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I am not sure even what term to use to call these people. Immigrants? Refugees? Pawns is a game so much bigger then them? Probably they are all of that.
I might cross over to the conspiracy side but there is something that my logical self cannot quite put together. Wars in the Middle-East and Africa are blamed for the influx of people but, now that Europe suffers the consequences of those wars, there is no wide call for ending them; no wide call to stop arming the various factions. All the discussion is about open doors vs closed doors. Is moving the discussion toward the real reason going to hurt some interests so it has to be avoided like the plague?
Then there is the issue of the rescue of people drowning in the Mediterranean. No one wants to see people become fish food but why the rescuers do not bring them back to Africa rather than to Europe? And why the navies of all the European countries facing the Mediterranean are not blocking the flux at the origin is another mystery.
Another mystery to me is how poor people can afford to pay for transport for thousands of miles, crossing several borders, feeding themselves for long period of time, unless there is someone who pays for it.
I do not think there is a chance that all this is happening without being part of someone’s plan. A well funded plan. For all this to happen there have to be complicity of political figures, media, and a lot of people who actually organize this mass movement. They over and over play on the humanity of people making them feel bad for the immigrants/refugees. They point their spotlights on cases involving children because they know that even the most callous soul will feel for them (while hiding the picture of the starving Yemeni kids, but that’s another story; or not.) Are maybe those children put in hard situation just for that reason?
What should we do? Help them? Reject them? Maybe we should start with understanding, really understanding, why they come. Understanding what can be done to help them, if help is needed at their home. Push our corrupted politicians to stop all those senseless wars. Stop all that interfering into other countries business. Stop playing god with other people’s life.
At the beginning of this post I asked if the immigrants are pawns in someone’s big games. I think the right question is if we all are pawns in someone’s game. If the answer is yes, maybe it is time to stop playing for them and play for ourselves, for humanity. Turn against the hidden masters starting with their knights and bishops. Maybe we and those immigrants have more in common than we think. Past the difference in language, color, religion we are all humans who want and needs the same basic things. We just, not small just, have to fight for those basic things against who wants to take them from us.