As the world smolders amid the talk of war, possible peace, and more war, there are two camps beginning to form regarding the flow of people escaping conflict zones. There are those that say that the West not only has the moral duty to take in more refugees fleeing from various theaters of operations but is obligated to do so for its own future survival. On the other hand, there are those who say that the West can’t care for its own native born sons and daughters now, so why should it welcome those from somewhere else? And caught in-between those two camps are the people in-need. Or are they? Although mainstream media would have you believe everything is crystal, upon closer examination, things are anything but clear. For instance, the story of the Syrian child that drowned at sea last week? The one where the father tried to save his wife and two of his sons? Well, about that.
As the story of the dead child has played out over the course of the week, holes have begun to develop. And no, we aren’t talking about the stories that suggest that the Turkish border patrol moved the body to a more picturesque location, although photos have suggested that very thing. According to The Guardian, the family in question had left Syria three years ago and had been living in Turkey since then. The husband/father had found a part-time job in Turkey and had earned enough to live for three years without working. Different reports have suggested that he had been trying to apply for asylum in either Sweden or Canada, but had been unsuccessful. So, it seems, he decided to try something different and that is where the mainstream media narrative begins.
In the story that went round the world in 80 seconds, the father was a hero and a victim of circumstance. However, since then, he has changed his story several times. In the first one, he “swam back and forth between his sons in an attempt to save them”. In the second one, he swam ashore and couldn’t find them. He told the Daily Mail — “I looked for my wife and child on the beach but couldn't find them. I thought they had got scared and had run away and I went back to Bodrum”. So, which was it? And why would there be a discrepancy? Well, as it turns out, single women with children have a higher likelihood of being granted refugee status than married couples. It seems as if they were trying to game the system and got caught. Apparently the idea is that couple splits up, the woman takes the kids and crosses alone, is granted refugee status and is given an apartment and a steady income from the host country. Sometime afterwards, the husband will meet up with them in the host country, either by sneaking across a border, obtaining false documents or even by doing everything by the book. In fact, if you look closer at enough pictures of the people flooding across the borders, you might start to see that they are almost all males and of military age- Where are the women? Where are the children?
In fact, one of the bigger holes that media seems to miss is that a person is no longer a “refugee” once they leave a war zone. In this case, it was a Syrian family that had fled across the border into Turkey. After living there for years, they decided to leave a safe country to get to a richer country, in this case, the EU, which is a well-known welfare state. And this is the point in time where they stop being refugees and start becoming illegal immigrants. And speaking about one-way migration patterns, why haven’t any of the refugees from the Middle East fled into any of the neighboring Arab countries? Say, Saudi Arabia or Abu Dhabi or the UAE or even Dubai? Surely they would be able to find some common ground, as they would share similar weather patterns, a common root language, regional cultural habits, and a common root religion. Why have none of their neighbors taken the refugees in during their time of need?
Bringing up one-way migration again, there is a strange event playing out in Greece. As the tide of illegal migrants rises and comes ashore, the Greek government is seemingly welcoming them, putting them on some form of transportation, be it car, bus, or train and taking them to the border with Macedonia. But why Macedonia? And why would an EU country spend money on effectively deporting people to a non-EU country, just to have those very same refugees journey on to Germany, which is also an EU member? Germany has already said they would take them in. Could it be that these illegals are being used as a weapon of mass migration?
Since Greece, and by default, the EU, is already transporting said illegals, why not just stick them on a plane? Heck, Easy Jet flights are less than $100 per person. Surely they could get a group discount?
So, right about now, you are probably asking yourself, how is it possible that IS, or ISIS, or even ISIL is still on the offensive when they are supposedly fighting Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Israel, Canada, various European nations and even the United States? And this fight is being fought without an air force? You know, the modern element of today’s wars, as in — “he who controls the skies controls the battlefield”. How is it that ISIL seems to be perpetually supplied not only with the newest gear but never seems to run out? Who is selling them the weapons? Every gun should be able to be traced from factory to end-user, at least to some extent. And how is it that according to some media reports, ISIL is worth billions of dollars because they sell oil. Then they use the money they made selling oil to further fund their reign of terror. But, who is buying this oil? Surely it has to be able to be tracked somehow, either by satellites or by chemical signatures. And what kind of currency are they using? How is it that ISIL can use Twitter to spread their propaganda? And to recruit people to serve their cause? Surely the various western social media companies have some sort of filters that can be used to block, suspend or track down suspected users? And once user-location has been determined, it could be turned over to the military, the secret services or law enforcement agencies.
All in all, the many important questions surrounding the current events taking place in Syria and Europe are not being asked. The only thing European politicians want to talk about is more bombing and more destruction. War is the answer. War is the end-all, the cure-all. This is strikingly reminiscent of the Kuwaiti teen-age girl who went before the US politicians back in 1990 and testified that she had seen Iraqi soldiers throw newborn babies out of incubators and watched them die. Except that as the story played out, it emerged that the entire story was fabricated. But by that time, the American public had already been sold, the first Gulf War had already started and the social discourse had already moved on. Of course, that war was about energy supplies. And surprisingly enough, so is the one in Syria.
So, what do you think dear listeners, “In the march to a global war, are these the questions better not asked?”
