Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Unlock and unload
August 23, 2010 – 12:51 pm
The Tamil saga continues
The Sun Media editorialists back off their “lock and load” position with regards to incoming refugee boats, explaining they arrived at it “early in the game.” We’re not sure there’s any point in such a discussion where it’s OK to advocate sinking unarmed ships full of would-be asylum-seekers, but we’re quite sure that last Tuesday — four days after the MV Sun Sea arrived on the West Coast — isn’t all that “early in the game.” Anyhow, while they blow a “secret government report” completely out of proportion (it was an anecdotal sampling of 50 people, as CBC’s Kady O’Malley explains), and while they needlessly get all pissy about the National Post’s editorial on Saturday that called them out for the whole “lock and load” thing, they are quite correct that the common practice of asylum-seekers returning home for visits, or to live permanently, can be seen, at least in some cases, as totally self-torpedoing their own claims of persecution.
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The Sun Media editorialists back off their “lock and load” position with regards to incoming refugee boats, explaining they arrived at it “early in the game.” We’re not sure there’s any point in such a discussion where it’s OK to advocate sinking unarmed ships full of would-be asylum-seekers, but we’re quite sure that last Tuesday — four days after the MV Sun Sea arrived on the West Coast — isn’t all that “early in the game.” Anyhow, while they blow a “secret government report” completely out of proportion (it was an anecdotal sampling of 50 people, as CBC’s Kady O’Malley explains), and while they needlessly get all pissy about the National Post’s editorial on Saturday that called them out for the whole “lock and load” thing, they are quite correct that the common practice of asylum-seekers returning home for visits, or to live permanently, can be seen, at least in some cases, as totally self-torpedoing their own claims of persecution.
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