South Park season premier tonight
Posted on 09/16/2015 4:16:28 PM PDT by TroutStalker
MYTILENE, Greece — On this vacation island ringed by the clear Aegean Sea, it is now the tourists who are the rarity.
Arabic has surpassed Greek as the dominant language on the streets of Mytilene, the main port town. The beaches are festooned with orange life jackets and deflated rafts abandoned by migrants who are choosing to take their first steps into Europe here, in ever-increasing numbers.
As the authorities elsewhere in Europe are shutting their borders and struggling to deal with the migration crisis, Lesbos has been overwhelmed by an increasing flow of migrants who have reached its shores by boat from Turkey.
The humanitarian crisis the island faced this summer has diminished, partly because of a streamlined registration process for new arrivals and more ferries to carry migrants to mainland Greece.
But the island’s relatively calm waters and a Turkish crackdown on smuggling elsewhere after the widely publicized drowning of a Syrian toddler two weeks ago have rerouted much of the Mediterranean’s human traffic though Lesbos, making it the single largest European recipient of new migrants.
After sunrise on Wednesday, Safa Salem, a refugee from eastern Syria, stepped from a rubber raft stuffed with dozens of passengers and stood in Europe for the first time.
“I know I am in Greece, but I have no idea where,” he said, smiling.
The prime role of Lesbos as a migration route is largely an accident of geography. Turkey is so close that migrants have to cross as few as six miles of water to reach the island. And nearby Turkish shores are sparsely inhabited, making them ideal places for human traffickers to gather migrants and launch them in flimsy inflatable rafts.
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South Park season premier tonight
Nuke Lesbos!
(You can take that however you want.)
>> migrants have to cross as few as six miles of water to reach the island
A few patrol boats armed with twin .50’s would handle that little problem nicely and fairly cheaply.
Sharks might come around to help.
As I recall, East Germans had to cross a lot less than six miles and the success rate wasn’t that high...
It’s heartbreaking what the Greek Islanders are being put through, genuinely criminal subjecting them to being terrorised by tens of thousands of mainly young men, angry, militant savages.
The island of Kos are being subjected to the same crap.
I keep hoping that the Greek Army will intervene.
Those scumuslims leave trails of garbage and filth behind them just like the democrats here do. You could probably see it from space! Witness any democrat gathering, they drop their trash on the ground and walk away. We’ve all see the pictures...
I thought the migrants were all men, so how are they gaining entry to lesbos?
The words “lesbos” and “main point of entry” in the same sentence have brought out the juvenile in me tonight.
Forgive me.
CC
So imagine the fun of a whole s-load of mostly young, Muslim men flooding in there. Very sexually aggressive and unused to seeing under-dressed women walking around, kissing each other, etc.
I was thinking that they need to clean this problem up lickety split!
“So imagine the fun of a whole s-load of mostly young, Muslim men flooding in there.”
LOL, I wonder if they realize where they’re landing. I get the feeling they don’t.
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