ADVOCATING DEMOCRACY

"THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR EVIL TO TRIUMP IS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING"
Edmund Burke. British Statesman. (1729-1798)

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Call God if necessary to save us illegal aliens

Call God if necessary to save us illegal aliens

We are all aware that people move or migrate from their original homestead due to circumstances beyond their control. The well-known circumstance that causes huge number of people to migrate throughout the world are conflicts, wars, political unrest, and perhaps economic scarcity in some cases. To escape from political oppression and marginalization is not a crime, but a humiliation that no human beings will chose if the circumstances are not beyond control. Every human being held their pride high in their original homestead but because of circumstances beyond their control, they are forced to abandon their homestead and look for safer places to continue with their livelihood.

Many refugees and asylum seekers who have been rejected for claiming asylum found themselves without any choice and where to go. Although asking asylum is not a crime, after the asylum case is turned down or rejected, the asylum seeker automatically becomes illegal alien, and in all cases a criminal. Because the state will treat them as less human being, they are kept in humiliating facilities where they can only eat and sleep for the rest of their lives. Those who found it difficult to live in places where one just eat and sleep decided to live on the streets, where the degree of humiliation seemed more acceptable to them than what others called paradise; eat and sleep. On the streets one have no bed to sleep as he/she wants, but have a degree of human dignity, providing what he can in freedom, eat what he can find, but hiding in disguise.

When a refugee or asylum seeker find himself rejected and not able to return to his country, there is no other choice left, given that all countries in Europe have signed Dublin 2 convention, and wherever you go, you will be taken back to your first country of asylum, it became obvious that one has to accept all kinds of treatment he/she will get from the first country of asylum. There are all kinds of treatments as we have seen at Lier ventemottak for the last four years, until it was burnt down. The return facilities can be found throughout Europe; confinement of people in extremely inhumane conditions with very little opportunity, access to medical treatment etc. Many people are put to sleep in one small room. There is no privacy, no sleep or no peace in the mind. Everyone is angry to everybody. Everybody react as they feel. Somebody is praying and another one listens to music. It is just chaos in one single room, and fighting happens every day. Therefore, most people went into mental stress, mental disorder and extreme depression yet have not been described or label as a crime against humanity by any psychological experts.

Psychologists and anthropologists in this country were charged to evaluate those return centres, and they have concluded their research and their recommendation have condemned treatment of human beings in return centres, saying it is dangerous and destroying people. Over 25 non-governmental organizations have criticized the system for breaking people mentally, but all those criticisms went in deaf government ears. It seems the government and some politicians are determined to destroy us all. We know we are just powerless people clinging to our dear lives and we shall continue to cling on our lives until the last moment of our deportation, though individually. It is clear that failing asylum case is a crime punishable by any measure desirable by the government as we are seeing it, and no organizations or Church personalities can stop the government from doing what they desire.

When the police arrested Maria Amelia on the 12th January, we received the information in less than 2 hours the same night and the entire emotions and feelings emerging from people who are in the same situation was overwhelming. Given that we all live in fear of the police deportation, some people are at the brink of suicide. But for some people, police arrest is not something new, and they have been available for more than four years waiting for deportation. We are just wondering why we are treated like this, but hoped history will judge what we have done wrong in this world. We don’t even understand what democracy means. We were told that people in democratic governments have democratic values of sympathy, love, and respect for human beings, but that is not what we saw in this country. If Maria Amelia, who has integrated so well through her education, could be treated as we have seen in the last few days, then we have all the reasons to believe that democracy does not exist, but it can emerge where you stand if you are lucky.

We have been living as illegal aliens for many years in this country. To tell the truth; we sleep tirelessly and we wake up when we feel hungry. Many times we wake up in the morning already tired, without doing any work. We sit down or move around inside the room or the compound and get back to bed. These happens twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, twelve months a year, for over four years, yet our crimes are that we have asked asylum in this country. Although people know that asking asylum or refuge is not a crime, it is clear that it is a crime in this country. We feel so humiliated, without dignity and less humans. We have missed everything in life because we were coward individuals from our respective countries. We know people are tired of our situations in Norway, but would love to if this situation will be address or not.

In conclusion, we want the people to know that the government have no sympathy on illegal aliens and are determine to continue torturing them until they all perished. We appeal to the people of good will, those who live in freedom on the other side of the wall, to call God if necessary, because the government has decided not to listen to any humans, Organizations, Churches, and individual personalities like the Bishops and other well-known members of the society, given that Maria Amelia uproar without success did not bear any fruit. Problems are caused by people and it is always solved by the people. On behalf of all illegal alien, we wish you all a happy new year and prosperous lives.

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