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> The situation today with different travel capabilities for holders of different passports is somewhat like apartheid. This isn't new. You seem to forget abou
by throw_m239339 3y ago
> The situation today with different travel capabilities for holders of different passports is somewhat like apartheid.
This isn't new. You seem to forget about the infamous "boat people", or forget how some Jewish refugees were denied asylum in US or Canada at the dawn of World War II.
> Our generation deserves to be described badly by future generations, for the issues we systematically ignore.
No, the mafia who put these people on these "rafts" and exploit their dreams, rob them, assault the women and sell some of them into slavery are the ones to blame. The US, UK, French leaders who made a mess in Libya without thinking about the consequences of their action are also to blame. Libya has literally turned into a giant open air black slave market.
https://time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/ https://time.com/longform/african-slave-trade/
"our generation" isn't to blame, I didn't vote for western armies to topple Gadhafi, no matter how bad he was, and then try to pull the exact same stunt in Syria, which became infested by terrorists who then perpetrated terrorist attacks on European soil that made hundreds of victims, because western leaders decided to finance "freedom fighters" that turned out to be allied with extremists.
Gadhafi was a bloody dictator, yet Libya was one of the richest nation in Africa and provided 10s of millions of jobs to sub Saharan Africans, which helped feed even more people. The western leaders that decided that chaos would be better than order and stability are the one that needs to be "described badly" now and not in the future, not me, not the common folk that didn't agree with all this.
- pharmakom 3y agoPassports were originally to help merchants cross war zones safely.
- arrowsmith 3y agoThat's why British passports still say on the inside cover that they're issued in the name of the King. In other words: "don't fuck with me, I have powerful friends."
- zirgs 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1973 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Coun... The UN Security Council voted to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya. Not a single member state voted against it. And nobody vetoed it. So saying that the West decided to topple Gaddafi is a lie.
- throw_m239339 3y ago> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Coun https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Coun... The UN Security Council voted to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya. Not a single member state voted against it. And nobody vetoed it. So saying that the West decided to topple Gaddafi is a lie. Only for western troops and their allies to overstep the very mandate the UN gave them. It's well documented. Denying that fact is a big lie, your own link says so. So much for that "no-fly zone"... > On 24 August, it was acknowledged for the first time that special forces troops from Britain,[15] Italy, France, Jordan, Qatar,[16] and the UAE[16] had intervened on the ground in Libyan territory, stepping up operations in Tripoli and other cities.[17] This has been questioned as a possible violation of Resolution 1973[18] although the use of special forces is not prohibited by the resolution.