Syria - let us for once be human

All European nations bordering the Baltic, the Atlantic or the Mediterranean seas have large fleets that combines business with pleasure. The lucrative part is more like pleasure than business where every night ferries take off with loads of people going for one night stands, for dancing, drinking and gambling between cities tied together over the open waters of the Baltic, the Atlantic or ports in the Mediterranean sea. Today we were warned by the UN, that winter and freezing temperatures are looming, that the UN agencies dealing with and protecting refugees have run short of tents, clothing and food, Refugees yes, but not only grown-ups, plenty of mothers close to give birth, new born, toddlers and young children.

While we over here in the prominent nations of Europe promising to harbor as many that arrives we are doing nothing to help them arrive at safety. Refugees have to pay their life savings to traffickers risking their life's going over the waters between Turkey and Greece without safety measures just to find out being shuffled further north sometimes to be beaten by locals, sometimes to find armed soldiers and closed borders. If this was the European spring or summer the situation would not be as harsh or threatening as it is now, with rains, low temperatures even freezing and mud. Just imagine being out there with your young ones and told that there are no tents, no blankets and no food,

We could make a great difference in our life's if we just made a halt focusing on how to save those souls. We have everything needed to do just that. Where necessary some would have to take a leave from work for a few weeks as their businesses would have to stop part of their operations, others would just have to take a break in partying or postpone that trip to see relatives overseas.

What am I saying? Send all available cruise and ferry ships we have to pick refugees up at the Turkey refugee camps and Syrian borders. Have the cruise and ferry companies send the bills to our governments, we'll pay for it later with our taxes.

I can tell that if we do or not we will still be flooded with refugees, with or without taking drastic measures to save lives, we will have to provide for more people over here than for what we planned or even dreamed of. The difference would be avoiding ten thousands of deaths with a large toll in children that we were in control of avoiding and the guilt that would hang over us as "Damocles sword" for life-times.

I am also saying that this is an issue and responsibility for a global community. Europe should not have to take the whole burden. All nations on the planet should take their responsibility by taking in a part of those seeking shelter from harm's way. We are all responsible for the present situation in the Middle East.

We could change the writing in our history books by acting as proposed now. The need for action is immediate,

Please, if you are connected with politics, pass this one on to your political connections.

With hopes for mankind, humanity and a true global and open world.