No longer illegal.

For the abolition of the status of ‘illegal’. 

For the introduction of the word ‘newcomer'.
  
Thursdaynight. DeZomerfabriek, Antwerp. Together with a friend I stroll around on this former industrial site, which was charmingly decorated by some crazy design collective – I spotted even lampshades made out of lettuce – when suddenly I caught sight of a sticker, not much bigger then a teabag, with the words: nobody is illegal.

As a follower of alter-globalism i agreed with it immediately. So I took the sticker off and attached it to my chest pocket, like some sort of medal. But when i came home, i knew i should have another look at it. I wondered: What does it actually mean, to be illegal?
 
Let's go for a philosophical approach. To be is actually rather passive. It was my biology teacher who made me realize that. 'Enzymes' as he began ‘do nothing. They just 'are'. They just float around. All they have to do is be present." So ‘to be’ is innocent. It means existing. Doing nothing. How can you, according to some, yet be illegal?

Because you just happen to be always somewhere. And most, even almost all, somewheres belong to some one. How is that even possible?? Hah, to that question good old Rousseau has the answer! According to this French philosopher there just was this human that came across a piece of land, and he happened to be the first having the idea to put a fence around it and call it his. You see, property is not based on much.

But one can't ignore the present. Laws remain laws, we can’t go around them. But what we can do, is decide how we interprete them. If u think one should be able to live in the country of one's choice, then u should not speak of a ‘illegal’ but of a ‘newcomer’.

- Why 'newcomer'? Well, does this sound familiar. Just two weeks after the start of school a new kid joins the class. The teacher will always say something like ‘Okay guys, Tom here is new. I trust everyone tries to make him feel home and that we help him find his way around in our school.’ That’s, to the believe of this blogger, how we should deal with migration.

  
U want to choose which school you go to, right? Then why shouldn’t U be able to choose in which country you want to live. The freedom of choosing in which country one wants to live is fundamental. And if it isn’t a human right already, it should be made one. What I plea for is nothing more than a world wide Schengen-area.