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Defiant Merkel vows to stand by refugee policy despite security fears
Yahoo/Reuters ^ | Madeline Chambers and Paul Carrel

Posted on 11/25/2015 9:46:41 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on Wednesday to stick to her open-door refugee policy, defying criticism at home and abroad which has intensified due to growing fears about a potential security risk after the Islamist attacks in Paris.

Conservative Merkel faces splits in her right-left coalition and pressure from EU states, including France, over her insistence that Germany can cope with up to 1 million migrants this year and that Europe must accept quotas to take them in.

In a 40-minute speech to the Bundestag lower house of parliament, Merkel said the security threat level in Germany was high but insisted that people must carry on with normal life.

"The strongest response to terrorists is to carry on living our lives and our values as we have until now -- self-confident and free, considerate and engaged," she said to loud applause.

"We Europeans will show our free life is stronger than any terror," Merkel added, battling with a croaky voice.

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1 posted on 11/25/2015 9:46:41 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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There will be blood in the streets and it will be her legacy.


2 posted on 11/25/2015 9:47:26 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Is she Soro’s mistress?


3 posted on 11/25/2015 9:48:13 AM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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trying to out-stubborn Obama


4 posted on 11/25/2015 9:48:41 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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It would appear that she’s quite completely out of her mind.


5 posted on 11/25/2015 9:48:56 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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Hitler invaded other countries, Merkel is invading her own.


6 posted on 11/25/2015 9:49:20 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Merkel doubles down on stupid...again.


7 posted on 11/25/2015 9:49:43 AM PST by TheStickman
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To: Seruzawa; RoosterRedux

She must be. It is the only answer. I guess she has a island she can live on the rest of her days, because sharia kills all.


8 posted on 11/25/2015 9:50:21 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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The next election will jolt her back to reality.


9 posted on 11/25/2015 9:50:27 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: RoosterRedux

She needs to be defeated at the polls.


10 posted on 11/25/2015 9:50:39 AM PST by AdaGray
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I don’t know how the German election process works. But they need to get rid of this quisling nutcase before she completely destroys their country.


11 posted on 11/25/2015 9:50:57 AM PST by Cubs Fan (Black privilege--being able to falsely yell racism and have the media fawn all over you.)
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I don’t know how the German election process works. But they need to get rid of this quisling nutcase before she completely destroys their country.


12 posted on 11/25/2015 9:51:03 AM PST by Cubs Fan (Black privilege--being able to falsely yell racism and have the media fawn all over you.)
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Somebody tell me: Is the German economy fragile enough at this point that a run on the GErman bank, similar to the run on the US bank in September of 2008, could collapse the German economy?


13 posted on 11/25/2015 9:51:30 AM PST by butterdezillion (.)
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Germany, you MUST get rid of this woman.


14 posted on 11/25/2015 9:51:58 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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She came out of the bunker?


15 posted on 11/25/2015 9:52:22 AM PST by McGruff (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it)
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Just wait until some mussie does a Paris in Berlin or some other German city. The French laid out flowers, German skinheads will lay out mussies.


16 posted on 11/25/2015 9:52:29 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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What a sickie.


17 posted on 11/25/2015 9:54:04 AM PST by angcat
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Remember when Germany complained about Obama tapping their mobile phones? He must have gotten a butload of negatives on Miss Merk! She’s completely compromised.


18 posted on 11/25/2015 9:55:33 AM PST by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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19 posted on 11/25/2015 9:56:01 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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Why are the executives in so-called democracies (Germany, USA, etc.) allowed to act like dictators?

It's a rhetorical question. I already know the answer. The national assemblies of those nations are filled with lazy and/or stupid career politicians.

20 posted on 11/25/2015 9:56:37 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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