Posted on 06/24/2018 5:58:17 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Italy’s far-right government told aid ships in the Mediterranean Sea not to rescue thousands of refugees in peril on Sunday – despite receiving six separate distress calls from unseaworthy boats.
Officials said the vessels – carrying people from North Africa to Europe – were all in Libyan waters and, therefore, Libyan responsibility.
The Spanish aid group, Proactiva Open Arms, which had ships in the area, said it had been specifically told not to help.
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister, said in a tweet: "It's right that the Libyan authorities intervene, as they've been doing for days, without having the NGOs interrupt them and disturb them."
The latest revelation follows a fortnight in which Italy has refused permission for aid ships carrying rescued refugees to dock in its ports.
One, the Aquarius with 630 people on board, had to reroute to Spain. Another, Lifeline holding 240 people, remained at sea over the weekend. Mr Salvini has said such refugees would only see his country “on a postcard”.
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Of course Jimmy did that, they were fleeing Communists.
Far right my a$$
Not Italys responsibility. Not any of their responsibilities.
They’re not “in peril at sea.”
They’re picked up right off their coasts and shuttled to their desired destination.
“Far Right” here means patriotic Italian it seems.
Well that will just wreck the business plan these human smugglers worked so hard on.
https://gefira.org/en/2016/12/04/ngos-are-smuggling-immigrants-into-europe-on-an-industrial-scale/
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/07/migrants-and-madness-in-the-med/
That caught me too. Im proud to be far-right but these clowns make it that being far right, they make it sound we would prefer to set fire on the ships.
Not fair or correct, friend. The most ardent ANTI Communists are the boat people who managed to escape. I had a young Vietnamese man work for me 20 years ago who told me of being strafed at sea by the North Vietnamese. A furniture store owner in Spokane, WA worked w US Special Forces, was captured by NVA and hates communism more than anybody else I know.
>> were all in Libyan waters
This wasn’t a prob when Qaddafi policed the migration. But then Hillary and her ilk arranged his assassination.
Time to start prosecuting NGOs - in this case they are involved with human trafficking by not bringing these people back to their home countries or the countries from which they embarked.
It made it sound like Jimmy Carter didn’t want the Vietnamese coming here, did I misinterpret?
Rescue them, but only take them to North African ports.
“Far right my a$$”
Exactly. Karl Marx’s father, who wanted him to get an education and a job, would be considered ‘far right’ by these people. It’s time we start calling characterizing them in kind - i.e. ‘Hillary Clinton, the radical leftist politician’, ‘Bernie Sanders, the avowed Communist Senator from Vermont’, etc.
These "refugees" board the NGO vessels on dry land in Libyan ports wearing fashionable sport shoes, designer sweaters, and iPhones. They look like they are out for a night at the movies and Cold Stone ice cream. They aren't being rescued from anything. It is human trafficking of parasites looking for free stuff, pure and simple. Transport is on a cash only basis with beaucoup bucks exchanging hands.
A voyage on Lake Superior from Duluth to Sault Ste. Marie is a hundred times more dangerous.
“Italy’s far right government” Translation: Italy’s “Italy First” government. How long before we hear the fascists are back in power in Italy?
tough. i would let them help so long as the socalled refugees are returned to Africa. either way, Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, UK, USA (!), Canada need to repatriate the fake ‘refugees’ that have already gotten in, NOW... before the IslamoNazi terrorists start REALLY taking over....
as they are taught, trained, and paid to do
They were all in Libyan waters but the far-left manages to blame the “far-right”.
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