Beyond the Razor Wire.

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It’s not often the Sunday press has anything worth commenting on but today the Queenslands Sunday mail has a report on a new book. Poet and stand-up comedian Sandy Thorne has written of her time behind the wire as a guard at Curtin and Woomera. For the first time we have comments from someone who was inside – not a dreadlocked and bejeweled hippy with bodily fluids trapped in the rings in his nose. Not Philip Adams or some other apologist for despicable behavior but someone from the coal face. And it ain’t pretty. Ms Thorne says her book debunks the perception that most of the illegal immigrants were hard done by. “Certainly some of them are very decent people, but some were very unpleasant characters,” she says. She goes on to describe some of the inmates reaction to 11 September. “I half-heard something on the television about what had happened and I went to the compound where the detainees were. There was a group huddled around a transistor listening to what was happening in New York and they were overjoyed. They were punching their fists in the air and laughing. Their reaction really shocked me.” These guys are going to fit in well with the Australian society with their attitudes to women and kids. “Some of the biggest fights happened in the medical centre where the men would do their blocks because women and children were treated first,” she said She mentions some are decent people and worthy of help but any jerk who applauds the thousands murdered at the World Trade Centre or demands treatment before sick women and kids is only worthy of a ticket home. The Democrats would have us release them all into the society before we have a chance to vet these sub-species out and send them home. Maybe Andrew Bartlet can help with the vetting. As I understand it, his workload will be light on next week. Via reader Dave Burrows. Thanks mate. Update: For further details on the book including purchase options visit Sandy’s web page. Via Dave again.
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