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Ive been subjected to over the past weeks regarding the migrants/refugees
issue that has dominated the mass media landscape. The reason why I chose
to keep neutrality over this matter was the obvious lack of truly neutral
sources that would only deliver the facts without editorialising the contents. All
thats passed before my eyes either came from one of the sides of the
barricade or the other. We were either dealing with an organised muslim
invasion or with an unprecedented humanitarian issue. It was either the
funeral rites of white christian Europe, or heart melting stories about human
desperation, about our brethren whose fate had befallen them. Ive seen
frightening videos with executions where men were burned alive (not 100%
certain of their truth, but they did seem pretty real), I have seen, from the
other side, images of dead children posed for maximum effect, drowned in the
same Mediterranean water that I was relaxing in not even two months ago. I
have seen news dating back to January, being promoted now as having any
sort of relevance to current wave of refugees, I have discovered all of a sudden
that numerous blog commentators (other blogs, not this one) and Facebook
posters are living in close proximity to centres that process migrants whom, in
theory, hadnt even reached the countries from which these reports came
and I also found it very interesting how everyone knew someone who faces
some kind of trouble with the muslim migrants. I have seen stories from the
other side that claimed ISIS had been created and funded by Israel, with the
Americans and the Europeans in tow, having no interest to end the civil war
because theyre selling weapons to all sides and now theyre turning these
refugees away like some goddamned nazis. It all came to a ridiculous climax
when I have seen the same video clip used by both sides to promote opposite
messages. On one hand we had the unjustly treated Syrian refugees who were
on a hunger strike on the platforms of Budapests train station because the
trains to Austria had been cancelled, while on the other hand, we had those
animals, making a mockery of all of us and especially of their own children,
who spat on the Hungarian police and threw the water and bread they had
been given to the ground Whos right and whos wrong?
The answer is both sides and neither. They both contain valid particles but they
both miss the mark completely because neither is capable of asking and
especially answering the tough questions that plague their own interpretation
of the facts. And, unfortunately, no one is able to reach down to the core of the
problem and to bring it to light. Thats the curse of our age where news no
longer report the facts but must promote a political agenda (itd be worth once
to conduct a study of the correlation between the increase of inheritance tax in
the US and the downfall of the great news agencies, but thats sadly only a
tangential subject nowadays).
After all, what are we facing? Is there a refugee wave or not? The images cant
lie and the overflowing platform of the Keleti station seems to indicate at least
a momentary surge of refugees. The question that should be asked is: why
have they come all at once, all of a sudden and after so long? Why was there
only one big push (there are no more news of people coming ashore in Greece
anymore)? Why are there only a few countries targeted by these
refugees (Germany, Austria, Sweden, The UK)? After all, the second they
stepped on European soil they got away from the threat of ISIS and from
Assads terrorist regime. The politicians in power arent allowed to ask these
questions because theyd be immediately torn to pieces by the angry leftists
for showing lack of compassion to our brothers in need and god forbid some
fascism or nazism tag ever stick to Merkels face because Germanys extremely
itchy about that (taking about rope in the hangmans lobby) and all the water
of the Rhine wont manage to wash it away. As a result we get, instead, idiot
politicians talking in cretin soundbites (the prime minister of Finland comes to
mind) and who cant afford to coldly analyse a situation.
Is it possible that we have ISIS agents/fighters among the refugees? Youd
have to be an idiot to think there arent any. This is a group that, at least
declaratively, is standing for replacement of the western civilisation by islam
and that has threatened terrorist attacks in the heart of Europe. No farther
than a month ago we were just under a minute and three brave men away
from renaming the Thalys into the Blood Train. On the other hand, its
extremely unlikely that the extremist backed point of view where over 90% of
the people are men (the Budapest videos have shown a much larger number of
women and children than the 10% implied) and the actual surge would be, in
fact, organised and orchestrated by ISIS itself in order to infiltrate Europe (its
be much simpler and less costly for them to just insert their agents in the
middle of a natural wave where theyd be harder to be discovered) is true.
Nevertheless one side is beating the ISIS drum and pushing the stories about
the gazillion men that are flowing over the border, while the other is
completely dismissing the possibility that at least around 2% of the refugees
might be ISIS operatives. Why is that? Because it doesnt help push the
agenda, that why.
Are these people refugees or economic migrants? The way refugeeing works,
it tells us that once they left the conflict zone and have submitted themselves
to the authority of one of Syrias neighbours, thats the moment that they
become refugees. The only possible valid reasons why they cant be refugees
in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan or Egypt would be if these countries were actually
supporting one of the two causes that these people are fleeing from. But since
neither of the above states are supporting Assad nor are they allied with ISIS
in any way, the refugees, should they leave these countries without the
protection of a humanitarian aid accord they become illegal immigrants.
Us Romanians, and Eastern Europeans in general, who had been forced to
spend some time around the fences of Western Europe looking in, should know
best about the difference between refugees and economic migrants, and this
human drama that is certainly incited to promote a political agenda (you
normally cant find five people to get up at once and go in the same direction,
let alone tens of thousands) has absolutely nothing to do with refugeeing.
Actually, the most tragic thing about this drama is that it exposes some of
Europes (and the entire worlds) structural deficiencies:
1 Multiculturalism is a resounding failure and will remain such a failure as
long as at least one of the cultures involved doesnt digest the concepts
of tolerance and equality (and these drawbacks arent symptoms of only
the islamic culture, but of Christian Orthodoxy as well).
Israel is also a state thats in a public approval free-fall within the European
mainstream. Its also a state that has the intelligence resources to put together
the dislodging of such a mass population. A resurrection of anti-islam all over
Europe can only benefit Israel and, with the US having recently become an
unpredictable ally under the Obama administration, nothing would be more
timely that looking for some support from the old world.
Absolutely all of the EU states have an indirect benefit from tensions escalating
between the native population and the muslim immigrants. Triggering a wave
of violence across the board is is beneficial first of all to the national
administrations because it gives them an excuse for more strict laws. Lets not
forget that Europe is way behind Big Brother US with regards to the civil
liberties of its citizens. There was no Patriot Act here to which there could be
made countless addendums in the interest of the religion of national security.
Looking at it this way, we get the explanation why the intelligence services of
the EU states allowed this to take place and stand for it continuing.
As long as we dont care about the truth, as long as we allow ourselves to be
ruled by visceral responses caused by news specifically designed to produce
these responses, as long as we can willingly compromise our integrity if the
purpose (price) is right, the grains of sand will keep flowing through the
hourglass bringing us ever closer to an unavoidable conclusion