"Boat People" and AUSTRALIA in the 21st CENTURY

14/4/99.
Within weeks of this letter (sent to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) national daily talkback radio show Host, Mr Sandy McCutcheon), a larger than ever, steady stream of refugee boats began to assail our shores.

Hi Sandy! Another note for your team to ponder. I hope it makes sense.

About the boat people landings of the last month, the refugee "crises" across the globe, and the future of national borders.

Australia is in a unique position in these matters, simply because it has the most unoccupied, arable land, with the lowest density of population. Also pertinent, is it's "island" geography.

I'm drawn, upon pondering these issues, to conclude that the "boat people" 'problem' is not going to go away in the 21" century. Indeed, with the facts of land mass and low population well known, I suggest the onslaught of refugee boats will significantly increase.

As wars inevitably erupt across the planet, from Kosovo, through the Middle East, Pakistan-v-India, Burma, Thailand, up through the far east to Japan and Korea, with China unavoidably participating, (all principally, economically caused) we at the bottom end of the land chain, will be a natural destination for the innumerable numbers of peace seeking, yet powerless folk of those regions.

To most of these desperate people, they will simply have no choice but to ''take their chances" on being allowed to stay here.

If I may, allow me to predict that by the middle of the next century, national borders will exist only "on paper" in the offices of the evermore militaristic governments. In fact I go so far as to suggest that things will be rather more different than that, where governments as we knew them will basically be of two possible types. 1) many, many small and autonomous, tribal, peaceful and popular governments, or 2) one, big, utter mess.

Not only is "national borders existing only on paper" relevant to global corporations, but the increasing spread of Human Injustice, will cause quite possibly billions of people to flee there homes and lands, disregarding borders altogether.

Unless we, our governments, and our disintegrating religious bodies, wake-up to themselves, bight the bullet, and protest for changes to world economic policy, there will result, apart from uncountable international and civil wars, a permanent, huge body of nomadic, impoverished refugees wandering, staggering and running across the globe.

Ethnic and religious persecution and cleansing will increase.

Many Australians, being typically "Australian " (my own pejorative analysis on "being Australian" ie., racist, narrow, unwise and unintelligent) may, should they be given to entertain this prediction, sit back with smug ignorance and say things like "Ah! They'll never get across the water, Mayte! Ha! Ha! 'Ave another beeeeer!"

We shouldn't bother with such attitudes, unless they are preventing the government from introducing Humane Justice policies which concord with the Wisdoms of Yeshua ben Joseph (Jesus Christ).

But, the reality is, it is precisely such attitudes which do negatively effect all positive political and economic advances, at the ballot.

By around 2020 AD, Australia will not be able to ignore what (I believe) will be happening elsewhere to the greater mass of Humanity.

While many refugee-nomads may be thwarted because of "the water" from getting to Australia, the global economic depression will still be in effect twenty years after Wall Street's bubble finally bursts (if, it does, in the early-mid 2000s), and Australia will not escape. With that will be global chaos, unless, Australia steps to the fore of international policy making on political, economic, land and religious reforms, as never yet seen.

Humanity has two choices.

We can ignore the big picture and/or take the Wisdoms offered relating to the big picture solutions and pervert them for personal political opportunity, leading Humanity no where Good.

Or

We can unload a few treasonably wrong beliefs, theories and opinions we all have about what we are actually doing here on Earth, so the (Ring of...?) Truth may be heard (from within).

I also suggest that Australia will sooner than later, just have to open it's borders to whoever, because we will not be able to do otherwise. Neither would it be Humane to do otherwise.

Therefore intelligent people in positions of influence would do well to begin working on the likes of the "Visionary" points I put to you some weeks ago, about "lots and lots of lovely little cities or lots and lots of lovely large villages sprinkled across the Land...." etc etc.

Such policies will ease the global burden I predict in the next fifty years, and begin the necessary changes to Good Governance worldwide, so putting off the "Armageddon" (outta here!) for a long enough period for people to learn the immense value of Self-Knowledge, and the adage........................,
''World Peace, comes first....., from Within.....''

Aum and Shalom!


Yours, Eden Wise
aka Max No Difference.