Not Killing Trainfuls Of Unwanted People A New Experience For Europe

The situation pits the Continental culture’s stated commitment to universal human rights against its proven will to kill off undesirables.

Budapest, September 4 – The Continent has absorbed hundreds of thousands of refugees from Africa and the Middle East this year, testing its people with the unprecedented notion of refraining from mass killings of the largely unwelcome demographic.

Unrest in Syria, Iraq, the Gaza Strip, and various parts of Africa has driven millions of people from their homes, many of whom chose to make the dangerous trip to Europe, where the prospect of a better life awaits. The droves of migrants include many fleeing actual persecution and violence, but many others simply see a brighter future in the West. Distinguishing between the two motives has proved a pointless legal exercise amid the veritable flood of humanity, and Europe is struggling to absorb its new inhabitants, since its only major experience with such large numbers of persecuted people moving across it involved extermination camps, killing squads, and forced labor.

Migrants flooded major train stations in Hungary this week in an attempt to reach the more affluent countries to the north and west, principally Germany. Others caused a disruption of train service in the tunnel under the English Channel connecting Britain with France. The waves of people have forced Europe to remove its blinders to the suffering at the root of the mass migration, pitting the Continental culture’s stated commitment to universal human rights against its proven will to kill off undesirables.

Hungary has become a focal point in the movement of people westward, but Austria, too, must now cope with the new experience of unwanted masses of people entering the country, as opposed to the more familiar deportation of Jews, Roma, Sinti, homosexuals, Communists, mental patients, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other “subhumans” eastward, out of the country, to death camps. The grim discovery this week of a truck full of more than seventy migrants who had, through smugglers’ negligence, died of asphyxiation proved an awkward experience for Europeans – Germans and Poles in particular – who are more accustomed to taking an active part in killing large numbers of people by such means.

Other conflicting experiences involve the hurried construction of a wall along Hungary’s border with Slovakia to stem the tide of unwanted people. Europeans have traditionally expressed vehement opposition to Israel’s construction of a separation barrier with Palestinian-controlled areas to block terrorist attacks, accusing the Jewish State of “Apartheid.” The position of building a wall in response to a threat has forced Europeans to explain the contradictory behaviors, such as the danger of people looking for jobs and safety being a much better justification for building a wall than the physical protection from being killed.