THE EVENT: Surge of Refugees into Europe.
For those expecting an event this month, I believe this is it. For those who understand the power in numbers and the love held within the hearts of ordinary people, THIS IS The Event. It represents a surge in the number of people demonstrating the milk of human kindness. It demonstrates our mutual humanity. It is “The change we wish to see in the world”. IT IS US. We the people. We the little people who think big.
From the poorest of refugees walking hundreds of miles with babies and grandparents, to the kindest of ordinary people in countries such as Turkey, Greece, and even Hungary, who have fed them along the way, to the open hearts of Austrians and Germans (and their governments) to welcome their fellow human beings into their countries and into their hearts. THIS is THE EVENT. May the UK and others shortly follow.
It is my sincerest hope that as many souls as possible will join in this massive and generous undertaking. It puts me in mind of the film ”Before Winter Comes”, in which Topol and David Niven starred in 1969.
Star Flower, aka Rita Butler Bowles
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Mikail, if you are going to use words like propaganda, communism and genocide, then please use them correctly. Who do you say is exactly doing this????? I see it as a result of the wars for profit by the US and US led NATO. Those who benefit from wars are the Military Industrial complex, banking elite and corporations like oil companies.....this extreme form of vulture capitalism...
This is definitely a crisis both for the refugees and for Europe. We had between 7,000-9,000 refugees arrive here in Austria yesterday. I must say the response here has been very positive. Busses were sent to the border to pick up these people and many here are donating money and clothes. It is cold, rainy and very windy here today and I can think of what it must be like for those living in the tents on a day like today...and the winter is coming. A crisis situation brings out the best and the worse in people and the neo-nazis and people smugglers have raised their ugly heads as well....happy to say these are a small minority of the people. The refugees have had a long and dangerous journey from war torn countries, they have risked their lives many times to get here.(3,000 have died this year crossing to Italy) Many of the refugees are engineers, dentists and professional people and one thing they all seem to agree on is that they would rather live in their own country rather than have to flee to a foreign land for their safety. The refugee crisis is not new, it only just hit Europe......Russia has 1 million refugees from Ukraine and Lebanon has 1 million refugees from Syria before this started in Europe.
Goldenmind.....you call Europe a ´´welfare paradise´´ then you say they get $3 a day in pocket money, this does not sound like much of a paradise to me. They also get to live in tents, dormitories or sub-standard housing. I do think these people are fleeing conflicts and civil wars and this is the reason they risk their lives to make this dangerous trip to safety.
This crisis of migrants and refugees (both) is caused by the destruction of the infrastructures of nation sates, such as Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.....These countries are all in flux, following western military attacks, launched by US foreign policy and involving EU countries, also and NATO....The law of cause and effect...The cause being thoughtless wars conceived in western minds and the effects are huge numbers of people coming to Europe to escape the madness, the west is responsible for....Of course, EU open borders has added to the whole mix......
Goldenmind, This article tells me that the Hungarian government is not as humanitarian as, let's say, the German government. The following is one person's opinion, and I do not agree with it. "The majority of those entering Europe illegally seem not to be fleeing armed conflicts, but seeking a better life in a welfare paradise."
(Notice he is honest enoguh to use the word "seem".)
This is just the kind of thinking that caused humans to declare territories and erect walls in the first place. Orban sees a Muslim invasion, because that is his viewpoint as one who fears Muslims. Others see welfare states because that is their view. I would posit that Germany is the first choice of many refugees because Germans showed how organized and elgalitarian they can be when they absorbed East Germany virtually overnight. In reality it was a really tough decade after the Berlin Wall came down, but Germans showed that they are Lightworkers, in my humble opinion, and they are prepared to show it again. In general, they do not care what religion a person is; first and foremost they look at others as other Human Beings, which is something we all need to learn how to do. Yes, there will be problems. Yes, few will want to return to Hungary if Hungary choses to take some. Hungary may well do this in order to remain in the EU.
I have many friends and relatives in the UK. Most of them have been saying (on both sides of the political spectrum) for the last 5 or 10 years, that the UK govt. needs firmer controls in place to limit the influx of immigrants. But today, even their Conservative Prime Minister is following the massive urging of the British people to help these refugees. Some in Europe still remember the refugees who became neighbours and friends in the late 40s and early 50s. They were mainy ordinary families whose fathers WANTED to work to keep their families fed and sheltered. This IS what most ordinary people want. They don't want welfare. They don't want handouts to become a way of life. They wish to be productive. The vast majority are no different than you and I. Yes, there willl be a few who will take advantage of the system. We will likely always have 2% takers in every country. But let's look positively at the 98% who are capable of productivity. I have lived in the USA for over 45 years, and I have seen influxes of refugees from many lands, and the majority of those I live and work among are very decent, hard-working people. Orban's mileage may vary, but perhaps he chose to associate with the fearful instead of the compassionate and enlightened?
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