A Dose of Sanity from the Court

Perhaps there’s hope yet that activist judges can learn from their mistakes, even if too late.

Just six months ago, the High Court’s disastrous “NZYQ” decision panicked the idiotic Albanese government into unleashing hundreds of convicted foreign rapists, paedophiles and murderers on the Australian community. Many were either not required or refused to submit to such basic safety protocols as ankle bracelets. Dozens were re-arrested within weeks, for offences ranging from attempting to contact children, sexually assaulting women, and the horrific bashing of an elderly woman in Western Australia.

Thankfully, the Court’s latest ruling on immigration detention has brought a much-needed dose of reality back.

An Iranian man has lost his bid for freedom after the highest court in the land ruled that it is lawful to detain foreign nationals who resist their deportation, in a landmark case with significant political implications.

The basic issue is that nobody but an activist deranged by their assumed moral superiority, or a boat-chasing lawyer, would be fooled for a minute by this bloke’s obviously bullshit story. Some turds you just can’t flush.

The High Court ruled on Friday that the man will remain in immigration detention after the full bench found that ASF17 “is capable of providing the assistance required to remove him and he has been found by a delegate of the Minister not to have a genuine and well- founded fear of persecution in Iran”.

The man, known as ASF17, has refused to co-operate with attempts to deport him to Iran where he claims he would face persecution for being bisexual, a Christian and a Kurd, arguing that his detention was unlawful.

It’s become a common gambit for country-shopping Mohammedans to pretend to convert to Christianity (a practise officially endorsed by Islam, as taqiyya), or to be a raging Wally Woofter, in order to get their hooks into the Western welfare states. And even The Guardian admits that ginning up fake claims of “persecution” is a booming industry in the people-smuggling trade.

Their stories are about as obvious as an Iraqi “teenager’s” receding hairline.

So obvious that even the Albanese government isn’t trying to defend it.

Lawyers for the commonwealth have also argued that ASF17 has serious credibility issues and has given inconsistent evidence about his reasons for coming to Australia by illegal boat arrival more than a decade ago. ASF17 claims he was caught by his wife having sex with a man, but the commonwealth has disputed the likelihood of this […]

The federal government has fought his legal bid to be released into the community, arguing that ruling in ASF17’s favour would encourage non-citizens to resist their deportation in the hope of one day being granted a visa.

But, please don’t let this stop the Albanese government from passing some badly-needed amendments to the Migration Act.

The judgement has arrived before the government could rush amendments to the Migration Act through parliament that would allow Migration Minister Andrew Giles to jail non-citizens who refuse to co-operate with attempts to deport them and ban visitors from entire countries.

If only we could rid ourselves of some of the toxic leeches already here.

As for “ASF17”:

ASF17’s barrister, Lisa De Ferrari, told the court last month her client would prefer to be sent to war torn Gaza rather than Iran.

The Australian

Fine, then. Let’s grant his wish.

And send a plane load or two of his buddies with him.