the protest it is holding the line.
In the unlikely event that the Nauru inmates reject sustainance for a protracted period and begin to fall ill it will be compelled to take action.
Should it cave in its policy will go down the plughole, surrendering the “asylum” to the ratbags who up till now have called most of the shots.
Before it reaches that stage, the government is entitled to take precipitous action to return the troublemakers to their countries of origin."
