You just can’t make this stuff up. On the same day Anthony Albanese and his conga-line of socialist sycophants were screeching about ‘patriotism’, they voted to keep polluting Australia with people who hate this country so much they raced off to join its sworn enemy. The sworn enemy of civilisation. People who went to great lengths to join in an orgy of slaughter, rape and slavery.
And then demanded the very country they renounced gift them with everything from free plane flights to a lifetime of welfare.
Labor, the Greens and the usual crossbench ornaments lined up in the Senate on Thursday to kill One Nation’s Protecting Australians from Foreign Terrorist Fighters Bill. The bill would have let the home affairs minister ask the Federal Court to bar the return of Australians who voluntarily served, joined or materially supported a listed terrorist outfit overseas. Tougher bail, wider passport cancellation and a new offence of helping the bastards get back. Modest, you would have thought, given the product on offer.
During the debate, [Pauline Hanson] slammed the Albanese government for failing its ‘first responsibility’ to keep the country safe.
‘The first responsibility of any government is to keep Australians safe,’ she told the Senate.
‘Australians rightfully expect this government to put their safety and our national security above all else.’
Maybe if they know nothing about Labor and its weasel leader. The only thing Albanese puts above all else is keeping in power and keeping the taxpayer-funded entitlements that have funded his multi-million dollar property portfolio rolling in.
One Nation argued the women willingly supported the terrorist organisation and should be permanently barred from returning to Australia, while the government maintained it is legally required to allow citizens to return under current national security and counter-terrorism laws.
Laws they wrote. Laws they refuse to change.
The Greens were delighted. Extra residents who hate Jews even more than they do. Independent David Pocock, the capital’s favourite ‘thoughtful centrist’, offered the full serving of mush:
‘There is a real issue for debate here, how do we as a country deal with Australians returning after making the decision to travel to and in some cases support terrorist organisations,’ he said.
Apparently the answer is complimentary airfares, a motel and the dole. Then the kicker:
‘It’s a nuanced issue, one where reasonable minds can reach different conclusions.’
It really isn’t. What reasonable person thinks flooding the country with people who chose the rape-and-slavery franchise is a good idea? Nuance is the weasel-word of cowards who have already decided the terrorists can come home and the public can lump it.
Opponents muttered about duplication of existing temporary exclusion orders and drafting that was ‘too broad’. The same parliament that can ban teenagers from social media and regulate what you say about climate cannot find the words to keep foreign fighters out. Curious, that.
Hanson’s post-vote verdict was blunt. Labor, the Greens, Fatima Payman and Pocock had “joined together to support returning fighters over the safety of Australians”.
The government filed no submission to the inquiry, produced no serious advice, and kept its own officials out of the closed sessions. Australians, she said, are entitled to conclude their protection comes second to the desire to bring the sympathisers home.
Patriotism, in the Albanese dialect, is a flag on a lectern and a speech about “who we are”. Who we are, on the evidence of Thursday’s vote, is a country that will collect you from a desert camp after you signed up with the death cult, fly you back at public expense, put you up in luxury accommodation and pay your living expenses in perpetuity and then lecture the natives about cohesion.
The first duty of government is not “nuance”. It is to stop importing people who want to destroy the country.
