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The refugee crisis in Europe. Anyway we look at it, the poor people are between the rock and a hard place. Croatia is to host 1600-something, but with Hungary closing it's borders with Serbia, we are bound to receive the flood starting tomorrow.
 
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tomo pauk said:
The refugee crisis in Europe. Anyway we look at it, the poor people are between the rock and a hard place. Croatia is to host 1600-something, but with Hungary closing it's borders with Serbia, we are bound to receive the flood starting tomorrow.
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It's a terrible tragedy for the Syrians, but I don't understand why it's been seen as Europe's responsibility to take them all in.
Why hasn't any Arab nations stepped up? I know Turkey and Israel have done what they can, but there's other neighbors that are fully capable of helping.

Then the recent social media shaming of European countries that refuse them makes me mad as hell. Many smaller European countries simply cannot afford to have the added burden of refugees and nations like Hungary simply don't want the burden, whether it's a religious decision or one out of economics. Bottom line, is that Hungary (and any other nation) is well within it's rights to decide who crosses their border and who doesn't.

Italy has even come under scrutiny for turning back refugees lately, and Italy has cited several reasons, first of which, is they cannot afford any more. Secondly, the African refugees in southern Italy have been demanding more food and better housing and when Italy has said no, they have taken to the streets and looted business, torn down signs and started fires.

I think the best way to have averted this refugee crisis was to stop the destruction of Syria before it got to this point...
 
Islamic nations aren't going to step up and take refugees. This is their way of invading with out sending soldiers. When there are enough of them to out number the locals, then they will demand obedience from the host nation.
 
We don't want that something similar to colonization of the Amercas to happen, don't we?


Europe, or EU more precisely, can either help out or let the refugees die. They are at our door step. Arab nations are mostly in shambles themselves, even before we start counting in North Afican countries in (like Egypt and Lybia, for example).


(mostly-)Syrian refugees don't want to remain in Greece, Serbia or Hungary; it is Germany, Austria, Low countries, France they are interested. With that said, some media are more responsible than other, I prefer the on-line editions of 'serious' media, like BBC or CNN (for English-language news). Hungarian decision is more along the line of 'let the other take care of them, we will not' thinking.


Without the complete EU backing up the needs for refugees, the most 'critical' countries will have problems in feeding housing of the refugees. Quirk is also that countries at Europe's south, like Greece and Italy have their own economical problems.

I think the best way to have averted this refugee crisis was to stop the destruction of Syria before it got to this point...
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Agreed.
 
What annoyed me is this. My son being bullied by another boy. This while it is known that my son has autism, which means that bullying him is like throwing a cripple out of his wheelchair. While the latter will be frowned upon, the only thing they tell my son is that he should be a big boy and either "do something back" or "ignore it. Neither is an option for my son. Having autism means that he doesn't have the social conscience to react in a right way. He will not be able to ignore anything and he will be emotional because he expects the world to be fair. No words can change that. He will never hit back, for him hitting someone is something that is not done, not part of his world. For me as a parent it's very frustrating. Not much I can do about it. Talking to the parents as usual doesn't help and I can not get my son to punch the little #### in the face.
 
EU is probably far worse, but if a kid is picking on a child who can't defend himself, this is no different than someone much bigger kicking the **** out of the bully.

Back when I was a kid, we'd all gang up on a bully and beat the eff out of them. On occasion, a kid would get an older sibling to come down and beat the sh!t out of a bully, too. (Seen a kid's older sister, who was in college, come down one time to our Jr. High and wiped the schoolyard with a bully's face - loved every minute of that spectacle).

This "kinder and gentler" world that society is pushing these days, is doing nothing but creating a rich breeding ground for bullies, predators and sociopaths in the vacuum left by forbidding and condemning physical confrontation.
 
Shinpachi said:
IIRC, Marcel, your son had tough face at his age 6.
Time will solve!
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No, this is my older son, he's 11.

I hope it will be solved, but I don't think me interferring will be of any help. Apaart from the fact that it will not be accepted by society, It'll only strengthen them in their believe that Robin is weak and vulnerable and he will be bullied again after a while. The only thing to stop this is for him self to sort this out. He should be the one to beat the **** out this little bugger.
 
I was bullied as a child. In 5th grade I gave a much larger 6th grader a bloody nose and it stopped until middle school. There I beat the crap out of once again larger 9th graders. It didn't totally stop until I beat an opponent"s pinky finger all of the way back toward the wrist during a fight and had no memory of doing it. The other kids said that I just smiled and broke his finger and had to be pulled back from him. That gave me a reputation for being inhuman as I never felt any blow during my fights. After that, I was never bothered again until high school and it only took one fight put an end to all bullying against me. That was 50 years ago when there was still a code of honor. Your only weapon was your body and no guns or knives. Now there is no honor as kids today would rather shoot than actually face another person on a level playing field where both walk away battered but alive. That takes real courage and society today makes actually defending yourself with honor more of a crime than being the aggressor. Just my own quick rant about how about degraded things have become in my life time.
 
What annoyed me today...nothing...until I read Marcels post...now I'm not annoyed at all I'm right F*#*ing Pissed at the little Sh!t that thinks what he has done is acceptable behavior...his parents need a friggin' lesson too....
 
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