Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

UK article calls migrants ‘cockroaches’
iol ^ | 4-25-2015 | Reuters

Posted on 04/25/2015 8:18:17 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

London - The United Nations human rights chief on Friday called on Britain to tackle hate speech in the tabloid press after a columnist compared migrants to “cockroaches” and advocated using gunboats to stop them from coming to Europe.

New High Commissioner of the UN for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said the article was an extreme example of anti-foreigner articles that frequently appeared in UK tabloids, sapping compassion for people drowning in the Mediterranean in the desperate attempt to reach Europe.

He called on Britain and other EU countries to act against racism and xenophobia which “under the guise of freedom of expression, are being allowed to feed a vicious cycle of vilification, intolerance and politicisation of migrants”.

The Sun newspaper, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, published the article by Katie Hopkins on April 17.

Britain's Metropolitan Police said it had received complaints that it amounted to incitement of racial hatred and the matter was being considered.

A spokesman for The Sun declined to comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at iolmobile.co.za ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-36 next last
The UN ought to write a letter to someone.
1 posted on 04/25/2015 8:18:17 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Tell them to write to www.whocares?.com


2 posted on 04/25/2015 8:20:29 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Migrants is such a deceitful deceptive term used by apologists and sympathizers to try and convey some meaning of a peoples only seasonally moving from one place or another and then back home for work picking crops or some such nonsense.

What these people are is ILLEGALS. They don’t migrate; they INFEST! They ARE cockroaches - their primary interests aren’t jobs. They’re looking for legitimacy and that entitlement teat.


3 posted on 04/25/2015 8:22:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

“sapping compassion for people drowning in the Mediterranean in the desperate attempt to reach Europe. “

What a load of obama.


4 posted on 04/25/2015 8:22:42 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Let the UN pay for all those third-world losers with their own money. What, no money? Well ,TS, UN, don’t come crying to Uncle Sam, he’s broke!


5 posted on 04/25/2015 8:25:19 AM PDT by W. (Many Disqus sites, Cheezburger.com and [The Internet] Archive.org all censor conservative comment.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

They should loudly offer him a deal. Stop the invasion, and we’ll stop disparaging the invaders.


6 posted on 04/25/2015 8:28:18 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Illegal aliens are an infestation so I don’t see the problem with calling them cockroaches. Besides, it is rather apt. The amnesty crowd loves them until they have to come home with them.


7 posted on 04/25/2015 8:29:28 AM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gaffer

MIGRANTS..

THE CLOSEST analogy would be a flock of Birds.

These people are not migrating,,,they are scurrying..

cockroaches Scurry!

Case Closed!


8 posted on 04/25/2015 8:29:33 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Calling a spade a spade.

How awful.


9 posted on 04/25/2015 8:33:49 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy. Cruz, that is. Texas conservative.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

Here and now in this country they aren’t scurrying. That’s the problem. Because of lawless Obama they are emboldened to the point of blatant revolt. His DHS ghouls now flying to their home countries and picking them up now to deliver them here just adds to their self-assurance they will be legitimate citizens very soon.

They are, in fact, the materialization of this country’s annihilation. If they are allowed to become formally (through benefit of law) legitimized, they will not only bankrupt us further, but they WILL vote an early end to this Republic. I am certain of it.


10 posted on 04/25/2015 8:34:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Gaffer

I had heard that there were enough here already to tip an election if legitimized..and they haven’t stopped scurrying over the border yet.


11 posted on 04/25/2015 8:35:46 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

Actually, there was an earlier thread here where reports are that actual physical southern border crossings are down. That’s because our DHS or whoever in this government is actually flying planes down there and getting these rats.

My personal guess is that there are already 40-50 million illegals here. You cannot go anywhere (and I mean anywhere) where you don’t see some little Mexican (I call all of them that - sue me) once a day. In some places it’s all you see.


12 posted on 04/25/2015 8:38:39 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Gaffer

they are a PLAGUE!

ordinarily we know what to do with plagues.


13 posted on 04/25/2015 8:40:01 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

The cockroaches in the UN probably don’t mind. They get called cockroaches all of the time.


14 posted on 04/25/2015 8:40:59 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hillary and the Ghosts of Nixons Past. An American Nightmare.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Why does the press keep calling these people “immigrants”? They are not birds immigrating north to south for the winter. They are illegal aliens...why not say so? To me it is another example of political correctness that is killing western civilization.


15 posted on 04/25/2015 8:41:19 AM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gaffer

“What these people are is ILLEGALS. They don’t migrate; they INFEST! They ARE cockroaches - their primary interests aren’t jobs. They’re looking for legitimacy and that entitlement teat.”

Or they’re looking to colonize with intent to take down the status quo.

BTW, you make a good point - is it better to refer to them as ‘infestors’? Infestese? Or ‘infeces’?


16 posted on 04/25/2015 8:44:49 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

It is an apt analogy. Spot on, actually.


17 posted on 04/25/2015 8:53:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey

You are right. But plagues aren’t usually associated with some sentient purpose. By their nature they are completely oblivious to anything but opportunity to multiply.

In the case of illegals, their purpose is acutely destructive and selfish. There is no one in this country that could logically and sanely argue the value added with them without inject the horse sh!t notion of dreams and wanting to do better and all that nonsense. There simply is no value added save that one liberal unicorn - an instant massive deciding vote total on their side.

It is all about “the vote”. That’s all they want. Our sovereignty and future legacy be damned. These enabling Democrats and liberals (even some citizen Hispanics) only are looking for the power, control and the money and riches that come with. They could give a damn about our founding fathers, our Constitution or our values as long as THEY gain control.

In the end, if they are allowed to succeed, the USA will become just another third-world sh!t hole with some despotic “Dreamer” in charge and disappearing his/her dissenters in the night like all the rest of South America.


18 posted on 04/25/2015 8:53:13 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Gaffer

Actually I think cockroach is a better description of how they act than migrant.

Why don’t we point the finger at Mexico and ask them why their citizens can’t wait to get out....they ought to take better care of their own people - talk about the 1% - there’s a lot of money there concentrated and same with the other “migrant” countries. Why is the American middle class supposed to pay for their greedy 1%?


19 posted on 04/25/2015 8:54:02 AM PDT by Aria
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Citizen Zed

Cockroaches sounds right to me. Unwanted, uinivited, freeloading, filthy, procreate without restraint or responsibility. Yeah, cockroaches!


20 posted on 04/25/2015 9:00:18 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-36 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson