KaiJun 23, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

20 years jail for rescuing 1000 low income migrants who were forced to put their lives at risk.

Expanded search for rescuing a few billionaires who chose to put their lives at risk.

Criminalizing poverty and excusing opulence.

Smh. We don’t have to live like this.

Jun 22, 2023 at 7:38pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadOtownKimJun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid The Rich can 🖕🖕🖕🖕!!
Show threadUnHookedJun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid
Show threadmeowoemJun 22, 2023
@unhook2048 @QasimRashid meanwhile elon and zuck will punch each other.
Show threadUnHookedJun 22, 2023
@meowoem @QasimRashid you mean Elon will get slapped around, he's not showing. He's just surrounded by the yes people driving him further away from humanity. A fat man over 50 vs a trained Martial Arts practitioner who's actually won a few comps... Also not a fan of his but just no.
Show threaddaveJun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid maybe she could beat the case if she says one of those refugees had $400million.
Show threadVHaschJun 22, 2023

@QasimRashid

Whoa, whoa a minute. Isn't Article 11 of the mariners code to assist those at sea?

When did that become not a thing?

The allies and Germans picked up enemy survivors during battles. It was a war crime to not provide assistance.

Innocent immigrants aren't afforded the same humanitarian consideration by Germany today?

Show threadMalte KerlJun 22, 2023
@VHasch @QasimRashid I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure it was the Italian government who wanted to pit her to trial and I think the charges have been dropped in 2019.
Show threadPankhurst2Jun 22, 2023

@QasimRashid

And is there a go fund me page for her lawyers so she can defend herself from.tgos gross injustice. Maybe the Pulitzer nominating committee needs to step up.

Show threadxs4me2Jun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid Must be kidding...
Show threadClaireJun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid
Absolutely agree. "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark" .... human values, what matters most to whom and why...
Show threadBus AlderaanJun 22, 2023

@QasimRashid If there's no profit to be acquired through the act of caring, companies wont.

This is just one of many ways that Citizen's United has changed the way our country and even the world functions. Capitalism was already driving corps towards an unquenchable greed in the name of the shareholder. But now that they've been given personhood and money is a form of free speech, the toxicity of their motivations has become brazenly clear.

Immigrants aren't seen as profitable, so who cares?

Show threadMab_813Jun 25, 2023

@BusAlderaan @QasimRashid

Some US Americans really seem to assume that everything in the world is about the USA or influenced by the USA, which is really weird.

Sea rescues in the Mediterranean Sea / Captains being prosecuted in European countries have nothing to do with the US Supreme Court and its decisions like "Citizens United".

Show threadⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔Jun 22, 2023

@QasimRashid
I looked up the woman you mentioned and it pains me to see her and others having to endure such a travesty for *helping* people in desperate need. 😖

I'm very intimately acquainted with people like her and immigrants who have been rescued from dire circumstances. It's not even something I'm comfortable speaking about here because of fear of reprisal... and that should never be... never ever ever...

Goodness this can all hurt so much. 💔

I have the AP News app on my phone, which I've always appreciated for the headline news... but every ding about this submarine made my skin crawl. I'm genuinely and truly sorry for the loss of life. There's nothing worse. But... my heart continues to break over how privileged lives are valued so much more than the rest. 😭

People matter.
Life matters.
Humanity matters.
*Not* just for the ones who are "in."

For those interest, here's one of the articles about the woman:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/german-boat-captain-faces-up-to-20-years-in-jail-for-rescuing-migrants-a4166011.html

Female German boat captain faces up to 20 years in jail for rescuing 'drowning' migrants

A German boat captain could face 20 years in an Italian prison after she rescued more than 1,000 people from “drowning in the Mediterranean”.

Evening Standard
Show threadⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔Jun 22, 2023

@QasimRashid
I don't know a petition like this will have the desired effect, but with 480k of 500k signatures, it seems only appropriate to sign and share.

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-prosecution-of-those-who-are-saving-lives-in-the-mediterranean-sea-freepia

Sign the Petition

Stop the prosecution of those who are saving lives in the Mediterranean Sea!

Change.org
Show threadChristoJun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid
The man is an absolute hero
Show threadKikoKateJun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid Well … ah … um … er … point?
Show threadSir WillingtonJun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid  “You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back.” 
Show threadOrcJun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid The EU does not cover itself with glory when it comes to migrants. The US doesn't win any prizes, either, but at least the Coast Guard tries to rescue anyone who gets in trouble at sea.
Show threadAnn CannonJun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid
Show threadPirateRoJun 22, 2023
@QasimRashid
Show threadMiramar VessJun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid my tax dollars paid for those searches.
Show threadfluids_guruJun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid Too many billionaires, not enough submarines
Show threadRobertJun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid 20 years for the destruction of our continent is quite a mild punishment.
Show threadgavinisdie Jun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid you have to be truly soulless if you punish someone for LITERALLY SAVING LIVES
Show threadIrishlostboyJun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid There is a difference between migrant rescue and human trafficking. Assisting people to illegally cross borders is human trafficking. Picking drowning people from the sea is migrant rescue. You don't need to misrepresent facts to make the legitimate point that classism is a big problem.
Show threadxs4me2Jun 23, 2023

@QasimRashid

The irony of this is fully unacceptable… but seems to say it all on the current state of ethics and empathy… disgusting in fact…

Same goes for the coverage of the 500 migrants who drowned in reach of the Greek coast… for God‘s sake, have pitty…

Show thread Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑Jun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid And the responses from the usual Fascists claiming Refugees are "Illegal trafficing" because they were born without hearts, and also literally don't understand what a refugee is.
Show threadHelgi CrookehorneJun 23, 2023
@WhyNotZoidberg @QasimRashid my poor heart bleeds for real refugees from the war nearby. Not for those clowns from Kurdistan who came to take their rooms. Is there problems in Kurdistan, they have oil revenues to repay Ukraine's IMF debt in 3 years. They should raise their fisting, and demand Barzani share some money!! The EU have no oil but they now have to care for poor economic state of oil rich Iraq or something?
Show threadArosano@hachyderm 🇮🇱🇩🇰Jun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid there’s the #EU for you
Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid I guess I'd rather commit "#piracy"...
Show threadnilsmielke ⁂Jun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid Yes we do. We’re morons by design. (Or so it seems.)
Show threadHelgi CrookehorneJun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid that's the story of Salvini who really promised to save the country from "bad evil migrants" and here that German captain comes. And she then gets accused of colluding with smugglers. Far right Salvini who as we know once been fan of Putin
https://www.dw.com/en/german-boat-captain-pia-klemp-faces-prison-in-italy-for-migrant-rescues/a-49112348
German boat captain faces prison for migrant rescues

Pia Klemp stands accused of aiding illegal immigration after she saved people from drowning in the Mediterranean. The Bonn native has accused Italian authorities of organizing "a show trial."

Deutsche Welle
Show threadDusk :anim_teams_cat: Jun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid We ought to bring back the guillotine into fashion
Show threadSarah SavageJun 23, 2023
@QasimRashid doesn’t the law of the sea require assisting persons in distress when able?