The boats are only illegal if Labor says so Truth.in.Footnotes replied to Mr. Jordon Wed 24 Apr 13 (11:16am) So Mr.Jordan, let's see if I understand what you're saying... You're equating people who (mostly) leave their own country of birth legally , in full possession of the requisite travel documents, and fly to second country, and then onto a third, and in some cases, a fourth, before arriving in Indonesia, and then paying people smugglers upto $10,000 to bring them into Australian waters without a visa, and who then throw away all of their personal documentation, and who subsequently demand that Australia takes them in and houses and feeds them; people who riot and smash and burn the facilities they're housed in when they don't get what they want, and who threaten to kill themselves by hunger striking, in an attempt to emotionally blackmail their way into permanent residency .... ... with people whose only other alternative to using forged documents to flee Nazi-occupied Europe was going up a concentration camp crematorium chimney as 2kg of ash? Do you have any inkling of exactly how asinine and foolish your comments are? Silly me! If you did, you wouldn't be a socialist drone, would you? Ancient Mariner replied to Mr. Jordon Wed 24 Apr 13 (11:48am) Julia Gillard, July 2010: Through their efforts to disrupt people smuggling, the Australian Federal Police, working with our regional neighbours, have prevented more than 5,000 foreign nationals coming to our shores illegally Stephen Smith, April 2010: There are different legal basis and status for those people who arrive by boat â the illegal or unlawful maritime arrivals... Yep, they break the law they are illegal. Your appeal to Nazism as a jusitifcation is quite pathetic. Mr Black replied to Mr. Jordon Wed 24 Apr 13 (12:19pm) As you pointlessly brought up yesterday, if they travelled without proper papers yes. Which is why no country would accept them. How they relate to the illegal country shoppers of today who, having "escaped from dire danger" in their home countries, then decided to leave perfectly safe havens just because Australia offers a better welfare package you will have to explain. There has yet to be a boat arrive here which originated in Iran, Iraq or Pakistan has there? That at least might have a ring of validity to it. The fact that they demand to be allowed to bring the "dangerous culture" that they are supposed to be "escaping" from with them is another indication that they were not refugees to begin with. Feel free to explain that as well.