Posted on 06/18/2018 12:00:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday to fire off two tweets about the “tenuous” state of politics in Germany. Not for the first time, he showed his ignorance of developments in German society.
Trump waded into the political crisis facing Chancellor Angela Merkel, declaring that the German people were “turning against their leadership” over immigration. “We don’t want what is happening with immigration in Europe to happen with us!” he said in a pair of tweets. “The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition,” he said, adding that “crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!” […]
… [H]is assertion that “crime in Germany is way up” is simply not true. Crime figures for last year show a drastic drop in reported crime. Most types of crime — including violent crime — fell in 2017, meaning it was actually the year with the least reported crime in three decades.
While reported crime is a far from reliable way of calculating actual crime, it is also the only method that currently exists of tracking nationwide crime trends.
Trump also asserts that refugees have “strongly and violently” changed German culture. What exactly he means by this is not clear. German beer consumption has dropped in recent years but we haven’t seen any refugees ripping Maßes from their hands at Oktoberfest. Last time we checked, they were also still fans of Bratwurst and bad pop music. […]
… Several politicians from moderate parties such as the Greens and the Christian Democrats have stuck their heads above the parapet and pointed out that asylum seekers are over-represented in crime statistics. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...
Isn’t Merkel supposed to be shown the door this week?
Doesn’t mean the problem will be solved. And if it is solved, the price paid for it is likely to be the loss of freedom that the Eurocrats have been pushing for.
aynrandfreak wrote:
I’ve heard cases of “unreported crimes” because the victims didn’t want to give fuel to anti-immigrant “populists”
What about the unreported crimes that various Police have squashed, in an effort to avoid mention regarding the reality of violent crimes attributed to moslems?
“He screamed, ‘allokh ackhback’ while he be-headed the victims but the motive is still unknown”...
Jörg Luyken: Left wing putative German:
Born in Scotland to a German father and British mother, Jörg has worked as a journalist in Israel and Egypt, where he wrote for the Jerusalem Post, Ha’aretz and Die Zeit. Jörg moved to Germany in 2013 and started working for The Local in March 2014. He is covering all aspects of German politics and society.
And yet, Merkel is in serious trouble over the issue of migrants in Germany, TheLocale.de and Jörg Luyken.......ironic, huh!!!?!
Look, there are even oblivious idiots residing in Germany...a truly global phenomenon.....!
Of course its already happened (to an extent) as one of the reasons Trump was elected was because of recognition by enough sane Americans of the destructive immigration policy that has been going on for years previous.
Decades even.
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