Thread by @astroehlein

Bad Eggs and Ham(-Fisted Policy)
By dr sEUss

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Would you save them in a boat?
Would you rescue lives afloat?

We will not save them in a boat.
We will not save those lives afloat.

Would you save lives in a wood?
Would you, would you, if you could?

Not in a wood. No, that is no good.
Not on a bus, not from Belarus.
Not on the beach, not on the sand.
Not down in Greece, not up in Poland.

What then do you fear?
A thousand there, a hundred here?
These are such small numbers.
You risk looking like a big bunch of dumb bumblers.
Over twenty score million, that’s how big we are.
They’re a drop in the bucket. No problem, by far.

No, no, not a one. Push them all out the door.
Send them back to dictators, oppression and war.

But you know it’s the law,
These folks have a right.
So, stop the blah blah.
You must end their plight.
At the border, they can,
They’re allowed to apply.
Their case may be panned,
But you can’t let them die.

We don’t know what you saw.
We don’t care for the law.
The right that we see is the far right, our guide,
Others may speak. But we hear not their side.
All we hear is the hate.
A radio with one station.
It’s what people want:
No law! Only nation!

Do they, do they?
Is that what they say?
Europeans shout “kill them!”
All night and all day?

No, not at all, but the loudest, no doubt,
And all that we hear is thems that do shout.
The others? Who cares? Not I, I would boast.
We aim to please sadists, above all, the most.

You’ve lost your soul, your heart, your humanity.
See Europe’s past. This is insanity.

Hey, people must die to stop others trying.
So what if thousands of children are crying?

Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen thousand dead.
In just seven years, down there in the Med.
Being cruel isn’t working, being mean has been failing.
It’s not stopping desperate people from sailing.

It’s our ideology, what can we say?
Whether it works or it doesn’t.
Now, please go away.

But think of the people, caught up in this mess?
The women, the children, the men in duress?
Where can they land?
To where can they fly?

You don’t understand.
We want them to die.

Related links...

On the EU’s failure to call out #Poland’s abuses on the #Belarus border:
hrw.org/news/2021/11/1…

On how EU policies to contain migrants & asylum seekers in Libya make the EU complicit in abuses there. Those abuses include torture:
hrw.org/news/2021/11/0…

On deaths in the #Med over the last 7 years & how “let them die to stop others trying” has failed appallingly:

https://twitter.com/MSF_Sea/status/1459917399675883530