Tonight I saw on the News that the people of Greece are
protesting against camps being set up where they live, for migrants. No matter what sympathy we have for the
migrants, who are fleeing from war zones and conditions of poverty, we also
must realize that the people of Greece have had difficult times economically
and are in no position to receive migrants.
This is a very difficult situation and the European Community should do
more in a concerted way to sort out what is happening. This migrating of many thousands of people
into Europe is a huge event in our time and brings many challenges which the
politicians do not seem to be sorting out and after all that is their job. This problem will not go away in a
hurry. A caring solution needs to be
found. All those people are the
responsibility of all of us and need to be treated with respect. Among them there may be “bad apples” but many
are decent people just trying to find a life.
I am reminded of the many people in another age who left Ireland to find
a new life in the U.S.A. People only take these desperate actions when they can
see no other way forward. I realize it is easy for me to talk like this as I
live in a very rural part of England and am less likely to meet a migrant
because they head for the towns, but if you come across these people give them
a chance and hold out a welcoming hand.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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