28th February 2014, 10:40 PM
I'm not saying they couldn't make some sort of twisted argument, but I don't think that's the one they'd make. Tortured, yes, but it would need to be something not quite so obviously stupid. Maybe something like... not even MENTIONING the "these people would die if they stayed there" part and instead bringing up how this makes us "look bad" and doesn't stand for "moral values". Pretty sure they wouldn't try to dress up a REFUGEE CAMP as "illegal immigration" though...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)