Lampedusa Swamped

[Khandro]

With "Well over 7,000 immigrants arriving on the small island in the past 5 days" alone, are we as a generation, witnessing the death of Europe? 

[webbo3]

Khandro@15:20

\\I clearly understand why Jews fled Germany to escape Naziism, but I don't see the connection you make between 'colonialism' & the peoples of Albania, Afghanistan, Guinea, Ivory Coast etc. now suddenly & illegally entering Europe.//

Perhaps you can enlighten us?  

 

Zacs will do a Lineker and take a couple in st his own expense.

[naomi24]

Oh is that what you were  wondering, atheist.  Ok.  I expect you can research it.

[Atheist]

Thanks Naomi; I shall. I just thought that with all the interest  here some of you might have already done it and would be kind enough to pass it on.

[naomi24]

Rumour has it they're all either doctors or lawyers or other professionals who will benefit our society greatly - or persecuted gay people in desperate need of sanctuary - but I couldn't say how true any of that is.  

[royfromaus]

I'll pass this on, Athiest.

 

Right now in Stuttgart, Eritreans V Eritreans are rioting at their own cultural festival.  

[douglas9401]

Could they not just put two tables together? Then we could get a seat.

[webbo3]

https://news.sky.com/story/dozens-of-people-injured-in-violence-at-eritrean-cultural-festival-in-germany-12963400

\\In July, a clash at an Eritrean festival in the western German city of Giessen left 22 police officers injured.//

Is this the enrichment they promised us.

[Khandro]

webbo; 'Clashes between Eritrean government supporters and opponents at a cultural festival in Germany has left dozens injured, including at least 26 police officers.'

 It's all because of colonialism 🙄

[maggiebee]

While I have lots if sympathy for people fleeing civil war etc., for an island to be landed with more people than it's own population must be very scarey indeed.

[royfromaus]

The event in Stuttgart was organised by several groups considered close to the government of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki.

 

Fleeing refugees?

The future for Europe looks very, very bleak.

[ToraToraTora]

what I don't get is that they flee their homeland for a better life, fair enough I get that but then they get where they are going and try and turn it into the sheet hole they came from. Makes no sense.

[Ellipsis]

> Once Lampedusa is engulfed and sinks below the Med 

You mean like Derna? Over 10,000 drowned and dumped in the sea ...  or not like that at all.

Really, the language - Lampedusa and Derna, both with their respective problems at the same time, one being literally swamped - is unfortunate at best, offensive at worst.

[Khandro]

I've just been searching for an English town with a population similar to Lampedusa of 6,000 & I haven't come up with anything so small - I guess it should really be described as  large village 20 km square.

 

To Lampedusa, having had already several thousand illegal immigrants on its finite space & having to take on another 7,000 thousand in the last 5 days,'swamped' sounds like an appropriate description.

 

But of course it's all the fault of 'colonialism' according to Zacs -Master🙄

 

 

 

 

[Old_Geezer]

The description is accurate at best, upsetting to those who won't face the truth at worst.

[vulcan42]

Ellipsis, how would you describe it, a slight inconvenience perhaps?

Swamped means overwhelmed, sounds about right to me.

[Patsy33]

Nightmare...

[naomi24]

Ellipsis, no one should be expected to change their native language because a disaster has occurred. That littie island is swamped with boat people.  Petty preciousness doesn't change that.

[Ellipsis]

Derna was swamped, Lampedusa is inundated.

And when a town is swamped, killing over 10,000 people, then that explains why people like those who survived would leave Derna and inundate other places, like Lampedusa, an Italian island. Especially when Italy colonised Libya, after which it was under Allied occupation ... the repercussions of which still echo.  This is still in living memory. Obviously not for some people, like those who drowned following a catastrophic flood that was exacerbated by climate change.  Lots of connections, lots of history, lots of repercussions ...

[naomi24]

Lots of virtue-signalling  hot air ...

[Khandro]

ellipsis for Pete's sake, put a sock in it!

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Swamped