Sting blasts leaders as 'cowards' over migration crisis

 

British singer Sting attends an event organized by Amnesty International and the Athens International Airport in Athens, Greece, June 23, 2018. REUTERS/Costas Baltas

 

ATHENS (Reuters) - British singer and actor Sting called world leaders "half men and cowards" on Saturday for their inability to solve the refugee crisis.

 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has already played down expectations of a breakthrough at hastily-arranged talks among EU leaders on Sunday on the migration dispute dividing Europe and threatening her own government.

 

Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache said on Saturday he expects a chain reaction across the European Union if Germany closes its borders to refugees.

 

Migration policies in the U.S. have also been in the spotlight.

 

"Thank God for Greece because you have shown the way," said Sting, whose real name is Gordon Sumner, at an Amnesty International event in Athens.

 

"You have shown how to treat refugees when other people are building walls. When children are being taken from their mothers and put in cages, you are acting with compassion and generosity and commonsense," he said.

 

"Because our so-called leaders, a sad parade of half-men, cowards, have not got the solutions ... Once again Greece has shown us how to be civilized."

 

Nearly a million refugees passed through and got support from Greece in 2015, as the country was dealing with its own major financial crisis.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday abandoned a policy of separating migrant children from their parents on the U.S.-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad.

 

Sting told Reuters the family separation policy was "brutal" and "barbaric".

 

The former frontman for The Police was in Athens for two concerts as part of world tour.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-24

All very well for you to say with your multi million fly in fly out  lifestyle  Gordon.How about putting your money where your mouth is? I'm sure your homes around the world could house thousands of "refugees"

Send back the economic refugees and the problems will become a lot smaller.

What is it with entertainment  people with their political statements like this guy Robert de ziro? just because you act or sing gives you the right to criticize others no matter if you right or wrong, speak as a private person, yes, not as a personality...

So you pay for their upkeep ,that or shut your mouth.

How many do the likes of Stink and Silly Allan take in and look after in their variety of multi million pound homes around the world i wonder?

The keywords was 'passed through'  I wonder how many stay? Apparently Greece is only a transit camp for which it has had financial assistance.   Whether correct or not it is difficult not to draw a parallel with the Coudenhove-Kalergi plan. 

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

What is it with entertainment  people with their political statements like this guy Robert de ziro? just because you act or sing gives you the right to criticize others no matter if you right or wrong, speak as a private person, yes, not as a personality...

 

They have an inflated view of their own personality, knowledge, intelligence and importance. They think that because they've made themselves very wealthy and have lots of fans for their entertainment ability that they can tell everyone what to do.

 

Singers, Actors, Actresses, Sports people, "media personalities" - some of these, and usually the very wealthy ones all want to dictate what should be done. Knowing full well it won't effect their very wonderful lifestyle in the slightest. 

 

All of these self opinionated arse holes are entitled hypocritical and mouthpieces for political correctness which they think is fashionable and enhances their 'star appeal". 

 

Sting is a complete anchor with a "W". 

Whilst working for Rentokil in London,we had an appointment at Stings house,when we rung the door buzzer and told him we were there to block of rats coming inside his mansion,in Hampstead,he told us to "f off i am doing yoga" when we replied that we had an appointment he said "i told you to f off you <deleted> menials" -so his words wring a little hollow i am afraid.

7 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Send back the economic refugees and the problems will become a lot smaller.

I'd like to move to Germany and suck off the teat of the Motherland, and based on my ancestry I have more of a claim to do so than any 'economic' migrant.  But I'd be turned around before I ever got over the border.  So I've little sympathy for the 'I just want a better life' argument.  If that is the litmus test, then allow all people worldwide who's ancestors came from the EU countries free access to return if they wish.  If they need help with the workforce, then my younger family members should be welcomed back with open arms.  But that's not what is happening. So I don't "buy that argument" because it's bogus.  Send them back to their own countries.
Sorry Sting!  Love your music, but completely disagree with you.  And my guess is that with your money and lifestyle an immigrant with a criminal background will never hurt anyone in your family.  The rank and file citizens in these countries don't have the benefit of the level of security that you can afford.  So you end up being disingenuous physically insulated from reality as you are.

Sting has become an old "douchebag" first his crapy album w shaggy (what a disgrace) and now this.

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

What is it with entertainment  people with their political statements like this guy Robert de ziro? just because you act or sing gives you the right to criticize others no matter if you right or wrong, speak as a private person, yes, not as a personality...

Oh please!

He is a popular personality who many listen to and respect.

He was invited to attend and speak and he did. 

His opinion is every bit as valid as the next person and more so in the case of fascists like trump and his cohorts and other darlings of the right.

We go in and we destabilize their societies and destroy their countries for our own personal gain , and then we get upset when they come knocking on our doors. 

7 minutes ago, Expatthailover said:

Oh please!

He is a popular personality who many listen to and respect.

He was invited to attend and speak and he did. 

His opinion is every bit as valid as the next person and more so in the case of fascists like trump and his cohorts and other darlings of the right.

I disagree, if anything his opinion is less valid seeing as he doesn't deal with migrants as "everyday people do" due to his financial situation and notoriety. If he is so brave why doesn't he put some refugees up in one of his many properties or have a decent shelter built for them.

 

He should have shut his mouth on this topic.

16 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Send back the economic refugees and the problems will become a lot smaller.

And how distinguish the economic from real refugees ?

7 hours ago, sirineou said:

We go in and we destabilize their societies and destroy their countries for our own personal gain , and then we get upset when they come knocking on our doors. 

You are very right in this, but We ????? I don't think I was involved in invading and destabilizing any country !!! and probably neither did you ! Some gangster governments did all this in Name of democracy, without any care of the consequences for other people or governments !!!

14 hours ago, Dellboy218 said:

The keywords was 'passed through'  I wonder how many stay? Apparently Greece is only a transit camp for which it has had financial assistance.   Whether correct or not it is difficult not to draw a parallel with the Coudenhove-Kalergi plan. 

I just watched a news clip. The pass-through Greece migration route is solidly closed.

Those who arrived late/now live in squalor under bridges with zero support from the

Greek government. Minimal support of food from foreign NGO's. They are mostly young Afghan

males now stuck in Greece.  

31 minutes ago, off road pat said:

You are very right in this, but We ????? I don't think I was involved in invading and destabilizing any country !!! and probably neither did you ! Some gangster governments did all this in Name of democracy, without any care of the consequences for other people or governments !!!

 I hear you, and I understand what you are saying, but ultimately , partial responsibility lays with all of  as.

Some more than others but we all have played our litle part.  

Perhaps the government's we have are not the ones we want, but whose fault is that?Have we done enough to have a different government? Personally, I don't think I have.

 

 

15 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

Whilst working for Rentokil in London,we had an appointment at Stings house,when we rung the door buzzer and told him we were there to block of rats coming inside his mansion,in Hampstead,he told us to "f off i am doing yoga" when we replied that we had an appointment he said "i told you to f off you <deleted> menials" -so his words wring a little hollow i am afraid.

He always seemed a pompous turd to me,you have just proved that  my suspicions were correct. 

On 6/24/2018 at 7:38 AM, rooster59 said:

Nearly a million refugees passed through and got support from Greece in 2015

An important distinction.

On 6/24/2018 at 9:31 AM, ezzra said:

What is it with entertainment  people with their political statements like this guy Robert de ziro? just because you act or sing gives you the right to criticize others no matter if you right or wrong, speak as a private person, yes, not as a personality...

NGOs often employ this tactic of celebrity, as thoughtful, reasoned arguments and solutions elude them.

On ‎6‎/‎24‎/‎2018 at 9:31 AM, ezzra said:

What is it with entertainment  people with their political statements like this guy Robert de ziro? just because you act or sing gives you the right to criticize others no matter if you right or wrong, speak as a private person, yes, not as a personality...

Agreed. Has been singer that had one decent song, IMO, and he thinks he's important, or something.

On ‎6‎/‎24‎/‎2018 at 5:11 PM, sirineou said:

We go in and we destabilize their societies and destroy their countries for our own personal gain , and then we get upset when they come knocking on our doors. 

I didn't benefit from destabilizing other societies. Perhaps I lived in the wrong country.