solarz
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LOL, anyone seen the Elysium movie? At least they're not doing what they did in that movie...
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LOL, anyone seen the Elysium movie? At least they're not doing what they did in that movie...
For what? Australia is already well known for it's illegal immigrants policy (realy hard line) so what's new about that? It's still better than shooting.
AssassinsMace
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A lot of states in the Western half of the US give homeless people one-way bus tickets to San Francisco. Also I know of one rich city in the SF/Bay Area where the police pick up homeless people and drive them 5 miles to the next city and drop them off and there's been a uptick in crime as result.
plawolf
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Australia's draconian immigration policy towards Asians (nothing like as hard a line if you happen to be white) is a completely different can of worms that isn't relevant here, but suffice to say, past misdeeds do not lessen or excuse current ones in any way shape or form.
And cold blooded murder is a pretty low bar to set to decide what's acceptable behaviour.
If you cannot see what is so fundamentally wrong about paying criminals and offering zero humanitarian assistance to refugees and instead just telling the traffickers to take those poor people 'anywhere else but here', then no amount of explaining can enlighten you.
I would just ask you look into all those mass graves they are finding in Thailand to see what kind of fate such actions might be condemning those poor people to.
We only heard about this because those traffickers took their passengers back. What happens to the next boat who didn't pack enough supplies for a return journey with so many passengers? Or a captain and crew who didn't want to deal with passengers wanting a refund?
Putting asside the moral bankruptcy at play here, its just a stupid policy.
The entire concept of law and order and policing and enforcement is centred on punishing bad behaviour as a means of discouragement. Rewarding criminals will not, surprise of surprises, lead to a reduction in criminals and crimes. It will almost certainly do the opposit.
SteelBird
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Here's more story about Australian strategy toward refugees. Latest report said that 4 Australian refugees have arrived in Cambodia and were settled somewhere outskirt of Phnom Penh city.
broadsword
Brigadier
I read about the skid row and wonder if this is the place where the homeless drop off. I look up Google Map, but cannot determine if it was near Chinatown. A little worried about its safety.
They should start using exponent notation, then they can go up all the way to a googol and much more without problem. Or they can start drawing the picture of value equivalent things on the note itself, like a banana, for example.
broadsword
Brigadier
I noticed that Cambodia's homicide per 100,000 is in the 20s, about the same as Brazil, whereas Vietnam and Laos are nowhere that high. Why is it so odd?
SteelBird
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Honestly, I don't have that figure. However, it's really rather high compared to neighbor countries but not Thailand. Illegal firearms are too common in Cambodia that help to increase that ratio. Street robbery and violence are all the cause. For example, people who ride nice scooter (price from US$1500 to US$3000) have high possibility of being robbed and killed. Youngsters go dancing in clubs or village parties, if they accidentally step on other's feet of staring at each other, there is a high possibility that it would result in group fighter (with weapon like knives or swords) and several may get killed. Another example people cross the border illegally into Thailand (illegal labor migrant or high-value logging) stand high chance of being shot and killed by Thai border guards. However, the biggest killer in Cambodia is traffic accident that kills around 2000 people per year.
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