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Kos [Greece] shows there is no escape from the Mediterranean] migrant crisis
Guardian UK ^ | 30 May 2015

Posted on 05/31/2015 1:05:37 PM PDT by Lorianne

Photographs of British visitors to Kos walking, eyes averted, past asylum seekers who recently staggered off overloaded dinghies, have gone around the world, along with quotes underlining the revulsion felt by both tourists and sympathetic British journalists for the kind of “riff-raff” happy to ruin another person’s package holiday. “The harbourside has become an unofficial washing line, with clothes and grubby looking-scarves laid out along the shoreline”, according to the Daily Mail.

Given the trouble that the holidaying British have traditionally taken, since Byron’s day, to embrace the local culture, perhaps their dismay is understandable. Maybe, if the migrants were to tumble off Greek hotel balconies, as opposed to draping them with laundry, or to vomit openly in the streets, rather than wash in them, or to enact scenes of sexual degradation on the beaches, instead of just sitting on cardboard waiting for permission to travel, these very different visitors might be able to reach some rapprochement.

As it is, one British woman explained, the migrants have been watching them eat. So she threw down this challenge to the relevant international authorities and the unstoppable, wandering multitudes that they continue to fail: “We won’t be coming back if it’s like a refugee camp again next year.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Syria; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; alexistsipras; europeanunion; france; germany; greece; immigration; italy; nato; syria; syriza; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 05/31/2015 1:05:37 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Turn five boats around...they’ll stop coming.


2 posted on 05/31/2015 1:07:11 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Lorianne

Sharia rulz....


3 posted on 05/31/2015 1:07:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Lorianne

Camp Of The Saints coming true...40 years later.....


4 posted on 05/31/2015 1:09:10 PM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: Lorianne

islam is so great they are fleeing by the boatload.


5 posted on 05/31/2015 1:09:46 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Donate here!



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Let's Git-R-Done! Monday is June!

6 posted on 05/31/2015 1:18:01 PM PDT by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: Lorianne

How odd. All my British “friends” on FB are sooo very sympathetic to illegal aliens. I guess things change once they pay for that $50 plane trip to Greece and reality smacks them right in the face.


7 posted on 05/31/2015 1:28:38 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: struggle

Or sink a couple. They will get the message.


8 posted on 05/31/2015 1:51:10 PM PDT by Kozak (Walker / Cruz 2016 or Cruz/ Walker 2016 Either one is good...)
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To: Vince Ferrer

At least the millions of Mexicans walked across our border and needed no assistance.


9 posted on 05/31/2015 1:58:11 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Lorianne
The Will of Allah™
10 posted on 05/31/2015 2:33:28 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: kabar

“At least the millions of Mexicans walked across our border and needed no assistance.”

Oh, the get plenty of assistance. Big Government types love handing out our money through welfare.


11 posted on 05/31/2015 4:13:20 PM PDT by WMarshal (“A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box, and the cartridge" - F. Douglas)
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boat people from Syria and Afghanistan
I know, "boat people from Afghanistan", right?

Syria's Mercenaries: How Iran Uses Jailed Afghan Refugees To Fight Assad's war


12 posted on 06/01/2015 7:05:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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