Price of indiscretion

“FOOLS rush in where angels fear to tread.” Alexander Pope.
The above quote simply means that ‘People without good sense or judgement will have no hesitation in tackling a situation that even the wisest would avoid’.
Last year Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, offered to take 800,000 migrants into Germany.
Today, most political observers and analysts around the world, including members of Merkel’s own political party, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, agree to say that their strong leader has made a colossal historic mistake.
Angela Merkel’s popularity has plummeted very low after the mass rape of girls and women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve.
Likewise, French President Francois Hollande has been doing his ‘mea culpa’ following the unwarranted and unjustified terrorist attack in Paris on 13 November 2015.
In light of the above, every sensible Australian citizen would feel terribly shocked by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’s decision to allow 267 asylum seekers, including 37 children to settle in Victoria.
Such a decision is “wrong” and “needless” because it goes against the Australian Federal Government policy on immigration; a policy that has been praised by many European leaders so far.
Does the Premier of Victoria pretend that he has more compassion for asylum seekers (mostly economic migrants) than the Premier of New South Wales?
Can he pretend that his State Government is endowed with a greater feeling of human kindness that the Federal Government?
What does the Premier think about the lucrative business of unscrupulous people smugglers?
What is more alarming, however, is the fact that the Andrews Government not only challenges the Federal Government offshore immigration detention policy but also defies a ruling by the High Court on that issue. I, for one, believe that our High Court judges deserve a little more respect from the Victorian State Government.
It’s a wrong message that the Premier is sending to the rest of the community, most particularly to our young people. Instead, let’s all say together: “Long live the High Court, the highest court in the Australian judicial system! Long Live Australia!”
Eliezer Francois,
Endeavour Hills.