Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Poland passes law to turn away Muslim migrants at border and build a wall By Christine Douglass-Williams
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Jihad Watch : Poland’s responsible measures should be taken for granted by every
Western country. Leaders who allow migrants to break the law and enter
borders at will are complicit in crime.
Note how the EU-funded InfoMigrants site indicates that Poland is
allowing exceptions for asylum seekers who “have arrived directly
(meaning without stops in other countries) from a country where their
‘life and freedom are threatened.'” This should not be characterized as
an “exception”; adherence to rule of law should be the rule,
not the exception.
Poland is one of few countries in the EU that is
honoring the International Refugee Convention, and in so doing has
legitimately argued that the migrants
“are currently on Belarusian territory, meaning they should apply for
asylum in that country. It refuses to register any asylum claims from
individuals in the group or provide them with any assistance.”
Despite Poland’s reasoned and legally defensible response, Polish
President Andrzej Duda’s call “for the state of emergency at the border to be extended for 60 days” has been “widely criticized by human rights organizations.” New Polish law to stop migrants,” translated from “Ny polsk lag ska stoppa migranter,” SVT, October 15, 2021:
The Polish parliament has approved an amendment to the
law that will make it possible to stop migrants directly at the border.
In addition, it will be possible to ignore asylum applications that come
from people who have come to the country illegally. According to the new law, an alien who is stopped after crossing the
border illegally will have to leave Polish soil. The person will also be
banned from entering the country for a period of between six months and
three years.
The government’s plan to build a border wall to prevent migrants from
crossing the border from Belarus was also approved by Parliament. The
wall is expected to cost 353 million euros (just over 3.5 billion
Swedish kronor). The government has justified the masonry construction by pointing out
that more and more migrants, most of them from the Middle East, are
crossing the border into Poland.
“Poland passes law allowing migrant pushbacks at border,” InfoMigrants, October 15, 2021:
Poland’s parliament on Thursday passed legislation
allowing for migrants to be pushed back at the border. Meanwhile,
another migrant has been found dead near the border – the seventh
confirmed death in recent weeks.
The amendment passed by the Polish parliament on Thursday (October
14) states that foreigners who are stopped after crossing the Polish
border irregularly will be obliged to leave Polish territory. They will
be temporarily banned from entering the country for a period between
“six months to three years.” The order to leave may be appealed to the commander of the Border Guard, but this apparently does not suspend its execution.
The Polish authorities will also have the right “to leave unexamined”
an asylum application filed by a foreigner who is stopped immediately
after entering the country “illegally”. The exception is if they have
arrived directly (meaning without stops in other countries) from a
country where their “life and freedom are threatened.”
The new regulations must now be signed by President Andrzej Duda to
take force. Duda is an ally of the ruling nationalists. At the end of
September he had called for the state of emergency at the border to be extended for 60 days — a measure widely critized [sic] by human rights organizations….
Thousands of migrants, many of them from Iraq and Afghanistan, have attempted in recent months to cross from Belarus into Poland as
well as Latvia and Lithuania. This started after Belarusian President
Alexandr Lukashenko at the end of May declared that he would no longer
prevent migrants and refugees from crossing into the European Union.
The
EU accuses Belarus of deliberately using migrants to put pressure on
the EU over sanctions it imposed on Minsk.
