Punch on: Open thread 23/10/09

John A Neve says:

06:35am | 23/10/09

This story shows the marked difference between the people of Hungary and the current “asylum seekers”.
The one group did something about those that oppressed them, the others cut and ran.
Freedom is something worth fighting for, mankind has done it over the years. So what’s changed? Don’t we care any more, or is it all too hard.

Joel B1 says:

07:37am | 23/10/09

Just a quick note to Michael Moore re “Capitalism: A Love Story”.

Don’t worry Michael, I’ll be torrenting it (that’s file-sharing for you noobs) down as soon as it’s cam-ed.

Peter says:

08:34am | 23/10/09

Never forget.

Piccolo says:

09:48am | 23/10/09

Living in in our pygmy-corrupted state and cultivating our fetishes about refugee’s feet touching our soil. it is timely to remember the Hungarian uprising of 1956 when the west encouraged and did nothing.

Hannah Arendt wrote that the Hungarian people knew that they were “living amidst lies”. They had the courage to act even in an impossible hope. 

It is also worth while that there were many Hungarians who saw personal advantage in working with the oppressors. Australia gained in the Hungarians who found asylum here.

To visit Budapest is to see the potentialities for greatness and mundane evil in ordinary people.

Australia gained from 1956

Eric says:

10:12am | 23/10/09

Piccolo, I don’t think any of those Hungarian refugees arrived in boats against our wishes, after passing through several safe countries. I doubt they blew themselves up while petulantly demanding admission.

I suspect they went through the normal channels like many hundreds of thousands before and after.

That is the difference between genuine refugees who benefit our nation, and parasites who only seek to take advantage.

Simmo says:

11:03am | 23/10/09

Still no action on my proposed 3 day weekend from last Firday Lucy, what kind of investigative journalist are you?????

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