Stranded Anti-Refugee Activists Saved By... A Refugee Rescue Ship

IF YOU CAN RECALL, WE RECENTLY COVERED A STORY ABOUT
A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO REFER TO THEMSELVES AS DEFENDING EUROPE.
THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE TO STOP RESCUE
EFFORTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS SEE WHERE THEY TRY TO SAVE
REFUGEES WHO MIGHT POTENTIALLY DROWN AND DIE AS THEY ARE
TRYING TO FLEE THEIR WAR-TORN COUNTRIES.
DEFENDING EUROPE IS UNHAPPY ABOUT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
ACCEPTING REFUGEES FROM AFRICA OR FROM MIDDLE EASTERN
COUNTRIES AND SO THEY WANT TO KIND OF GET IN THE WAY OF SOME
OF THESE NGOS THAT ARE TRYING TO RESCUE REFUGEES AT SEA.
VOLUNTEERS THOUGH FOR THE GERMAN, BEFORE HE GETS BACK
GRAPHIC.
RECENTLY, DEFEND EUROPE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
AND THEY REALIZED THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY STOP THESE NGOS FROM
SAVING REFUGEES, BUT THEY WANT TO AT LEAST YELL AT THEM AND
KIND OF MONITOR WHAT IS GOING ON SO AS THEY WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF
THIS THEY WERE STRANDED.
THEY HAD A MECHANICAL ISSUE AND THEY NEEDED HELP AND GUESS WHAT?
THE ONLY PEOPLE AROUND TO HELP THEM WERE THOSE WHO WERE
SAVING THE REFUGEES SO IT WAS A REFUGEE SHIFT.
VOLUNTEERS TO THE GERMAN BEST OF VESSEL WHO DEFEND EUROPE
HAS ACCUSED OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING, SAID THEY HAD
BEEN CONTRACTED BY ITALIAN OFFICIALS TO ASSIST THE
RIGHT-WING GROUPS SEE STARSHIP BECAUSE IT WAS UNABLE TO
MANEUVER DURING TO A MECHANICAL FAILURE.
THE CHAIRMAN ON THE SHIP THEY NEEDED TO SAVE THOSE WHO RUN THE
DEFEND EUROPE SHIP SAID, THAT IS WHAT MICHAEL BUSCH HEUER SAID.
THAT IS AN AWESOME QUOTE AND THEY DID.
THEY WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HELPS
THOSE THAT WERE STRANDED.
INITIALLY, THEY REFUSED HELP BUT LATER THEY DIDN'T REFUSE
HELP BECAUSE THEY WERE STRANDED AT SEA.
RIGHT WING EXTREMIST ARE INCOMPETENT.
I DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING.
LOOK, THESE GUYS ARE TOO NICE, THE GUYS WERE HELPING THE
REFUGEES, THERE IS A WHOLE HOST THE PROGRESSIVES AND
LIBERALS IN THE WORLD THAT ARE WAY NICER THAN I AM.
IF I WAS ON THAT SHIP THAT IS NORMALLY HELPING REFUGEES
OF THESE GUYS NORMALLY TRY WOULD BE LIKE NO, WE'RE DEFINITELY
GOING TO HELP YOU.
YOU WOULD.
NO, I'M DEFINITELY GOING TO HELP YOU GUYS BUT FIRST,
I'M GOING TO NEED YOU TO PUT OUT A STATEMENT SAYING WE ARE
JUST AT SEA AND WE NEED HELP FROM REFUGEES.
AND I AM GOING TO NEED YOU TO SAY, WE ARE SORRY.
APPARENTLY, WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING, SOME
SORT OF STATEMENT LIKE THAT.
YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME ON
BOARD OF COURSE.
WE HELP PEOPLE, THAT'S WHAT WE DO.
AND THEY WOULD LIKE NO WAY, NOT GOING TO.
ANOTHER COUPLE
OF HOURS LATER THEYíRE LIKE I'M KIND OF HUNGRY.
I WANT THEM TO SAY, ACTUALLY, GUESS WHAT, IF WE'RE OUT
HERE FOR A LITTLE BIT LONGER WE'RE REFUGEES.
WE
ARE STRANDED OUT HERE AND WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO
BE OUT HERE AND AWAY FROM YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND MAYBE
YOU DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE TO BE AND TO BE STRANDED.
IN FACT, LOOK, IF I RAN PROGRESSIVE THINGS, WE WOULD BE
A LITTLE BIT TOUGHER FOR THE BETTER AND WORSE, BUT I WOULD
SURROUND THEM WITH SHIPS AND BE LIKE THE MINUTE YOU APOLOGIZE
ABOUT HOW WRONG YOUR IDEOLOGY WAS BECAUSE APPARENTLY,
SOMETIMES PEOPLE NEED HELP, THEN WE WILL
RESCUE YOU BUT IF YOU SAY PEOPLE DON'T NEED HELP YOU KNOW
WHAT WILL HAPPEN EVENTUALLY?
YOU DONíT UNDERSTAND, OUR LIFE IS IN DANGER.
EXACTLY, IDIOTS.
YOU KNOW 2400 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAVE DIED THIS
YEAR ALONE AND THOSE SHIPS?
THOSE ARE SHIPS ARE OUT THERE TRYING TO RESCUE
PEOPLE SO THEY DON'T DIE.
IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, THEY ARE DOING GOD'S WORK RIGHT?
THEY ARE DOING AMAZING WORK AND THEIR EUROPEANS WITH GREAT
BIG HEARTS WHO ARE JUST MAKING SURE THE PEOPLE DON'T DIE
AND THESE GUYS ARE OUT THERE, FIRST THEY WERE TRYING TO
PREVENT THEM AND THEN THEY RAN INTO A LOT OF LEGAL TROUBLE.
THINK ABOUT HOW VICIOUS AND MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE TO SAY I WANT TO
STOP YOU FROM RESCUING PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BE DYING AT SEA
BUT SINCE THEY CANíT DO IT LEGALLY, NOW NOT ONLY DO THEY GO AND
SHOUT AT THEM IN THE MIDDLE THE SEA, WITH CHILDREN, BUT
THEY ALSO ON THE RADIO AND THEY TRIED THE RADIO.
THEY TRY TO INTERRUPT THEIR COMMUNICATING WITH ONE ANOTHER.
BY THE WAY, THE CROWD FUNDED FOR THIS.
THEY BASICALLY TAKEN DONATIONS ARE PEOPLE SO THEY COULD GO
OUT TO SEE AND YELL AT INDIVIDUALS WHO MIGHT EVEN
BE RISKING THEIR OWN LIVES TO SAVE STRANDED REFUGEES.
THEY SPENT THE TIME THERE SHOUTING FROM THEIR
MEGAPHONES, AND TROLLING OTHER CREWS ON RADIO.
SEEMS REALLY PRODUCTIVE.
THE THING IS, I GET IT.
IF THIS IS IN FLUX OF PEOPLE COMING INTO YOUR COUNTRY AND YOU
DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU SEE THE DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGING, I GET IT.
SOME PEOPLE MIGHT BE ALARMED BY THAT AND IT IS OKAY TO HAVE
A CONVERSATION AND RAISE YOUR CONCERNS BUT UNFORTUNATELY,
LEGITIMATE CONCERNS GET MUDDLED BY THE LOUDEST PEOPLE, THE
SQUEAKY WHEELS WHO MAKE RIDICULOUS CLAIMS AGAINST
REFUGEES, THAT THEY ARE RAPISTS AND TERRORISTS AND THIS, A
LOT OF THEM ARE LITERALLY LEAVING THEIR OWN COUNTRY,
THE ONLY PLACE THEY'VE EVER KNOWN FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY
BECAUSE THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT GETTING MURDERED.
WE WOULD BE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF YOU IN THAT DEBATE IF WE
WERE HAVING THAT DEBATE.
ESPECIALLY IN AMERICA, BECAUSE AMERICA IS NOT BASED ON ANY
PARTICULAR ETHNICITY AND THE WHOLE POINT IS THAT THE
WHOLE WORLD IS WELCOME HERE.
READ THE POEM ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.
I THINK IF YOU ARE A DECENT PERSON YOU WOULD BE OPEN
AND WELCOMING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS
BUT EVEN IF YOU ARENíT, TO ANA'S POINT, YOU'VE AT LEAST GOT TO BE
DECENT ENOUGH TO SAY THINK ABOUT WHAT THESE PEOPLE WENT THROUGH.
THEY KNOW THEYíRE RISKING NOT ONLY THEIR LIVES BUT THEIR KIDS
LIVES.
THINK ABOUT THAT IF YOU ARE A PARENT.
HOW BAD DOES YOUR SITUATION HAVE TO BE FOR YOU TO RISK YOUR
KIDS LIVES OUT IN THE OCEAN TO TRY TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE?
THESE GUYS HAVE GONE OUT OF THEIR WAY TO TRY AND BLOCK
THAT FROM HAPPENING, SO IT IS ONE THING TO DEBATE ABOUT
THE SITUATION.
IT IS ANOTHER THING TO SEND A SHIP OUT THERE TO MAKE SURE
THEY ARE NOT RESCUED.
IT IS GROTESQUE.
AND THE WAY THAT THEY ARE ALSO CHARACTERIZING THIS AS
THEM PREVENTING AN INVASION, ENDANGERING THEIR CONTINENT.
WHAT YOU THINK COLONIALISM WAS?
ALSO THE TIME BETWEEN WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II
WHERE UNIVERSAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WENT TO WHERE THE
REFUGEES ARE COMING FROM AND COLONIZE THOSE COUNTRIES.
I THINK THEY ALSO DON'T HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORY
THAT PRODUCED THE REFUGEE SITUATION AND SO THERE IS VERY
LITTLE RESPONSIBILITY TAKEN BY EUROPE AND THEIR POLITICIANS,
AGAIN, IF THERE WAS SOMETHING EXPLAINED THROUGH SCHOOLING OR
EDUCATION SYSTEM, THROUGH POLITICAL OFFICIALS, THEN MAYBE
THEY COULD UNDERSTAND WHY THERE ARE REFUGEES AND REFUGEES ARE
BEING CREATED AT RECORD NUMBERS RIGHT NOW AND ALSO BECAUSE OF
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE KINDS OF OMISSIONS THAT WESTERN NATIONS
ARE PRODUCING THROUGH CARBON DIOXIDE SO ALL OF THIS SORT OF
STUFF IS THIS REALLY INTERESTING STANCE WHERE RIGHT WING FOLKS
FEEL LIKE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE BEING TARGETED, INVADED,
THEY'RE THE ONES IN DANGER WHILE YOU CAN GO TO THE GREEK ISLANDS,
WHICH I'VE BEEN TO, AND FASCISTS WILL COME INTO FLIMSY
REFUGEE CAMPS WITH FLIMSY TENTS AND SET THEM ON FIRE UNPROVOKED.
THEIR SQUADS AND ATHENS THAT WERE ORGANIZED FOR REFUGEES.
THEY HAVE COME DOWN THERE TO SET THEM ON FIRE.
FOR WHAT SORT OF REASON, RIGHT?
I THINK THAT IS WHERE THE DASTARDLY NEST OF ALL OF
THIS COMES INTO PLAY.
IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND EXTREME RIGHT-WINGERS, THE
MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IS THE CONCEPT
OF PROJECTION.
WHATEVER IT IS THAT IS IN THEIR HEAD, THEY PROJECTED ONTO
THE OTHER SIDE.
THAT GOES TO YOUR POINT, WHICH IS THE NORTHERN COUNTRIES
DID AN INVASION OF A LOT OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE AND
THEN WHEN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE HAS SOME PEOPLE
THAT ARE LEAVING BECAUSE OF SITUATIONS EITHER BAD
THEY'RE LIKE OH MY GOD, INVASION.
THEY WILL TURN AROUND, IN AMERICA, AGAIN, I'M NOT
RELITIGATING SLAVERY, I'M JUST GIVING YOU AN EXAMPLE OF
PROJECTION THOUGHT EXTREME RIGHT-WINGERS WILL SAY, BLACKS
ARE LAZY AND PRONE TO VIOLENCE.
WAY, WHO ENSLAVED TO?
AND WHO WORKS FOR FREE?
AND WHO WAS SO LAZY THAT THEY DID NOT WANT TO DO THEIR
FARMING SO BADLY THAT THEY WOULD ENSLAVE OTHER HUMAN BEINGS
SO THEY COULD SIT IN ON THEIR FAT ASS AT HOME AND MAKE
OTHER PEOPLE DO THEIR WORK.
WHO IS LAZY?
AND THEN SAY THEY ARE VIOLENT.
YOU KIDNAPPED THEM, A LOT OF TIMES KILLED, LYNCHED,
HUNG, RAPED THEM.
I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU TODAY.
A RANDOM WHITE GUY IN LITTLE NEBRASKA, YOU DIDN'T DO IT
BUT I'M TALKING ABOUT EXTREME RIGHT-WINGERS.
THEY KNOW THAT THAT HAPPENED BUT NONETHELESS, AND A GREAT
ACTOR PROJECTION OR HORRIFIC GO, BLACKS OF THE VIOLENT ONES.
BLACKS OF THE SAVAGES AND THE ONES WHO ARE LAZY.
IT HAPPENS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND THIS IS THE LATEST EXAMPLE
OF THAT KIND OF PROJECTION WHERE THEY SAY THESE POOR PEOPLE
WHO ARE SUFFERING UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE THE ONES
WHO ARE DANGEROUS AND INVADING US.

Stranded Anti-Refugee Activists Saved By... A Refugee Rescue Ship

Latest Posts