One of the leading Hungarian broadcasters has fired a camerawoman after she was shown tripping a fleeing refugee man who was carrying his young son in his arms. The broadcaster and many Hungarian news outlets have been accused of highly negative coverage of the influx of refugees. The camerawoman has been identified as Petra László of N1TV.
The man can be seen breaking away from a police officer with his child in his arms when László sticks out her leg to trip him.
On its Web site, the TV station posted a statement that read: “Today, a N1TV colleague behaved unacceptably at the Roeszke reception center. The cameraman’s employment was terminated with immediate effect.”
The incident follows tough talk from Prime Minister Viktor Orban in criticizing Germany and other nations for opening up borders to refugees.
And then there’s this: http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:82e9b86cb0974d5393849f2a69255aaf
Some of the “migrants” are being selective about where they land. My wise old grandmother used to say something about beggars and choices…
jonolan, Good analysis.
Riesling, It is always good to hear your perspective from Germany. Merkel does look like she is preening for that coveted Nobel Peace Prize.
Immigrants CAN be good for a country, as this great country has proven. We had a moral imperative to take in over a million Vietnamese and Hmong refugees after the war. The Vietnamese have assimilated well. The Hmong have struggled, but that is mostly on the US bureaucracy. The Hmong are different than the Vietnamese. Hmong are rural hunters and farmers. We put them in big cities. We should have just given these noble people plots of land out where no one wants to live. Because, that’s where they do want to live. We have Hmong in Madison where I live. They struggled mightily. They have adjusted better in the past 10-15 years. Many families have found their niche farming. Just a mile from me, a Hmong family rents about 10 acres from a dairy farmer. They raise vegetables and flowers. They have adjusted to US culture and they have introduced me to produce I never had seen. They grow these great small light purple eggplants that I love. And, they are smart @ marketing. Many Hmong families put out front on the stands their young, pretty, women well coiffed and dressed to attract customers from the old gnarly male farmers or the big lesbian organic farmers. It’s smart and it works.
I like how the nativists think its a great idea to send them all back to their country…
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3k7z5c/why_dont_the_refugees_go_back_to_where_they_come/?ref=share&ref_source=link
Looking at the pics its an ideal vacation spot! The garden spot of Ceti Alpha VI! (trek fans will get the reference)
So a criminal is fleeing from law enforcement and this woman stops him. And this results in some vile commentary against her in these comments? Well, at least those negative comments open show the people’s loyalties…
Of course, by and large, I do agree that she should have been fired. One of the hallmarks – good or bad – of journalism is to record, not participate and she violated that long-held custom.
The Syrian problem may get worse. There is large Russian buildup going on but so far not a host or takers of Syrian refugees.
U.S. officials are uncertain of Russia’s intentions. Some military officials said Russia could be laying the groundwork for a new effort to help
Mr. Assad by launching airstrikes against Islamic State militants. Others said it could be part of Moscow’s efforts to defend its own interests in Syria,
where it operates a naval base in Tartus, about 50 miles south of Latakia.
“What’s the true objective here?” said a second U.S. military official. “Is the true objective to keep Assad in power, or to put in another crony?
Are they looking to supply more munitions, arms and hardware for Syria, Hezbollah and [Iran’s] Quds Force? I don’t know.”
It is more difficult to send them back the further away from the shoreline they get. Europe needs to send ships inside the three mile line on any Arab border and shove their boats back on shore. Seize the boats without the people and take them out and sink them. Capture the pirates who are transporting them and make them walk the plank.
Aetius, Martel, Roland, Sobieski, what did they fight for? Its all turned to rot.
Maybe Frau Merkel can change her party’s name from Christian Democratic Union to “Neutral Democratic Union” in order to satisfy Isaac’s desire of Germany being secular. Required religion classes in school, Catholic and Evangelical holidays are federal holidays, the government collects a church tax and the richest Catholic dioscese is in Cologne. Does that sound secular to you? One CDU official was quoted as saying that his party had to accept the refugees BECAUSE of the “C” in their party name.
As an American, I have to say I rather like Arabs in general, and Syrians in particular. I count several among my trusted friends. However, European countries have a right to enforce their laws and borders and protect their ethnic and national character, against these people who are mostly the victims of a US instigated civil war.
The day will come when we wish the Bashar regime had not been so hard put.
Thank you, Annie, for your facts and your compassion. You are a welcome antidote to many of the posters here.
Building on what Issac just wrote, another potential long-term benefit is for those refugees who eventually return to their respective countries: that they bring back with them a desire for actual democracy, having experienced it, and therefore can style their government toward that goal from within. (Rather than the West attempting to impose it from without.)
Immigrants are typically a good thing for a country. The problems come with exaggerated perception of supposed threats based on extreme issues such as religion and social customs. Europe leads the world in prioritizing the rule of law over the rule of personal mumbo jumbo.
People should be free to believe in what they wish, as long as it has no detrimental effect on others, including their children, wives, husbands. A resident/citizen is a resident/citizen first. Religion follows but must not supersede social responsibilities to the all. Europe will profit from this infusion of immigrants, almost all of whom are not coming for handouts but for opportunity. Their desire for opportunity is what propels a country forward. The population in Germany is reducing and the percentage of retirees is rising. Germany needs skilled workers and these immigrants need futures. If Germany can maintain a neutral stance on religion, which includes reigning in Muslim attempts at creating a world ruled by their mumbo jumbo within the secular world that is Germany then, in the long run, this will be a benefit.
I have to laugh at the contention that ALL immigrants are a good thing for a host country. If that were the case, we can beat unemployment by letting in a few more million illegals. Think that will work? Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon must have booming economies with the millions of refugees they have. Legal immigrants are a plus because they follow the laws, have been screened, and have needed skills. Only an idiot would contend that a legal immigrant is the same as an illegal one. Such people place a Ph.D in electrical engineering on the same plane with an uneducated, illiterate, unskilled illegal one since they are both immigrants. It is the same stupidity that seeks to avoid the fact that one is legal and wanted and the other is in most cases a criminal.
I live in Germany. I can only tell you my personal observations. In public most people are welcoming the refugees. Behind closed doors it is a totally different story. The comments I hear are, for example, that Angela wants to get the Nobel Peace Prize. They aren’t totally against taking in refugees – but not in the large numbers that are being reported. And it would be nice if the refugees qualified for political asylum – if not they should be sent back. The poblem is – people say – that you aren’t even allowed to say the word “but” because you will be deluged with accusations of being a Nazi.
My opinion is that Frau Merkel was given an opportunity to show how superior the Germans are to the Greeks – so she took it. All of the sudden there is no more news about those mean Germans who expect Greece to pay back their debt.
Tripping a man carrying a boy risks injuring the child and should not have been done. If the camerawoman’s goal was for the refugee to fall down, it appears in reviewing the video several times that he was about to go down anyway, and would have regardless of her careless intervention. So, she successfully made a Career Limiting MoveTM for nothing, if that is of any consequence.
You just know she was thinking of how to frame the shot… I don’t think she lost focus.
http://youtu.be/SCl6s68_sGY
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/5/9265621/syrian-refugee-charts
These charts may give a better indication as to why these Syrian refugees are overflowing to Europe.
Feels like humanity is circling the drain, doesn’t it.
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/8/9277127/syrian-refugees-photos
“Of the roughly 4 million Syrians made international refugees by the conflict, the overwhelming bulk are living in neighboring countries, particularly Lebanon and Turkey. They’re often stuck in hastily constructed and poorly funded refugee camps — like these children in an unofficial refugee camp in Jbaa, Lebanon, in late 2014.”