Refugees Welcome Everywhere Except With the Wealthy of Lake Como

In the words of Come Fly With Me's, Ian Foot,"keep 'em out"

is the new welcome theme for the residents of Lake Como. Residents who include George Clooney have berated the regular folk on their reluctance to open communities where the native people are themselves struggling.  Communities which have been villianized for wanting to keep refugees from overrunning their towns. Now the same refugees have been turned away from Swiss borders for illegal entry to flood the celebrity paradise of Lake Como.

The wealthy of Lake Como have vacation homes which overflow with empty rooms. Thirty for George Clooney with seventy alone for Donatella Versace. While hundreds of towns have single homes already full with residents, they are pressed to provide space where none exists. Surely these 'generously outspoken' celebrities are giving rides on their private yachts and opening at least one of their mansions to give refugees a temporary home while they wait on asylum applications. Those who are should feel free to come forward as an example to the common folk. Instead they cry over the presence of the refugees they urged Europe to openly welcome.

"Not in our town!" "They will be disasters for tourists!" Refugees sleeping under bridges and in their train stations are a blot on the space known for pandering to presidents, royalty, and film stars. Refugee camp visits and stern lectures surrounded by body guards are wonderful for the cause so long as one can take a first class even private jet back to the safety of their mansions.The true test of their care over human strife is not how much money can safely be given to keep those same people in someone else's backyard. Money means little when a person lies shivering in a gutter while those do-gooders dine in splendor above them. Surely now is the time to show the world they are more than part-time caregivers. Refugees who were told are welcomed by open arms by them get the reality those words strictly apply so long as they stay well away from their personal space.

Those who believe it is only the wealthy of Lake Como spotlighting this behavior must take a wide panorama of those who push hardest for the world to open their borders. How many of these refugees are arriving in America for a comfortable stay in a Clinton mansion or the empty Chicago home of Barack Obama? Those with the loudest voices who have an excess of empty rooms should be the greatest example of an open heart not just an open wallet. They announced there is room for all so it's about time they offer up one of those empty rooms for a refugee in need of it. Until the world starts to see their example hypocrites should keep the age-old saying: silence is golden.