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Thread #78891   Message #1424707
Posted By: greg stephens
02-Mar-05 - 04:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: BBC Newsnight - asylum centre story
Subject: RE: BS: BBC Newsnight - asylum centre story
Well, I dont know about being proactive, Sidewinder. Now it's a long time since I read the bible, but I remember it says something along the lines of "If he asks for bread, do you give him a stone? If he asks for meat, do you give him a scorpion?". That is my attitude to those in trouble. And yes, I do appreciate, emotionally and economically, that I could not afford to be nice to everyone in the world with a problem. But I can do my best for the people standing in front of me asking for help. And I can, for example, refrain from racially abusing them, or physically or sexually assaulting them, Or calling them bogus asylum seekers.