The mechanic horse

Europa is very much like this mechanic horse which is standing in Berlin at the central station as an art sculpture. It once was functional and moving but with time it went slow and people then forget to repair it to make it go on and so it is now standing still and not moving anymore.

This sculpture has many faces, sad and lucky which once use to change and now you only see the sad face. Irony it is when I think, it matches Europe very well.

Europe once started as an idea and then became reality and became bigger but like the horse which was once an idea and became reality and bigger, people forget that all things must be cherished. Like your home where you have to clean and wash and throw away and buy new, where you have to paint the wall once in a while and look out for the technic to stay functional.

Yes, very much like with this horse it was nice and good in the beginning even thought, there have been always those who warned about the future of it and question the horse itself and its reason.

So Europe, a bunch of countries who should be a strong community when it is about money, politics and peace became a reality which looks different now as many forgot they have to work together and really cherish for the mechanics inside. All technic has to work as each part is important to make the whole functional. Now we hear a lot of screaming, squeezing and loud noises which do not sound that good. It is because far to many of the actors in this spectacle have forgotten that they should have done some research earlier and had to talk to each other more truthful.

But this crisis is a good thing as it make us remember that things can only get better, if we all act in the same manner. But what manner is right? Here we have some ugly facts. Some want the money, the power but not the work.

To not tell this, the loudest voice is always to hear from those who want you to overlook their miss. Stay blind to the fact that there is no turning back is what we experience in many ways. The propaganda play is on in every country and making it all look as it is the others fault. The bashing against Brussels is always on as long it does not seem so good what was made as a new rule, even though each member said yes. Was it your idea it is always a good Brussels but if not this town and the house of politic is always to big, to slow to stupid and to many rules we don't understand. The truth is, it is not that big if you look how big your countries bureaucracy is and how many members per inhabitant they have. Much more. Much, much more and even less outcome and worse. But yes Brussels has a problem to communicate it's politic and this is the fault of our own politics.

Yes, so many countries are not easy to get on line but it is possible if only all of them want the same. But as I mentioned, some only wants the money but not the responsibility. So lies are what you read and hear from them. Most don't say it aloud but they do think the problems of others have nothing to do with them, even thought they should know better as each bigger problem is a problem for all European. But to see this fact you have to have your eyes open and to admit that some countries came in with a situation well known as not so good. But we wanted to stay blind. 

Now after Greece  and Charlie H. we stand in front of another challenge. They say it is one of the biggest crisis with migrants we ever had, even though we already know from newspapers and Facebook and other sides and ways that this is not exactly true. It is sure a very big crisis for the European Union. As it shows where we really stand and that you can't stay away from making things work and go on. You see now that the technic has not been looking after for far to long and people seems to wonder how could this happen, even know they know how but choose to forget. 

That many eastern countries don't want migrants into their countries, is not really new. But now we face the fact as we must find a way all together to deal with this big amount of refugees who come along. 

Did we not expect that their would come more? Did we really thought those 300 in spring would be all to come? We had sure hoped for but knew already that this is just the vanguard. Will come more? Yes, we have to see it like that, as the situation is just a following step of what is already going on the last four and five years. Those refugees are coming from several countries and in some you find war going on and on and  in other to live is to stay poor all your life or having not a real chance to become a better future. In some we have not at all democracy going on and in some religious has made life horrible for a bunch of groups. So yes of course they do come as they heard from a better life in Europe as we heard from a better life in the USA once. But we still sell weapons, we still want cheap cloths and things and those are the main reason, why people have to flee. So this is also the price we have to pay. How come then all is so dramatic? 

Europe made some laws who made this all grow up. Once it was forbidden to fly- so they took the more dangerous ways. Once we had a wall who made it impossible to come buy boat and people got to die in the sea and no one knew as we did not tell and show. Once we made a rule that you only can seek for a permanent stay in the country you first arrived and so the ol' Europe had nothing to fear as flying was forbidden. 

Now the war is still going on and the winter is on the way and the camps got less money and hope is fading. 

But in all countries we made big mistakes how we used to deal with those who came. Actually most have laws which are enough to make a fair deal and work and to clear a situation, but in all countries it takes and took far to long the process of bureaucracy. Then we put the people on places their were not allowed to leave until they have been allowed and got the papers. What to do such a long time? Then even if they have come through and are allowed to stay and study and search for work- what should one do, if you have the qualification, but no one wants to take you as they are afraid and have other reasons. What if there is no work in that area but you can't move because you have no money? It is true, most refugees have a quite good education as most of them are from the middle class. The poor can't afford it, the rich don't need to flee. 

But if you can't go home or move back to your home country, what will you do? If then a system pays you enough to stay alive and you can't find a job? You will give up mostly and let the country pay and who gets upset about that? Of course those who live and work and pay the taxes. 

And if they also claim that those foreigners get more money that their own people then I have to say it is mostly not that way but in some countries and some situation it is. But who's fault is it? Theirs? No!

But those refugees are open to any job and so they are in fact and if just only as a feeling a danger to the jobs of the little man. And even you don't have to pay them as much as your own people, who's fault is it when they get a job they are more then qualified for and not you?

And then- The children. More and more children are sent. A very typical thing when the tsunami of refugees are on. ( and it is on and no one can hold it back now as it is far to late..) It is and always was the same thought. A child can grow and get money back to family and will try to help the rest of the family to come after. A child is the most worth thing and has the biggest chance to survive the race of life. In all the last waves, children have been taken and care for and also become victims of crime and drama. Just remember all those stories we have read from children from 1800hundred to first world war and then second and then on and on. 

So what and why is it such a big crisis now? Nothing in this is new and the amount of humans are not nearly of the number of refugees we already had traveling round the world. 

It is all the mistakes, the lies and the ignorance of the history. It is the typical acting when you became someone, you don't want another one to be part of it as you have the fear it could be taken away from you as it has happened before. 

It is because of all the mistakes we already have done and therefore we see that things are not that simple and can lead to problems. Some of these problems are called crime. But here we have another mistake- the number of crimes we hear is not the real truth. The statistics lie and papers lie when they only take part of the statistic to have a dramatic line. Even it is a lie not to tell what kind of crimes those are. So people assume that refugees are doing big crimes if you let them in as you read about killing and fighting on the streets. That your own people do the same and more often- you read not or seldom. 

So stories people hear and maybe also see by themself are becoming the whole truth and that means- I don't want them here. They only are loud, dirty and don't care about us and where they live. 

Problem is, no argument will then help to make them think twice. I had such discussion and am not saying it is not happening but it is always a small group of people who make problems and do the crime. Never the majority. 

But the majority was in silence to long too. To differ is something many people do not. Most people like to have it black and white but the reality is never simple like that. The wars we have going on are a history which started around 1800. Just let this fact sink and then that we, the ol' Europe are those who made it start. We still have not lost our arrogance against those countries. But we should learn that they have been better then we used to call them. 

Now this crisis also seems so big as we deal with fear and the fact that fascist minded people use the words of the middle class and from the middle of the politics. People started to get in trouble when they called out their doubt and fell into a forbidden area. Suddenly it started to be not allowed to tell how you feel and thing. But we must be able to ask, what do we do with all those new people here? Who is paying for all of this and how do we get them into work? Why do we put them somewhere in the country where there is not a big chance of a job and how do we deal in our towns with them as most of them of course search for a stay in town as we all know the saying that there are the jobs? What will happen to these people when they meet the enemy they fight at home here? And why is it a forbidden thought to ask that those people have to take and be aware of our way of living and rules? Why do politics still say another religious is part of our countries history if it is not that way? Yes, those people have potential we need and we have to make a plan and give money for making it work and also we must be able to tell them you are welcome but remember we expect you to live after our ways. We respect your past but this past won't be part here anymore- not in the same way. That was never the case in the past, why should it be now? It is therefore also a crisis because we have no plan, no idea how to deal with them. To give applause and say on demonstration- you are welcome- and spend some clothes can only be a beginning. 

Now we have no time to waste and must immediately make up a master plan. But alas politic is acting far too slow and still we discuss how many we can let in?! 

I worry, if we don't keep on and push our government to do the right things, we come into another crisis and bigger problems and then some bad preconceptions could come true. 

In that case as much as I find it positive that my people have open arms, they also are blind to the facts of reality and the times after the five minutes arrival. 

If our country has to less people to deal with those as we avoid spending money, the situation will soon get worse and be more complicated as it already is. 

That only will help the fascist minded. 

Let's make it better as we've done in the past!

Love & Light

The new hate?

One of the question many still have for people who lived around 1930 and after is- how could this happen? Mostly this question is ask to germans, but let's be true it is a question to all of the western world. How could they do nothing?

They did nothing? Well, some tried to avoid, some did flee and some fought for the right to be and stay and told people how wrong it is to say that only the white, non jewish man is the right and true human.  And yes, it all started much earlier and we discover now these days how long some thoughts already sat in people minds. How much it was a normal thing to believe that people are not worth the same and it does matter where you from, even thought already that time people could and should have known better as they realized and found out with science how wrong some of these thoughts have been.

But now we are in a new time and it seems a new hate is growing and growing and using the same lies as they used it before but many of those who spread the hate and hurt people and burn people are young people. How could this be? Where did they learn to think so wrong and to hate and believe that a problem will fade with hate and killing people. 

Is it to feel power by giving fear? Is it to feel stronger by beating up a so called weak human?

Is it that it seems more easy to shout how bad the world is instead of doing good by yourself and those people understood only- do something by yourself because the politics will not and you have to do it right and that means fight and hate and trying to make sure that no one will get in the way?

It sure is that many of those young people have a very simple view on the world and things and therefore have more easy to believe those lies about the jobs taking away and the money wasting stories, even thought everywhere they can find the truth that it isn't that way and even cruelty is mostly made by their own people and not a foreign one and the marriage is not getting down by some gays. But how can we make them listen? 

How can they understand if they don't even listen to people like the president? Thought they have reacted very, very late and just in small and light words instead of taking action and stand up and be clear and loud and believable but power seems to distract them. 

How can we also change the view of people if the press is mostly showing the negative sides, letting the hate pass without a comment as they say it is press freedom and freedom of speech? How can a man  who believes that all people from saudi arabia, syria and so on are bad people  and so they believe they are in fact different and difficult, when the press is telling only stories about those who make problems and it also looks like all of them or  most of these humans are the same, even thought this is in no way the truth? How can we change their minds if young people believe that all in the internet is true, because they haven't learn to differ? Just take those mobile thing. The story that a refugee with a mobile can't have it that bad. Or if they paid such amount of money, they should not be here. 

Yes, some people try to make the internet the place also for making a way for the truth or part of it and telling people about those lies. But how can we make them listen and believe, when they have such a simple view on life and those things in the world and then those simple thinking makes them feel stronger and being part of a group which seems more worth? How can you open a closed mind? 

But then to go back in time, even clever people have been nazis and fascists. 

Yes, propaganda once started, is hard to avoid and to change people later into a new system is not easy to do if able as they have to make believe and to understand and not just say the words they read without feeling. No wonder that so many stayed the same in silence when it is about their believes and the shock of being wrong suddenly is also a reason and oh not to forget that far to many had not only the same job, they went on like they never did anything wrong. 

Rasism has become normal again in many countries, thought it has never for real left the building. 

We have the very same condition as 1900 and also far to many people are acting the same, even in politic they react the same.  The silence is again very strong and the warning words come from some people but not those who should know better. A president, a minister or one of all the others so called important people- they all should have open up much earlier.  How many mistakes we made, it is none of the matter as we must do right now and change what has to be change and do what has to be done and also give the possibility to do it, because a law can only come in effect, if the government gives the money to pay people to do so. And of course to make the law clear and to use it wise and to use our minds. It's a shame that we put foreign people far away from our towns and forbid them to do a step outside that place. It is a shame that we need far to much time to prove and give a chance of a new life. It is a shame that we act blind as a government when people are in need of food, cloths or a warm place. It is a shame that most help these days come from private people and organisation because the government failed again and again and again. It is a shame that we still discuss to open or close the borders, when we know it does not matter for those in need, in pain, in fear or without any hope on their place if they will try to come or not. They will come, no matter what just it matters in the way that a closed border brings more dead people. 

The question is, if the government, the politics are in the way interested to help or not. It is about money, power and international connection. But those who make war, those who sell weapons have to take the refugees who flee from our guns and bombs and the hate we build up with that. 

Yes, we have less wars as ever but more refugees and harder situation in the countries in war and also those who had war. But the western world made it worse in the last 50 years in many countries by our way of acting like an ignorant asshole who believed to know always better. 

And now lets look on us today. What can we do? Shout out? Stand up! Fight the hate but with words, with peace, with love, with songs, with helping people and with writing and talking about that and also with being on the streets and tell our government and president to act in the name of equality! of respect! out of the knowledge that we have to do it with humans and we all did wrong far to long and that it is time to tell the truth and act like that. It's enough! It's enough!

We don't need to change the law, we just have to act. We have to name hate and terror from our own people and give them law and order and show them the right way, the way of non hate and respect. 

We have to discover civil courage again!

Many countries these days have right wings politics and those have become in many places much stronger then 1930! How will this lead to a better and brighter future, if we act the same as our grandparents did? Remember we still ask how could they?! It is the way we do today, if we do not change and these days the possibilities, the ways of finding a way out are much better, much more and open to all of us. No one can say we did not know the results! And after all why not telling and naming the right wing what they are?! It is time and also we have to tell it like it is with the hard left side- they are to name the same and so we can make clear that extremist sides are not humans sides. 

It is time! The new hate has to stop! We are humans and are all equal! We need to look closer and change for real. As fast as we can and as good as we can, otherwise we will land in war and hate and repeat history one more time. This would be a sad thing. And yes this is real now.

Love and Light