Aquarius
Matteo
Salvini, Italy’s new anti-migrant interior minister, blocked the Aquarius
rescue ship carrying 629 people from docking in its ports at the weekend,
prompting international outcry.
As devil´s advocate, all in all, I have to admit that
this guy is right: the human smugglers know that an aid ship will always be in
order to help people in the middle of the sea, if not the worst for them.
But I ask myself why the NGOs were created?
Simply because the states —all of them— looked at the clouds like when you
share a lift with someone and they washed their hands of the situation. Simply,
they did that.
This is an old story. These migrants run
away from their homeland because there are wars or they starve to death or they
suffer natural disasters and all of it is an ironical vicious circle because
are the developed countries which promote and spark off wars, this way the
weapons manufacturers can find an outlet for their `products´. These sharps
dealers being in collusion with politicians —remember, bankiticians— achieve to
run the price of agricultural production. They sit on their comfortable
armchair in their aseptic and acclimatised rooms decide which cereal is
convenient to increase and which one is convenient to ruin. Even I´d dare to
say that these machinations are the culprits of some nature complaints. All of
this swaddled in a legacy of colonialism as well.
Therefore, if they —the bankiticans—
know that the solution would be to work in origin, they desist because it would
be a wrong business; it´s more profitable that a few of those migrants drown instead
of breaking a lucrative activity.
There is a monument dedicate to John
Donne at Saint Paul Cathedral. Besides being Dean of Saint Paul´s and vicar of St.Dunstan's-in-the-West,
John Donne was a great poet and one of his poems says:
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell
tolls;
It tolls for thee.
The Spanish Government´s decision of taking in the
refugees who are on board the Aquarius
has the target of remembering us that no one is an island, entire of itself, we want or not.
From my Borstal
LDR
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