Merkel now says that if the perpetrator is indeed a refugee, “this would be extremely hard for us to bear,” and it “would be particularly repugnant for all those Germans, who toil daily to help refugees”.
Why?? Take any random group of over a million people and you will undoubtedly see a fair percentage of criminals, crooks, crazies, serial killers, and sociopaths. Because human beings tend to have such freaks among them.
This is what I say about not seeing refugees as human beings. In the Madonna/whore dichotomy, those who see women as idealized, saintly Madonnas are just as bad as those who think all women are whores. The refugees aren’t Madonnas. That shouldn’t be extremely hard to bear. Don’t ask people over if you’ll keep them to a ridiculous standard of inhuman goodness.
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“Don’t ask people over if you’ll keep them to a ridiculous standard of inhuman goodness”
Call me unreasonable, but I think asking migrants to not hijack trucks and drive them into crowds of people is not “a ridiculous standard of inhuman goodness”.
Well, it bears stating again, the great majority of those who arrived in 2015 were not refugees in any particular sense. The overwhelming majority seems to be made up of welfare migrants who want to be fed and taken care of by a prosperous western country.
How many have found jobs? How many found the idea of volunteering as a sign of goodwill to be insulting?
The point is not to endanger the citizens of the country you’re supposed to running by letting mass amounts of unvetted people in…. unless that’s the whole point.
Before 2015 Germany was actually one o the better countries in Europe at dealing with migrants in that if someone wanted to work they could find a job, maybe not a glamorous or super well paying job, but a job. Linguistic integration was helped by the expedient of making people speak German to the bureaucracy (and/or making using translators a more miserable experience than stumbling through with bad German).
In Europe it was overall probably second only to the UK in being able to get new arrivals with limited language skills into jobs.
That’s probably gone. What person who wants a job will want to migrate to Germany now?
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Exactly. It’s amazing how people outside the EU currently dealing with this unprecedented crisis seem so willing to pass judgement on the situation. If the same thing were happening on American soil, I bet the people who pass it off as over-expectations or Germany getting what it deserves – would change those thoughts completely.
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In the US, there are 340 million people. 95% of them are immigrants and refugees. This country is “this unprecedented crisis” and everybody is perfectly fine and has been for a very long time.
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According to the CIA world factbook, the migration rate as of 2016 is 3.9 persons per every 1,000 persons. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
Hardly 95%. I would love to know where you get your stats.
I am very happy, of course, that America is doing well!
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You are unaware that the overwhelming majority of people here are not Native Americans? See my previous comment about ignorance.
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Ok. Apparently, out of 340mil Americans, you are the only person in ‘the know’. Enjoy that.
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No, everybody here is aware they are not Native American. It’s not a shocking new bit of knowledge.
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Here’s a link to an article about funding by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar of Salafist (“extremist Islamic”) schools in Germany. I appended a recent video about how Salafist indoctrination of children in the finer points of Islamism works.
Unvetted refugees are a problem, made worse by the indoctrination of children.
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The Germans will have federal elections next year and Merkel recently announced that she’s running again. The anti-immigrant AfD did extremely well in state level elections earlier this year and got seats in all five states that held elections and got over 20% in two of them, including Merkel’s home state where they came in second and got more seats than Merkel’s party. The AfD is now in 10 of 16 state parliaments and is polling pretty consistently in third place at the national level. I’m sure we’re going to hear lots of tough talk from her on the refugees in the coming months.
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A Tunisian man suspected of involvement in a truck attack in Berlin was in contact with Islamist militants in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and was known to German security agencies, German Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger said Wednesday.
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the suspect, named Anis Amri, had applied for asylum in Germany and his application was rejected in July. Attempts to deport the man to Tunisia failed as he did not have identification papers, and the Tunisian authorities disputed whether he was their national.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4896537,00.html
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But if any country should dare engage in any acts of self-preservation, via any attempt at some degree of autonomy, they stand to be unjustly accused of being bigoted, insensitive and “inhumane to the sufferings of others”.
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People who genuinely think their self-preservation is at stake would never care about anybody calling them bigoted or insensitive.
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Members of the European political establishment probably don’t “think their self-preservation is at stake.” Their
subjectsconstituents do.According to Geert Wilders — quite possibly the next Prime Minister of the Netherlands — a revolution of those who do “think their self-preservation is at stake” care enough to act, and a political revolution may be coming.
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I’ve been saying for a while that if the leaders of certain EU countries don’t change their policies, then I can easily envision armed revolt from the citizenry.
more here: https://cliffarroyo.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/big-sunday-for-europe-whats-at-stake/
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This gives me an opportunity to link to a beautiful graphic on the subject:
Please, everybody, look at Spain. What have I been telling you about Spain? It’s different but finally in a good way!
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And Poland doesn’t belong on the chart really, migration issues (beyond Polish citizens in other countries) play no role at present in domestic politics.
There’s more but I haven’t gotten around to writing that post yet.
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“migration issues (beyond Polish citizens in other countries) play no role at present in domestic politics.”
Even I know that this is true. That’s probably the only thing I know about Poland. 🙂
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“People who genuinely think their self-preservation is at stake would never care about anybody calling them bigoted or insensitive”
Which is why those words have lost so much…. impact in recent years.
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“Which is why those words have lost so much…. impact in recent years.”
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To continue hawking my modest little blog:
Migrants, in general, aren’t the problem, they’re a symptom.
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“The anger, which is real and growing, is primarily aimed at their governments. The governments are deflecting the blame onto migrants because they think that will lessen the expression of dissatisfaction.”
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\ EXACTLY. And there is a lot to be angry about.
Saw this (in Russian):
Самое важное для властей Германии
http://hryu.livejournal.com/191497.html
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Point well-taken on the copyright insanity.
As to the rest, it’s also true. I’ve been to Germany once but it was clear to me how incredibly efficient and organized everything was. And now I turn on the news and see an absolute freaking debacle with this hunt for the terrorist and I can’t believe it’s Germany and not Kaluga or Rostov.
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