Refugees & Migrants - A Second Holocaust ?????

Holocaust - "great destruction or loss of life"

Refugee - "a person who has fled from danger, especially political persecution"

Economic Migrant - "a person who moves to improve his / her standard of living"

I listened to "Any Questions / Any Answers" on Radio 4 yesterday. It was both deeply depressing and also very reassuring. Alongside the right wing, build a fence, NIMBY's there were supposed  "naive woolly liberals" who were willing to offer their homes to people caught up in this devastating migration. At least some people haven't lost all sense of empathy and humanity.

All of the great religions have care for others at their core. The "Good Samaritan" isn't alone. He might struggle today with the sheer size of the problem though.


What right do we have to keep prosperity & a good life to ourselves? Don't we all want education, healthcare, a safe home and a full belly for our families? Wouldn't we all do anything to provide that if we didn't have access to it? Faced with war, criminal dictators, starvation and abject fear would we pay criminal traffikers & risk everything from severe injury to death to achieve that? If you can say no I don't believe you. I don't care whether they are refugees or econimic migrants, no one takes the risks they do if they aren't terrified & desperate.

Humanity is facing a battle of good against great evil. We can't afford to lose, because if we do no one will be safe ever again. Personally I think the dividing line between refugees & economic migrants is difficult and blurred & possibly irrelevant.

There is enough space in this world. At the moment there is food & water for all people to have enough. The only problem is that it isn't shared out equally & not everyone has access to the basic needs of life. The protectionists want to keep it for themselves. They don't want to share. In my view if we don't share voluntarily we will be unleashing a horror of a magnitude I don't want to imagine.

Desperate & excluded people will fight to survive & why shouldn't they?