Refugees...

[anthonyTD]

From seeing this atrocity unraveling from the beginning, and all of us witnessing what these people are going through from news reports, not just from the [sometimes] biased BBC, but from all over the news networks,i feel utterly ashamed to be a part of the human race sometimes.
And since becoming a parent quite late on in life, and thus experiencing first hand how precious life is, i cant help but feel absolutely heart broken and helpless at times when i see, in this day and age how in-humane we as humans can be towards each other!
Anthony,TD...

[walpurgis]

There are certainly tragic circumstances forcing many of the people we see on the news to depart their homelands and they were refugees when they crossed over a border into the first safe country or state they entered. But! They became economic migrants once they took a look around their new 'safe haven' and decided they wanted something better and moved on into the next country and then onwards towards western Europe. Many are not from Syria or fleeing war zones. I'm making an observation here not a judgement.

[StanleyB]

Having been a refugee myself when I was about five, I can understand to some extent the problems facing many of these people. But what is quite clear in this particular case is that these folks are not just happy with being in a safe country. They want to pick and choose which country they want to end up in. That doesn't sound like a refugee to me. Call it economic migrant, but let's not forget the Trojan horse. Many of these refugees are young men of certain religious denomination. That alone makes me feel a bit uneasy. Even more so, given that Saudi Arabia has offered to fund the building of mosques all across Europe for followers of their faith. This looks like a hidden agenda.

[struth]

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist

[Macca]

The Hungarians put up a fence yesterday to stop them - which it did - but they were all still just milling around on the other side of it, unsure what to do next

Then there was that youth who drowned trying to swim a river into Macedonia without realising there was a completely unguarded bridge half a mile upstream.

A couple of nights ago there was a wealthy couple interviewed who said they would be happy to put up some refugees in their house. They had obviously never spent a day in their lives and were completely away with the fairies but people like that really annoy me: going on telly to make out how good they were and implying their moral superiority over the rest if us. Like Bob f***king Geldof. That sort of thing is the real tragedy if you ask me.

[mik_rik]

If ,by their actions ,they have done something good by their actions in a humanitarian and none judgmental way ,then yes,they do have a moral "supreiority" over you

[mik_rik]

Sometimes people hide guilt/shame by being critical of people who do good

[StanleyB]

A couple of nights ago there was a wealthy couple interviewed who said they would be happy to put up some refugees in their house. They had obviously never spent a day in their lives and were completely away with the fairies but people like that really annoy me: going on telly to make out how good they were and implying their moral superiority over the rest if us. Like Bob f***king Geldof. That sort of thing is the real tragedy if you ask me.

When I was on the move I was given shelter by poor as well as filthy rich people. I shall forever be grateful for that.

[walpurgis]

Having been a refugee myself when I was about five, I can understand to some extent the problems facing many of these people. But what is quite clear in this particular case is that these folks are not just happy with being in a safe country. They want to pick and choose which country they want to end up in. That doesn't sound like a refugee to me. Call it economic migrant, but let's not forget the Trojan horse. Many of these refugees are young men of certain religious denomination. That alone makes me feel a bit uneasy. Even more so, given that Saudi Arabia has offered to fund the building of mosques all across Europe for followers of their faith. This looks like a hidden agenda.

Yes. There is a fair certainty that we and the rest of Europe are 'importing' terrorist infiltrators and many others who can be converted to Anti-West causes.

[mik_rik]

Wonder how many we took in1939 turned out to be "terrorists".Lots of them fleeing had to travel through other countries before reaching Britain ,were these refugees or economic migrants