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Merkel: Yeah, maybe all these refugees should go home when the war ends
Hot Air.com ^ | January 30, 2016 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 01/31/2016 4:38:01 PM PST by Kaslin

We may have finally reached a tipping point in Germany this week. It’s hard to say for sure, but something has changed in the halls of power over there. Whether it’s the gang violence related to the Syrian immigrants, the mass sexual assaults or the rising crime levels, it sounds like Angela Merkel has finally heard the outraged cries of her citizens and might be coming around to facing reality. In a statement released this weekend, she finally conceded that perhaps all of these new arrivals should turn around and go home once the war in Syria winds down. (Sydney Morning Herald)

German chancellor Angela Merkel says refugees will return to their homeland, once the war is over. Photo: Fredrik von Erichsen

Merkel said 70 percent of the refugees who fled to Germany from former Yugoslavia in the 1990s had returned.

Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, has threatened to take the government to court if the flow of asylum seekers is not cut.

Merkel urged other European countries to offer more help “because the numbers need to be reduced even further and must not start to rise again, especially in spring”.

This set of remarks featured a decided shift in long term strategy compared to what we heard from Merkel through the fall and early winter. In addition to the “go home” comments she suggested that other countries needed to carry their fair share of the burden in the spring when better weather will doubtless result in more pedestrian traffic looking to enter the country. On top of that, she repeated calls from other leaders for the border nations of the EU – particularly Greece – to step up enforcement and stem some of the tide.

But beyond that, it’s the choice of terminology Merkel is employing which seems to have shifted. In numerous speeches before this we heard her referring to the new arrivals as “immigrants” and talking about the need for them to assimilate into the culture. The word immigrant wasn’t to be found in this conversation, returning to calling them refugees instead. There was no talk of their adopting the culture of their new homes, but rather a sense of temporary travelers in need of shelter until they can go back where they belong.

Merkel isn’t just getting pressure from the streets on this. Opposition leader Frauke Petry went to the press earlier this week and suggested that border security should consider a significantly more, er… abrupt method of dealing with border jumpers.

AfD leader Frauke Petry told the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper that Germany needed to reduce the influx through agreements with neighbouring Austria and a reinforcement of the EU’s external borders.

But she also said it should not be shy about turning people back and creating “border protection installations” – and that border guards should, if necessary, shoot at migrants trying to enter illegally.

Oddly enough, Petry is probably creating some space for Merkel to move to the right without seeming too “radical” to the more progressive base in her country. When you’ve got somebody from the other party suggesting they simply start shooting the Syrians as they arrive on the shores of Greece or try to sneak into Germany, a suggesting of sending them home when the bombing runs end probably sounds a lot more reasonable.

Germany and the rest of the EU have been engaged in a wide ranging social experiment for some time now. The milk of human kindness seems to have taken on a sour taste as they’ve grappled with the reality of trying to absorb a massive influx of people coming from a very different culture with radically divergent values. The recent terror attacks probably didn’t do much to sweeten the deal either. Common sense may be making a comeback in the European Union in 2016. What remains now is for them to realize they need to help end the conflict in Syria sooner rather than later so they can show their new “guests” the door before there’s an open revolt.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Syria
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; crisis; syrianrefugees
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To: Kaslin

She does not mean it, and they won’t ever leave. Her statement was boob bait for the bubbas. The “refugee crisis” was all about marching towards the New World Order. That agenda will not be stopped.


21 posted on 01/31/2016 4:52:43 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Kaslin

Like they’ll really go..!

The best way with Muzzies is the Japanese way:

SIMPLY DON’T LET THEM IN...!

Grand total of “Syrian” refugees permitted into Earth’s 3rd biggest economy:

THREE..!

Nope, not 3 million, 3 thousand, not 3 hundred.

THREE.

And my guess is THAT IS THE END.

Sorry, the best way to fight the “War on Terror” is right at your ports of entry:

SIMPLY DO NOT LET THEM IN, and later there are no problems.


22 posted on 01/31/2016 4:54:13 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Kaslin

Oh Angela, Angela. How silly are you?

They ARE at home. They’re in their new home, Germistan. You didn’t really think they were ever leaving, did you? It was an invasion right from the get go. Invaders don’t leave....YOU leave.


23 posted on 01/31/2016 4:54:19 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Eddie01

They don’t have the death penalty in Germany


24 posted on 01/31/2016 5:02:53 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: SkyPilot

Exactly


25 posted on 01/31/2016 5:03:24 PM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him); Charles Martel for President)
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To: Kaslin

Yeah, and maybe Merkel should go with them.


26 posted on 01/31/2016 5:04:02 PM PST by Savage Beast (The Trump Phenomenon is a Revolution. Actually a Counter-Revolution.)
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Day late and a € short. Good luck moving them out. Optics of pleading families & screening children.


27 posted on 01/31/2016 5:09:24 PM PST by ak267
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To: gaijin

28 posted on 01/31/2016 5:09:50 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Kaslin

You can’t ‘undo’ an injection of poison.


29 posted on 01/31/2016 5:12:14 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Kaslin

Something only an idiot or an islamist facilitator would say.


30 posted on 01/31/2016 5:12:51 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Kaslin
What?
I thought Merkel's whole idea was to give a dwindling, aging vanilla population a vigorous beef injection, so to speak.
31 posted on 01/31/2016 5:13:05 PM PST by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Kaslin

She realizes she just ate her own sh##


32 posted on 01/31/2016 5:14:46 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

Don’t worry Frauen, you’ll be raped only until the savages go home.


33 posted on 01/31/2016 5:21:13 PM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Kenny


34 posted on 01/31/2016 5:23:21 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Kaslin

It’s easy to say it. Making it happen will be impossible.

But Merkel knows this very well.


35 posted on 01/31/2016 5:25:27 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Kaslin
Merkel: Yeah, maybe all these refugees should go home when the war ends

Which war, imbecile?

The 1400-year war of Koranimals vs. civilization?

36 posted on 01/31/2016 5:26:20 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW! evil ignorant stupid or crazy-doesn't matter!)
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To: jsanders2001

It just occurred to me that Merkel and Hillary look alike and probably think alike.


37 posted on 01/31/2016 5:41:28 PM PST by taterjay
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To: Kaslin
Round 'em up and send 'em back NOW, Angie.
38 posted on 01/31/2016 5:42:44 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: publius911

The one in Syria, what else *rme* Maybe it’s you that is the imbecile?


39 posted on 01/31/2016 5:44:23 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kenny

But according to the feminists a,rape lasts a short time.. murder is forever. No guns for girls.


40 posted on 01/31/2016 5:45:11 PM PST by momincombatboots (Trump... The only Democrat who can win. Well played democrats. Mr single payer 2000!? Trump!)
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