Post by Dan Dare on Nov 19, 2022 22:18:10 GMT
I watched this ITV programme earlier. It is about the migrant boat that sank in the Channel a year ago with the loss of 30 or so lives.
A very tragic event to be sure but the tone of the presentation was quite disturbing. It focused on the relatives of the victims, mostly Iraqi Kurds both back in Kurdistan and also in the UK and their complaints that neither the French nor the British authorities did enough to rescue their relatives.
It was clear that everyone involved, from the relatives to the victims to the smugglers who commissioned the enterprise were Iraqi Kurds and yet the sense of entitlement was quite astonishing. It’s as if the authorities, both French and British, had somehow failed in a duty of care to make sure that this enterprise ran smoothly and that in failing to do so they had somehow been guilty of a terrible crime against humanity. The underlying theme is that these people have a God-given right to make their way to England in search of a better life and that anyone who impedes their passage is a cruel and racist Nazi.
There was no sense whatsoever that the victims had brought it on themselves by entrusting their lives to criminal elements whose only purpose is to separate them from their money, nor was there any condemnation of the relatives back in Kurdistan without whose encouragement of the urge to migrate and without whose involvement with the smugglers, often financially, the whole business could never have happened.
According to ITV, the guilty parties are us, because we didn’t do enough to smooth the passage of these unwanted invaders.
A very tragic event to be sure but the tone of the presentation was quite disturbing. It focused on the relatives of the victims, mostly Iraqi Kurds both back in Kurdistan and also in the UK and their complaints that neither the French nor the British authorities did enough to rescue their relatives.
It was clear that everyone involved, from the relatives to the victims to the smugglers who commissioned the enterprise were Iraqi Kurds and yet the sense of entitlement was quite astonishing. It’s as if the authorities, both French and British, had somehow failed in a duty of care to make sure that this enterprise ran smoothly and that in failing to do so they had somehow been guilty of a terrible crime against humanity. The underlying theme is that these people have a God-given right to make their way to England in search of a better life and that anyone who impedes their passage is a cruel and racist Nazi.
There was no sense whatsoever that the victims had brought it on themselves by entrusting their lives to criminal elements whose only purpose is to separate them from their money, nor was there any condemnation of the relatives back in Kurdistan without whose encouragement of the urge to migrate and without whose involvement with the smugglers, often financially, the whole business could never have happened.
According to ITV, the guilty parties are us, because we didn’t do enough to smooth the passage of these unwanted invaders.
