Posted on 01/03/2015 6:23:59 PM PST by firebrand
Until recently, migrants coming to Italy by sea arrived primarily in smaller boats. . . . The shift to steel-hulled cargo ships . . . denotes a new strategy . . . "traffickers are secure in the knowledge that no one is going to allow a boat to crash on Italian or Greek shores."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Paramedics reported that the migrants, most of whom were believed to be Syrian, were in good health, he added.
So these Syrian men aren’t willing to fight for their country so we’re supposed to take them? They won’t fight for their own country but they’ll be fighting the customs and lifestyle in the nations that accept them in no time.
Send the migrants home, keep the ship. Eventually the ships will run out.
Perhaps the wealthy smugglers are still on board disguised as refugees.-Tom
They were still in good health, but had run out of food, water, and fuel, with pregnant women on board. It wouldn’t have been long before there was a disaster of one sort or another.
Article says the boats are ready for the junkyard. The traffickers know what they’re doing.
Not when they can go back and make another million.
I see this new practice as a very threatening development. I think the European nations need to get serious about this.
Next they will send them up in planes on autopilot and bail out in parachutes. They are ruthless and utterly determined.
Saw a report on a European internet news channel that said the ship cost €200,000. It suggested 500 passengers at €5,000 each. Assuming other costs of €500,000, that’s €1,800,000 profit for little work. I believe that Sierra Leone and Liberia are both ‘flags of convenience’ countries, so there are plenty of rust buckets registered there. In addition, with so many borders being closed to these countries because of ebola, many of these rust buckets are likely just sitting idly in port, so they will be even cheaper to buy.
No, these are economic migrants. Someone paid their $6,000 per head smuggler fee; think Saudi Arabia or some Gulf state. You can bet that every one of them is a Muslim bent on submitting Europe to Allah's will. Meanwhile, Middle Eastern Christians languish without financial support and without the U.N. asylum gateway to Europe and the U.S. that is earmarked for Muslims.
Why is world migration always toward the hated and loathed ‘honky’ lands?
Anyone leaving his country and trying to make a better life in Mexico, Algeria or Syria?
Some day there will be a worldwide social equilibrium when all countries are of a third world quality.
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip. Mama mia!
Yes, that jibes with the figures in the story: $6,000 a person and $1 million gross per shipload. It didn’t say how much they had to pay for the boat.
I tend to believe it is migration away from fear and hardship, not a nefarious plan to overtake Europe—although that is what in fact is happening. If you lived in Hell and there was Heaven right across the water, wouldn’t you try as well? That’s what it must seem like to them.
We take Western civilization for granted. We don’t know how lucky we are, most of the time.
If we didn’t take it for granted, there wouldn’t be all these little ingrates marching around with their hands up and claiming they can’t breathe.
Just another example of how a corrupt monetary system (in this case, the Euro and ECB) is the backstop behind policies that ultimately are causing severe deformations of society.
Who knows it might be retirement time for them.
Also they could get back in the smuggling business if their money ran out. -Tom
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