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Young Europeans Aim To Stop Migrant Influx, ‘Defend Europe’
International Business Times ^ | 01 August 2017 | Juliana Rose Pignataro

Posted on 08/01/2017 9:15:52 PM PDT by Lorianne

A group of young people has taken to the seas to stop what they call an “invasion” of immigrants from Libya to the shores of Europe. The fledgling “Defend Europe” organization describes itself as a European identitiarian group composed of about a dozen young people from Italy, Germany, Prague, Austria and other countries.

The group’s main goal is to close the Mediterranean Sea migration route currently used by those fleeing war-torn Libya. Defend Europe asserts that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean are actually facilitating human trafficking and that without them, migrants wouldn’t be dying as they attempt to flee their home countries.

“The so-called Mediterranean rescue NGOs, in our eyes, are no rescuers,” Thorsten Schmidt, head of press for Defend Europe, told International Business Times.

Onboard a 130-foot ship named the C-Star, the group aims to observe and document the work of NGOs in the Mediterranean Sea. Their working hypothesis, promoted in a YouTube video, is that NGOs are essentially operating as “water taxis, ferrying migrants.” Instead of going out and searching for migrants, Schmidt said, NGOs have unintentionally standardized a meeting place with smugglers in certain spots in the ocean, creating what has become a predetermined transport route for human trafficking.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
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1 posted on 08/01/2017 9:15:52 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Too late. Put Khadafy’s son in charge.


2 posted on 08/01/2017 9:17:27 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Lorianne

This is satire right?


3 posted on 08/01/2017 9:25:01 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Prague is not a country.... It’s the capital city of the Czech Republic.


4 posted on 08/01/2017 9:30:17 PM PDT by leopud
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To: Lorianne

You have to love the banners on their ship:

https://twitter.com/julie_pignataro/status/892427229875109889


5 posted on 08/01/2017 9:33:17 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Lorianne

Prague is not a country.... It’s the capital city of the Czech Republic.


6 posted on 08/01/2017 9:34:07 PM PDT by leopud
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To: Lorianne

You guys are out voted.

And soon, there will be enough immigrants voting that there will be no stopping them at all.


7 posted on 08/01/2017 9:37:22 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Lorianne

Way too little, far too late.


8 posted on 08/01/2017 9:40:00 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Lorianne

Teach these Africans how to speak German, Italian whatever, and they will learn to curse you in your own language.
At least some young people have figured the scam out.


9 posted on 08/01/2017 9:48:19 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Lorianne

It may sound inhuman, but if those boats started to just “disappear”, the invaders would likely get the message pretty quick.

Just saying...


10 posted on 08/01/2017 9:56:36 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Lorianne

Take out soros, and all these gloablist NGOs will scatter like rats fleeing a sinking ship.


11 posted on 08/01/2017 9:57:29 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: vladimir998

That’s not exactly a “small boat”


12 posted on 08/01/2017 10:20:47 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Winter is coming)
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To: Lorianne

Finally a few people coming around. A hard lesson learned far too late — Way too many slow learners in the last couple generations that ways about. Hope springs eternal..


13 posted on 08/01/2017 10:22:27 PM PDT by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: Lorianne

When I saw the title, I thought this might be something rather more robust. Then I read the story. Weak sauce.


14 posted on 08/01/2017 10:42:59 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Lorianne
" used by those fleeing war-torn Libya"

What b.s. The vast majority of migrants are coming from outside Libya, THROUGH Libya yes, but they are not migrants because they are "fleeing" from Libya.
15 posted on 08/01/2017 10:57:38 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: Lorianne

Most NGO’s are taxpayer funded front groups for the global socialists.

Most NGO’s go into nation and interfere with the local, national political debate.

NGO’s have been trying to topple the governments of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Israel because they do not abide by the global socialist agenda.


16 posted on 08/02/2017 3:56:47 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The largest and most dangerous hate-group in the US is now the Democratic Party)
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To: Lorianne

Why did the writer put “invasion” in quotes? It IS an invasion!


17 posted on 08/02/2017 4:43:12 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: leopud
Prague is not a country.... It’s the capital city of the Czech Republic.

It is par for the course with conservative blogs and other conservative publications. They are rife with typographical and other obvious factual errors that have nothing to do with politics. It is amateur hour at most conservative publications

18 posted on 08/02/2017 6:38:51 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Don W
From the movie Dracula Untold : Vlad: Because men do not fear swords. They fear monsters. They run from them. By putting one village to the stake, I spared ten more. Sometimes the world no longer needs a hero. Sometimes what it needs... is a monster.

Terrible yes, but since the elitists who are being paid off won't listen, perhaps making people afraid is all that's left for sensible Europeans.
19 posted on 08/02/2017 7:12:54 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Tzimisce

No. All European countries are still overwhelmingly European demographically. None have experienced the level of population replacement that the USA has. There is a lot of time to fix things.


20 posted on 08/02/2017 10:36:53 AM PDT by WatchungEagle
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