Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Refugee Resettlement Watch - Ann Corcoran - National Review - Daniel Pipes: Sweden opting for suicide by immigration? - "Stating that there exists a Swedish culture worth preserving meets with puzzlement. And yet, the realities of immigration are apparent for all to see: welfare dependency, violent bigotry against Christians and Jews, and a wide range of social pathologies from unemployment to politically motivated rape." [Ironically several years ago when some editors at National Review started sounding the alarm on this, they were all fired or demoted. --tma]

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Daniel Pipes: Sweden opting for suicide by immigration?

That’s a good way of asking what our reporting for years seems to be leading to for Sweden.  Yesterday Daniel Pipes writing at National Review Online reports on how close the Swedes are to committing cultural suicide.
NRO:
Woe to anyone in Sweden who dissents from the orthodox view that welcoming large numbers of indigent peoples from such countries as Iraq, Syria, and Somalia is anything but a fine and noble idea. Even to argue that permitting about 1 percent of the existing population to emigrate annually from an alien civilization renders one politically, socially, and even legally beyond the pale. (I know a journalist threatened with arrest for mild dissent on this issue.) Stating that there exists a Swedish culture worth preserving meets with puzzlement.

Daniel Pipes: Before too long, the supreme issue of national suicide might actually be discussed. Photo: http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/pipes_daniel
And yet, the realities of immigration are apparent for all to see: welfare dependency, violent bigotry against Christians and Jews, and a wide range of social pathologies from unemployment to politically motivated rape. Accordingly, ever-increasing numbers of Swedes find themselves — despite known hazards — opting out of the consensus and worrying about their country’s cultural suicide.
Efforts by the immigration restrictionists—Sweden Democrats—to debate immigration are being squashed from both the political left and the so-called political right.  I say woe to those countries without freedom of speech (no matter how unpopular the words are) because it leaves no place else to go but toward civil unrest and ultimately violence.
Maybe we should thank Sweden for helping the rest of us see and understand the lesson.

Sun Sentinel: Witness who filmed Delray melee describes chaotic scene [Until Whites and Blacks live in separate polities, Africans in America need to be left increasingly to their own law enforcement devices, which will probably devolve into some sort of Papa Doc-like strongman. --tma]


Witness who filmed Delray melee describes chaotic scene

Police stop turned into melee in Delray Beach, officers say

Witness to a melee that broke out in Delray Beach on Saturday said the situation became heated when police officers approached a birthday party at a house in the Southwest neighborhood.

It lead to a 50-plus person melee that included a group of people forming a human shield to keep officers from a man who police wanted to detain. ...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/delray-beach/fl-delray-melee-follo-20141231-story.html

Fox News: Target’s ‘Annie’ ads stir up controversy [End of Year Race Grudge Update: Now every 'Annie' MUST be Black. --tma]


Target’s ‘Annie’ ads stir up controversy

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Target is fighting back after being criticized for “Annie”-themed clothing ads showing a white model as Annie, as opposed to an African-American model, or Quvenzhané Wallis, the actress who plays the character in the holiday remake.
LaSean Rinique told Yahoo she launched a Change.org petition after her daughter, an “Annie” fan, noticed that a girl in the ads sporting Annie’s signature red dress and locket was white, unlike Wallis, who appears alongside Jamie Foxx in the movie remake.
“She saw the ad and said to me, ‘That’s not what Annie looks like. How come the new black Annie isn’t good enough? Does that mean I’m not good enough?’” Rinique told Yahoo.
But Target told FOX411 in a statement that at least one African-American model was featured in their "Annie" campaign.
"Girls from a variety of backgrounds were featured within the campaign, reflecting that anyone can embody the spirit and character of Annie," a store rep stated and supplied a photo showing one of the models is African-American.
In her petition, Rinique demanded Target remove the ads and issue an apology to Wallis. ...

AFP / Yahoo News: Israel hails highest [Jewish] immigration figures in a decade [The irony is so thick you could slice it with a knife and serve it up with lox, bagels and cream cheese. No doubt one factor must be the Muslim invasion of the West, due to the open-borders polices that Jewish communities were integral in achieving. Now Jews can escape to Israel, there being no such happy sanctuary for White Gentiles, by design. --tma]


Israel hails highest immigration figures in a decade



Jerusalem (AFP) - The number of Jews moving to Israel leapt in 2014 to its highest figure in a decade, with western Europe leading the way, the immigration ministry said Wednesday.
Immigration hit a 10-year high, with the arrival of some 26,500 new residents, according to a joint statement with the Jewish Agency, a quasi-governmental organisation tasked with encouraging Jews to move to Israel.
This marks a significant 32 percent increase over last year's approximately 20,000 immigrants, the statement said.
This "was a year of record-breaking aliyah," Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky said, using the Hebrew word for immigration to Israel.
It "also saw a historic shift: for the first time in Israel's history, the number of immigrants who came to Israel from the free world is greater than that of immigrants fleeing countries in distress."
For the first time ever, France provided the biggest number, as more than 6,600 Jews moved to Israel. That was nearly twice the 3,400 who arrived in 2013. ...

BattleCreek Enquirer - Letter: Resettling Syrian refugees brings our ruin [Good point. Is it consistent with states rights under our Constitution for the national government to be dropping, seemingly out of the sky, countless thousands of refugees, chosen at the whim of the UN, into our various hapless states, cities and towns? --tma]


[Hat tip Ann Corcoran.]

Letter: Resettling Syrian refugees brings our ruin

APTOPIX Mideast Lebanon Syrian Refugees

On Dec. 9, the State Department website reported the United State plans to lead in resettling Syrian refugees. "We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner Refugees) referrals from Syria. We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond."

They are to be put on a fast track to citizenship and able to get their families here under The Refugee Act of 1980, signed into law by President Jimmy Carter. The cost is $2 billion per year and could cost $10 billion per year. Why hasn't the news media disclosed these facts?

President Theodore Roosevelt said, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."

Oklahoma, Texas, Montana and Utah each passed laws declaring their states sovereign and not under the federal government directives. We the people should remind our state legislators of our rights given to us by the 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

Patricia Cavanagh

Coldwater

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/opinion/readers/2014/12/30/resettling-syrian-refugees-brings-ruin/21063163/

Reuters / Yahoo News: Welcome refugees and reject racism, Merkel says after rallies - "anti-Muslim protesters, calling them racists full of hatred" [One silver lining to all this is that the Open-Borders Overlords of the West, who surely must know they are demographically erasing their own people, are becoming increasingly cornered and frightened, letting their masks slip, revealing their very sharp teeth. --tma]


Welcome refugees and reject racism, Merkel says after rallies



BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to turn their backs on a growing grass-roots movement of anti-Muslim protesters, calling them racists full of hatred, and said Europe's biggest economy must welcome people fleeing conflict and war. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/welcome-refugees-reject-racism-merkel-says-rallies-091152601--business.html

Refugee Resettlement Watch - Ann Corcoran - Syrians in Cyprus: How These People Operate! - 'Members of the group complained that they expected to stay in hotels in Cyprus – not tents.' [Not too long ago someone could have written this as a satire and people would have said, 'No, it is too outlandish!' Except you would never read such a satire because almost all satirists are on the Left. --tma]


Syrians in Cyprus: How These People Operate!



Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Cyprus say that they are “at a breaking point”.  You might remember hearing about them.  In September, 337 of them were headed – illegally – to Italy when their boat broke down.  The passengers described their ordeal, “We spent days at sea with no food and no water. There were so many people on the boat. We called it the journey of death.”
You would think that they would be grateful for being rescued.  They weren’t.  A passing cruise liner rescued them and took them to the nearest port, in Cyprus.  That’s when the group from Syria threw their first hissy fit.  They refused to get off the ship and demanded that the crew take them to Italy.  It did not matter that there were hundreds of paying passengers on the ship who had to get to their destinations.  They would not relent – until an elite group of Cypriot riot police arrived in force.
Since then the group have been enlightening the public about their financial dealings.  Some paid as much as $8,000 (6,400 euros) each for their first illegal boat rides.  Others, including children, paid $6,000 (4,900 euros).  You would think that perhaps they might have figured out that paying a lot of money to a lawbreaking smuggler is not a good idea.  But about two weeks ago, several from the group gave one of their own around $5,000 (4,000 euros) each after he promised he could get them off Cyprus and into mainland Europe. They had collected the sums from their apparently well-off relatives in Syria and Europe.  The would-be smuggler, however, disappeared along with the money. [I wonder which European country he went to?]
The group – who are staying in tents at a former military camp – are not happy campers.  One member of the group hung himself recently.  Only about 20 agreed to remain in Cyprus.  The rest are still holding out for Europe.
The other day, the group organized a demonstration with signs written in English.  One sign, “We want to live in safe country”.  Another sign goes further “We want the freedom of choose the country in which we want to live”.  (Ah, they must be Soros’ “globalists”!)  One protester complained that they cannot afford the fees to apply for residency in Cyprus.  That’s 70 euros or $85 – small change compared to $8,000 and perhaps an additional $5,000 apiece that these people paid before.  Why don’t they call their relatives again?
Members of the group complained that they expected to stay in hotels in Cyprus – not tents.  ...

AP / Yahoo News: South African church to evict hundreds of refugees - "help those new to the city integrate into an unforgiving urban environment." [And here I thought South Africa was going to become this wonderful ever more prosperous vibrant Rainbow Nation of love and 'reconciliation,' at least as promised to Whites who voted themselves out of power, with a lot of clueless, and not so clueless, international pressure.]


South African church to evict hundreds of refugees

Children look through a glass door inside the dilapidated Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014. The church has...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The New Year brings an uncertain future for more than 500 people who are being evicted from the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg, which has been a haven for refugees and homeless for the past 14 years.
Messages of thanks and praise are scrawled onto the church's walls, tributes to Bishop Paul Verryn who opened the house of worship to the needy.
In one of Johannesburg's grittiest blocks, the Methodist church offered shelter to those who fled neighboring Zimbabwe and other troubled African countries, as well as South Africa's own homeless. Verryn believes the church has the responsibility to be more than a place of worship and to help those new to the city integrate into an unforgiving urban environment.
Verryn's policy was controversial as the church became a teeming dormitory. ...

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Breitbart News (including video): Black Teen Girls Riot in Pittsburgh Monroeville Mall, Force Closure [So I guess teenage girls going wild by keeping their parents up all night having to overhear giggling slumber parties is now considered passe. --tma]


Black Teen Girls Riot in Pittsburgh Mall, Force Closure

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In a brawl apparently instigated using social media, a thousand or more young teen black girls descended on Monroeville Mall outside Pittsburgh Friday night, resulting in the mall being closed as a massive brawl broke out. An investigation is ongoing, including via social media, although no arrests were reportedly made at the time.
Many of the teens used their phones to capture video of the events and that too is now making the rounds via social media. ...

AP / Yahoo News: Rick Perry: Jobs juggernaut meets 'Governor Oops' [Especially because of his cowboy persona and his representing a 'Red State' (until it too is demographically buried), the MSM will be laying for Perry, who so far has perfectly exemplified 'All hat. No cattle.' --tma]


Rick Perry: Jobs juggernaut meets 'Governor Oops'

In this photo taken Dec. 9, 2014, Texas Gov. Rick Perry answers questions during an interview at the historic Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry would like to run for president in 2016 as a proven job-creator who modeled Texas' strong economy in his own political gunslinger image and says he can do the same for the rest of the country.
To do it, he'll have to convince voters to forget about "Oops."
It's the moment when Perry, in the midst of a 2011 presidential debate, was unable to recall the third of three federal agencies he'd promised to shutter, finally muttering "oops." Asked about it in a recent interview with The Associated Press, Perry said, "That's like going back and asking a football player who dropped a pass to win the Super Bowl, 'Did that bother you?' "
As he looks at running a second time for president, Perry, 64, is banking on his record as governor of Texas to move past "oops." It's a strategy that didn't connect in the last campaign, when the governor's jobs record was drowned out by that moment and other gaffes, said Ray Sullivan, a former Perry chief of staff and spokesman for his 2012 campaign. ...

Allen West: Quite possibly the most racist article you will ever read


Quite possibly the most racist article you will ever read



Every now and then you come across an article that folks just need to read. This one written by Michael Smith entitled, “Confessions of a Public Defender” and originally posted at American Renaissance on May 9, 2014 is one of those articles.

It is a profound and deeply disturbing piece, which, as we end 2014, we all need to comprehend as we move towards the 50th anniversary of the Great Society initiatives of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Smith articulates that which ails the black community — the real discussion we should be having on race, not that of victimhood and the further expansion of the welfare nanny-state.

He begins by saying, “I am a public defender in a large southern metropolitan area. Fewer than ten percent of the people in the area I serve are black but over 90 per cent of my clients are black. The remaining ten percent are mainly Hispanics but there are a few whites.” ...

http://allenbwest.com/2014/12/quite-possibly-racist-article-will-ever-read/

Full article:

http://www.amren.com/features/2014/05/confessions-of-a-public-defender/

New York Post: Arrests plummet 66% with NYPD in virtual work stoppage - " traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops" [Hard to see how anyone will be able "to close the widening rift between cops and the administration," since it is not a matter of a misunderstanding, but a natural outgrowth of the hard-left virulently anti-White views of people like de Blasio, Holder and Obama. Such views can have deadly consequences. --tma]


Arrests plummet 66% with NYPD in virtual work stoppage

Arrests plummet 66% with NYPD in virtual work stoppage

It’s not a slowdown — it’s a virtual work stoppage.
NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as officers feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety, The Post has learned.
The dramatic drop comes as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio plan to hold an emergency summit on Tuesday with the heads of the five police unions to try to close the widening rift between cops and the administration.
The unprecedented meeting is being held at the new Police Academy in Queens at 2 p.m., sources said.
Angry union leaders have ordered drastic measures for their members since the Dec. 20 assassination of two NYPD cops in a patrol car, including that two units respond to every call.
It has helped contribute to a nose dive in low-level policing, with overall arrests down 66 percent for the week starting Dec. 22 compared with the same period in 2013, stats show. ...

New York Daily News: Accused terrorist told comrade suicide bombings against civilians were a 'forgivable sin' like masturbation: feds [Swedish Somali terrorists on trial in Brooklyn. Isn't diversity GRAND?! It's our 'strength,' don't ya know? --tma]


Accused terrorist told comrade suicide bombings against civilians were a 'forgivable sin' like masturbation: feds

Terror suspects Madhi Hashi (pictured), Ali Yasin Ahmed and Mohammed Yusuf are charged with providing support to militant group al-Shabaab.

Ali Yasin Ahmed faces trial in Brooklyn Federal Court, where he is charged with co-defendants Madhi Hashi and Mohammed Yusuf with providing material support to the Somalia-based militant group al-Shabaab, which has merged with al Qaeda. ...

Yahoo News: The Guy Fawkes mask popping up in protests around the world [Seems to be an attempt to appear stylish, dramatic and highly photogenic while protesting any government policy, action or regime, or sometimes just to wear an eye-catching costume. --tma]


The mask popping up in protests around the world

The mask popping up in protests around the world

2014 was a year of protest. People all around the world flooded the streets to protest police brutality, crime rates, inflation and shortages of basic goods. An image that connects these disparate demonstrations is the ubiquitous Guy Fawkes mask. Fawkes was best-known as a conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up the House of Lords in London in 1605. Fawkes was hanged for high treason. 

The mask gained popularity after the 2005 movie "V for Vendetta." Now the mask is a symbol of change by demonstrators. Let's take a look back at some of these demonstrations and where the Guy Fawkes mask was worn. (Yahoo News)


Photos ...

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/the-mask-popping-up-in-protests-around-the-world-1418677104-slideshow/


Refugee Resettlement Watch - Ann Corcoran: Another mosque fire in Sweden—the land that hands out welfare goodies and loves diversity [Maybe this will make the Left happy, since for decades they have been predicting that Whites are going to go berserk with 'hate.' If ordinary people of European heritage are forced by their Open-Borders Overlords to fight, it won't be primarily out of hatred for our invaders, and it will be something that our hostile ruling elites will regret having wished for.]


Another mosque fire in Sweden—the land that hands out welfare goodies and loves diversity

We reported on a previous arson fire involving a Swedish mosque, here a few days ago.  I do hope we learn who is ultimately responsible because I have become so cynical that I think there is a chance that either other Muslims with grudges (Muslims like using fire for revenge!) are responsible, or that the fires are intentional to enhance the victim status of Muslims in Western countries for propaganda purposes.
If it turns out to be local Swedes striking the matches because of anger over immigration policy, then civil war is closer than I thought.
The latest mosque experiencing an arson attack is located in Eslöv, in the south of Sweden where diversity is blooming according to this informative websitewhich proudly declares:
Apart from Swedish, some of the major languages are: Albanian, Arabic, Bosnia, Croatian, Serbian, Dari, English, Sorani, Kurmanji, Persian, Somali, Thai and Tigrinya.
From The Local (hat tip: ‘Pungentpeppers’):
UPDATED: Police suspect a mosque in southern Sweden was deliberately torched on Monday, with a local imam blaming rising Islamophobia in the region.

Imam Samir Muric fears for his safety. But, if you were so afraid would you allow a news outlet to take and publish your photo?
Emergency services were called to the mosque in Eslöv, a small city in the south of the country, at around 3.15am on Monday.
It is understood that the blaze began after flammable liquid caught fire in one of the rooms in the building.
Firefighters quickly arrived at the scene and were able to prevent the fire spreading, although the flames still caused minor damage to the building. Firefighters suspect foul play.
“There is no possible natural explanation for this type of fire to break out by itself”, fire department spokesman Gustaf Sandell told Sveriges Radio.
Samir Muric, the local imam, said he was worried for his own safety. [What is Muric’s ethnicity? Sunni? Shia? Maybe this is an Islam on Islam crime? Why is that information never reported?—ed]
“Unfortunately, this is probably something to do with Islamophobia. I live close by and it’s beginning to feel unsafe,” he told the TT news agency.

You have to laugh because the Leftists in the media immediately link the arson story to the rise of the political right in Sweden:

Mosques in Sweden have been subject to growing numbers of attacks in recent months. ...

Refugee Resettlement Watch - Ann Corcoran What is going on with the UNHCR in Malaysia, and why are we taking all these “refugees?” [Apparently our Open-Borders Overlords now consider every nation in the world near the friendly shores of the American Empire: 'Swim on over, the lavish taxpayer social programs are just fine!' --tma]


What is going on with the UNHCR in Malaysia, and why are we taking all these “refugees?”



Apparently our Open-Borders Overlords now consider every nation in the world near the friendly shores of the American Empire: 'Swim on over, the lavish taxpayer social programs are just fine!' --tma

I wish I knew who we were processing into America from Malaysia.  As I told readers here recently we have already “welcomed” to America, 1,504 “refugees” from the safe Muslim country in only the first two months of the fiscal year.
Why is it in our national interest to relieve Malaysia of some of its asylum seekers/illegal migrants? ...

AP / Yahoo News: House GOP leader once addressed white supremacists [Don't have much sympathy for the Stupid Cowardly Party, but I always get a kick out of the Mainstream Media quoting the SPLC as if it is the final word on this subject, as if it were the National Science Foundation of Hate Sociology, when the SPLC even goes after "hate groups" like hapless people in small town churches who are simply conservative enough not to embrace things like gay marriage. --tma]





The SPLC is always publishing maps of hate groups that are always "on the rise ... rise ... rise"--I tell you--RUN! --tma


House GOP leader once addressed white supremacists

As Republicans struggle to attract more votes from minorities heading into the 2016 presidential election, a House GOP leader has acknowledged that he once addressed a gathering of white supremacists, though his office denies any association with the group's social views.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the chamber's third-ranking Republican, served in the Louisiana Legislature when he appeared in 2002 at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke founded the group, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified as a hate group. ...

Monday, December 29, 2014

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Protester Joshua Williams who advocates peace charged with setting fire at Berkeley QT [Reminds me of a sign someone put up in Berkeley, California during the first Bush administration: "Get Quayle First!" Just a joke? Sure, to emphasize Quayle's seeming Bambi-like unimportance, but it still somehow illustrates how the Left, the Peace and Tolerance Police, can easily slip back and forth between supporting and condemning violence, depending on the target. --tma]


Protester who advocates peace charged with setting fire at Berkeley QT



Joshua Williams (left center) and Nicholas Austin Jackson shout at St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson (left) as he tries to give a presentation during the second meeting of the Ferguson Commission 


One of the most frequently quoted and photographed Ferguson protesters was charged Saturday with setting fire to a Berkeley convenience store last week.
St. Louis County police arrested Joshua Williams, 19, of St. Louis, on Friday after several local media outlets and store surveillance captured images of him trying to set a pile of wood on fire outside the QuikTrip on North Hanley Road early Wednesday.
Williams confessed to setting fires at the store in a videotaped interview, according to court documents. ...
The Post-Dispatch, Bloomberg, USA Today and the Associated Press have quoted and photographed Williams. On Oct. 13, he was photographed walking arm-in-arm with author and activist Cornel West toward the St. Louis University campus where protesters staged a sit-in. ...
An MSNBC profile of Williams in September quoted him as saying, “We have to come together as one and show them we can be peaceful, that we can do this. ...

News York Post: Wary NYPD cops letting minor crimes slide - “I’m concerned about my safety,” the cop added. “I want to go to home to my wife and kids.” [Who can blame them? They are domestic police caught as sitting ducks in a one-sided race war, with one hand tied behind their backs, with a mayor and the Mainstream Media fighting on the other side, with the war itself being papered over and re-framed at every turn so that many Whites will not recognize it is taking place. --tma]


Wary NYPD cops letting minor crimes slide

Wary NYPD cops letting minor crimes slide

With cops on edge following the assassination of two patrol officers on a Brooklyn street, many officers have started turning a blind eye to some minor crimes, sources told The Post, while a union mandate that two patrol cars respond to all police calls has led to slower response times to non-emergencies.
“I’m not writing any summonses. Do you think I’m going to stand there so someone can shoot me or hit me in the head with an ax?” One cop said Sunday, referring to the Dec. 20 slayings and another recent attack on the NYPD.
“I’m concerned about my safety,” the cop added. “I want to go to home to my wife and kids.” ...

Refugee Resettlement Watch - Ann Corcoran: Indonesia wants to put Muslim asylum seekers on an island; blasts Australia for lack of welcome - "Hang tough Australia!"


Indonesia wants to put Muslim asylum seekers on an island; blasts Australia for lack of welcome


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This is actually pretty funny!  Indonesia, a Muslim country, has long served as a transit route for the Middle Eastern and African illegal aliens (boat people) wanting to get into Australia, but Australia has been attempting to stop the illegal migration and is now guarding its borders.  Consequently, the pile-up of “asylum seekers” in Indonesia has become a problem.

Here is a thought—let Indonesia give refuge to fellow Muslims.


Australian Immigration Minister, Scott Morrison: We are taking the “sugar off the table!” Where is America’s Scott Morrison?
From the Global Post (emphasis is mine):
 JAKARTA — Senior Indonesian officials say they are looking for an island to accommodate some 10,000 asylum seekers and refugees waiting for resettlement in the country, as they have become a “burden.”
Asylum seekers flock to Indonesia from the Middle East, Asia and Africa, hoping to reach Australia. But Indonesia’s southern neighbor has recently announced that all refugees registered at the Jakarta office of the UNHCR refugee agency from July 2014 will now automatically be banned from resettlement in Australia.
Australia’s immigration minister Scott Morrison compares the ban to “taking the sugar off the table,” and says it’s in Indonesia’s interest. “We’re trying to stop people thinking they can go to Indonesia and wait around till they get to Australia,” he told Australia’s ABC Radio late November. “This is designed to stop people flowing into Indonesia. It will help Indonesia.”
But Indonesian authorities don’t see it that way. “It’s Australia’s right, but it’s creating a burden for us,” said Indonesia’s Justice and Human Rights minister Yasonna Laoly on Australia’s ABC News. “There are 10,000 foreign citizens, which becomes a burden for us.”
Indonesia has never signed any refugee treaty with the UN!  So, why isn’t UNHCR Antonio Guterres blasting Indonesia?  Is it because it is already a Muslim country and it is Australia that should be Islamized?  (LOL! is that a word?).
As a signatory to the United Nations’ Refugee Convention, Australia is bound by international law to protect refugees. Indonesia has not signed the treaty.
[….]
Faisal, a 23-year-old Somalian who calls Australia’s policy “inhumane” and “cruel”…
[….]
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s anti-immigration “Operation Sovereign Borders” was launched shortly after he took office late 2013, and has created tensions with Jakarta. Indonesian authorities haven’t been happy with Australia towing back boats of migrants en route to Australia towards Indonesian waters.
There is more, read it all!

Hang tough Australia! ...