{"id":405,"date":"2005-05-17T20:24:24","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T10:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2005-05-17T20:24:24","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T10:24:24","slug":"poll-if-this-man-was-is-an-australian-citizen-where-should-we-deport-him-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/poll-if-this-man-was-is-an-australian-citizen-where-should-we-deport-him-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: If this man was (is) an Australian citizen – where should we deport him to?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piano may be the key to mystery man from the sea – World – theage.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, that’s right folks – I’m conducting a poll. Post your comments in comments (duh).<\/p>\n

If this man, found wandering, distressed, without a passport and unable (or unwilling) to speak was found in Australia, and was an Australian citizen – where do you think he would be deported to?<\/p>\n

If you aren’t too good at geography, I offer the following canned responses:
\na) Asia, somewhere small, possibly with a bunch of islands. He could be one of them
\nb) Middle east. It’s safe there now, we killed the evil doers.
\nc) Europe somewhere, those leftist weirdos.
\nd) a british boyband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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