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Hunger strike!

Posted by deleted 9 years, 1 month ago to News
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So they won't eat until they're granted asylum, huh? That's a situation that will take care of itself in a couple of weeks. I wish all problems that we face could be solved so easily!
SOURCE URL: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-immigrant-hunger-strike-20151106-story.html


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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years ago
    AAAAWWWW. Poor babies! Maybe I should invite them to Thanksgiving dinner -- if they're alive by then. Does water count? If they refuse water, the whole thing could be over next week.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 9 years ago
    Right you are! Remember what Margaret Thatcher did during the Irish hunger strike in the early 1980's. She had no sympathy for them and eventually ten of them died. Don't give into these creeps and moochers.
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  • Posted by samrigel 9 years ago
    Screw them! Don't come into my home and make demands on me. Stay in your own country and fight to fix what you don't like. Ooohhhh yea, let's revisit the hunger strike in ...... say a month. :-)
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years ago
    What a bunch of spoiled brats. My kids try to pull this about once - usually when they're about two. They end up in their room - hungry - for a while. Their stomachs quickly end their rebellion. I would suggest the same here.

    These people are spoiled brats.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago
    let's see ... 3 threes is the old rule from survival school:::

    3 minutes without air
    3 days without water
    3 weeks without food

    we only have to wait a month! -- j
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 1 month ago
    Strange, how the prisoners at Gitmo did the same thing.

    Saying this... They're not prisoners, so they have the right to not eat if they don't want to. Look at the money they're going to safe by not feeding them.

    Of course, the solution is go back from whence you came. IIRC nothing states that we will automatically grant anyone refugee status - each case is reviewed and determined on a case-by-case basis. If they don't like feeling "detained", then send them back to their point of origin where they can no longer accuse us of "detaining them".
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years ago
      Food will be provided and wasted along with the money that paid for it.
      At the state prison where I worked at for 21 years, a hunger striker is placed under medical observation.
      He is offered food three times a day.
      Each time he refuses the food is dumped.
      Oh, one other thing.
      I never saw a hunger striker starve to death.
      In fact, I never saw a single one really starve himself into a seriously bad way.
      I don't recall there being a penalty for causing such a bother either.
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      • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years ago
        They're not prisoners, so there's nothing you can do to force them to eat. Nor would I - maybe they would then understand that to live here you have to take some self-responsibilty, not expect the nanny state to provide you a dole like some other places might. If you think this sucks, then maybe you shouldn't have left where you came from. Hmmm?
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