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Italy Refuses Safe Harbor To Migrant Ship M/V Aquarius
gCaptain ^ | August 13, 2018 | Antonio Denti

Posted on 08/13/2018 7:05:26 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Italy on Monday denied safe harbor to 141 people rescued by the humanitarian ship M/V Aquarius off the coast of Libya last week, setting up another standoff with European Union allies over taking in migrants who try to cross the Mediterranean.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aquarius; europeanunion; france; germany; italy; libya; malta; matteosalvini; twitter; unitedkingdom
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To: artichokegrower

No Spicy Meatball for them!


21 posted on 08/13/2018 9:15:49 PM PDT by heights
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To: artichokegrower; doug from upland; Charles Henrickson

Sing along, now!

There’ll be no docking for the ship named Aquarius,
Ship named Aquarius,
Aquarius!


22 posted on 08/13/2018 9:34:06 PM PDT by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: artichokegrower

Just arrest every crew and sink or detonate every ship. Seems to me the word will spread quickly that smuggling no longer pays


23 posted on 08/13/2018 10:36:10 PM PDT by montag813
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To: artichokegrower

> European Union allies

Foreign countries that try to swamp your country and her people with an illegal alien horde are not “allies”.


24 posted on 08/13/2018 10:40:07 PM PDT by fluorescence
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To: montag813
Another Dr.s without Borders smugglers "taxi service" trying to dump their cargo.


25 posted on 08/13/2018 10:47:42 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Look at all of those women and children....


26 posted on 08/13/2018 10:49:57 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: artichokegrower
And here's the guy who heads up the ship to search and pick up these African refugees...He's a 'Dual' Citizen of Britain and Canada.

'Nick Romaniuk'....standing

Coordinator on board the Aquarius,works just off shore Libya to locate and pick up refugees... then traffics the Africans to European ports....Nearly three-quarters of those rescued originate from Somalia and Eritrea...

Other commercial ships won't pick them up for the risk of being blocked for days at sea, unable to carry out their business. Recently a support ship for an offshore oil platform was left in limbo for days after rescuing migrants. So they pass the boats full of refugees by.


27 posted on 08/13/2018 11:10:04 PM PDT by caww
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
The guy operating and coordinating the Aquairus missions will NOT wait for coastguard to authorize picking up the people and refuses to return them to Libya....he wanders the coast of Libya just 25 to 20 miles off shore so it's a fast pick up for him and his ten person crew.
28 posted on 08/13/2018 11:23:48 PM PDT by caww
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To: dfwgator
The refugees claim they're escaping torture and abuse in Africa....But hasn't that been so for centuries? It just seems tribes etc. have always had conflicts there so this is nothing new.....and this guy certainly doesn't look like he's going to adapt to western ideas of Europe....


29 posted on 08/13/2018 11:29:32 PM PDT by caww
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To: artichokegrower

Salvini is Italy’s Trump!


30 posted on 08/14/2018 12:48:51 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: caww

“Nearly three-quarters of those rescued originate from Somalia and Eritrea...”

Both former Italian colonies. Now that they have their freedom from the evil colonialists they want to go back to them? I don’t get it.


31 posted on 08/14/2018 12:53:21 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Happened all over Europe; when they left their colonies, the colonized realized that they lost electricity, indoor plumbing, paved roads - so they headed to the land of the white devils.

Spain attracts Latin Americans for this reason; England has “Asians” and Caribbean blacks.


32 posted on 08/14/2018 3:09:25 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: artichokegrower

Northern Italians rule!


33 posted on 08/14/2018 3:19:28 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Jim Noble

Liberal NGOs are abusing the rescue laws to facilitate illegal immigration.
The immigrant boat loads up, moves a short distance off shore, radios for “help”, and gets towed by liberals to a Western nation.
They think they’re being holy martyrs saving the poor and desperate.


34 posted on 08/14/2018 4:28:55 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Petrosius

“...return [the “refugees”] to Libya...”

And THEN sink their “rescue vessel”.

IMHO, the owners of such “rescue vessels” will stop their self-righteous virtue-signalling attacks on the West when THEY have to PAY for their precious “good feelings”!


35 posted on 08/14/2018 7:07:10 AM PDT by pfony1
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To: pfony1

This is more than just virtue signaling. This takes real money to operate. This is a criminal conspiracy to facilitate the invasion of Europe.


36 posted on 08/14/2018 9:10:11 AM PDT by Petrosius
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