THE LAND OF OZ

Brisbane, Australia.  I’m making a pit stop here on my way from Nauru back to the US.  Oz – Aussies pronounce their country’s name Oz-trial-yah, as they don’t speak English but a funny language called Strine that occasionally sounds like English – is the place to follow up on the insanity of The Island of Fubar.

Besides, I can’t resist having written a TTP column for you in all seven continents this year. Africa and South America in March, Antarctica in April, Europe in August, Asia in September, all those in the US (North America), and this one in Australia now.

So let’s talk about Oz, and how the Aussies are facing their version of a lethal threat that can destroy America.  Like the US, it is a wealthy First World country with a long difficult-to-defend (albeit maritime) border with a large, poor, and corrupt Third World country:

Australia is the 12^th richest country in the world and the 6^th largest in size (after Russia, Canada, the US, China, and Brazil).  But it only has 23 million in population.  There are more people in Yemen or Ghana than all of Oz. 

Right next door, however, hanging above it like a Sword of Demographic Damocles, is the 4^th most populous place on earth (behind only China, India, and the US), Indonesia with ten times those of Oz, 238 million.

Imagine Mexico with twice as many Mexicans (of whom there are now 118 million, including the 20 million illegally in the US).

With a threat like that literally hanging over your head, you tread lightly and warily.  Which is what Canberra (Oz’s capital) does with Jakarta (Indonesia’s). 

Australia is one of the least corrupt countries in the world, ranking #7 on the Transparency International Corruption Index, while Indonesia is one of the most, ranking #118 (the US is #19).  Jakarta thus uses the threat of unleashing a tsunami of its own desperately poor to flood Oz’s shores to allow its officials to make a lot of bribery money running a massive human trafficking scam.

People from mostly Moslem countries – Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon – and others such as Tamils from Sri Lanka, arrive by plane in Jakarta with thousands of dollars in the their pockets.  They then bribe Indonesian immigration officials and military officers who arrange for some rickety barely-afloat boat to smuggle them to one of Oz’s islands like Christmas or Ashmore & Cartier (see map).

If they make it to Australian land, they then claim they are "refugees" seeking "asylum" from "persecution" in their homeland, and must be fed, housed, clothed, be given medical care, and taken in by the Australian state with all its welfare programs.  Every social worker and weepy libtard in Oz cheers them on, demands they be taken in, and rages at the slightest attempt by Canberra to stop the scam.

Thus until recently, under the Loonie-Leftie Labor government of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, the policy of Oz’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship on illegal boat arrivals was "pro-refugee, nothing’s too good for them, cost is no object and hands-off."

You might ask at this point what this has to do with Nauru.  Well, Rudd and Gillard knew there’d be a giant backlash if the poor oppressed asylum-seeker darlings were coddled on the Oz continent itself, so they subsidized Nauru to do it.  They paid the Nauru government $1,000 per refugee per month (at just under an average of 1,000 refugees, that’s a cool million a month for a country of 9,000 people).

But the cost of housing all the social workers and care takers – over 2,000, more than twice the number of the "asylum-seekers" – is many times that.  There’s only one real hotel on Nauru – the Menem Hotel – but you can’t ever get a room as they’re all taken in perpetuity by the social workers.  In fact, there are all these pre-fab dormitories for them on the Menem property and being installed around the island:

With the government’s constant power failures, though, the social workers have been going without electricity, showers, or flush toilets.

Note the linked story reveals that the darling asylum-seekers haven’t, as they have their own generators.  They are housed in tent cities in the island’s center or Topside.  You’re not allowed up there but I snuck in anyway and took this pic:

The Oz government has been spending tens of millions to coddle and "process" the boatpeople asylum-seekers in Nauru – but not for much longer.

On September 7^th, Australians regained their sanity and moral courage to elect Tony Abbott as their Prime Minister.  On September 18^th, he was sworn in (the Aussies don’t waste time like we do with our ridiculous 2½ month transition) – and on that very day, his very first action was to launch Operation Sovereign Borders, conducted by the Australian military to "stop boats carrying asylum-seekers" from entering Aussie waters.

In little more than a month later, by the end of October, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison reported boat smuggling had dropped 70%. Further, a couple of weeks before I got to Nauru, Morrison was there and gave a speech to the boatpeople.  Everyone on the island was talking about it and they all, Nauruans and Oz social workers, were seriously rattled.

Morrison told the boatpeople they had been ripped off by corrupt Indonesian officials (as a diplomat he didn’t identify them as that, simply calling them "people smugglers"), and they had two choices – stay in the tented wasteland of Nauru’s Topside or be taken back to where they came from.  There was no way – fuhgeddaboudit – they were going to go to Australia.

He told them in no uncertain terms – get this message to your friends, family, and relatives:  forget about following you to Australia, forget about even trying.  You are not going to get in and neither will they.  Period.

The Australian people are backing the policy to the hilt – except of course for the Loonie Libtard Left – especially since, for all the coddling and welfare provided the "refugees," in July they rioted, destroying almost all of the detention center’s buildings including the medical facilities, causing 60 million dollars of damage.

That’s right, the crazy Aussie libtards spent $60 million on a "refugee" detention center on Nauru – and the refugees burnt it down.  No wonder normal Aussies love their new hardline Prime Minister. And they are quite pleased that would-be asylum-seekers are today languishing in Indonesia.

It’s pretty easy to see how this applies to us.  In spades.  There is no more serious, dangerous, mortal threat to America than Amnesty for Illegals.  The Forces of Darkness, including the CEO’s of many of the country’s largest companies, are spending millions to get this passed. 

20 million illegals with no allegiance to America or its culture, who as voting citizens will permanently keep the Democrats in control of our national government, is simply the end of America in any recognizable form.  Whatever it takes to stop this, the Tea Partyers and Patriots had better do it.  This is live or die.

Oz may be Australia’s nickname, but as a place of off-the-wall can’t-make-it-up la-la masochistic weirdness, the real Land of Oz is today’s America.  The Amnesty attempt to force America to commit suicide is the end of the line.

But… if it is stopped, then we have a chance to get our own Tony Abbott in 2016.  I think that’s a guy named Cruz.  America can regain its senses.  Australia has, and so can we.