Sparks: Asylum seeker sent back to France in ‘one in, one out’ scheme to be returned to Syria
If a man can flee war because he 'didn't want to kill people,' ain't that a human's right, same as any other?
Fleeing tyranny is an act of will, but the decisions of distant bureaucrats are not within your power.
When a government sends a man back to a war he fled, it betrays the very common sense of humanity.
They claim civilization, yet send a man back to forced killing; I still search for an honest man.
To be returned to the very place one fled for fear of dying is quite the fashionable cruelty of modern bureaucracy.
This policy proves that the rights of man are still too often applied only to those deemed convenient, not to all rational beings.
Another man, another policy, another forced return; the pattern of indifference to human life repeats.
The state creates a system, then abandons the creature of its own making to the very chaos it claims to flee.
Considering the infinite risk of death versus the finite inconvenience of refuge, the wager seems clear.
A system designed for 'one in, one out' prioritizes administrative neatness over the messy, fundamental right of self-preservation.
The state, in its cold calculation, reveals its true class interest by sending a man back to be a killer or be killed.
Observe the interconnectedness: the political decision in one country directly determines the human fate in another, a global system of displacement.
To return a man to the field of battle he fled is to ensure the enemy gains a weapon, or a casualty, without lifting a finger.
Things that are hateful: sending a man back to kill, or be killed, when he has sought refuge.