It’s easy to judge when you are not it’s not your life.
The views and opinions of this post are solely my own, I am
not trying to force them on anyone, I am merely using my platform to express my
opinions, you may not agree, however I respect your opinion and I ask you to do
the same for me and respect mine. I have
studied political science, so my view and opinions are also based on experiences
and what I have learnt.
Everyone in the world is currently weighing in on the
policies that Trump is starting to initiate. Here’s the thing, it is very
difficult to trust the new leader of the free world (which is the societal
given at this point in time), when he is promoting hate of another, whilst allegedly
protecting the citizens of his own nation. Let me break it down, in a way that I
can try comprehend what I am saying as well.
History of the world supports the notion that war does not
just happen; a catalyst ignites a spark and creates a fire. In other words one human’s
hatred for another creates a domino effect, which essentially causes another to
retaliate, and bam WAR. Greed, discrimination, the need for power and
domination, the constant need for validation, pain, hatred, suffering... the
list can go on; these are the key role players in a person’s domain that often
causes them to want to start conflict. All my life I have been fascinated by
Hitler, he was quite possibly one of the greatest people to have ever lived.
Now bare with me, “greatest”, he had one of the greatest minds that the world
has ever seen. He was a single man, who came from Austria, had Jewish blood
running through him, fought in the war, served time in prison and was notorious
for his dealings in women. Then convinced a few people that “oh actually there
needs to be an Arian Race and the rest of the people are just scum”, somehow,
beyond my comprehension, they agreed and next thing you know, a few people
became practically a whole nation. Whether they believed it or not, their dictator
was now a man who craved power, domination and servitude. Sorry for you if you
did not agree with his rule, if you didn’t you kept it to yourself. A single
man, a single mind, a single dominator was responsible in the world going up in
flames, over 6 million Jews being brutally tortured, further millions of which included gays, gypsies,
disabled, children, twins etc being tested and experimented on. Torture, blood and death loomed.
The Rwandan genocide in 1994 saw to over one million people
dying in a period of 100 days. People being hacked up by their neighbours,
blood running through the rivers, people lying decapitated in the streets and
children’s heads being smashed against the walls until their blood stained it
for 21 years and counting. All because one
group of people decided to create laws to separate one group from another. Namely
the Hutus and Tutsi’s.
Now I could go on for pages and pages going through wars,
genocides and terrors that keep me awake at night, but I won’t. What I will
say, I have been to two concentration camps, I have walked through Shinglers
factory, I have seen the sight of the Budapest oppression, I have struggled up
the stairs where Anne Frank and her family hid, I have walked through the grave
sites of those who lost their lives in Rwanda, I have seen the crushed skulls
of the children whose heads were smashed against the wall ( I have also seen
the very wall where there is still blood and brain stains after 22 years) I
have seen the bodies that been preserved so that people will know the genocide
happened in Rwanda, I have seen the effect laws can make in my own country, I
have seen extreme poverty and sickness, I have seen the faces of victims who
have survived human trafficking in Hong Kong, I have seen people in my own
country die from another’s hatred, I have walked the road that Nelson Mandela lived
his struggle, the same road Hector Peterson was killed on, the pain in people’s
eye because they don’t know what happened to their child, I have spoken with
refugees and seen their struggles, the agony of someone who has looked death in
the eye and survived. I can go on and one. I have seen pain, I have felt pain
and I have defended it. What I have just mentioned is conflict from 6 maybe 7
countries, that doesn’t go into The USA’s history of slavery, civil wars and colonisation;
it doesn’t look at the most part of Asia, the conflict in the Middle East, and
the war on terrorism, human trafficking and human rights violations.
Now the above is history that I have experienced through
various forums, because of this I have strong opinions on human right violations
and the injustices of the world. Now please at anytime don’t get it twisted
what I am trying to say, right is right and wrong is wrong, but when it comes
to certain things what is right for me may not be what is right for you and same
with what is wrong. I diverge. Now after seeing thing and experiencing them etc,
I strongly feel that we as a world, not even as a nation should be uniting to
prevent such atrocities from happening again. But instead we are ever becoming
a divided world in our views and opinions, and how people should be treated. When
the ICC ( international Criminal Court), The United nations, The Declaration on
Human rights was initiated and polices for the protection of human rights were
put into place, it was done o prevent the unnecessary deaths that mostly occurred
in Europe and World War 2 at the time.
Since then, the Cold War could have wiped out the entire planet if
Russia and the USA had actually pressed the button the send the nuclear bombs
at each other, the Rwandan Genocide occurred right under the noses of the international
community, terrorism grew so fantastically that the world now fears terrorism
more than it did being blown up one time from a bomb, girls are being taken by
the bus loads form their rooms while they are sleeping, Israel and Palestine
have had about 3 intense wars ( that have actually been reported) although they
are pretty much always in conflict with each other, Syria is being targeted
with WORLD WIDE ILLEGAL GASSES that are killing the masses by the day; as well
as being bombed every second day causing their people to flee for safety; and
if they make it out of Syria and onto a boat let’s say, then they are most
likely destined to drown or be chased away from a place of safety. Now this is
where we come to the controversial part of what I am actually trying to say.
I am fully aware of the reports of refugees who attack
nationals of the country they are residing in, the reports of how refugees get
treated better by the government of that country than those who are citizens,
how veterans are forced to sleep on the streets while refugees are given luscious
homes, how jobs are freely available to refugees and not the people of that
country and the negative things about them go on.
Let me give you an idea of what isn’t al of social media. I
am going to give facts in bullet form what real refugees have been through and
what they continue to go through. (I have met and spoken with many of these
people):
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If you are able to escape your war ridden country,
you need to make it to a boarder where they will let you in.
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By international law, if you have ratified it through
the ICC or UN you are not allowed to turn a refugee or asylum seeker away, it
is a violation of their human rights, yet many times they are turned away.
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If you are not turned away, you are lugged into
a camp where there is hardly any food, water provisions to survive, and wait
for your refugee or asylum seeker status to be granted. Mean while, you are subjected to disease, rape,
humiliation, violence and extreme poverty.
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If you are lucky enough to be granted refugee or
asylum seeker status, you need to find somewhere to live, somewhere to go to
school if you are a child which is often the case and you are a child by yourself
or looking after a family of children, you need to find food, and basically you
need to now survive.
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You are not given the same rights as the
citizens of that country you are in, on fact often you will be discriminated
against and people in authoritative positions will take advantage of the fact
that you are vulnerable.
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This case specific to children I have met in a
refugee school, the young girls will stay in a factory like setting, that the
room are separated by sheets, and often these girls will either have no parents
or parents will be out working all of
the time, will be raped, impregnated and left for dead in some cases, and no
one to turn to because they are not able to go the police because they are victimised
more, their papers torn, they are beaten, they are often forced into a life of prostitution
and debt. They have to drop out of school; they are tortured and treated in a
way that they may as well have stayed in their own countries, pretty much taken
their chances with the war or conflict of where they came from.
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You are often discriminated against, thus you
are not able to acquire certain jobs, certain places of residence, benefits, financial
assistance etc.
I could really go on for days. What I am getting at ultimately
is that I urge people to think about others situations before judging where they come from, what
religion they practice, what they look like, and put yourself in their shoes if
only for a moment. Conflict has arisen in your country and you need to run, if
every nation starts adopting the notion of banning refugees, then you will have
nowhere to run too, you will not be allowed to try and save your family, you
will be left to fend for yourself, you will have nowhere to go, and you will be
alone.
The notion that one life matter more than another is one
that I reject with all of my heart. I personally do not believe that I am
better than another person, especially because of what religion they follow,
what race they are, where they are form, what gender they are f the need help
or not. I have an extreme diverse group of people around which, friends, family
and collegues. I see them as human beings. I do not label them, for I do not
want to be labelled for what I look, like or the religion that I practice or
what gender I am. I want to be remembered for the type of person I was and who I
strive to be. I am not trying to enforce my beliefs on you, but I urge you to
open your mind and think about the past, history that the world doesn’t want repeated
but is seriously heading that was and has the capacity to be so much worse than
any history we have learnt about in books.
There are extremists trying to conquer and divide the world,
they are not the masses, whether it be the Muslim or Christians or any other
kind of extremists, their goal is to make hatred an apart of life to break us
all down. They want to fear one another which in turn create hate, which will
essentially create war. Don’t let them win. We need to unite to create a united
world, to fight the powers that be. It’s the terrorists, the leaders creating
division, the leaders creating hate the need to be united against, so we can
rebuild and create a new world. We are only as weak as our biggest fear.
