Can't deport a terrorist, but can deport an Australian who disrupts a boat race. WTF?

So it's cost £1.7 million to try and deport Abu Qatada, a guy with known links to terrorism, but the Australian dude who disrupted a University boat race, who's married to a British woman, has been officially ordered to leave the UK?!

http://news.sky.com/story/1107276/boat-race-protester-faces-deportation-from-uk

WTF Britain?

Reply 1

The_Internet

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Well, there's kinda the fact that he hasn't actually done any thing "wrong" in the UK, but he has in his home country, which massively complicates things.

Reply 2

thunder_chunky

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Original post by spiral87

So it's cost £1.7 million to try and deport Abu Qatada, a guy with known links to terrorism, but the Australian dude who disrupted a University boat race, who's married to a British woman, has been officially ordered to leave the UK?!

http://news.sky.com/story/1107276/boat-race-protester-faces-deportation-from-uk

WTF Britain?

Seems a little harsh but really the two are not really that comparable in my opinion. There is obviously a reason why all attempts to deport Qatada thus far have failed.

Reply 3

cosimakarateman

Original post by spiral87

So it's cost £1.7 million to try and deport Abu Qatada, a guy with known links to terrorism, but the Australian dude who disrupted a University boat race, who's married to a British woman, has been officially ordered to leave the UK?!

http://news.sky.com/story/1107276/boat-race-protester-faces-deportation-from-uk

WTF Britain?

im still shocked he was jailed for 6 months for swimming alongside some boats. have we jailed every streaker that ran on to a rugby or football pitch? no wonder prisons are so full. and that's what £40 odd grand to pay for his incarceration. Why there hasn't been a review fo usless judges and sentencing ill never know

Reply 4

Ultimate1

Original post by cosimakarateman

im still shocked he was jailed for 6 months for swimming alongside some boats. have we jailed every streaker that ran on to a rugby or football pitch? no wonder prisons are so full. and that's what £40 odd grand to pay for his incarceration. Why there hasn't been a review fo usless judges and sentencing ill never know

Ridiculous. The other day I read about how a man who killed someone for 'wreckless driving' was jailed for 30 months and when the sentence was announced his brother attacked the judge and took hiw wig off and got 18 months, more than half of that for killing someone!

There is no justice system anymore in Britain. The meaning of justice has been lost.

Reply 5

spiral87

OP

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Original post by cosimakarateman

im still shocked he was jailed for 6 months for swimming alongside some boats. have we jailed every streaker that ran on to a rugby or football pitch? no wonder prisons are so full. and that's what £40 odd grand to pay for his incarceration. Why there hasn't been a review fo usless judges and sentencing ill never know

I personally think it's all about numbers and money. So long as they're meeting their targets and deporting X number of 'foreigners' and jailing Y number of criminals, they're happy.

Personally I think Abu Qatada should be taken on a ferry to Calais and pushed overboard about halfway.

Reply 6

Captain Haddock

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Outrage: two totally different cases being treated totally differently.

Reply 7

scrotgrot

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Original post by cosimakarateman

im still shocked he was jailed for 6 months for swimming alongside some boats. have we jailed every streaker that ran on to a rugby or football pitch? no wonder prisons are so full. and that's what £40 odd grand to pay for his incarceration. Why there hasn't been a review fo usless judges and sentencing ill never know

The boat race is an elite event. The elite in this country are no longer shy about expressing their petty vindictiveness.

Reply 8

Snagprophet

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I don't know why it has to cost millions to house a single villain here when that money could go to homeless people.

Reply 9

contrapositive

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The boat race guy was great banter. They ought to have deported Oxford's cox that year, she was absolutely terrible, steering that boat into the other one and all that.

Reply 10

contrapositive

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Original post by Captain Haddock

Outrage: two totally different cases being treated totally differently.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect Abu Qatada to be deported, please don't apologise for men that advocate for our deaths.

Reply 11

Gillybop

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Trouble is, he's still a foreign criminal, he could have easily caused injury or death, or been killed himself in the process.

why is it ok to house some foreign criminals, but deport other ones? We can't pick and choose.

Reply 12

lubus

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Original post by Gillybop

Trouble is, he's still a foreign criminal, he could have easily caused injury or death, or been killed himself in the process.

why is it ok to house some foreign criminals, but deport other ones? We can't pick and choose.

how exactly could he have cause injury or death to anyone other than himself?!

Reply 13

Gillybop

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Probably a multitude of reasons, of the top of my head, could have snapped a rowers arm if they had hit him with an oar, forced them to crash into each other etc.....

he could have knocked himself unconscious and then people have to risk their lives to rescue him, he showed astounding levels of ignorance and disregard for the safety of himself or anyone else.

And that's why he got found guilty and will be kicked out.

Reply 14

thunder_chunky

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Original post by contrapositive

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect Abu Qatada to be deported, please don't apologise for men that advocate for our deaths.

He's clearly not apologising for Abu Qatada or those like him he's simply saying that the two cases stated in the OP (Qatada being one and the boat race being the other) are two different cases and shouldn't be compared or used in the same argument. Try again.

Reply 15

contrapositive

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Original post by thunder_chunky

He's clearly not apologising for Abu Qatada or those like him he's simply saying that the two cases stated in the OP (Qatada being one and the boat race being the other) are two different cases and shouldn't be compared or used in the same argument. Try again.

Original post by Captain Haddock

Outrage: two totally different cases being treated totally differently.

The boat race guy was great banter. They ought to have deported Oxford's cox that year, she was absolutely terrible, steering that boat into the other one and all that.

Reply 16

spiral87

OP

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Original post by Captain Haddock

Outrage: two totally different cases being treated totally differently.

Two totally different cases where the desired result is deportation. The difference being, one is a dude who got in the way of some boats and seemingly has no defence, the other is a guy who associates with terrorism who's used up £1.7m of taxpayer's money fighting to stay...the people who make the law in our country are unable to dispose of him, what does that say about us?

Reply 17

Gillybop

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Original post by spiral87

Two totally different cases where the desired result is deportation. The difference being, one is a dude who got in the way of some boats and seemingly has no defence, the other is a guy who associates with terrorism who's used up £1.7m of taxpayer's money fighting to stay...the people who make the law in our country are unable to dispose of him, what does that say about us?

Its impossible to compare them, the boat race guy has exactly the same rights, but as his government won't oppress him, or torture him, he can't use the same excuse as Qatada, it may not always be to everyone's liking, but the laws of this country are in place to protect us.

he knew the rules when he applied for his visa, and the taxpayers shouldn't have to stump up for him now he's unemployable.