Seeking Asylum From The Asylum

The issue with Brandon Huntley in Canada has to make you wonder about many aspects of various systems in place all over the world. Aside from him there are over 600 registered refugees from South Africa worldwide. Germany has the most. How they got their asylum isn't really important, what is important is what happens if Brandon Huntley is deported back to south Africa?

I agree with common sentiment, that he probably over exaggerrated and compounded his experience of violence in South Africa when he was still here in order to get a favourable judgement, not thinking that his statements would be made so globally public and open up a mighty can of worms for all and sundry. The Canadian authorities, now trying to spare their blushes, probably also didn't research the claims thoroughly enough either, and this has now created an international incident.

So what happens to Huntley when he returns. My belief is two fold: he will either be dead within weeks of getting home, killed by some vigilante angry ethnic person or he will become such a household name that harming him would become so unthinkable, even for the intrinsically stupid violence lovers our country has so readily available. If he gets killed, the world's eyes may be opened to the very violent crimes which happen here on a day to day basis and many more asylum seekers will be granted swift refugee status, or if he doesn't get killed he will become the equivilent of a non rugby playing Luke Watson. Loved by some for his candid outspoken truthes, and hated by more for his dragging South Africa through a puddle of mud, and "dissing" his homeland, ala Kevin Pietersen. Either way, one can quietly say that he has made a name for himself. All that talk about bad publicity being better than no publicity will be tested to the full here.