I sat and watched twenty minutes of German public-TV last night....Channel Two....ZDF. The show at roughly 10PM....Dunja Hayali and her public forum-chat show. The topic last night.....immigrants, refugees, and the rescue ships in the Med.
Generally, it was a feel-good-for saving-refugees type forum, with the rescue ship coordinators hyping their operations and how Europe needs to accept the rescued migrants.
ZDF's moderator....Dunja Havali did have a token retired political figure to counter the discussion but the hype here was to discount any real opposition....that it's just the right thing to go and rescue these people and bring them to Europe.
I sat and paused over the naive thinking and logic demonstrated. For me....it would make more sense to just have an airline deal set up in Africa, and fly the folks straight into European cities with paperwork already done (stamped) and put them right to work. Why waste time on rescues? Why involve smuggling operations and black markets? Why allow human trafficking to be a real business? The charity-rescue crowd was like a group of fourth-grade kids....no real grasp of the landscape.
Naturally, if you went in my direction....then you'd have say that there is no limit on entry and everyone was welcome to come in. Oh yeah....that topic of limited jobs for marginal educated or skilled folks would come up. The topic of adequate and affordable housing....would also come up. In fact, hundreds of subjects would come up.
At some point, Dunja cut to a video-piece....she'd gone down to Italy and encountered the local Italian town which wasn't pro-asylum or pro-immigration. These folks felt that the whole rescue thing was bringing in a lot of migrants who weren't going to be adaptable or find jobs. It was also discussed that most of the migrants in Italy weren't interested in staying (Italy doesn't offer prime-support or help). They wanted to head north (hint: Germany). Border check-points have been put up....so crossing the border isn't that easy anymore. Course, I looked at this and noted that Germany could just issue visas down in Italy and fly the folks up....legally....if they wanted to make a show out of this.
I've come to a sense of reality over the past year in Germany. This whole discussion and opera going on.....is more of an illusion, than reality.
You have wannabe-saviors for the migrant crowd, but none of the rescue-ship folks really ask who is fronting their cost or giving them the info on where the rafts will be rescued.
You have the pretender-political crowd who is hyped to be pro-asylum, but if you bring up paperwork and the approval process...with the failure rates on visas.....these people never seem to want to be in the room and talking.
You have the illusionists-turned-news media crowd who hype something to fit some agenda but they can't really show the whole landscape because then you'd ask stupid questions which can't be answered.
It's like being in a AA-meeting where all the alcoholics are talking about how they made it through the week without a drink.....trying hard not to grin because they'd all broken their promise at least once.
As for the Dunja Hayali Show? Here's the thing....it came on fairly late....10PM roughly, and I doubt if more than a quarter-million Germans out of 82-million watched it.
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