By An Old Friend
Wed, Nov 10, 2021 2:18 a.m.
Camp of the Saints Scenario Article, from May
N.S.: The only humane solution is the dissolution of the EU.
AOF: I first heard of Jean Raspail's dystopian -- but utterly obvious! -- novel from The Atlantic's December 1994 cover article "Must It Be the West against the Rest?, by Yale historians Matthew Connelly (grad student) and David Kennedy (named-chair professor). Here's a quote from their memorable article:
Many members of the more prosperous economies are beginning to agree with Raspail's vision: a world of two "camps," North and South, separate and unequal, in which the rich will have to fight and the poor will have to die if mass migration is not to overwhelm us all.
And here's the end of Raspail's preface to his book's third edition:
[W]hat to do?
I am a novelist. I have no theory, no system nor ideology to propose or defend. It just seems to me that we are facing a unique alternative: either learn the resigned courage of being poor or find again the inflexible courage to be rich. In both cases, so-called Christian charity will prove itself powerless. The times will be cruel.
So here's the article, from the hopelessly leftist Guardian, which accounts for things like the "illegal" in the headline:
Revealed: 2,000 refugee deaths linked to illegal EU pushbacks
A Guardian analysis finds EU countries used brutal tactics to stop nearly 40,000 asylum seekers crossing borders
nearly 40,000 asylum seekers crossing borders
EU member states have used illegal operations to push back at least 40,000 asylum seekers from Europe's borders during the pandemic, methods being linked to the death of more than 2,000 people, the Guardian can reveal.
[N.S.: Those were way too few deaths to discourage the invaders.]
In one of the biggest mass expulsions in decades, European countries, supported by EU's border agency Frontex, has systematically pushed back refugees, including children fleeing from wars, in their thousands, using illegal tactics ranging from assault to brutality during detention or transportation.
[N.S.: Translation: The EU is a suicide pact.]
The Guardian's analysis is based on reports released by UN agencies, combined with a database of incidents collected by non-governmental organisations. According to charities, with the onset of Covid-19, the regularity and brutality of pushback practices has grown.
"Recent reports suggest an increase of deaths of migrants attempting to reach Europe and, at the same time, an increase of the collaboration between EU countries with non-EU countries such as Libya, which has led to the failure of several rescue [N.S.: correction: invasion] operations,'' said one of Italy's leading human rights and immigration experts [sic], Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo, professor of asylum law at the University of Palermo. ''In this context, deaths at sea since the beginning of the pandemic are directly or indirectly linked to the EU approach aimed at closing all doors to Europe and the increasing externalisation of migration control to countries such as Libya.''
The findings come as the EU's anti-fraud watchdog, Olaf, has launched an investigation into Frontex over allegations of harassment, misconduct and unlawful operations aimed at stopping asylum seekers from reaching EU shores.
According to the International Organization for Migration, in 2020 almost 100,000 immigrants arrived in Europe by sea and by land compared with nearly 130,000 in 2019 and 190,000 in 2017.
Since January 2020, despite the drop in numbers, Italy, Malta, Greece, Croatia and Spain have accelerated their hardline migration agenda. Since the introduction of partial or complete border closures to halt the outbreak of coronavirus, these countries have paid non-EU states and enlisted private vessels to intercept boats in distress [B.S.!] at sea and push back passengers into detention centres. There have been repeated reports of people being beaten, robbed, stripped naked at frontiers or left at sea.
[N.S.: Good news!]
In 2020 Croatia, whose police patrol the EU's longest external border, have intensified systemic violence [i.e., self-defense] and pushbacks of migrants to Bosnia. The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) recorded nearly 18,000 migrants pushed back by Croatia since the start of the pandemic. Over the last year and a half, the Guardian has collected testimonies of migrants [illegal aliens] who have allegedly been whipped, robbed, sexually abused and stripped naked by members of the Croatian police. Some migrants said they were spray-painted with red crosses on their heads by officers who said the treatment was the "cure against coronavirus".
According to an annual report released on Tuesday by the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN), a coalition of 13 NGOs documenting illegal pushbacks in the western Balkans, abuse and disproportionate force was present in nearly 90% of testimonies in 2020 collected from Croatia, a 10% increase on 2019.
[N.S.: Who knows how much of this stuff is even true, or just open borders porno.]
In April, the Guardian revealed how a woman from Afghanistan was allegedly sexually abused and held at knifepoint by a Croatian border police officer during a search of migrants [sic] on the border with Bosnia.
"Despite the European Commission's engagement with Croatian authorities in recent months, we have seen virtually no progress, neither on investigations of the actual reports, nor on the development of independent border monitoring mechanisms," said Nicola Bay, DRC country director for Bosnia. "Every single pushback represents a violation of international and EU law – whether it involves violence or not."
[What "international law"? That's just rhetorical garbage.]
Since January 2020, Greece has pushed back about 6,230 asylum seekers from its shores, according to data from BVMN. The report stated that in 89% of the pushbacks, "BVMN has observed the disproportionate [sic] and excessive [sic] use of force. This alarming number shows that the use of force in an abusive, and therefore illicit, way has become a normality […]
"Extremely cruel examples of police violence documented in 2020 included prolonged excessive beatings (often on naked bodies), water immersion, the physical abuse of women and children, the use of metal rods to inflict injury."
[N.S.: Be still, my heart!]
In testimonies, people described how their hands were tied to the bars of cells and helmets put on their heads before beatings to avoid visible bruising.
A lawsuit filed against the Greek state in April at the European court of human rights accused Athens of abandoning dozens of migrants in life rafts at sea, after some had been beaten. The case claims that Greek patrol boats towed migrants back to Turkish waters and abandoned them at sea without food, water, lifejackets or any means to call for help.
BVMN said: "Whether it be using the Covid-19 pandemic and the national lockdown to serve as a cover for pushbacks, fashioning open-air prisons, or preventing boats from entering Greek waters by firing warning shots toward boats, the evidence indicates the persistent refusal to uphold democratic values, human rights and international and European law."
[N.S.: "Democratic values"? "Human rights"? This is just racial socialist jargon, to which the proper answer is, Go to hell!]
According to UNHCR data, since the start of the pandemic, Libyan authorities – with Italian support since 2017, when Rome ceded responsibility for overseeing Mediterranean rescue operations to Libya – intercepted and pushed back to Tripoli about 15,500 asylum seekers. The controversial strategy has caused the forced return of thousands to Libyan detention centres where, according to first hand reports, they face torture.
[N.S.: They should have been shot as enemy soldiers.]
Hundreds have drowned when neither Libya nor Italy intervened.
"In 2020 this practice continued, with an increasingly important role being played by Frontex planes, sighting boats at sea and communicating their position to the Libyan coastguard," said Matteo de Bellis, migration researcher at Amnesty International. "So, while Italy at some point even used the pandemic as an excuse to declare that its ports were not safe for the disembarkation of people rescued at sea, it had no problem with the Libyan coastguard returning people to Tripoli. Even when this was under shelling or when hundreds were forcibly disappeared immediately after disembarkation."
In April, Italy and Libya were accused of deliberately ignoring a mayday call from a migrant boat in distress in Libyan waters, as waves reached six metres. A few hours later, an NGO rescue boat discovered dozens of bodies floating in the waves. That day 130 migrants were lost at sea.
[N.S.: Failed military operation.]
In April, in a joint investigation with the Italian Rai News and the newspaper Domani, the Guardian saw documents from Italian prosecutors detailing conversations between two commanders of the Libyan coastguard and an Italian coastguard officer in Rome. The transcripts appeared to expose the non-responsive behaviour of the Libyan officers and their struggling to answer the distress calls which resulted in hundreds of deaths.
At least five NGO boats remain blocked in Italian ports as authorities claim administrative reasons for holding them.
"Push- and pull-back operations have become routine, as have forms of maritime abandonment where hundreds were left to drown,'' said a spokesperson at Alarm Phone, a hotline service for migrants [sic] in distress at sea. ''We have documented so many shipwrecks that were never officially accounted for, and so we know that the real death toll is much higher. In many of the cases, European coastguards have refused to respond – they rather chose to let people drown or to intercept them back to the place they had risked their lives to escape from. Even if all European authorities try to reject responsibility, we know that the mass dying is a direct result of both their actions and inactions. These deaths are on Europe.''
[N.S.: And the deaths, maimings, robberies and rapes the invaders commit are on the genocidal racial socialists.]
Malta, which declared its ports closed early last year, citing the pandemic, has continued to push back hundreds of migrants using two strategies: enlisting private vessels to intercept asylum seekers and force them back to Libya or turning them away with directions to Italy.
[N.S.: Good for Malta!]
"Between 2014 and 2017, Malta was able to count on Italy to take responsibility for coordinating rescues and allowing disembarkations," said De Bellis. "But when Italy and the EU withdrew their ships from the central Mediterranean, to leave it in Libya's hands, they left Malta more exposed. In response, from early 2020 the Maltese government used tactics to avoid assisting refugees [sic] and migrants [sic] in danger at sea, including arranging unlawful pushbacks to Libya by private fishing boats, diverting boats rather than rescuing them, illegally detaining hundreds of people on ill-equipped ferries off Malta's waters, and signing a new agreement with Libya to prevent people from reaching Malta."
Last May, a series of voice messages obtained by the Guardian confirmed the Maltese government's strategy to use private vessels, acting at the behest of its armed forces, to intercept crossings and return refugees to Libyan detention centres.
In February 2020, the European court of human rights was accused of "completely ignoring the reality" after it ruled Spain did not violate the prohibition of collective expulsion, as asylum applications could be made at the official border crossing point. Relying on this judgment, Spain's constitutional court upheld "border rejections" provided certain safeguards apply.
Last week, the bodies of 24 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were found by Spain's maritime rescue. They are believed to have died of dehydration while attempting to reach the Canary Islands. In 2020, according to the UNHCR, 788 migrants died trying to reach Spain.
[N.S.: Way too few.]
Frontex said they couldn't comment on the total figures without knowing the details of each case, but said various authorities took action to respond to the dinghy that sunk off the coast of Libya in April, resulting in the deaths of 130 people.
"The Italian rescue centre asked Frontex to fly over the area. It's easy to forget, but the central Mediterranean is massive and it's not easy or fast to get from one place to another, especially in poor weather. After reaching the area where the boat was suspected to be, they located it after some time and alerted all of the Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centres (MRCCs) in the area. They also issued a mayday call to all boats in the area (Ocean Viking was too far away to receive it)."
He said the Italian MRCC, asked by the Libyan MRCC, dispatched three merchant vessels in the area to assist. Poor weather made this difficult. "In the meantime, the Frontex plane was running out of fuel and had to return to base. Another plane took off the next morning when the weather allowed, again with the same worries about the safety of the crew.
"All authorities, certainly Frontex, did all that was humanly possible under the circumstances."
He added that, according to media reports, there was a Libyan coast guard vessel in the area, but it was engaged in another rescue operation.
2 comments:
"refugees, including children fleeing from wars, in their thousands, using illegal tactics"
If anyone is to blame it is the illegals who use small children as shields and pawns in their effort to enter the EU. Evil and perverse.
Take a look at the attitudes of the elites themselves in these poor countries these refugees are coming from. No the elites in India and Brazil are not "evil" they have learned the realistic lesson there is nothing they can do about their own lowlifes breeding like flies. They care about their own family and the competent elements in their society and let nature take it's course for the bums sleeping in the streets. It's either that or cull them which very few societies can ever bring themselves to do. The West as a whole needs to take this attitude to the South. If they overpopulate, stop feeding them and let nature cull their numbers back to a more sustainable reality. The "Bill Gates wants depopulation" conspiracy theories are on to something, maybe he's right. Only problem is we are letting the good breeding stock decline in numbers instead of the crime prone low IQ masses we allowed to breed well beyond any reasonable niche in the world other than parasite. These bums camping under the Rio Grande Bridge are essentially the Jackoffosaurus' from South Park. Too bad Bill Gates really ISN'T targeting them with his "conspiracy vaccine of death."
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