The many victims, drowned before the coast of Lampedusa are a disgrace! Europe has built a wall around himself from Morocco to Greece. The Italian authorities take the boats of the fishermen of Lampedusa as a revenge, when they helped drowning refugees. Who comes from them ashore has to pay 5,000 $ penalty.
title=”Cayuco con inmigrantes” (Boat with subsaharian immigrants) – photo by Miguelángel = Miguel Angel Adam
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frizztext: The reason for the millions of escape is the global religious war unleashed by fundamentalist Islamists. Whether resistance or escape will enable the solution is still in limbo.
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background music: me, playing on my guitar LET MY PEOPLE GO! – do we have empathy for all those modern people, trying to escape from a land where they were oppressed?
P.S.:
since 2010 I’m writing about this topic, of course without any result – what can a single blogger do?
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title=”Watching” – photo by Baz 120 = Barry Lowman, kindly sent to my group BLOG IT!, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr.com – visit his website at http://barrylowmanstreetphotography.zenfolio.com/
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related:
pope Francis:
elephant swimming:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/10359959/Pictures-of-the-day-7-October-2013.html?frame=2694384
never-going-back-again:
olympiad winner died-with-boat-people:
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photo by “bass_nroll” – click on the picture to enter his galleries…
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photo by Gioacchino Petronicce, kindly sent to my group BLOG IT!, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr.com
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title=”Joy of giving by Baz 120 = Barry Lowman, kindly sent to my group BLOG IT!, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr.com – visit his website at http://barrylowmanstreetphotography.zenfolio.com/
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Flickr Comments 
I have no words really, heart-heavy.
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“Neptune’s nacreous nymphs”: what are they doing, watching the drowned people tumbling down to the ground of the Mediterranean sea before Lampedusa? I know, you are religious, and so I played for you GO DOWN MOSES – do we have empathy for all those modern people, trying to escape from a land where they were oppressed?
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So sad…aren’t we all humans?
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Your topic makes me so sad but when I opened it and heard you strumming I felt better. Sad story though, it just makes no sense.
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tragic… so tragic.
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These photos say so much about cruelty of people!
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