Taxpayers despair at forking out for ISIS brides. By Flat White in The Spectator.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor offered two numbers that represent taxpayer-funded support.
- Pensioners: $31,309
- ISIS Brides: $46,889
Taylor presented these figures in a social media video where he says: …
‘Someone who has been working hard all their life, paying taxes, gets access to less than the so-called ISIS Brides. People who have supported a death cult — a terrorist organisation. This is wrong.
‘And I’m calling on the government to permanently ban these ISIS sympathisers from getting access to welfare benefits. Australians expect their taxes to go to those who really need it. Not to Islamist extremists.’
This sentiment is well-represented within the wider Australian community. Not only is it commonly recognised that welfare is unfairly distributed to services such as the NDIS over pensioners or struggling homeless young people, many believe those who leave the country to join an organisation that seeks violence against Australia should be permanently excluded. …
Globalist BS:
The current Labor Party has repeatedly filled the headlines with excuses about being bound by the law to explain why the latest batch of ISIS Brides cruised into Sydney and Melbourne. This ignores the obvious reality that politicians in Canberra write the laws and, if they so wished, could write laws in contradiction to international agreements just as other nations do when acting in self-interest. …
Local media will have a fit if welfare is stripped from those within the Islamic community, even if they are associated with potentially illegal extremism. …
While the government probably hopes the arrest of some ISIS Brides will calm the outrage (this is a long way from conviction and serving time for any alleged offences), many fear nothing will change. Nothing changed in 2019, 2022, and 2025. So far, none have served jail time with only one conviction.
It has not been lost on the wider public that there appears to be no punishment whatsoever for joining a terrorist organisation despite a law existing saying that there should be. …
One Nation:
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson would never have let anyone associated with ISIS into the country. Of that, we can be pretty confident, if her press releases are to believed. …
‘…Labor’s politically motivated, fear-driven coddling of Islamic extremism was complicit in the rising antisemitism which led to the Bondi massacre…’
Harsh words for a government that has commissioned an expensive, and arguably meandering, Royal Commission that has guidelines insisting on maintaining social cohesion instead of the obvious threat of Islamic terrorism. …
‘This ideology has no place in Australia. It goes against principles on which our nation was founded: the rule of law, freedom of speech and religion; secular democracy. This ideology has no room in the world for anyone who doesn’t submit to it. Labor has submitted without even realising it.’
Opposing radical Islam is a shared value between the warring factions of conservative politics, although the limitation on the words used for this opposition sit within the usual restraints of each party. Liberals will wink and nod, the Nationals lean forward to the camera. One Nation tempts retaliation in the Senate, often from their fellow conservatives. Who can forget the censure motions against Pauline herself in the leadup to the Bondi massacre?
Who knows, maybe a 50-year automatic conviction upon return might have stopped ISIS supporters from returning without the need for all this legal complexity…
What sort of country have we become?
Australians are more likely to go to jail for a mean tweet about whatever the trending Woke talking point is than flying to another country to join a terror group. Think about how utterly broken our legal system is.