C-Star: The Incredible Adventures of a Far-Right cruise in the Mediterranean

[Abdülmecid I]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.442033877758

C-Star is a ship hired by the far-right organisation "Defend Europe", aspiring to interrupt the arrival of thousands of immigrants to Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea. "Defend Europe" is directed by the notorious Identitarian Movement, a collection of reactionary groups across Europe, originally created in France, but recently expanding also to other states, such as Italy and, most importantly, Germany. Generally, it could be described as a typical representative of the "alt-right" trend, which means that, despite their obvious ideological similarities to Fascism and Nazism, they use an intentionally ambiguous vocabulary, in order not to alienate their potential audience, by accidentally associating themselves from the Axis' criminal past.

During the last months, after an apparently successful donation campaign, Defend Europe announced that it was ready to launch an anti-immigrant naval crusade, by deploying C-Star, scheduled to begin its "patriotic" journey from Djibouti, near Sicily, in order to disrupt what they called as the nefarious collaboration between smugglers and NGOs. Their published updates, marked by a noteworthy variety of spelling mistakes, insist on the peaceful nature of their campaign in cooperation with the Libyan Coast Guard, but considerable doubts about their claims' sincerity have been raised, especially considering the fact that the list of donators and fans includes Neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers and Ku-Klux-Klan members.

Regardless of their true intentions, unfortunately for the cause of the Identitarian Movement, C-Star seems totally incapable of fulfilling its objectives, even fter an initial arrest in Suez, due to the lack of appropriate documentation, according to the Egyptian security services. Having been released, the crew was arrested again, this time by the Northern Cypriot authorities, for forging and circulating false documents. Ironically and embarrassingly for the sponsors of the crusade, while being in the port of Famagusta, 20 Sri Lankan sailors escaped from the ship and asked for asylum in Europe, according to a North-Cypriot activist. Nothing has been undeniably confirmed yet, while all the crew members, Asians and Europeans alike, have been deported to the southern part of the island, where the legitimacy of the government is universally recognized, so that the issue can be examined further, while investigation is still pending.

So, even if "Defend Europe" has been blamed inaccurately for human-smuggling, does the fact that it employed destitute Sri Lankan sailors for an expedition strictly concerning the racial purity of Europe indicate the hypocrisy of far-right groups? In the Identitarian Movement's case, the leadership is apparently eager enough to capitalise on a portion of Europe's people declining quality of life, in order to increase its political influence, but it is also willing to exploit poor Asian workers, with few demands on salaries and rights, if that is going to benefit its treasury. You can't really accuse international companies of outsourcing, if you have no qualms about endorsing the same tactic, can you? Moreover, given the obvious legal discrepancies of this maritime campaign and the fact that, from a digital perspective, Defend Europe looks to be more focused on begging for money than even propagating its agenda, is it unreasonable to suspect the structure, motives and transparency of these organisations? Defend Europe's relationship with the law is certainly far from ideal and makes someone wonder whether their funds are not embezzled by shady individuals for private means. Is, at least partially, the alt-right initiative just a business where a few cunning gentlemen exploit the naivety of insufficiently educated, politically immature and poverty-stricken crowds?

[swabian]

I fully support the identitarian movement. Thanks for bringing this clever agitation to our attention AbdülM.

Those chaps are some very decent people who have nothing to do with fascism. Of course the left wing will brand every activity of the right as "fascist" and whatever. It's complete nonsense of course and not worthy of any attention that grows beyond 5 lines of Abdül's ravings. The left is scared and oozes out as much slime as it can, just like a salted slug.

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[Heathen Hammer]

So they confront economic migrants and smugglers from "human rights" NGOs which are affiliated with organized crime. They are the best thing that happened to Europe after those "racist" sea storms that tend to sink the immigrant boats.

[Abdülmecid I]

So they confront economic migrants and smugglers from "human rights" NGOs which are affiliated with organized crime. They are the best thing that happened to Europe after those "racist" sea storms that tend to sink the immigrant boats.

Defend Europe has indeed - as you mention - been framed for the crime of people smuggling, the details are there in black and white and can still be found, though google deliberately makes them hard to find with their search engine.

I fully support the identitarian movement. Thanks for bringing this clever agitation to our attention AbdülM.

Awkward cheering at death aside, I honestly wonder how the fans of the Identitarian Movement conciliate the contradiction between their protests against European natives suffering from unemployment, because of illegal immigrants taking their jobs, and the fact, admitted by the group itself, which described the Sri Lankan men as "apprentice sailors", that they hired Asians for a crusade, whose objective was the preservation of Europe's religious/cultural/ethnic purity. Concerning alt-right affairs, such a hilariously obvious act of hypocrisy is even more blatant than supposedly pacifist Donald Trump repeatedly bombing the Syrian Army, so should this incident be dismissed as subversive propaganda or should it be tactfully ignored, as an insignificant sacrifice for the greater good? Not to even mention the accusations of "Crusaders against human-smuggling" actually smuggling Asians, during their widely advertised campaign. After all, aren't the Sri Lankan controversy, the cruise's legal troubles and the constant and equally desperate begging for money convincing enough that the funds of this project have been grossly mismanaged by administrators more preoccupied with their personal purse than the Islamic threat? I don't believe that the entire leadership of "Defend Europe" is nostalgic of Hitler, but signs like the tragic fate of C-Star make me suspect that a significant portion of it is composed of greedy charlatans, who are thankfully sometimes too incompetent to efficiently leech their flock. In my opinion, the failure at Famagusta proves that joining them is, regardless of the alt-right's merits or disadvantages, an unprofitable emotional and monetary investment.

[ioannis76]

So, even if "Defend Europe" has been blamed inaccurately for human-smuggling, does the fact that it employed destitute Sri Lankan sailors for an expedition strictly concerning the purity of Europe indicate the hypocrisy of far-right groups?

It actually demonstrates, beyond the SHADOW of a doubt that the "Far Right" is far from the accusations of racism. I mean, would racists employ non-white sailors? Of course not. It's equal opportunities.

Defend Europe looks to be more focused on begging for money

I would rather they "beg for money" than be funded by uncle Soros. Furthermore, if they have few funds, it's quite moral to employ people who will ask for a smaller salary. Are we to accuse them of being immoral if their equipment is poor, as well?

Defend Europe's relationship with the law is certainly far from ideal

So is any rebel's.

makes someone wonder whether their funds are not embezzled by shady individuals for private means

Accusations without evidence is slander. A few GOOD quotes would go well there.

Is at least, partially, the alt-right initiative just a business where a few cunning gentlemen exploit the naivety of insufficiently educated, politically immature and poverty-stricken masses?

They could form a pro-"immigrant" NGO and be done with the problem of funding once and for all, if they wanted to. Why go against the grain if you're looking for a quick buck? No, I believe they are true idealists.

Good topic.

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[Heathen Hammer]

These groups are doing what the European governments themselves should be doing. They are complying with international law, and if anything, those economic migrants are better off heading back to where they came from then drowning in a storm or being "saved" by one of those "human rights" NGOs and end up property of some human trafficking organized crime group that these NGO's are closely affiliated with.

[caratacus]

This is a recent picture taken of a ship of migrants bound for Italy, the majority of which are sub-Saharan African young men. The media and politicians in Europe are refusing to acknowledge the sale of this problem. There are a estimated 90,000 arrived in Italy so far this year alone! This cannot continue, NGO vessels should be stopped operating a ferry service of people from North Africa by the Italian government. Any vessels arriving on the shores of Sicily should be kept there and not allowed onto mainland Europe.

Austria tells Italy to stop bringing migrants to mainland Europe and offering 'a ticket to the continent' as Sicilian mayor vows to block far-right activist ship looking to disrupt rescues
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-mainland.html
Austria's foreign minister asked Italy to stop migrants from using ferry services
He told his Italian counterpart Angelino Alfano that 'rescue missions in the Mediterranean cannot be seen as a ticket to central Europe'

For Italy, thIs crisis is one they urgently need to act upon, especially in the light of a recent decision given by the European court. However as Italy is within the EU the implications will ultimately affect all member states, as the large amount of money given by Brussels illustrates.

The EU's top court has ruled that a law requiring refugees to seek asylum in the first country they reach applies even in exceptional circumstances.
The case, brought by Austria and Slovenia, could affect the future of several hundred people who arrived during the migrant crisis of 2015-16.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40714946

The EU can’t solve Italy’s migration crisis
But it must do more to tackle the problem at its roots.
http://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ca...terranean-sea/

NGO activities must be curtailed, and this isn't being done by the Italians .

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[Prodromos]

They seem to be having fun.

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[mongrel]

The women on the right is Lauren Southern, she had her Patreon account deleted by the owning company because she dared to speak in favour of donations to Defend Europe. That Patreon account was her livelihood, by the way.
These leftist don't care about the hurt they cause just so long as they can encourage the flow of non-whites into Europe, and hurt anyone who dares to speak against it.

If she broke the terms and conditions of the site, tough, that's business. Serves her right.

So C-Star have been involved in adding to the asylum numbers. You can't make it up.


Anyway,it would be more fitting if they hired a U-boat. Let them carry on this expensive farce for now. Sooner or later reality will kick in.



Some facts:

Sven Tomas Egerstrom, director of Marine Global Services LTD (also known as C Vessels) owns as convicted of fraud in 2002 and sentenced to prison for two-and-a-half years .It is also reported that a Seychelles court in 2015 ordered the seizure of $2 million of automatic weapons found on one of Egerstrom’s ships.

Interfering with Search and Rescue vessels or indeed any vessel is unlawful, per International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea – Articles of the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972. (as amended by IMO Resolutions A464(XII), A626(15), A678(16), A736(18) and A.910(22)) .

The ship apparently doesn't have a doctor, which you think would be a requirement for vessel on a "rescue" mission. (Paragraph
2.6.1 of the 1979 International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (applicable to State signatories), it is mandated that ‘Each search and rescue unit shall be provided with equipment appropriate to its task’.), nor a qualified rescue crew ( or indeed most of a crew since it scarpered)

Libya is under no legal obligation to receive the refugees, it hasn't signed up to the 1951 convention. In any event Libya cannot currently be considered a place of safety under the SAR Convention and returning legitimate refugees could possibly contravene the non-refoulment obligation under Article 33 of the 1951 Convention. So if the U -boat, sorry Das See-boot was to pick up half-drowned survivors, they are likely to be stuck on board a ship of amateur racists,with no-one trained to handle their welfare or attend to medical needs.


As the OP says, this looks like a scam to milk money off mainly gullible American racists. If it isn't , well I can only mock the outcome and trust that even these fools will realise the game will be up if they encounter actual Africans., rather than wiki projections.

[Kyriakos]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.442033877758

C-Star is a ship hired by the far-right organisation "Defend Europe", aspiring to interrupt the arrival of thousands of immigrants to Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea. "Defend Europe" is directed by the notorious Identitarian Movement, a collection of reactionary groups across Europe, originally created in France, but recently expanding also to other states, such as Italy and, most importantly, Germany. Generally, it could be described as a typical representative of the "alt-right" trend, which means that, despite their obvious ideological similarities to Fascism and Nazism, they use an intentionally ambiguous vocabulary, in order not to alienate their potential audience, by disassociating themselves from the Axis' criminal past.

During the last months, after an apparently successful donation campaign, Defend Europe announced that it was ready to launch an anti-immigrant naval crusade, by deploying C-Star, scheduled to begin its "patriotic" journey from Djibouti, near Sicily, in order to disrupt what they called as the nefarious collaboration between smugglers and NGOs. Their published updates, marked by a noteworthy variety of spelling mistakes, insist on the peaceful nature of their campaign in cooperation with the Libyan Coast Guard, but considerable doubts about their claims' sincerity have been raised, especially considering the fact that the list of donators and fans includes Neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers and Ku-Klux-Klan members.

Regardless of their true intentions, unfortunately for the cause of the Identitarian Movement, C-Star seems totally incapable of fulfilling its objectives. After an initial arrest in Suez, due to the lack of appropriate documentation, according to the Egyptian security services. Even after they were released, the crew was arrested again, this time by the Northern Cypriot authorities, for forging and circulating false documents. Ironically and embarrassingly for the sponsors of the crusade, while being in the port of Famagusta, 20 Sri Lankan sailors escaped from the ship and asked for asylum in Europe, according to a North-Cypriot activist. Nothing has been undeniably confirmed yet, while all the crew members, Asians and Europeans alike, have been deported to the southern part of the island, where the legitimacy of the government is universally recognized, so that the issue can be examined further, while investigation is still pending.

So, even if "Defend Europe" has been blamed inaccurately for human-smuggling, does the fact that it employed destitute Sri Lankan sailors for an expedition strictly concerning the purity of Europe indicate the hypocrisy of far-right groups? In the Identitarian Movement's case, the leadership is apparently eager enough to capitalise on a portion of Europe's people declining quality of life, in order to increase its political influence, but it is also willing to exploit poor Asian workers, with few demands on salaries and rights, if that is going to benefit its treasury. You can't really accuse international companies of outsourcing, if you have no qualms about endorsing the same tactic, can't you? Moreover, given the obvious legal discrepancies of this maritime campaign and the fact that, from a digital perspective, Defend Europe looks to be more focused on begging for money than even propagating its agenda, is it unreasonable to suspect the structure, motives and transparency of these organisations. Defend Europe's relationship with the law is certainly far from ideal and makes someone wonder whether their funds are not embezzled by shady individuals for private means. Is at least, partially, the alt-right initiative just a business where a few cunning gentlemen exploit the naivety of insufficiently educated, politically immature and poverty-stricken masses?

Never heard it until now, but how are they going to stop anything? Gives sort of a "the childrens' crusade" vibe

[Cyclops]

If they want to swamp Europe with Africans wouldn't it be more efficient just to import the African semen and impregnate the women secretly when they get mandatory immunisations? Or drop it in chemtrails over the US?

[mongrel]

If they want to swamp Europe with Africans wouldn't it be more efficient just to import the African semen and impregnate the women secretly when they get mandatory immunisations? Or drop it in chemtrails over the US?

Such is the madness of alt right thinking. The truth is fairly simple. It was the right-wing governments of Cameron and Sarkozy that created the crisis by destroying the Gaddafi regime. All sensible people know this, yet this sham organisation can somehow craft this fairy tale of a leftist conspiracy in order to con money from racists.

[ByzantinePowerGame]

Why do European nations even have coast guards and navies? It seems the only thing the coast guards and navies do is to roam around the Mediterranean and help human smugglers when they find themselves in distress.

Imagine a bank having night-security and their only function is to assist thieves who become trapped or injured while trying to sneak into the building via the air ducts during the night.


The governments of the various EU nations are actually worse than having no government. At least if there were no governments in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, etc., there wouldn't be any centralized body/authority to coordinate and command the military to keep their own indigenous populations quiet and in line while the government oversees importing the people they intend to use to displace, and ultimately replace, their own native populations.

It is essentially the equivalent of having a police department that doesn't respond to reports of a criminal gang extorting a business, but they do respond when the business owner brandishes a pistol to drive the gang members away, so they can take the pistol and arrest the business owner.

I would rather have no government than a treacherous backstabbing government that exists to protect invaders at my expense.

[mongrel]

I would rather have no government than a treacherous backstabbing government that exists to protect invaders at my expense.

Ironic considering this shambles , crewed mainly by obscure bloggers and apparently for a time by asylum seekers, is being directly paid for by racists.

[Mithradates]

NGO rescue ships are collaborating with the people smugglers according to the EU border agency Frontex, its the Italian governments impotence that they wont confiscate the NGO ships.

If she broke the terms and conditions of the site

She didnt, thats the point. Her ban was strictly political.

Never heard it until now, but how are they going to stop anything? Gives sort of a "the childrens' crusade" vibe

At least they draw attention to this problem.

[Pinarius]

The blunder with these five Tamils last week made me wonder whether there are maybe "double agents" among the Identitarians.