LADY, YOU'RE A HORRIBLE PERSON.


From an article in today's Age:

Rowdy protesters who clashed with police outside the Baxter Detention Centre at the weekend were giving false hope to the people inside at best, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said today.
The protesters chanted "free the refugees" when those considered genuine refugees were actually out in the community, she said.
About 400 pro-refugee activists who clashed with police over Easter left their campsite near Baxter in South Australia yesterday after three days of protests…
"I see the people protesting this weekend largely as activists, not idealists," Senator Vanstone told ABC radio.
"They are chanting, for example, `free the refugees', when in fact 9,000 of the people who arrived unauthorised and unannounced are considered refugees and are out in the community.
"The only people in Baxter are people who have broken their visa conditions, normal compliance cases, and some of the remaining boat people who were considered not to be refugees.
"So, to chant `free the refugees' sort of indicates that they're not on the mark there."
Senator Vanstone also said the protests were probably cruel on the people inside the centre.
"It's very disturbing for the people inside Baxter, to have a whole weekend where there's a fuss going on outside," she said.
"The protesters probably think they lift people's spirits. I don't know that that's necessarily the case.
"If it gives them false hope, it's one of the cruellest things you can do."
Senator Vanstone said protests outside her private residence in Adelaide had no effect on her and merely disrupted neighbours.
"It didn't have much impact on me. We were going away for Easter in any event so we decided to go a day earlier than we otherwise might have," she said.
"(It was) terribly inconvenient for my neighbours.
"It's entirely selfish."

YOU SUCK, VANSTONE. EVERYTHING YOU SAY IS NOT THE RIGHT THING. YOU BRING SHAME ON ME, AND ALL FAT CHICKS. AND THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH SHAME-EATING WE CAN DO. I MADE A GIANT CHOCOLATE PIE LAST NIGHT FOR CHRISSAKES! STOP MAKING IT WORSE.