[BREITBART] Two and half thousand Europeans plan to march into Aleppo waving white flags in a three month long, 2,000 mile demonstration against the civil war taking place in Syria.
White flags to ISIS being just a convenient way to grid their rocket artillery
This year, like last, has been characterised by the massive flow of people northwards through Europe, many of them Syrians fleeing the bombs of Assad and the opposition factions. But a group of Europeans has decided to make the trek in the other direction in order to bring an end to the war, now in its fifth year.
"We’re carrying these white flags to let the whole world know our message: Enough is enough. This war has to stop!" the group say in their manifesto.
ISIS are like every other artillery gunner on the planet. They like target rich environments. Saves ammunition and make for an awesome display.
The march, which departs Berlin on Boxing Day, 26 December, was organised by journalist Anna Alboth.
Checks from the EU, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Soros' Open Society musta cleared.
"I was having dinner with Syrian women I know in a refugee centre and they were showing me photos of a lot of people who had died," she told the BBC.
Who picked up the check, Anna? I s'pect it wasn't you.
"People like me in safe countries can’t take it any more, and we see this as a chance to transform things.
She's right, you know. 2.5K Euros to be transformed into hamburger meat.
"Refugees who hear about it say that if we are willing to give up our comfortable lives to do this, then it is a real demonstration."
Yew betcha!
The precise route the march will take is yet to be finalised, but the group will leave Germany via the Czech Republic, then head through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Greece, and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
before finally entering Syria.
Lawyers in each of the countries en route are preparing paperwork to ease the crossing of borders along the way. "If no-one will stop us, we will go all the way," Alboth said.
About 400 peace activists were marching Tuesday from the outskirts of Berlin towards the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo, heading down the refugee trail in reverse.
Carrying white flags and hiking backpacks and wearing outdoor gear against the cold and wet December weather, the marchers had on Monday left from the center of the German capital.
Alboth told Germany's left-leaning Tageszeitung daily that only a core group of 30 activists planned to walk all the way,
adding that she expected they may be blocked at the Turkish border.
| So much for the grand gesture of 2,500 marching into the devastated city of Aleppo, waving their white flags in triumph... |
The marchers plan to cover around 20 kilometers (12 miles) a day
| ... in literature this is described as "going by easy stages." No doubt the rest of the day will be spent cooking delectable dinners and breakfasts (the supplies having been brought by van), pitching and packing up tents, and singing together round the campfire, if any of the group were once Boy or Girl Scouts and there's any wood to be found... |
| Twelve miles a day? I cover that on a bicycle in an hour, and I'm an old man... |
and walk through the Czech Republic, Austria and several western Balkan countries to Turkey -- and then on to Syria.
It is the route into Europe that was taken last year by more than a million people, many fleeing battlefields in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East, with the majority ending up in the top EU economy Germany.
Several thousand people have pledged on Facebook
they would join at least a section of the about 3,000-kilometer (1,900-mile) trek
| ...drive up to the meeting point in time for breakfast, hop out of the car, and be picked up at the next meeting point by the car at breakfast the next day, proud of having made a statement of conscience among kindred spirits... |
| Reminds me of the "hunger strike" led by Cindy Sheehan once upon a time, where they sustained the hunger strike by drinking smoothies, which didn't count... |
bound for Syria's second city, which is now squarely under the control of President Bashar Assad's regime.
Germany has pledged 15 million euros ($15.6 million) in aid to pay for medical staff and trauma counselors for Aleppo, Development Minister Gerd Mueller said.
| So effective that they met the goal before starting out. |
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