Wednesday, October 05, 2005
INSIGHT GAINED
If there’s one thing the Bakhtiari kids learned during their time in Australia, it’s that leftoid activists are useless:
The two teenage sons from the Bakhtiari family have made an appeal to the Australian Government to allow them return to Australia to complete their education.
Alamdar, 16, and Montazar, 14, have apologised to the Australian Government and blamed their deportation to Pakistan on the lawyers who acted for them and the activists who supported their cause.
Another triumph for Bob Ellis!
UPDATE. The Bakhtiari boys talk to Lateline:
ALAMDAR BAKHTIARI: The thing I want to say is ... first of all I would like to say sorry to the Government. It was all advocates, all the lawyers forcing us to fight against the Government which we were not doing it, so basically we were going to get visas—but the lawyers didn’t want that happen, the lawyers wanted all the asylum seekers to be free at once. But everything has it’s regulation, rules. The Government did everything by rules, but advocates wanted all asylum seekers to be out at once.
MONTAZAR BAKHTIARI: The lawyers didn’t really help our family at all at the end and I just would like to say that whatever goes on from now on, on behalf of my family I would like to say that they have nothing to do with our family anymore and if anything is going on we would like to negotiate with the Government as a family and I would like all the advocates, all of them, not to do anything to the Bakhtiari family anymore because I don’t my life to get even riskier and riskier just because of them.
GEOFF THOMPSON: The people that fought for your cause in Australia will be perhaps hurt or offended by what you’re saying. I mean, is it entirely fair to say that they were doing it for their own self interest.
MONTAZAR BAKHTIARI: I’m not saying that probably all of them. Probably of about 100 per cent, I would say that about 40 per cent wanted that. But of the other 60 per cent which were working behind the scenes, they knew everything about our family, they just wanted to help, but the other 40 per cent just wanted to become famous and destroy our family basically - that’s what they wanted.
ALAMDAR BAKHTIARI: If they wanted to help us, why are they not talking to us today—nine month, 10 month have past, there was no email, they haven’t even called us yet, they are sort of pretending that they don’t have our number.
(Via Evil Pundit)