How high can you jump for the beautiful life?

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Wednesday August 31, 2005 01:52

by ipsiphi

250 sub saharan africans attempted to cross the border into the European Union at melilla yesterday in a day of frenetic activity for the Guardia Civil in which migrant died, though Spanish Government sources are discounting any connection. Spanish national police for their part have called publically on the Moroccan authorities to stem the "avalanche".

The migrants had attempted to vault the wire fence and mine field which marks the boundary between the EU and Morocco at the enclave of Melilla.

the place in question.

It was the third time in a week that a large scale incursion has been recorded at Melilla and ought be considered with the figure of at least 100 dead sub-saharan africans who have been found at sea, off the coast of the Canary islands and in the straits between Ceuta and the mainland.

The now almost forgotten miss melilla 2003 farah akmed offered Spain its only chance of a muslim miss España. But she lost at the second heat and Miss Maria Teresa a graduate of the University in Granada a city built by musims in Andalucia a teacher of physical education went on to represent her country at the Chinese world competition.This was all of course in the memorable year that Rosanna Davidson of Ireland took the trophy home to Dalkey in Ireland for the first time to the delight of her celebrity father Chris de Burgh, best remembered for his popular ditty “lady in red”.

"Doctors without Borders" have reported several serious injuries amongst those who attempted to jump the border.
http://www.msf.es/
http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/msf_confirma_heridos_asalto_verja_466597.htm
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Next week everyone be they pretty and smart,
or well connected and a shining rose,
or dull and shy as a wall flower,
realise your beautiful life is lived behind
a wire fence, mine field, armed guards,
and one very unpredicatable sea.

The borders of Europe begin where they are guarded.

Where there are no borders - in space and in binary.

The southern route to the celtic tiger table, the 4 wheel drive, suburban mother of one road to Nigeria, Niger, Mauritania, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal etc.., is monitored on her behalf by the EVA stations (which number more than 20) in the Canarias islands, Ceuta & Manilla enclaves on continental Africa, and Andalucia in peninsular Spain.

your technology - your mobile - your jobs - your money = their poverty- their fish -their misery &

Do we smell the camps?
Do we notice the burning slum houses?
your technology - your mobile - your jobs

it is estimated that there are almost 9000 satellites in orbit, many of which are in geo-stationary position. Amongst those satellites which guard the moat of Fortress Europe are included:- The 5 hotbird satellites which supply metreological data and carry mobile phone operators and TV channels, including most of the arabic channels. point your little dish at GEO 13º East, and you'll find the footprint. In addition the Astra satellite GEO 19.2º East, in between bouncing Al Jazeera, offers the fishermen of the european factory fleet pinpoint location of fish stock in the West African atlantic, gives your holidays in the Canarias a decent weather forecast and monitors the slave routes from western africa through the Sahara.
You could (if you had a little dishie) also find the footprints of Eutelsat, Hispasats, Arabsat, Intelsats and PanAm.

The electronic frontier thus begins in space and cuts a swathe from the militarised border in southern Morrocco at Western Sahara where 37 people are on hnger strike and 7 are at death's door, through the desert where the French tested their nuclear weapons, across the Nile and then Curves northward by the Volga to the Baltic states and Soumi in the frozen north.

The EVA system which is operated by the Spanish state in its territory in Africa (ceuta and melilla and the canarias archipelago) and the peninsula keeps more than 20 stations working 24/7 on "keeping an eye".

In addition the British possession at Gibraltar / El peñon monitors all movement in the area.

Thus is it that our €uropean technology, developed by fine minds who have excelled in their fields, and contributed to the prosperity of High Tech based new economies (of which Ireland leads), helps not only those workers enjoy prosperity, afford a mortgage and all the trappings of luxury, but also ensures that our European fishing factory fleets (of which Ireland leads) may empty the waters off of Western Africa from Senegal to Nigeria to Namibia.

.:. for our ancestors were pirates & so too are we.:.

The €uropean Union protects the security of the four wheel drive suburban mother of one by investing in the building of internment camps "on the other side of the moat", to date more than 1,200,000,000€u has been directed to support camps in Algeria, Morrocco, Libya, Tunisia to the south and more to the east.

The €uropean union re-assures the concern for human rights that the fourwheel drive suburban mother of one, by routinely urging Algeria, Morrocco, Libya and Tunisia to adhere to the varying charters on human rights.

The border at the tiny enclaves of Ceuta and Malilla alone have cost 1,750,000,000€ to upgrade, the fence now measures 6 metres rather than 3, the ditch is now twenty metres wider, the concrete now goes deeper to stop tunnels being dug, and of course there is in full honour of European tradition a "no man's land", entry into which is detected immediately by infra-red sensors.

Each week more than a hundred people die in the moat.

in the last week one person has died, and many hundreds have been turned away at that border.

The coastal guards of Spain, Italy and Malta have become the undertakers of the mediterranean.

The states of The European Union with the most migrants are naturally those which share frontiers with the poor. These are also the states of the EU which have the lowest mean incomes, and highest unemployment. These are the places the four wheel drive suburban mother of one goes for a weekend and drinks a milky coffee.

The average cost borne by countries such as Spain and Italy in returning one migrant is equal to the profit taken by one ryanair flightful of tourists.

The average money spent by one Irish working class weekend tourist in southern Spain equals the money earned by one fishingboat in Sicily, who now due to the increase of numbers are taking bodies from the sea as well. [Not counting known heavy duty drug dealers & their da]

Ireland shirks its responsibility to take equal share of migrants or equal stock of this human disaster.

This is not a "leftwing" issue.

It is a moral issue.

Ireland's moat and Eire's fortress walls cost many billions, are protected by men and women who are themselves being degraded by the work they do, are the result of geopolitical attitudes to inequality, investment, development, justice, and social and ethical concerns which are seen and only can be tackled at the micro-level.

And you do not see this on TV.

The richest states of the European Union must no longer allow themselves feel secure in the parasitic ignorance, the pretence "that these people want our jobs",

they need to learn

"we have taken those peoples' jobs".

The states of the EU with the most inmates in camps are also those who have contributed the most to finance the building of camps outside the fortress, due to the unrelenting criticism of the human rights records, the degradation of inmates, and systematic abuse. They are the states known as the G5 who this july agreed to charter return flights in common to return the "unwanted" to often unfit states rather than house them in slums whose very deprivation ought shame any beautiful city such as Paris.

The peninsula on which Melilla is found, is home to three internment and migrant processing camps all reliant on €U funding.
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Camps for Foreigners in Europe and Mediterranean Countries Download PDF file:
http://pajol.eu.org/IMG/pdf/carte_des_campsAN-juillet04.pdf
EU: European activist network publishes map of centres to detain foreigners-
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/aug/11migreurop.htm

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here is reposted excerpt from
© Migreurop 2004 report and map on internment camps. You may see the map at this article,
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69199&condense_comments=false#comment104056
much of this material has been republished, and will be again. till the point is made.

[" Though migrant internment camps have very diverse features, they also have certain common characteristics. The first one is their occupants: citizens of none-European countries who have committed no offence other than crossing or trying to cross a border without papers.
A second characteristic is that "illegal migrants" are considered and managed as a group, instead of being treated as individuals with a personal history.
Thirdly, it seems impossible to ensure the respect of fundamental rights in these places.

There is no freedom of movement.

Basic rights to asylum, to family life and private life, as well as minors' rights are not guaranteed, while inhumane and degrading treatment is often perpetrated. The internment of foreigners in Europe is not aimed (primarily) at punishing them.
Instead its goal is to demonstrate to the receiving state's population that migrants, who must be controlled, are efficiently managed.
It is a kind of tacit contract between State and society, through which the State guarantees the security of its citizens. This is the legitimization of camps. Internment is part of a series of measures that are referred to as "common migration and asylum policies" and aim at subcontracting the control of entry into the European Union to the states at the outer borders of Europe.
Nowadays, border controls and the fight against illegal immigration are central to European immigration and asylum policies. Before September 11th 2001, the question of immigration was treated on the same level as criminality and drug trafficking.

Today it is clearly associated with the terrorist threat. More and more, the migrant is depicted as the enemy, and "war" vocabulary is often used to describe the situation and to act against it: military equipment for controls at sea, high technology, walls and barriers, camps and collective expulsions.

In this climate which is constantly maintained, internment of foreigners is a logical response that is also applied to asylum seekers. With such a policy, the European Union chooses to protect itself from asylum seekers instead of protecting them. Therefore, the new European standards based upon the "bogus asylum seekers" notion, make access to asylum procedures even more difficult and contribute to lower the level of protection.

Detention of asylum seekers appears as an appropiate answer to the "threat" of the increasing number of asylum seekers.

European proposals increasingly mention the possibility of detaining asylum seekers in camps located outside the European Union. This "externalisation" or "subcontracting" applies not only to asylum but also to the protection of borders. The aim is to make them more and more impenetrable, pushing them beyond their physical materialisation. "Externalisation" is not only based upon visa policy, a key instrument of "remote control" policing. "Externalisation" is also central to the relations between the European Union and third countries, forcing the latter to cooperate in the fight against illegal immigration.

Morocco is a good example of this policy. The European Union finances the control of Moroccan borders in order to fight illegal immigration to Europe. It is a way of transforming this country into a "European border watchdog".

Whatever the functions of the camps - containing the influx of migrants coming to Europe, organising the deportation of illegall migrants or detaining asylum seekers: camps are a part of the mechanism to exclude those designated by the European Union as a "risk" or as an "enemy". They are the materialization of a security approach to migration, to the detriment of the fundamental right of free movement.

Migreurop's mailbox contact@migreurop.org
Migreurop's web site www.migreurop.org
Migreurop's Definition of Camps

The first image which the term of "camp" evokes is that of a closed place, geographically identified, and reserved for confinement of undesirable people. Today in Europe, the camps range from prisons, as in Germany and Ireland, to detention centres in the Greek islands which were not planned and are built in make-shift buildings. There are also high risks of shipwrecks and capsizing of boats transporting migrants across the Adriatic, from Italian "Centri di permanenza temporanea e assistenza" to French "zones d'attente/ waiting zones" and "centres de retention", from closed centres for asylum seekers in Belgium, to buffer camps which mark the real frontier of the European Union: Morocco, Spain (Ceuta, Melilla, Canary islands), Algeria, Ukraine, Malta, or Lampedusa... But to stick to this definition of the camps would mask an important part of the reality.

The diversity of administrative procedures and various technical and humanitarian constraints aimed at regrouping the migrants go beyond the reference to confinement and lead us to consider the camps as places used to keep the foreigners at a distance. The forms that this can take are variable and sometimes very different from camps with barbed wire.

It then becomes clear that certain "open" centres of reception, transit or lodging provide assistance and a roof for migrants, but it hides the fact that the occupants of these open centres, migrants and asylum seekers have no other choice, but to be there. This is the case in Germany and Belgium where payment of a survival allowance and examination of asylum applications are conditioned by an obligation to reside in a fixed place. Is not the forced dispersion of exiles, organised in some countries to avoid the creation of new "focal points" for grievances, the symbol of the multiform character of the exclusion of foreigners?

Can we not compare to an informal "compulsory residence order" the obligation, for foreigners, not to be where they are considered to be trouble? Because police harassment and this obligation to stay invisible obviously act as prison bars and trace the boundaries of a place to which foreigners are confined. Thus, the camps become a process, a symbol of forced wandering and endless movement of exiles that European societies refuse to welcome. The expression "Europe of camps", taken in its wider sense, appears to best suit the relegation systems Europe uses in place of migration policies."]

Know your Beauty.
Know where your Borders are put.