Tim Blair

This has got 'sexed-up' all over it.

This has got "if we're such a bunch of Nazis then hand over your passport and fuck-off, Liam" written all over it. I read his Aussie-hating spew and find it the result of too many Tia Marias with the gang at the eatery, probably followed by some good, clensing, self-loathing just for fun. Only a free democracy would tolerate such drivel without locking said wanker up.

Hadn't read Liam's claims until today.They read as if Pilger had penned them or dictated them - camps in the desert, `shadowy survivalists' planning a last stand. Like Pilger, invented evidence. Government conspiracies plotted behind closed doors.Government meting out torture and other acts of brutality.All that is lacking are unpleasant photographs with the caption, this is what the government did.

Liam, ironically, has done a service. Since it is the line which has been run by other `news outlets' such as the ABC, even though without the level of hyperbole Liam indulged in,Liam has done a sterling job in showing it out for nonsense.Or was it Pilger,or both?

Tim,

I am surprised to find myself in agreement with you on something.

Wonders will never cease!

Rex

So its OK for Asians to read (and believe) this drivel?

Sheeeesh!

d,

Spot on !

We have been exposed to this low-level self loating from the Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC and community action groups (always consisting of one zealot, an inclusive sounding name and a fax machine - nothing else) that some of it starts to seep in (what they want).

Then along comes "lying-Liam" with his preposterous pistache of half-baked paranoia laced with doctrinaire anti-conservative dogma.

By publishing this rubbish, he has done a service to the hundreds of thousands of legitimate migrants who come here and quietly go about their lives - he has exposed the intellectual bankruptcy of the sad industry which has grown out of the most basic of human desires - a better life.

By giving succour to the smugglers and thieves who run the illegal trade in "refugees", how many drownings and suffocations in transit will Liam have caused - how many false hopes will he create - how much money will he put into the snake-head gangs who thrive in this trade.

Australia was a tolerant liberal open society before Liam's bigotted spray and it will continue to be the same afterwards - the only change will be in our diminished perceptions of his kind (at the SMH, the ABC and organisations like Lonely Planet) and the lame arguments and half-truths on which such articles are based.

Thank you for opening our eyes once again Liam to the utter falsehoods on which your arguments are based - 100 thousand legitimate migrants & refugees who come to Australia each year have nothing to thank you for.

The Elephant

Liam Fitzpatrick is the pen name of Paul-Drop Your Dacks For Asia-Keating? Oh the pain. Oh the shame.

If you translate that from Time Corporate-Speak into English, that was a very public Fuck You to Liam Fitzpatrick.

Spot on Mike.

JoeJr likens Liam Fitzpatrick to Paul Keating.

Sounds more like Dr Mahathir.

There's an evil genius at work, glove puppets are popping up everywhere.