Conditions in Africa are intolerable; disease, famine, war, corruption, genocide, and crime have all contributed to make Africa a Hell hole, but now, Africans, particularly Libyans, have devised a scheme to deal with their despair. They have started an exodus of biblical proportions from Africa to Europe.
There are a few problems with the plan, however; Europe’s economies are not healthy enough to absorb a large influx of unskilled and predominately illiterate masses. The Europeans are also not sure they want to allow their cultures to be diluted and possibly absorbed by the cultures of Africa.
This is an interesting situation; historically, Europeans have been pointing their collective fingers at America because of its racial problems and poverty that has racial demographics.
No one can blame an African for wanting to take his family to a better place with chances for a better life or maybe even just to survive another season, but at what cost to the host country. At this time Libyans are desperately seeking asylum from Gadahfi’s murderous henchmen, who will be torturing and killing all those who demonstrated or fought against the present regime and some they don’t like. They will surely try to eradicate the Muslim Brotherhood in the process. Thus the Muslim Exodus from Libya is underway.
The question comes to mind: why don’t these Muslims seek asylum in other Muslim countries? The answer is multi-dimensional, but the main reason is, there is only poverty and despair for them in those other Muslim countries: in Europe, there is some semblance of hope for the future. We should also realize the other Arab countries in the Middle East don’t want them. Poverty and unemployment is well represented in these countries, they don’t need more, especially malcontents who have the temerity to foment revolt in their home country. Their only alternative, head to Europe, Europeans have worn the tired cliches of Socialist compassion on their sleeves for decades; although, they are realizing the hands that have reached out to the forlorn Muslim is bitten for its effort and is often unappreciative of acts of compassion. The Muslim has little or no interest in joining the European cultures of their host countries.
European nations are beginning to rethink this:
As boats carrying hundreds of Africans set sail for a better life in Europe, they were met on Italy’s Lampedusa island with two words by a 5-foot, 8-inch blonde: go away.
“They cannot be allowed on the shore,” Marine Le Pen, the 42-year-old leader of France’s anti-immigration National Front, said in a March 15 interview in Rome after a three-hour visit the previous day to Lampedusa. “Send boats out to feed them. But they must not set foot on land.”
The island, a speck in the Mediterranean Sea closer to Tunisia than Sicily, is experiencing first-hand an immigration surge poised to spread to the rest of Europe and drive a deeper wedge in a north-south divide already tested by the sovereign- debt crisis.
“It’s evident that Italy has been abandoned by Europe,” Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said in Brussels on March 10 after a meeting with his European Union counterparts. “We can’t be the policeman of Europe.”
The month-long civil war in Libya between Muammar Qaddafi’s regime and rebel forces in the oil-rich east has left 6,000 people dead, driven crude prices to a 2 1/2-year high and unleashed what Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, the country’s most popular politician, called a “biblical exodus.”
North of Rome, a backlash has already begun as Italy warns its neighbors that 70 percent of Africans washing up on its shores are headed to France and Germany to seek work.
Chantal Brunel, a lawyer for France’s President Sarkozy’s, Union for a Popular Movement, proposed a solution “put them back on their boats”. She has since apologized for these remarks, but her comments reflect the overall feelings of governments to keep these refugees away from their country’s borders.
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor was candid in her assessment: “We are ready to help in economic terms, but I don’t see the future in having us expand legal immigration”. (March 15)
There have been more than 9,000 hopeful Tunisian immigrants descend on Lampedusa, an island of 6,000 inhabitants 70 miles from Tunisia, twice the number for 2010, according to the Italian Interior Ministry.
This last December, Gadhafi told European leaders that they should prepare to “become Black because millions want to come to Europe”.
In a reparation deal with Italy wort $5 billion, Gadhafi agreed to tighten border controls in 2008. The number of Libyans landing illegally dropped from 37,000 in 2008 to just 3,000 in 2010. Malta’s influx of illegal aliens dropped from 2,775 in 2008 to 47 in 2010.
Europeans have seen that it is cheaper to pay the bribe than add increasing numbers to their social welfare costs.
From the middle of February, nearly 225,000 have left Libya; 115,000 to Tunisia, 102,000 to Egypt, 2,000 to Niger, and 5500 to Algeria according to the United Nations Commission for Refugees, (March 10)
Malta, 220 miles from Tripoli is an entry point for European Socialism and a life of splendor on welfare, but these refugees are kept in detention centers for as long as 18 months. Over half of Malta’s 2.5 million-euro military budget is required to feed and house these African refugees.
Since the unrest began in Libya on February 15, Malta has received 26,000 Africans and repatriated them back to their countries of origin.
For the Europeans the future may be grim with the almost unstoppable mass human migrations originating from Africa and the Middle East due in large part to the poverty and authoritarian governments throughout the areas. Their cultures may indeed be engulfed as war and poverty intensifies and becomes even more endemic to these regions. Thus Europe should brace itself for the savagery and barbarism of the Third World to assert itself within its borders; just as we have allowed ourselves to become immune and accepting of a tolerable amount of crime and violence from our own illegal alien population.
President Obama is surely contemplating importing some of Africa’s misery before the 2012 elections; especially, now that americans of becoming ever more skeptical of our president and his abilities to lead. Absorbing a few million new voters into key states could be seen as a great humanitarian gesture and a keen political move.
If we adopt a similar program for African refugees as we have in place for illegal aliens from Mexico, we can forever change the politics of America and Democrats will be in power until the country collapses, in the not so distant future.
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Loved that line:
”…Italy has been abandoned by Europe.”
Reminded me of when there was still hope to control illegal immigration into the USA.
California begged the other 49 states, the feds, too, to share the cost of illegals or risk their spread.
The nation laughed and abandoned California, which lost 1/3rd of all its privately owned hospitals within the next few years.
The rest of the nation aren’t laughing anymore, though.
Gaddafi taunted Europe, either put up with me OR there will be an influx of dark illegals to your shores the likes of which you never imagined.
And, within hours of the UN vote, lookie-see.
There’s been an uptick in refugees from Libya.
That ”Jizya tax” thing that Itsaly tried with Libya?
(In a reparation deal with Italy worth $5 billion, Gadhafi agreed to tighten border controls in 2008. The number of Libyans landing illegally dropped from 37,000 in 2008 to just 3,000 in 2010. Malta’s influx of illegal aliens dropped from 2,775 in 2008 to 47 in 2010.
Europeans have seen that it is cheaper to pay the bribe than add increasing numbers to their social welfare costs.)
The Jizya tax only works (to keep peace between a non-Muslim people and their Muslim overlords) AS LONG AS THE OVERLORD SAYS IT DOES.
And Gaddafi just ended that time of protection.
Bribes won’t work once the infidels act in an unabased manner.
And, through the UN, the UK and France, Europe and NATO just did.
Yes, Muslims don’t need to meet the Europeans on the battlefield: they will just unlash their Muslim hordes on Europe until Europeans drown under a sea of poverty and despair. Europe and possibly the United States has had the biscuit; unless we come up with some meaningful ways of dealing with being engulfed with the problems of the Third World.
Obama’s answer is to give them our wealth, while he puts on rock concerts and plays golf. This leadership vacuum will play out nicely during this threat that might be far more dangerous to the civilized world than a few thermal reactors on the boil in Japan. Stand by to see your standard of living decreased exponentially as we absorb the world’s problems. The leader of the Free World is in Rio showing his family the sights, so everything must be just fine.
Oh, if you have an acre or more of land, the government might need to house immigrant families in trailers on your property, just temporary of course. They have no where to go, since they destroyed their own countries.
It is a violation of human rights to keep people inside a country that they don’t want to be in (North Korea, I’m looking at you); that’s slavery. However, it is by no means a violation of human rights to keep people out of one’s country, and the suggestion that it is merely demonstrates the level of delusion that permeates the Left’s view-point of the world. If the limosine liberals believe that it is our job to be charitable to the masses who have destroyed their own countries, then by all means, let them open up the doors of their mansions, and host as many of them as they like; ON THEIR OWN DIME, NOT OURS.
Mach, we will need to put that one up there with the possibles. Finally, someone comes up with a workable solution.
Gotta say, Mr. Skookum, such an obvious appeal towards ‘racial disharmony’… As an admirer of your writing, I’m disappointed. You’re usually subtle enough to provide at least the ghost of a stale fart’s worth of plausible deniability. Can you at least promise to clue us in when we should start panicking that the black people are coming?
And that’s a whole 7 hours and 16 minutes before the race card got played…
Didn’t even try to make a reasoned argument, just went straight for the “you’re a racist” ad hominem attack to bring any logical debate to a stand still. I don’t care what color the people hauling themselves over the border, or up onto our shores are; the fact remains they are entering illegally (yes, I used that word, because “No one is illegal” is one of the most farsical arguments ever), and it is our right as the citizens of this country (or for the Europeans, Canadians, Australians, Japanese, South Koreans – insert name of advanced developed nation’s citizenry here) to say, we don’t want you here.
I suppose the next step is to trot out the issue of “native peoples” who may have objected to the coming of settlers; yes, it’s a sad tired argument, but I strongly suspect someone here will give it a try.
@Machiavelli:
Why is it the race card? If you can supply a logical non-race based interpretation for the author stating the following, I invite you to:
Does it bother you at all that the proposition that the US could naturalize “a few million” Africans in time for them to vote in the 2012 election is beyond absurd, it’s nigh completely impossible? Would you like me to explain why that is to you? I’d be more than happy to. Considering hordes of African “Obama 2012” voters is not going to happen, what exactly is the point of this article? You tell me.
Tom, I have never been to North Africa, but I have met a few North Africans and they seem to represent every color between White and Black. Gafdahfi himself is an example; although, I have never met the gentleman. If you read his quote, you will have noted that he threatened to blacken Europe. I suppose I might be the only one who sees that as an odd statement. It leaves the reader wondering if he only means to turn out Black people of Africa and keep lighter skinned people? I honestly don’t have a clue. However, it is not the color so much, but the fact that Europe or the US cannot absorb the various colored people who lack many of the skills necessary for 21st Century life; especially, at a time when unemployment is high and the economy is weak.
No, I don’t visualize overcrowded boats dropping off swarms of North Africans, but if the Europeans won’t adopt them, who do you suppose is next in line to accept them. If you read the link, the numbers are huge and likely to increase with the political situations about to erupt in North Africa and the Middle East. This article had very little to do with race, it dealt with culture, religion, and was meant to explain the situation that is likely to develop: the US being asked to absorb hundreds of thousands of refugees, when we have already absorbed millions from Mexico with millions more waiting for the economy to improve.
If you find racism within these lines, then you would maintain that we can never express our concern with accepting Third World Refugees without being called racists and we might as well accept the term and explain to the people and the president that our economy is not vibrant enough to be accepting refugees and the increased taxes that will be required to feed, house, and train them.
@Skookum:
That’s not the point. The point is you trying to scare people with things that can’t happen, such as Obama opening the immigration gates to Africa to ensure his 2012 reelection. I assume you’re smart enough to know that’s complete bullsh*t? We could just post US naturalization statistics and data on the average time it takes to achieve citizenship to prove this point, but I don’t want to insult your intelligence. So perhaps you should explain why you’d put something so alarming in your piece, considering you know it’s not true.
To use the closing phrase of your first post: “Can you at least promise to clue us in when we should start panicking that the black people are coming?” Any rational person can see that’s accusing the author of racism; hence my calling it the “race card,” which it is on its face. You’re taking issue with the last two small paragraphs of the article, whereas the greater meat of it gets to the point that unchecked immigration from the vast number of failed states that compromise Sub-Saharan Africa (and feel free to insert the name of any other nation that is hemoraging “economic migrants”) into the advanced developed nations, is a recipe to “redistribute poverty and despair” around the globe. That’s the point of this article.
@Machiavelli:
True. Are you asking me to ignore them?
Ignore them no; but, I am suggesting you are attempting to derail the wider argument by hyping the author’s closing paragraphs, and not debating the overall thrust of what he’s written.
As a resident of California, I can attest to the gradual creep of liberal legislation and selective law enforcement that has made life in the “golden state” much more cushy for those here illegally, and in tandem seen our tax rate and debt levels sky-rocket as we dole out social programs, establish sanctuary cities, and edge closer to yet another amnesty. The nation ignores our woeful example at its peril.
@Machiavelli:
The last paragraphs ARE the overall thrust: the rest is just prologue. This is the gentleman author’s MO. Everything ends with two paragraphs about Obama. He can turn the most thrilling story about a bear hunt into an attack on Obama in the last two paragraphs. That’s what he does. I don’t normally have an issue, but this time it went too far. And I say that as a huge fan of his.
I don’t count myself as naive, nor do I think that the wider thrust of the article is unworthy of debate. But, as I have no knowledge of the author’s past articles, I can’t argue on the point of an MO. If he doesn’t like Obama, that’s fine; many people, including myself, don’t either. But, I grow weary of those who just chalk it up to a “race” issue, and refuse to even engage in a substantive debate of the base issues, because those in opposition are “racists” and by extraction basically evil. So, if you wish to call the author out for just using another issue to attack Obama, I must concede that I can’t mount a credible debate on that point, as I don’t know the relevent history. However, if you’re going to claim that it’s because Obama happens to be black, then I will take issue; “racist” has essentially become our modern day “witch” cry.
If this turns out to have simply been a matter of semantics, I’ll pre-emptively apologize for having engaged in protracted posting for much ado about nothing.
@Machiavelli:
I removed the “naive” comment from my post – not cool on my part. And you have zero reason to apologize to me. You have every right to post your opinion about what I’ve written and I understand your point, but I disagree with you. It’s not a big deal. People take disagreement too personally these days I think.
Egypt is a non-black part of Africa.
You know, Arabized Northern Africa.
And its plan is awful, now that Mubarak is gone.
There’s a vote for the ”new constitution.”
So, guess what’s the basis for all law in Egypt under this ”new” constitution?
If you guessed SHARIA you win.
Article 2 of the constitution that stipulates that Sharia (Islamic law) is the main source of legislation meaning Egypt becomes an Islamic state as opposed to a secular one.
So, who is supporting Sharia?
Well, the Islamists, of course.
The Muslim Brotherhood.
The National Democratic Party.
And almost everyone else, too.
Why?
Egypt’s Ahram online English
Sounds like it’s going to win.
No one mentioned the kid peeking out from under the parasol at the top of the article: I think that is the best picture I have ever used. I hope the kid gets an education and builds a life somewhere, free from the misery of Africa; it is a picture of refugees waiting in line for visas.
Our current US involvement in
Libya will bite us in the ass, the US is meant to be a beacon of freedom to a troubled world and Obama does not deserve the mantle of president passed on to him if he can’t represent that, in my opinion. However if one great event comes out of the Jasmine revolution it would be the fall of socialist Chinese government. It seems Hu Jinto is at least slightly worried.
“Several top Chinese rights activists have disappeared into police custody as a web campaign urged angry citizens to mark the Middle East’s ”Jasmine Revolution” with protests, campaigners say.
Up to 15 leading rights lawyers and activists have disappeared since Saturday, said campaigners, while the government appeared to censor internet postings calling for the demonstrations.
In a speech on Saturday, the President, Hu Jintao, acknowledged growing social unrest and urged the ruling Communist Party to better safeguard stability while also ordering strengthened controls over ”virtual society” or the internet”
http://www.middleeastwarpeace.info/2011/02/20/activists-disappear-as-beijing-cracks-down-on-copycat-protests/
@Skookum:
Skookum, that’s a great photo.
It is extemporaneous and yet that’s a wonderful portrait of the child.
A beautiful face and lovely framing by the pretty umbrella.