Pleasure Submarines and NGO Migrant Rescue Boats

 

A migrant boat photographed shortly before it capsized and 500 people drowned in the Mediterranean Sea June 19, 2023.

The whole world is still crazy and DeSatan is at it again. That's the news of the day, that's all you need to know. Just go back to bed. DeSatan's lackeys in the state house have enacted an anti-immigrant law that he and everybody else knows is unconstitutional.  But hey the law will make for more good campaign slogans.  Especially for someone trying his best to be more outrageous than Trump in his articulated hatred for "other" people.  Or maybe he ain't trying at all.  He is for our time the bad version of George Wallace -- the version before Wallace's conversion from Saul to Paul, as it were.  I'm telling you, we're gonna keep giving this Florida Mussolini guy a pass until one day we wake up to find that we are all "other people."  Its not always early immigrants who are the most tyrannical against later immigrants, but DeSatan is an early immigrant.  His people were "other people" just like the rest of us:

All eight great-grandparents of DeSantis, who recently signed what has been described as the strongest anti-immigration bill in the US, were migrants from southern Italy who were among the hundreds of thousands of Italians who left home in the early 20th century in search of a better future.  “His great-grandmother, Maria Nolfi, was my grandfather Domenico’s sister,” Lupi told Adnkronos. “Both emigrated to America. She died young, when she was just 43 years old, after marrying Nicola DeSantis. Daniel James DeSantis, the governor’s grandfather, was born from their marriage in the US, and, in turn, married Viola Petrella, also of Abruzzo origins.” James DeSantis and Viola Petrella had a son named Ronald Daniel DeSantis, father of the aspiring US presidential candidate.

DeSatan's homeland, Italy, is still criminalizing NGOs spending far less to save thousands from drowning than the whole world spent trying to save five scientifically arrogant people from dying during a money-to-burn pleasure excursion. Italy just recently snatched two NGO rescue boats for not ignoring people drowning in the ocean.  I'm just stating the uncomfortable facts, I'm not glad the submariners  died.   Greece has joined Italy too, by the way.

From the New York Times, June 23, 2023:

On one vessel, five people died on a very expensive excursion that was supposed to return them to the lives they knew. On the other, perhaps 500 people died just days earlier on a squalid and perilous voyage, fleeing poverty and violence in search of new lives.  After contact was lost with the five inside a submersible descending to the Titanic, multiple countries and private entities sent ships, planes and underwater drones to pursue a faint hope of rescue. That was far more effort than was made on behalf of the hundreds aboard a dangerously overcrowded, disabled fishing trawler off the Greek coast while there were still ample chances for rescue.  And it was the lost submersible, the Titan, that drew enormous attention from news organizations worldwide and their audiences, far more than the boat that sank in the Mediterranean and the Greek Coast Guard’s failure to help before it capsized.

From NPR, June 28, 2023:

Many around the world closely followed the plight last week of five wealthy men who went missing aboard a Titanic-bound submersible. Meanwhile, researchers at the United Nations' International Organization for Migration (IOM) updated the number of migrants who have died trying to reach Europe by sea this year: nearly 2,000. 

Dhingra notes that rescue efforts by civil society groups have been criminalized. Earlier this year, two dozen aid workers who participated in migrant rescue operations were put on trial in Greece. The UN said there were no longer any civil society rescue teams operating in Greek waters. The true number of those who have drowned in the sea is thought to be far higher than IOM's minimum estimates. "This year, there are probably a lot of ghost shipwrecks – boats that nobody knows about," di Giacomo says.

The CBC, the Associated Press, and NBC, among others have all talked about this. Something is not right about this.

darryll k. jones