Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Texas Border Battle could Tear America Apart" video.

Abbott might want to be very careful about what he does and says in coming days. Other than the simple concept of negligent homicide there's the issue that he as a state governor has no right to control an international border. I'm Australian and even I know this. We've had all sorts of legal issues regarding boat people entering Australian waters and we've had calls from other countries to either get our SHlT better organised or face reprisals. Some of the Europeans basically threatened us with trade sanctions if we didn't get our act together. They're quieter now that they're having similar issues with the flood out of North Africa. I absolutely support the right of any country to decide who can and who can't enter their country. That is a basic law all countries, states and tribes have had for centuries, but these days we by international agreements we recognise the rights of people claiming asylum to have their case heard. That's not always easy and even if they are not accepted as refugees it doesn't mean you can simply let people die. You certainly can't just stand there and do nothing.
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Abbott might want to be very careful about what he does and says in coming days. Other than the simple concept of negligent homicide there's the issue that he as a state governor has not right to control an international border. I'm Australian and even I know this.
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@CarlGerhardt1 WHAT DID I SAY IN THE LAST PARAGRAPH? Australia already has plans to grow from the current 26 million to over 50 million. I'm not against that but we can't suddenly do that now. We don't have the housing, infrastructure, energy, water, schools, hospitals just to start the list. We have to say NO and despite what the Europeans said to us they now know. I once saw Angela Merkel who oversaw Germany have the most open of border policies tell a young immigrant girl that "I'm sorry but we can't take everyone." She wasn't being mean or dispassionate or cruel she was just pointing out the basic reality. Every country has limits to what it can do. America is no different and I 100% support America's right to say NO. BUT BUDDY DON'T MISTAKE THAT FOR BEING AN ARSEH0LE. And Greg Abbott is an ARSEH0LE and a damn cruel one at that.
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@thomasskokan2001 I wouldn't doubt any of that because I have seen that sort of stuff everywhere I have been. We have parts of Australia just like it. We have country towns where I woudln't dare take a person from another country even if they were white. We also have parts of every major city I wouldn't go IN BROAD DAYLIGHT and at night our police are in full body protection. We don't like to put that on tourist brochures but everywhere has "Those places!" I was in central Saskatchewan a couple of years ago for a project. Loved it. Beautiful country and beautiful people. Then one day one of the guys from Regina warned me about a couple of nearby towns to where we were working. Clan towns he called them. When I asked WTF he meant he said there's a section of Sask that even the rest of Sask avoids. Its the sort of place a guy like Greg Abbott would be right at home. Every country has "Those places!"
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@max420thc FOR what DlCKHEAD? What will al those federal employees be arrested? You do know there's this process before you can arrest people. FIRST - there has to be an actual crime. SECOND - there has to be something that says "that person" should be arrested in relation to "that crime." THIRD - Oh SHlT I forgot your one of "those people" who doesn't believe in the law or due process.
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@nedludd7622 Absolutely correct. If you want to see one of the more poignant memes of all time type into google "aboriginal meme boat people" I forget who originally drew it but when there were a staggering number of boats coming with middle eastern asylum seekers in the post 9/11 era the Howard government stated "We'll decide who comes here and under what conditions" there was a political cartoon that started that meme. So yeah mate MOST but not all Australians of European descent are well aware we are the descendants of boat people. I'm of Anglo descent - last name wilson is kinda obvious. As far as I know both my mothers and fathers families came here late 1800s BY BOAT. Also most of Australia's post WW2 immigration was by boat. We call them "10 pound Poms" not because they weighed 10 pounds but the ticket to Australia for Brits cost £10. In that Post WW2 era we also got a massive influx of Italians, Greeks and Turks with a scattering of other Europeans who just wanted out of the mess that Europe was and they all came by boat. I checked to see if America had an equivalent meme. Just google "native american meme immigration"
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Just so we are a bit more clear. In that post WW2 era Australia needed to replace the men we'd lost fighting all over Europe and Asia as well as grow. We were a very small population and most of the people who came we needed. We did this massive power and irrigation scheme that was our equivalent of the Tennessee Valley project called the Snowy River Scheme. Most of it was built by European migrants. In my home state of Victoria we built out the Latrobe Valley power stations that enabled our manufacturing to grow. Most of that was done by European migrants. So its not like we haven't had massive influxes in the past. The problem Australia has right now is we already have a triple whammy of housing crisis, energy crisis and water crisis all at the same time. We've had mismanagement FROM BOTH SIDES of politics. Our elections for decades have been a choice of what kind of SHlT we'll eat for the next 3 years.
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@nedludd7622 Yeah the Brits made a mess of Palestine. By the time of the post WW2 "what do we do now" moment the Brits basically just wanted to get TF out of that mess. They TIRED to tell everyone it was going to end in tears, but then everyone wanted everything without any compromises. I actually went to college in America (U. of Illinois) and I had an really weird moment at a party where I encountered some hard core Zionists. I had no idea who they were or what their issue with me was. The next day I told one of my best friends who was Jewish about what happened. 30+ years later I still remember him putting his hand to his face and saying "Oh shit, you've met them." He then explained to me how the "ultra-Zionists" as he called them were the Jewish equivalent of the KKK. They are what we now tend to call "ultra-nationalists." The craziest thing about what my friend told me was that for however nasty they were to me they'd be much worse to him because he had friends who weren't Jewish. It was a really good point about ultra-nationalists we don't often hear about. They might be vicious to outsiders, but they are even more vicious to their own people because they need to keep them in line. We see this in a number of regimes that are incredibly harsh to their own people as they claim how they are "protecting the state" or "protecting their culture" from bad influences.
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