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2015-09-11 Europe

Merkel's Former Interior Minister: Merkel's Refugee Policy

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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-09-11 01:34|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 I've read recently that Chancellor Merkel is bringing in these people because the aging German population has resulted in a worsening labour shortage.

We have a few million illegal migrants who speak a European language and are largely Christian we could provide (also largely composed of young males). Instead of busing to large (Democratic Party dominated) metros, we can fly them charter from points in the southwest to Frankfort.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-11 08:24|| 2015-09-11 08:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Just use the word 'redistribution' to make her socialist heart happy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-11 08:25|| 2015-09-11 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Always good to keep in mind her upbringing was NOT in West Germany.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-11 08:26|| 2015-09-11 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey, only 1% of them are bad guys . . . .

Posted by gorb 2015-09-11 09:17|| 2015-09-11 09:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Anyone think Vlad isn't smiling ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-11 09:20|| 2015-09-11 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 There are already 1.55 million Turkish citizens living in Germany. Buy a car made in Germany and it is built by Turks.

Posted by Clomp Omagum5939 2015-09-11 09:38|| 2015-09-11 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 The way demographics go, Germany will be like Kuwait, with some Kuwaitis and a big load of Palestinian workers. And we know how Kuwait turned out.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-09-11 20:43|| 2015-09-11 20:43|| Front Page Top

#8 "Always good to keep in mind her upbringing was NOT in West Germany."

True. She was born in Hamburg though.

Her father Horst Kasner aka "Red Kasner" moved to East Germany in 1954. There he was part of a protestant church faction that promoted the assimilation of the church into the regime.

1954 was one year after the 1953 East German uprising. The demarcation line between the Soviet Zone and the West had already been fortified in 1952.

In 1954 no one living in Germany could harbor any illusions about communism. Only a very dedicated follower would actually move from West to East.

Merkel grew up in a communist dictatorship in a very pro-regime family. She's among the reddest of red diaper babies.

Fun fact: Merkel was introduced to politics by a friend of her father's, Church lawyer and Stasi spy Wolfgang Schnur.

I still think it highly unlikely that Merkel will play a role similar to Ukraine's Yanukovich, but my estimate of the likelihood of a Maidan like development in Germany has increased by a couple of orders of magnitude.

Something fundamental has changed, and people are only slowly realizing the magnitude of the change.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-09-11 22:39|| 2015-09-11 22:39|| Front Page Top

#9 For a rough analogy of what has been happening in German politics:

Imagine Margaret Thatcher in 1985 calling a press conference, tearing off 'her' mask, revealing 'herself' to actually be Michael Foot in drag and declaring that henceforth the Longest Suicide Note will be implemented by Her Majesty's Government.

It isn't as if Merkel has made a mistake she's trying to correct, either. She's doubling down.
Her declaration that there's no numerical limit to asylum seekers will bring in an estimated further 50000 'refugees' over the coming weekend.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-09-11 22:58|| 2015-09-11 22:58|| Front Page Top

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