Acts Of Compassion: Tamil Tigers

Face Value Dept: The question is irrelevant, but the answer is yes. Sane people do not board a ship sailing to an unknowable destination in a light frivolous way. The circumstances in which these Tamil migrants left Sri Lanka were not happy. They were on the losing side of something very like a civil war. I could go on for some paragraphs describing the fix they were in -the greater for those of greatest danger to us in Canada, if they were in fact associated with the Tamil Tigers; and whose word, if they say they now regret this association, cannot be taken at face value, according to Montreal Gazette. As a public policy, "compassion" is nearly always a fraud; and I have inserted the word "nearly" only in case I think of an exception after filing this column. I can't think of one now and do I feel sorry for the latest batch of seaborne refugees to land in Canada? Notwithstanding, I am generally against public displays of compassion, and favour instead private, genuine, and therefore mostly invisible acts of compassion. As reported in the news.
@t montreal gazette, public displays