Last weekend, Josh @freemanreporter and I traveled across Bulgaria to the Black Sea coast to interview a controversial figure known as Dinko from Yambol. He made the news a year and a half ago for "detaining" a group of refugees illegally crossing the border from Turkey. In this podcast, Josh and I discuss our impressions of Dinko, the mafia in Bulgaria, and the Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov.
Leave your comments and questions below ... Hope you like!
From what I am getting from these guys Dinko from Yambol has a bit of "black holes" in his story. We can take in consideration he really doesn't speak English, but there should not have to be big inconsistencies in his story.
Now, what bothers me about refugees issues is that most of those people are just in search of better lives. Their homes have been ravaged by war and they are running from. Instead of the world helping these people they are in a lot of cases hated on and discriminated against. I wonder how would any of us feel if our country is in war, and we are running away from it, but only to be welcomed by other countries in a hostile way.
Not sure if Dinko faked this or not, but there is something fishy about his story.
As Josh and I explain, we have both been to refugee camps -- he to investigate, and I to go along for the ride. Most of the migrants are NOT from war-torn countries, though the media and the EU try to get us to think otherwise. They are flowing in from all over the Muslim world, and mainly for economic reasons. Now, don't get me wrong -- I know that it is largely the West's intervention in their countries and the West's support of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, etc. in the first place that has caused a lot of the misery across the Middle East, but to say that they are all from war-torn countries is simply not true. Not even most of them. And regardless -- let's say we open up the borders to all those who wish to immigrate, whether for asylum or better economic opportunities -- We can't just say, "Come and get your free stuff!" They would need to be vetted, etc. to see if they were capable of and willing to integrate into society.
Dinko changed the story, for sure -- probably because what he did was illegal, or because he doesn't want people laughing at him. Not sure which.
Whatever they come from. They come in search of better life. In the end, we are all human beings. I do agree with you about them be willing to integrate into society, but we also have to consider how hostile some of these countries have been to immigrants. I do see all your points and I do agree they are not all from war-torn countries. I am not suggesting to open-borders and just let them in. There are many problems which need to solved in order for them to intergarate to society, but I just don't like the fact some of the EU countries just washed their hands of it and let the other countries deal with the problem. It just shows how divided this world is.
Well, most may come for a better life, but the terrorists (and there are several who came through the Balkan route a few years ago) only come for 99 virgins, I suppose. As far as some EU countries welcoming them with open arms (and having problems with rape, child-rape, etc.) and others not, it only goes to show that the problem is with having a centralized government in Brussels trying to come up with one-size-fits-all, top-down solutions -- which never has worked and never will.
A very interesting and balanced dialogue about refugees in my home country Bulgaria, one of the EU's outer borders :)
I couldn't stop watching until the very end!
Glad you liked it, amigo! Did anything strike you as particularly interesting?
In all videos where you mention the 90's in Bulgaria I'm fascinated to listen to your point of view. I was thinking of asking you to do a video on this topic alone!
That's a great idea! Would you like to collaborate?
Let's do it!
Yay! I like that attitude :)