Do you believe that a
non-citizen with a "very extensive criminal record" and a "long
history of violent offending" should be allowed to stay in Australia,
rather than deported?
Administrative Appeals
Tribunal (AAT) deputy president, Stephen Frost does.
This particular case involves a 41 year old Tongan man, who came to Australia at
the age of 7 and has spent 15 of the last 18 years in jail for violent crimes
including assaulting police, beating a prison guard with a shower rail and
stabbing a security guard. He’s also a paranoid schizophrenic.
On his recent release from prison, the Immigration
Department had already decided he had failed the character test
and so transferred him to Villawood Detention Centre for deportation. Like me,
you may well ask why this did not happen after his first conviction.
In a typically absurd jettisoning of common sense in favour
of their definition of “human rights”, left wing activists have been able to
foist upon the Australian public a “right of appeal” against deportation orders
for non-citizens convicted of serious criminal offences, which of course is all
paid for by Australian taxpayers via legal aid.
This is not a case of a foreign citizen having the right to
appeal against a criminal conviction, which reciprocally, Australians would and
should expect in a foreign country. There has already been a conviction. The
person is being released from prison after serving their sentence. Australian
law in such matters should be clear and simple to enforce: conviction for a serious
criminal offence = fail character test = deportation. The process should be
automatic, so that no appeal is possible, let alone one paid for with our
taxes.
Even with the current legal situation of allowing appeals
against ministerial deportation orders, should Australian citizens and
taxpayers not expect the AAT to reject the appeal in such a case as this?
AAT Deputy President, Stephen Frost took it upon himself to
override an elected minister and decide for the rest of us that this mentally
ill man with an extensive history of violence has “a low risk of
reoffending because he is now taking antipsychotic medication”.
According to Stephen Frost, the man now:
“… has an ‘unswerving commitment’ to
taking his medicines. He is now open in his acceptance of the fact he has
schizophrenia states. He claims to be in control of his thoughts and himself. He
no longer feels anger and resentment towards other people."
Oh well, if a violent, mentally ill criminal claims to be
“in control of his thoughts and feelings”, I guess we should just take him at
his word. There is absolutely no chance he will stop taking his medication, or
even just snap one day due to his soul destroying existence at the bottom of a
society which he is unlikely to ever successfully navigate.
Stephen Frost concluded:
"While the risk of reoffending
and the potential for harm to individuals or the Australian community have not
been eliminated, they have been reduced, in my opinion, to an acceptable level."
An acceptable level, in your opinion, Stephen?
Exactly what qualifies a former ATO employee and tax partner at KPMG to express such an opinion on a criminal and mental health
matter? Moreover, what qualifies Stephen Frost to make a decision on behalf
of the Australian community as to what constitutes an "acceptable level" of risk for us to bear?
The Tongan government made a self-serving submission in the
man’s case that it “did not have a welfare program for unemployed or disabled
citizens and had short supplies of antipsychotic medication for schizophrenic patients”.
So fucking what? Does that mean it should be Australia’s
problem? He’s your citizen, you deal with him.
He should have been sent back to Tonga years ago, after his first
serious offence.
It is not Australia’s
duty to accommodate the world’s mentally ill. How typical of lefties that they
would rather put their own citizens at risk (and censure them for complaining).
Australia givesTonga $32M in foreign aid each year. Some of it could easily be redirected
from specialist surgical procedures into mental health.
The deeper problem here is that hand wringing, left wing
activists have been allowed not only to pass laws allowing such appeals to take
place, but also to infiltrate the organisations which hear said appeals.
Australians will continue having such reality defying decisions foist upon us
until we weed out these insidious international socialists.
There’s a chance to get rid of some of the politicians this
September. Hopefully then can begin the much bigger task of removing them from
the judiciary and the executive, starting with Stephen Frost.
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