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Archae

(46,340 posts)
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:47 PM Sep 2013

Remember the "Christian" couple that got lost and stranded in their boat?

The ones so far to the right they fell off their chairs?
Well, they are going to try again...

Conservative Christian Voyagers Who Were Lost In The Pacific Plan To Leave Again, Fear Immigration Reform

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 9/16/2013 3:25 pm

An Arizona family that fled the US by boat only to be lost at sea is planning to leave again, once again by boat. Back in August, the Gastonguay family cited “abortion, homosexuality [and] the state-controlled church” as reasons for leaving the US to the island nation of Kiribati. However, the voyage did not go as planned as damage to their boat left them “adrift for weeks.” “They were eventually picked up by a Venezuelan fishing vessel, transferred to a Japanese cargo ship and taken to Chile,” the Associated Press reported. Sean Gastonguay appeared on TruNews with Rick Wiles yesterday to discuss his plans to leave with his wife and children once again to escape what he perceives as anti-Christian persecution.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/conservative-christian-voyagers-who-were-lost-pacific-plan-leave-again-fear-immigration-refo#sthash.Pm6fPgag.dpuf

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Remember the "Christian" couple that got lost and stranded in their boat? (Original Post) Archae Sep 2013 OP
Dear Right-Wing Boneheads Jeff In Milwaukee Sep 2013 #1
Dear Jeff, petronius Sep 2013 #10
LOL! Jeff In Milwaukee Sep 2013 #12
Have they heard of planes? hrmjustin Sep 2013 #2
Maybe they think God told them planes are "sinful." Archae Sep 2013 #6
Apparently, they hate airplanes too Xipe Totec Sep 2013 #3
Perhaps they could try for an island near the Bermuda Triangle, or in it. Autumn Sep 2013 #4
take their kids KT2000 Sep 2013 #5
Amen. LiberalLoner Sep 2013 #8
In 20 years, their target island will be underwater. haele Sep 2013 #7
Maybe they expect to be raptured before that. nt. Mariana Sep 2013 #19
More of a reply to posts #1 and #2: Raine1967 Sep 2013 #9
Are they emigrating there LEGALLY? Looks like Kiribati has a bit of an over-population problem. arcane1 Sep 2013 #11
Fundies don't believe in over-population. LuvNewcastle Sep 2013 #37
Is stupidity hereditary... Dpm12 Sep 2013 #13
I think I found a picture of the father! Rex Sep 2013 #14
Love it! Early is my favorite COLGATE4 Sep 2013 #36
Has it occured to them? Chan790 Sep 2013 #15
I have a feeling Kiribatians won't like them at all after they unpack their LuvNewcastle Sep 2013 #38
Where the hell are they sailing to? Myrina Sep 2013 #16
Fucking idiots gopiscrap Sep 2013 #17
"Honey, I'm concerned by all the illegal immigrants here! Let's struggle4progress Sep 2013 #18
OK I know they are nuts, but d_r Sep 2013 #20
Oh, so the Ark kit finally arrived. xfundy Sep 2013 #21
Kiribati (Tarawa) is sinking as the ocean rises; residents are leaving Hekate Sep 2013 #22
Maybe they're going to start a new Eden. xfundy Sep 2013 #24
More likely they'll die of shock, if not cholera. Eden is not possible there any more. Hekate Sep 2013 #29
If that's what it takes to make Eden, I should be LuvNewcastle Sep 2013 #39
God works in mysterious ways. xfundy Sep 2013 #43
they're leaving faster now Enrique Sep 2013 #42
I predict another major fail snooper2 Sep 2013 #23
So they're going to become immigrants themselves. Arugula Latte Sep 2013 #25
Insanity mikeysnot Sep 2013 #26
Take their kids first. tazkcmo Sep 2013 #27
Why don't they just get on a fuckin' plane??? Is there no one to stop them from taking minor Nay Sep 2013 #28
Did children's welfare services ever contact these two asshole parents? Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #30
I hope the Coast Guard sends them the bill for the next rescue. nt Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #31
uh are airplanes the work of the devil ? Passenger Ships too? lunasun Sep 2013 #32
Funny I didn't realize they were alive. dkf Sep 2013 #33
Here, the mentally il can be forcefully committed NightWatcher Sep 2013 #34
Those poor kids need to be taken away and de-programmed LuvNewcastle Sep 2013 #40
Bon voyage! n/t ljm2002 Sep 2013 #35
Note: climate change is irrelevant to these nutjobs Nevernose Sep 2013 #41

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
1. Dear Right-Wing Boneheads
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:48 PM
Sep 2013

Kiribati has a perfectly good airport. Have you ever considered.....no. I really don't think you have.

petronius

(26,602 posts)
10. Dear Jeff,
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:56 PM
Sep 2013

Please don't tell these boneheads about our airport. In fact, lets just tell them that we moved. Or we're closed for the season. Or something like that. Thanks for your help!

Sincerely,
The Republic of Kiribati





(Caveat: I don't actually live in, nor do I represent, the Republic of Kiribati or its interests.)

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
12. LOL!
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:57 PM
Sep 2013

The residents of Kiribati are thinking, "How fucking far away do we have to be to escape these assholes?!"

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)
3. Apparently, they hate airplanes too
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:49 PM
Sep 2013

Otherwise they would have already arrived at their destination by commercial airline transport.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
11. Are they emigrating there LEGALLY? Looks like Kiribati has a bit of an over-population problem.
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:57 PM
Sep 2013

And then there is this:
In June 2008, Kiribati officials asked Australia and New Zealand to accept Kiribati citizens as permanent refugees. Kiribati is expected to be the first country to lose all its land territory to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati president Anote Tong said that the country has reached "...the point of no return." He added, "To plan for the day when you no longer have a country is indeed painful but I think we have to do that."

In early 2012, the government of Kiribati purchased the 2,200-hectare Natoavatu Estate on the second largest island of Fiji, Vanua Levu. At the time it was widely,but incorrectly, reported that the Government planned to evacuate the entire population of Kiribati to Fiji. However, in April 2013, President Tong began urging citizens to evacuate the islands and migrate elsewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati#Independence_to_present_day

Is it wrong for to laugh if these fools end up being deported as illegal immigrants once they arrive?

LuvNewcastle

(16,847 posts)
37. Fundies don't believe in over-population.
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 06:46 PM
Sep 2013

It's all a liberal lie to destroy families and get people to have abortions. Gawd said, "Be fruitful and multiply," don't you know? Humans can breed all they want; Gawd created a world that will take care of all of us. Have faith, arcane 1!

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
15. Has it occured to them?
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:59 PM
Sep 2013

Kiribati may not want them and will probably deport them back to the US.

LuvNewcastle

(16,847 posts)
38. I have a feeling Kiribatians won't like them at all after they unpack their
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 06:49 PM
Sep 2013

Bibles and start telling everybody they're going to hell.

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
16. Where the hell are they sailing to?
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 05:01 PM
Sep 2013

Or are they just waiting for Jebus' dad to send another flood?

d_r

(6,907 posts)
20. OK I know they are nuts, but
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 05:06 PM
Sep 2013

why in the world would they hat pick Kiribati? Islands that are already over crowded and asking for refugees to be accepted in Australia, predicted to be the first island overtaken by water due to global warming. Why not pitcairn? or something like dolce or Henderson? Why the Gilberts?

xfundy

(5,105 posts)
21. Oh, so the Ark kit finally arrived.
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 05:13 PM
Sep 2013

All the animals, insects, bacteria, germs and other microscopic creatures will line up and march in pairs up the boat ramp, just like in the sunday school pics.

Hekate

(90,751 posts)
22. Kiribati (Tarawa) is sinking as the ocean rises; residents are leaving
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 05:13 PM
Sep 2013
http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/kiribati-a-nation-going-under/590/

Out on the equator lies a threadbare nation of 33 squat islands and wispy atolls that trails 5,000 kilometres west across the Pacific; Kiribati is an unbounded oceanic territory of warming and rising seas, shrinking landfalls and dwindling fresh water. The living are being told to leave. ...

The waves are slowly seeping over Kiribati, which is at the frontline of the climate-change-induced rise in sea levels striking low-lying nations all over the world. Formerly part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands — a British protectorate until the mid 1970s — Kiribati is lower, frailer and more defenceless. It may be the first nation to enter an end game against climate change.
Kiribati’s leaders now face wrenching questions: How many of its 100,000 people will need to leave? Where will they go? How will it feed those remaining? And, as its islands become uninhabitable, can Kiribati remain a nation at all?

BEFORE A JET TOUCHES DOWN ON TARAWA’S RUNWAY, a ritual intensified by climate change must be enacted on the ground. So over-crowded is Tarawa — 51,000 people are jammed onto a 35-kilometre-long sliver of coral — that a few hundred people now live in shanties made of discarded wood and palm fronds within the scrub next to the runway. Just before the only air link with the outside world lands — a Boeing 737 comes twice a week from Fiji — a white truck is sent up and down the runway to warn off the squatters and others who use the strip as a thoroughfare. Sometimes the airport’s aged fire engine joins in. A red flag is hoisted from a low control tower as the jet screams toward a runway just a few metres above sea level.

Tarawa’s population density of 5,200 people per square kilometre equates to London’s. It is fast increasing. Almost every metre of land available for dwellings has been taken. The atoll’s graveyards are full, and public health officials are troubled that people frequently bury the dead alongside their homes and hand-dug wells.

The Kiribati government forecasts that the population on Tarawa will double to 103,000 in 17 years — if it cannot persuade legions of its citizens to emigrate, slow their birth rate (currently nearly double Australia’s) and move at least some to outer islands.
But some outer islands are also being invaded by the sea. Their fragile fresh water reserves stored naturally beneath the ground are dying away and more and more displaced outer islanders are flocking to Tarawa.

The population pressure is now so great that a health catastrophe foments; hundreds of squatters are living where dwellings are banned — on top of Tarawa atoll’s main water lens, the shallow underground bubble in which fresh water gathers when rain seeps through the ground. This lens is the main source of fresh water for tens of thousands of people — water from it is pumped throughout Tarawa. The squatters living atop this vital supply, which sits barely 1.5 metres below ground level, keep pigs and dogs and are likely to be burying animals nearby. There is a real possibility of serious contamination, such as by cholera, triggered by faeces or decomposing tissue leaching through the ground to the fresh water.

BUNDLES OF WIRING DROOP out of the of the disintegrating ceilings within the offices of Kevin Rouata’s Public Utilities Board. Around this building, in bustling, dusty Betio, the commercial centre of Tarawa, and its most overcrowded district, people live jammed together in houses and shanties. Here, the population density is estimated to be three times that of Tokyo.


I think I've exceeded the max for quotes, but I recommend the article. The Gastonguays are entirely out of touch with reality and unless they are stopped they will get their children drowned at sea along with themselves. I'd say dump them off on Tarawa, but the Kiribatans have done nothing to deserve this bit of American madness to add to the abundant troubles they already have.



xfundy

(5,105 posts)
43. God works in mysterious ways.
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 10:05 PM
Sep 2013

Ordered your Ark patterns yet?

I've never been to MS, but I've been to Alabama, so I got what I imagine is a small taste of what you live with. Hope you can get out of there if that's your wish.

mikeysnot

(4,757 posts)
26. Insanity
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 05:19 PM
Sep 2013

doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results... I feel for their children.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
28. Why don't they just get on a fuckin' plane??? Is there no one to stop them from taking minor
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 05:26 PM
Sep 2013

children on a voyage that they most probably won't survive, considering they barely survived the first time they pulled this brain-dead stunt?

Rather than spend hundreds or thousands on a second rescue, can we just buy them some goddamn plane tickets????

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
30. Did children's welfare services ever contact these two asshole parents?
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 05:29 PM
Sep 2013

Unreal they're going to do this again....wacko's.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
34. Here, the mentally il can be forcefully committed
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 06:19 PM
Sep 2013

if they area risk to themselves or others.

These people have kids that their lunacy is putting at risk.

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
41. Note: climate change is irrelevant to these nutjobs
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 07:05 PM
Sep 2013

Because American religious fundamentalists believe that science is part of the liberal government conspiracy to persecute "real" Christians.

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