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Originally Posted by Davros
If they were genuine refugees they would not be able to pay $10,000 plus for a 'ticket'.
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Seriously, I have spent a lot of time with Afghani refugees here, and they smuggled out video tapes of what they were fleeing from, bodies piled up in mass graves, people dragged out into the streets and shot, and other stuff too horrible to even mention here. It looked like the worst stories from Nazi Germany, we tried to get it to the networks, but they all considered it 'too shocking' to show, I could hardly watch it to transfer it for them.
They traded and sold everything they had and endured unimaginable hardship to get here, giving up everything to try and save their families from actual horror.
There are plenty of areas that a Government could switch funding from to fund McNaught,but plenty of people would rage against some stupid space funding taking money when disability services or some other need-group wants funding.
And if you are outraged by this and want him to continue, then take the ten minutes to write to the people in Gary's post.
If half the members here sent actual paper letters then it would actually make an impact.
I think the Government should fund McNaught, but if they won't perhaps we could set up a worldwide public funding system to do so, maybe along the lines of Kickstarter or something similar.