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.
This is called “Kicking der can down der strasse.”
Merkel is obsessed with flooding Germany with untermenschen, and she does not give a damn for the consequences to anyone else. She probably figures that by the time that war is over, nobody will care anymore, and the pestilence she dumped on her country will be someone else’s problem.
“I got what I wanted, and that is all that matters.” Which, in a matter of speaking, sounds like something one of her predecessors would have said.
The elites are most surely setting up the legacy citizens in the western world for anarchy and turmoil.
I’m not yet sure why, but they are the same elites that want our guns, our borders open, that want us muzzled and prosecuted for having non pc opinions, and scream about the need for diversity but only for certain minorities, but not for an ethnic majority that doesn’t even get a seat on the Supreme Court. We’ve allowed our country to be turned upside down and put into major debt coincidentally by the gross incompetence of those who often have a Harvard or Ivy League degree. We’ve taken our eye off the ball and allowed corruption and incompetence to rule.
Agreed. It’s really crazy — in many western countries, the leaders elected by the citizens of those western countries are doing everything they can to destroy their countries and enslave the citizens who put them into power.
It’s Satanic.
GWB and Obama have let in 10 times that number, what is that?
That war will never end as John Quincy Adams observed 200 years ago:
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).
Both would sell their country’s state secrets to the highest bidder and welcome the Islamic invasion
Oh, that’s good! That’s really good!
They aren't leaving, they will be bringing in their families. They and all their relatives and descendants are Germans now, ja.
The war in Syria will last as long as the European Civil War.
YES LOOK AT YOU; the only civil government you and your middle eastern neighbors ever knew was during the European Colonial Period.
Your WHITE EUROPEAN MASTERS (yes I said white european masters, call me a racist, I don’t give a damn anymore) may not have treated you as an equal, but they didn’t murder 500,000 of you at a time just “for something to do” either.
The closest you and your arab neighbors ever came to individual legal rights and real property rights was under your WHITE EUROPEAN MASTERS.
Since your evil European masters left and GAVE you back your sh#thole countries; all you have done with them is rob your people, and murder the ones that didn’t agree with you, and a lot of the ones who did.
Now you can bring your barbaric, 7th century, primitive customs to the EVIL WHITE PEOPLE you have always envied and hated.
Or maybe they won’t!
This is Merkel trying desperately not to be tarred and feathered.
The quickest way to stop these mass immigration and cheapest as well is to create this safe zone in Syria, then move EVERYONE there. Suddenly these refugees no longer came from Syria
I’m willing to bet some of these refugees are simply welfare shopping. They’re basically migrant refugees living in another part of Europe and simply took advantage of Germany and use fake names to sign up for more welfare
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