Thread: Amnesty raps Greece over migrant roundups

Amnesty raps Greece over migrant roundups

By DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press
4:38 p.m., April 2, 2012

ATHENS, Greece — Greece's government announced late Monday plans to hold illegal immigrants in indefinite detention if they are considered a risk to public health - drawing sharp criticism from the human rights group Amnesty International, which called the proposals "deeply alarming."

In draft legislation submitted to parliament, the government requested backing from lawmakers to hold immigrants in detention for compulsory health checks and treatment for HIV/AIDS and other contagious ailments.

Greece, which is due to hold a general election in late April or early May, is the European Union's busiest transit point for illegal immigrants.

Last week, the government launched police roundups of illegal immigrants in Athens, with hundreds of people being subjected daily to street stops by police.

Authorities are also planning to convert 30 old army bases to serve as immigrant detention centers, each housing 1,000 people.

"Under the proposed amendments, the law will foresee the right to detain non-nationals - whether they have applied for political asylum or not - if they pose a risk to public health," the authors of the bill submitted late Monday wrote.

Immigrants liable for detention, it said, pose a risk "because they have contracted an infectious disease, or because they belong to groups vulnerable to such diseases, like intravenous drug users, persons involved in (prostitution) or people who reside in conditions that do not meet the elementary standards of hygiene."

The document was signed by Greece's ministers of finance, health and public order.

"The subjects ... will be submitted to compulsory health examinations and corresponding treatments," it said. "Treatment areas will be subject to detention regulations for the period that the reasons for their detention apply."

The law is due to be put to the vote in parliament before April 11.

The government argues that it has little choice other than to take tougher measures, estimating that more than a million illegal immigrants live in Greece, which has an official population of about 11 million.

But the London-based organization Amnesty International urged Greece not to go ahead with the new proposals.

"These deeply alarming measures specifically target the most vulnerable people based on discriminatory criteria," said Amnesty International's Jezerca Tigani said in a statement.

"The Greek authorities must withdraw such measures immediately, which will only exacerbate the stigmatization of migrants and asylum-seekers in the country."

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Just another Soros funded Socialist mouthpiece. It seems Mr. Soros has purchased an army of lawyers and socialist activist to mold the world to his liking.

Soros and his foundations have had a hand in funding noteworthy leftist organizations. Since 1999, Soros's Open Society Institute (OSI) has given grants to Center for American Progress ($1.8 million), Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ($3.7 million), Economic Policy Institute ($3 million), Institute for America's Future ($965,000), and the Center for Policy Alternatives ($1.4 million), the Tides Foundation ($20 million). ^[25]
Other leftist groups Soros funds includes the following; ^[14] the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, the Tides Center; the National Organization for Women; Feminist Majority; the American Civil Liberties Union; People for the American Way; Alliance for Justice; NARAL Pro-Choice America; America Coming Together; Campaign for America's Future; Amnesty International; the Sentencing Project; the Center for Community Change; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Human Rights Watch; the Prison Moratorium Project; the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; the National Lawyers Guild; the Center for Constitutional Rights; the Coalition for an International Criminal Court; The American Prospect; MoveOn.org; Planned Parenthood; the Nation Institute; the Brennan Center for Justice; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the National Security Archive Fund; the Pacifica Foundation; Physicians for Human Rights; the Proteus Fund; the Public Citizen Foundation; the Urban Institute; the American Friends Service Committee; Catholics for a Free Choice; Human Rights First; the Independent Media Institute; MADRE; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; the National Immigration Law Center; the National Immigration Forum; the National Council of La Raza; the American Immigration Law Foundation; the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee; and the Peace and Security Funders Group.

Personal Ambition
George Soros, who is an atheist,^[6][7] said in a June 1993 interview with The Independent that he saw himself as “some kind of god, the creator of everything.”^[8] Two years later, he portrayed himself as someone who shared numerous attributes with “God in the Old Testament” ― “[Y]ou know, like invisible. I was pretty invisible. Benevolent. I was pretty benevolent. All-seeing. I tried to be all-seeing.”^[9] Soros told his biographer Michael Kaufman that his “goal” was nothing less ambitious than “to become the conscience of the world” by using his charitable foundations.^[10]

In his 1991 book Underwriting Democracy, Soros said:

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If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood,” fantasies which “I wanted to indulge … to the extent that I could afford.”[11]

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Soros stated in his 1987 book The Alchemy of Finance:

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I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of self-importance―to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes or, even better, a scientist like Einstein.[12]

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George Soros wrote in The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror:

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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.[13]

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Soros has been unapologetically critical of U.S. military interventions. In his book Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, he spells out his criticism:

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It may be shocking to say, but I believe that the current unilateralist posture of the United States constitutes a serious threat to the peace and prosperity of the world.[13]

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Soros believes that capitalism is the enemy of the open society, and that the solution is to regulated markets that are not governed by capitalism. Referencing the state of the world following the collapse of the Soviet empire, Soros said:

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The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.[13]

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Political Influence
Soros uses his billions of dollars to influence government politics. In 1989, Soros financed Vaclav Havel's rise to power in the Czech Republic's "Velvet Revolution". He has acknowledged having orchestrated coups in Croatia, Georgia, Slovakia, and Yugoslavia. ^[14]
In late March of 2002 Soros announced he was giving three million dollars to Budapest Open Access Initiative to set up open-archiving systems. Soros was accused of "foolishly spending millions [to] undermining libraries, librarians, authors and referees".^[15]
Soros personally has made campaign contributions to Democrat political candidates; Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Charles Rangel, Al Franken, Tom Udall, Joe Sestak, and Sherrod Brown.

Early Years
In his autobiograpy, entitled Soros on Soros, he described how as a teenager he helped to cart off the stolen possessions of Hungarian Jewish men, women and children after they were rounded up and transported to death camps.

He claims it never bothered him a bit, and still doesn't bother him today. He has no personal regrets about his actions. Soros, a reputed psychopath^[3][4][5], told Steve Kroft of CBSNews in response to questions about his behavior in an interview with of 60 Minutes,

KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
Mr. SOROS: No.

George Soros - Conservapedia