.<br /><br />The state was blessed with having more BUI's than any year in history. The local news blames it on 9/11. Yeah right!!<br /><br />On a good note-no one got killed on our canyon lakes, that truly is a good thing.<br /><br />I did see the usual crowd of AAA+++ personalities jockeying for position at the launch ramps though. There were, of course, choice words for those within earshot. But no handcuffs or fistfights-at least that I saw. Might have been because The Law was everywhere. They even hassled me for watching! They thought I was some kind of sadist.<br /><br />Now the road back to town was a different story. Again the law was EVERYWHERE and they were <br />"coaching and consulting" our boating freinds all over the place. I missed my "session" because I wasn't dragging anything and I looked somewhat respectable-you know, out for a drive with the fam.<br /><br />I concede, I lose. But, that is not a bad thing.
<br />###########<br />On the issue of boating saftey... we lose alot of people in Australia.. we have a costline all the way around.. and deep sea not far beyond, (we are after all the worlds largest island.)<br /><br />The CG at our perth quay.. stop any small boat they don't recognise heading out to sea and check them for saftey gear etc.. to many people try to go to rottnest island in jetski's and small dingys with no idea and no safty gear..<br /><br />the unthinkable happend recently when a family decided to try the 5-10mile crossing to rottnest in what looked to be a 17foot aluminium dingy.. (it was hard to tell from the photo I saw of what was left)<br /><br />They found the wife and kids, then they found the boat.. it looked like a beer can that had been bashed by a team of men with hammers. then they found the father.. he was dead.<br /><br />He apparently had engine troubles and ran into some rocky outcroppings about 2 miles from the island.. <br /><br />They were very lucky that the wife and kids survived...<br /><br />The boat was amazingly mangled.. it had bashed repeatadly against the rocks in a strong swell, it would have been a death sentence to have stayed on it in those conditions.. (ditto if you were not on it I guess)<br /><br />Our local rescue services are kept very busy rescueing around here.. we have alot of stupid and uninformed boaters around..<br /><br />In fact recentlty our navy has had to rescue a few international recreational sailers trying to break records and had problems in our waters...<br /><br />And us tax payers end of paying for it.. there was one guy they had to rescue twice.. he decided to try for the record again and got in trouble yet again.. and still he wasn't asked to pay... it sucks. he was not an Australian, had never paid taxes here, wasn't working here, just wanted to sail through our waters.. got stuck in life threatning situations twice. both times several thousand km from help.. and twice they rescue him and he gets no charge.. thats nuts, its like encouraging these "heros" it must have cost many many thousands to send the huge navy rig out after that guy (not to mention risking lives)... (huge seas at the time and smaller rigs not available or not practical)<br />If they insist on doing this.. then they should at least bother to check weather situation.. we have a huge area of water in Australian juristriction and the swells can get mindblowingly huge.. also far south the waters are very very cold, we are not that far form antartica.<br /><br />Strangely enough, in these international rescues.. the guy rescued has been english in the majority of cases.<br /><br />The other problem we have are the "boat people" they get sent here in very unsafe boats crammed to the brim with refugee's and they get in trouble (the last one sank long before getting here). when they get here, they spend months in confinment while they are processed and complain and riot the whole time,, release us they say.. many are from IRAQ and Afganistan.. and all the "human rights" people protest that we should release them all into society ASAP..<br /><br />They will keep protesting until one of them flys a plane onto the Sydney harbour bridge or something, then they will ask why our government didn't stop them coming into the country in the first place.. its nuts...<br /><br />They want the impossible, then complain when they don't get it..<br /><br />Incidently, after 9/11 we found that we had several arabs taking flight classes that had bugus identities.. and they were taking courses relating to 737's.... thats sus enough for me to be worried.. what about you???<br /><br />Everyone thinks our government made bad calls with the Tampa refugee crisis.. but I stand behind them, (except to say it could have been handled more diplomatically) the problem is. we found them safe haven.. they didn't want it.. they refused it... they wanted Australian or nothing.. thats not a sign of a true refugee.. who would have taken anything better over what they had previously. we offered them accomidation on a island close by, which we funded.. it was new and just as good as their accomidation would have been in a detention center over here.. but they didn't want it.. they wanted to be released into Australian society..<br /><br />If they were escaping persecution in their homeland, and had to escape, well fair enough.. we have to help them, and they should accept what help is there for them.. (we very rairly turn boats around and send them packing and never if they are sinking or in distress) once they are in Australian waters. but they should not expect to be immediatly granted asylum in the country of their choosing.. If we completely open our doors to them all, we'd have 100 times the number of boats that come over here now...<br />and not many of them are equiped to be productive members of society here.. and as a resuld would be additional huge burden on our social services....<br /><br />Don't get me wrong.. I am not saying we should not help them,, I am saying they have no right to be picky about where they are put up... we don't put them anywhere there lives are in danger..and they have comfortable living in our camps while being processed... but we can't release them to general public until it is assured they are not a danger and even then, they should have to wait their turn.. catching an illegal boat to australia should not "fast track" them to refugee status,, if it did.. the low lifes making money by cramming them into boats and sending them here would be making alot more money from it.<br /><br />anyway, thats my rant for the month.. sorry for putting you though that.. but it made me feel better for what its worth.. <br /><br />regards<br /><br />Frank<br /><br />PS, excuse my ranting, I've had a bad week. <br /><br />regards<br /><br />frank <br /><br />You want to talk racist.. how bout this.. in an effort to increase australia's percieved "freindlyness" with Indeginious Australians (read Aborigines) they get better educationional options, they get better social services treatment.. better healthcare in many cases and they can get specific loans subsidised by the government so that they can get a car, make one payment on it, and keep it.. <br /><br />There have been many cases of them buying a new landcruizer with this scheme, driving it till it runs out of fuel in the middle of nowhere and just dumping it.. hows that for pathetic?<br />And its all to appeas the bleeding hearts about stuff that was done by "our" people in the past.. (over 200 years ago in the past) I don't think I should have to pay for mistakes that I didn't make.. I am not responsible for my (or anyone elses) ancestors.<br />(I will accept aguements to the affect that I may be responsible for my offspring, but not my ancestors)<br /><br />What these posts are about is not racism.. they are about legal immigration.. we in Australia accept over 250,000 legal immigrants each year,, <br />and that amount grows all the time.<br /><br />Why should we accept unemployable people? if a business employed people unable to do their assigned tasks, that business would die pretty fast, a country is essentially a very big business.. and things will not get better till people realise that..<br /><br />Sympathy only goes so far. taking unlimited illegal immigrants is not a solution, its fixing a symptom..its not curing the disease..<br /><br />Curing the disease, may involve some violence back where the refugee's came from.. and the bleeding hearts don't like that either..<br /><br />all dictatorships/military rule should be forced to become democracies.. simple as that.. there is no other way.<br /><br />then we could go about making sustainable changes to those countries so they can support their own populations. sending foregn aid to non decocratic countries is also a patch designed to help us feel better about ourselves since it doesn't fix the problem, it just helps abit with some symptons.. if a countries cash is being syphoned by a dictator, then no amount of freebie food drops is going to fix anything.<br /><br />This is all about freedom.. <br /><br />In my country I have the right to:<br />1. have my own religion.<br />2. Visit tall buildings without fear of people landing planes in them.<br />3. equal fair and considerate judgements with all other race/creed/religions in our population.<br /><br />My father was german (now australian citizen), and he came over here as a legal immigrant well over 30 years ago.. he took the correct route to get here.. thats to be congratulated.. not condemned. all I was saying before that if being a "boat person" becomes a shortcut into a coutry as a refuge.. then don't you think they will all start doing it?<br /><br />What most people overseas seem to think about Australia is that its an underpopulated tropical paradise.. its true that Australia is big,, I think its about 5000km wide.. and its true that we have low population density, (I think its 2.2 people per square kilometer) but what they don't realise is that the vast majority of Australia is mostly uninhabitable desert, and that all our major population centers are around the coastline. we don't have the infastructure to support thousands and thousands of non self sustaining refugee's bleeding hearts or not, we can't sustain it.. simple as that. its not a sympathy issue, its a straight out ecconomic issue. our little effort in the war against terrorism helping you yanks has damaged our yearly buget by a pretty serious margin, and the ongoing yearly effort is going to do alot more damage over the next 10 years.. <br /><br />If we spend all our money on defense and refugees we will go back to the "banana republic" most of the world thought we were 10 or 15 years ago.<br /><br />Most people get caught up in tangents, like sympathy/empathy and emotional reaction.<br /><br />You are 15, people will tell you what to think.. do not listen. make your own mind up, more often then not, the people who are preaching the emotional reaction route have no idea how they would manage things better if they were in charge.<br /><br />keep an open mind and open eyes. you'll see for yourself after awhile, and then you will be someone who has seen/experianced things for yourself.. that thats a great feeling.<br /><br />I am not some hick from country Australian, I have lived in all our states, new zealand, and europe.. and I have been on visits to asia and others, so I am a well travelled hick from Australia , so I have a wide angled, non emotional logical viewpoint of alot of this stuff.. something that annoys the he!! out of alot of the emotional preaching "bleeding" hearts.<br /><br />I really need to practise shorter posting <br /><br />rgds<br /><br />Frank
