Perhaps the UK should pick a Falkland island

[SoCalDem]

and send the "deportees" there. There could be a problem getting a place to accept them.. They could re-name it.. Terror Island



Can you imagine the conversation:

tony: Um look here guv, we seem to have found a few of your former citizens who need repatriation

foreign leader:. you keep 'em, tony.

tony: Well you see, THAT's the problem.. we don't want them anymore. They are bombers and they are scaring the locals..

foreign leader: what makes you think WE want them back? finder's keepers, tony, old boy..

[jim3775]

1. Kind of like a reverse Diego Garcia. n/t

[savemefromdumbya]

2. I guess he can't send them to Australia

In the old days it would have been easy ship em off to Oz.

[wli]

3. the detainees will only increase in number, and will be stateless

They will end up in concentration camps. c.f. what Wackenhut has already been doing in Australia.

[SoCalDem]

4. That's what i think too.

I mean..where's the sense in deporting a bunch of angry young men to a place where you will then lose all track of them. What's to prevent them from all getting together and scheming newer, bigger schemes?

i think this is just a way to "explain" their absence..


What if, for the same money, immigrant children were offered jobs and college, and perhaps a real entry into society?

The same thing is happening out here only with gangs.. a whole bunch of angry young people who see NOTHING on their horizon except more poverty...so gangs become their way of handling the disconnect:(

[SeaRust]

5. Remember the Falklands/Maldives are still full of land mines

from Thatchers' excursion there in 83

[SoCalDem]

6. Would tony care??

nope

[newyawker99]

8. Hi SeaRust!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Have you read "Brave New World" recently?

"But you didn't go to an island," said the Savage, breaking a long silence.

The Controller smiled. "That's how I paid. By choosing to serve happiness. Other people's–not mine. It's lucky," he added, after a pause, "that there are such a lot of islands in the world. I don't know what we should do without them. Put you all in the lethal chamber, I suppose. By the way, Mr. Watson, would you like a tropical climate? The Marquesas, for example; or Samoa? Or something rather more bracing?"

Helmholtz rose from his pneumatic chair. "I should like a thoroughly bad climate," he answered. "I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms, for example …"

The Controller nodded his approbation. "I like your spirit, Mr. Watson. I like it very much indeed. As much as I officially disapprove of it." He smiled. "What about the Falkland Islands?"

http://www.online-literature.com/aldous_huxley/brave_new_world/16/

[SoCalDem]

9. How funny.. I have not read it in ages.

I totally forgot... :)