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Pirates. Where’s Thomas Jefferson when you need him?
Rescued migrants hijack merchant ship off Libya
The 108 people picked up by Elhiblu 1 reportedly hijacked it when they learned they were being returned to Libya
By Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo, Jennifer Rankin in Brussels, The Guardian, Wed 27 Mar 2019:
A merchant ship has been hijacked by refugees and migrants that it had rescued off the coast of Libya, and is now heading towards Malta, the Italian deputy prime minister and Maltese authorities have said.
Story continues below advertisementCorriere della Sera and Italian news agencies reported that 108 people were picked up by the tanker Elhiblu 1, and hijacked the vessel when it became clear that it planned to take them back to Libya.
Six nautical miles from Tripoli it suddenly changed course and headed north towards Europe. Migrants in Libya face trafficking, kidnap, torture and rape, according to the United Nations and aid groups.
“These are not migrants in distress, they are pirates, they will only see Italy through a telescope,” said Italy’s far-right deputy PM, Matteo Salvini, who has cracked down on migrants, including closing Italy’s ports to NGO rescue boats, since he took office in June last year.
AdvertisementSalvini said that Italy’s ports would remain close. “Poor castaways, who hijack a merchant ship that saved them because they want to decide the route of the cruise,” he said with sarcasm, according to the Ansa press agency.
A spokeswoman for Malta’s armed forces confirmed the ship had been hijacked and said Maltese authorities were monitoring its progress and it would not be allowed to dock in Malta.
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53 Comments
5 years ago
They should have started with a Carnival Cruise ship.
5 years ago
They should have started with a Carnival Cruise ship.
5 years ago
Push and pull factors of migration. The push factors are bru-
tality and brute force as they are common for Thirdworlders.
The pull factors are the idiots who think Merkel is a goddess.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Remember Jesse Owens at the Olympics held in Germany?
I don’t think Hitler liked black people but he did recognize Jessie Owens.
Racist, liberal FDR did not invite him to the WH or recognize his accomplishment.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
My comment was deleted. It was too racist.
Is it racist to say that Europe belongs to Eu-
ropeans, Israel to Jews and Africa to Africans?
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
That will eventually happen. They will not be content to be exotic pets for the elite.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Above all, they won’t queue up for a war plate of
soup like the well-behaved Germans or the Brits.
They’ll just take what they think is rightfully theirs.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
When there are shared values and a shared culture, skin color doesn’t bother me.
Allen West and Dr. Ben Carson are black. Both are incredible people. These are not the kind of people “migrating” to the EU or the U.S.. The “migrant” culture and values are completely incompatible with western civilization.
My family had the privilege to meet Dr. Ben Carson. We ate with him at a Pro Life fund raiser at their school. He is a wonderful man, intelligent, humble and just oozes love for people. It wasn’t an act. How you see him on a TV interview is how he is in person. He is a genuine caring person. I’d happily trade in my white neighbors for him as a neighbor any day! I was very pleased to see him be part of the Trump administration – HUD. How Cruz treated him highlighted again how dishonest and sleazy he is and always will be.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Even my dook couldn’t be as dirty
as the people who do all this to us.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
You believe in Hitler’s Darwinist ideology of
Mein Kampf. SHAME on you! [sarcasm off]
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
“LOL! Hitler was conquered and destroyed by the West.”
Truly laughable, otherwise Hitler wouldn’t
be a daily topic. Think a little further, boy.
5 years ago
I can’t feel sorry for these people.
These gimmegrants are totally uncivilized.
They need to stay in their shiitholes.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens) 16.3.2016 in WELT: “We’re suddenly getting people for free.”
“What the refugees bring to us is more valuable than gold. It is something that we have lost so-
mewhere along the way in the last few years. It is the unflinching faith in the dream of Europe.” http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/interview-with-german-chancellor-candidate-martin-schulz-a-1133475.html
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201511181030329836-asylum-seekers-terrorists-syria-passport-forgery/
“Repeople us! Why the German people should be abolished”
https://www.huffingtonpost.de/entry/umvolkt-uns-deutsches-volk-muss-abgeschafft-werden_de_5b439482e4b048036ea12cf8
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
I think that her idea of “gold” is the one that subsistence farmers have had for millennia and that it is human faeces that she values. You can be certain that she is correct then as human excreta stains much of the many western cities invaded by this plague and will drown the west eventually.
5 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
These left liars are Goebbels-like masters at twisting words. Only the term “enrichment”: Who is enriched here, if not those who enrich themselves in us? Or “refugee”: Who will flee here if not us (white flight) and especially our women from them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
It’s makes no difference, because in twenty years Muslims will rule Europe. It’s too late.
5 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
And Obama should join his Muslim brothers. Let the bastards feed the sharks in the Med. Sea! Yippee Yi Oh Kiyaa!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
NO! They need to experience the Genocide, themselves, that they so willingly administer to infidels! Olly Who Crowbar!
5 years ago
Increasingly Violent Migrants Attacking Border Guards with Iron Bars, Spanish Minister
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2017/03/08/migrants-attacking-border-guards-iron-bars-spanish-minister-says/
5 years ago
not a lot of vitamin D from the sun to soak up in Europe, just saying…:) could be a suicide run for the invaders
Low Vitamin D has been linked to prostate cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.
One size doesn’t fit all for vitamin D and men: African-American men in northern regions especially need high doses of supplements
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110920100100.htm
5 years ago
So the Guardian (far-left Nastie wackadoodle propaganda) says
“far-right” = anti-piracy, anti-trafficking, anti-kidnapping, anti-torture and anti-rape …
Okay! I can live with THAT!!!
😉
5 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Agreed. Now let’s send in a special forces unit, a la Navy SEALs, and have a little “islamaphobic” target practice and call it a rescue.
5 years ago
I love it, what better way that migrants show their true intentions by hijacking a ship. Oh those poor huddled masses, all they want to do is go on welfare, rape your daughters, blow up your subways and establish an Islamic state, why are we such bigoted, racist, Islamophobes? /sarc
5 years ago
Judeo-Christian humanitarianism abused again. You would think that the world has worked this out by now. You can be certain that had the positions been reversed the muslim ship would have probably tried to run them down rather than rescue them. Just look at the last 1300 years of Mediterranean history to see the truth in this.
5 years ago
Sharia “legalizes” child gang rape in Spain because the innocent 12-year-old rape victim was not a muslim. https://europe.infowars.com/spain-migrants-gang-rape-12-year-old-let-her-friend-go-because-shes-muslim/
5 years ago
The Uk has over 1.4 million unemployed, yet we seem to need to import another 300.000 imigrants a year to, increase that figure.
A lot of the unemployment has come from the increase in technology and the reduced need for a human operator.
The worst hit is the labour market where farms and building sites no longer need the manual labourer in substantial number as machines have replaced them.
People also forget that most of these third world countries and the state they are in are the product of the inhabitants, which are sadly low IQ breeding machines. Now that may sound harsh but look at Ethiopia. Live aid raised a huge amount of money to feed and put in the infrastructure for 20 million. Now Ethiopias population is 5 times that at 100 million, and they are starving again.
So why would a succesfull country feel the need to import low IQ labourers who will not benefit but cost that country and its way of life dearly. These people are incapable of running their own country, look at Zimbabwe a prime example. Once under western rule produced 62% of the worlds fruit and veg and now under black rule has to import food.
They will behave and are behaving no differently than in their own lands and that is why they are not wanted.
And that is why the jewish people have the highest IQ on the planet because they do not dilute it.
5 years ago
That’s the thing the left don’t tell you. These migrants aren’t exactly grateFOOL. Yet, they are bringing MILLIONS of these people to your shores.
With one purpose. To BANKRUPT the West.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
AND WIPE WE WHITES OFF THE PLANET ! EVERY ONE OF OUR POLITICAL VOTE WHORES ARE WHITE APPOLOGISTS AND BRING GENOCIDE UPON US VIA THEIR AGENDA OF RECOLONIZING OUR LANDS WITH THESE BARBARIC MAGGOTS!
5 years ago
AGAIN this is what you get when you are kind to these barbaric maggots!
NONE ARE REFUGEES!!! True REFUGEES DO NOT CROSS THE GLOBE, BRING ALL WITH THEM WHICH DESTROYED THEIR LANDS , (AMD ALLEGEDLY, THEIR ‘LIVES” ) , , NOR DO THEY ATTACK THE ONES TRYING TO SAVE THEM! THESE MAGGOTS ARE DOING NOTHING ONCE THEY INVADE US OTHER THAN BREEDING, PRAYING AND SPENDING OUR MONEY, DEMANDING AND RECEIVING THE BEST WE HAVE TO OFFER ALONG WITH ALL WHICH WAS OURS WHILE FOREVER DEMANDING, PROTESTING, COMPLAINING, ATTACKING, RAPING, SLAUGHTERING AND SO ON!
Let them DROWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they are a plague taking over the entire globe and there is NO GOOD FOR ANY OF US COMING FROM THIS!
They hate us and have NO INTENTIONS OF ASSIMILATING, WORKING, CONTRIBUTING, OBEYING THE LAWS, LIVING PEACEFULLY OR SHOWING ANY RESPECT OR GRATITUDE FOR WE PUSSIES LETTING THEM ALL IN!
WHAT THE HELL IS IT GOING TO TAKE TO WAKE UP THE WESTERN/WHITE WORLD????????????
we USED TO BE CONSIDERED AMONG THE MOST INTELLIGENT AND OUR BRAVE MEN WENT OFF TO WAR TO SECURE AND PROTECT THE WORLD FROM PAST ENEMIES however we are now the DUMBEST, MOST COWARDLY, APATHETIC, LOSERS ON THE PLANET AS WE WELCOME WITH OPEN ARMS, WALLETS, BORDERS AND HEARTS THIS MOST DANGEROUS, DIABOLICAL, BARBARIC , SUB HUMAN DEATH CULT IN THE PLANETS HISTORY TO SLAUGHTER AND RAPE THEIR WAY ACROSS OUR LANDS WHILE TAKING ALL WHICH WAS OURS/ WE BUILT, INVENTED AND SO ON, FOR THEMSELVES!
they will wipe the entire white race and our lands off the planet and out of the history books if they along with our vote whore racist self serving, treasonous politicians aren’t all brought down!
5 years ago
Reply to
antimulticulturalism
This black man read your post very carefully. I cannot find a single word I disagree with. The truth: It is what it is!
5 years ago
Reply to
WM1
We’re not racist here. We want honest people to immigrate here but LEGALLY.
Mass illegal immigration hurts everyone. They bring crime, depress salaries and run up the social benefits because they don’t have the profile we need.
A person of good character isn’t coming here illegally or trying to invade or sneak in a country. The illegals that come here are already breaking our laws and so are those with their fake asylum claims – claiming to look for work are also a sham. They can’t speak, read or write our language and most are uneducated. We don’t need thousands of people like that. We need merit based immigration and no more chain migration. With DEMS dominating Congress immigration reform is unlikely. The GOP screwed us over on that too. So Trump is going to have to eventually STOP all immigration and declare that as a national emergency too. That will be another court case and on and on it goes.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Agreed.
You forgot to mention Islamic terrorists-doing exactly what they announced they’d do. And, apparently, we can’t do much to stop them.
Shame on us. Someday soon, I suspect, we’ll wish we had.
5 years ago
Reply to
WM1
I can honestly tell you I have friends from all over the globe of all colours and religions and these friends are good , honest, hard working respectful people- and yes, a couple are in fact Muslim immigants.
I know they aren’t all the same just as every other race, culture and so on aren’t.
I appreciate your response, Thank you.
5 years ago
The US Marine Corps has a solution for that problem
5 years ago
The ship did dock in Malta…5 of the pirates were arrested.
Maltese government has been quite lenient with previous incidents…they need to toughen up like Italy just did.
5 years ago
If the ship doesn’t port, the Muslims will swim to shore. Do you think there’s a possibility they’ll drown! Hum!
5 years ago
These are TRUMP’s people! Same thing going on all along the Mexican Border. 4000 came over yesterday that the CBP knows about. The USA is over! Finished and it the fault of that lying peckerhead DJT!
Here is what he had to say 3 years ago. I thought he would really make America great, but he hasn’t. He’s a total sell out!
5 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
I think he is just frustrated. I get that way too.
More needs to get done. I am impatient too.
I wanted all this taken care of day one he swore in.
I was surprised at the deep resistance by both parties.
5 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
You are quite the name caller aren’t you? Lots of angry posts, yelling and screaming on your profile. Do you know why you are so mad?
have you been to the border? do you speak Spanish?
Trump’s history of legislative signings since he took office make a good case for his having sold out to the mob. He has the authority to order front line combat military to the border States and enforce martial law, but, he isn’t doing it. He said before elected that he would declare CAIR & Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. He hasn’t. They flourish. A couple weeks ago he said he was considering declaring the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. He hasn’t. They are behind all this human and drug smuggling activity.
IF he wanted to, he could in 24 hours END all this invasion activity, but he doesn’t.
WHY do you suppose that is? Try to give your own answer, not your TV or your news casters answer. If you can!
5 years ago
Reply to
ace wheeler
Ok, so you’re saying he’s not fixing Everything, fast enough? Still better than actively supporting those things, right?
5 years ago
Reply to
ace wheeler
Trump is doing what he can. I am as impatient as you are. My state is crawling with this crap.
NJ is about to formally declare itself to be a sanctuary state. I feel like a foreigner. Now we have an outbreak of measles and mumps. It’s from illegals I can’t begin to tell you how many diseases and crime these people have brought into our state. I never vote Democrat but through fraud and illegals voting, our votes are cancelled out.
NJ taxpayers fund scholarships and grants to illegals attending college. It’s beyond outrageous. My daughter can’t even jog in our development by herself because a white face shows up for the landscaping contract and illegals do the work. Homeowners like cheap labor. They did manage to get one illegal trying to rape a kid in our development’s playground. It was by accident we found out about it. Three houses on our road were robbed by illegals. They did get them. They are in prison. So believe me, I have every reason to want ILLEGALS and MUSLIMS gone. The problem with Islam is you can’t ban a religion – freedom of religion – unless you take it to the courts with specifics. Eventually it will have to go there.
Trump inherited all this crap. He is doing what he can to end it. Let me ask you this.
Did D.C. give Trump the money for a wall, more ICE or immigration judges?
Look at the trouble a Muslim ban created – went to the Supreme Court.
Everything Trump does gets challenged by a liberal judge. Everything!
With few exceptions, both parties want open borders and mass immigration.
I don’t think Trump realized how corrupt the GOP is. I didn’t think it was that bad.
Catch and release is law – 20 days and they get released. The GOP gave us the “abandoned child” crap so now we have families coming and can leave the kiddies behind for chain migration. He tried to deport illegals not coming in at ports of entry – that got struck down. He is not selling us out. It’s our representatives that are selling us out. They don’t care. I truly do understand your frustration!
This is what BOTH parties want with few exceptions.
5 years ago
Sink it! These ngo scum are human traffickers! They’re NOT ‘humanitarians’!!!
5 years ago
“Migrants in Libya face trafficking, kidnap, torture and rape, according to the United Nations and aid groups.”
And if the migrants make it to Europe they will be the ones doing the trafficking, kidnapping, torture and rape of their hosts. Seems fair. I wonder why Salvini is upset.
By the way, didn’t they used to hang pirates? We don’t do that anymore, but someone should send the military to retake the ship, kill anyone who resists, and forcefully return everyone else to Libya. That will go a long way to solve this type of problem.
5 years ago
I remember when the crimes of Somali pirates were big news, Tom Hanks starred in a movie about those viscous creatures.
Now, crickets
