Tamil Boat People Are Not Genuine Refugees

First of all, let's drop the "migrant" bunkum. It's meaningless left-wing political claptrap.

Call the 490 Tamil "migrants," now being processed in British Columbia because of our over-accommodating and therefore outdated refugee policies, something more reflective of what they truly are.

Like queue-jumpers, scam artists, back-door home invaders, plus a terrorist or two.

Truth is, none is even a bona fide refugee, not when many of Sri Lanka's Tamil minority -- especially the 300,000 ex-pats now residing here, primarily in Toronto -- are financially or vocally supporting the Tamil Tigers, a blood-hungry terrorist organization condemned by 32 countries, including ours.

It was the Tamil Tigers, after all, who pioneered the despicable act of suicide bombings, and who are suspected in the assassination of Sri Lanka's president as well as former Indian president Rajiv Gandhi.

Only a fool would therefore believe no Tamil Tigers are hiding among the women and children aboard that ship now docked in CFB Esquimalt, and that they are not bent on forming a government-in-exile in our country should they go undetected.

After all, some $12 million has been raised by the Tamil diaspora living in Canada, and $300 million worldwide, to fund the Tamil Tigers' civil war back in Sri Lanka before it was finally defeated in 2009.

And it was this diaspora which also put up a goodly portion of the estimated $10 million it took to pay the smugglers who brought them here.

The goal, undoubtedly, is to keep the Tamil Tiger movement alive -- and do it on our soil.