This one is more relevant to my fellow Aussies but it has probably hit the world news media. Still a little intro is in order for those who may not be familiar with current Australian politics.
The LNP party under the Prime Minister Tony Abbott has introduced a policy of "turning back the (asylum seeker) boats" they have called "Operation Sovereign Borders". Many people in Australia and overseas are highly concerned about what is happening under "Operation Sovereign Borders". However the LNP government won't tell anybody what IS happening, even a Senate enquiry convened for the very purpose of finding out.
The reason for all the cloak and dagger, military style, secrecy they claim is because they do not want to let the "people smugglers" in Indonesia and elsewhere know what they are doing by making it public knowledge.
Sounds plausible if you DON'T think about it or ask any awkward questions. But here is the obvious question that came to MY mind:-
"IF the LNP government do not want to let the "people smugglers" know what they are doing to "turn back the boats" WHY are they sending BACK to these "people smugglers" the very people best able to debrief them on EXACTLY what the people of "Operation Sovereign Borders" are doing? Namely the asylum seekers being intercepted and sent back to Indonesia where they can go back to the "people smugglers" and give them a firsthand blow-by-blow account of everything that happened?"
It seems to me that the only people being kept in the dark are the Australian voting public and those of other political parties. Those best informed ( by the asylum seekers themselves) as to what is happening seems to be ... the "people smugglers" aided and abetted by the Australian government's own "turn back" policy!
Well the question seems obvious to me. How does it seem to you?
But, in closing, it would be wise for the government to heed the warning The Lord gave to those in the past who also withheld compassion and mercy for WHATEVER reason. For though it might, as Abraham Lincoln once observed, even be possible to fool some of the people all of the time - if you think you can fool The Lord at any time the only person you are fooling is yourself:-
(Malachi 3:5) "So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify AGAINST sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, AGAINST those who defraud labourers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens/foreigners/strangers of justice, but do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty."
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