Germany, a Momentary Lapse of Insanity?

[ChileRelleno 7,071]

Germany Closing Borders
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...gency-measures


Germany introduced border controls on Sunday, and dramatically halted all train traffic with Austria, after the country’s regions said they could no longer cope with the overwhelming number of refugees entering the country.

 

Interior minister Thomas de Maizière announced the measures after German officials said record numbers of refugees, most of them from Syria, had stretched the system to breaking point.

“This step has become necessary,” he told a press conference in Berlin, adding it would “cause disruption”.
Asylum seekers must understand

“they cannot chose the states where they are seeking protection,” he told reporters.

All trains between Austria and Bavaria, the principal conduit through which 450,000 refugees have arrived in Germany this year, ceased at 5pm Berlin time.

Only EU citizens and others with valid documents would be allowed to pass through Germany’s borders, de Maizière said.

The decision means that Germany has effectively exited temporarily from the Schengen system.

It is likely to lead to chaotic scenes on the Austrian-German border, as tens of thousands of refugees try to enter Germany by any means possible and set up camp next to it.
German police began patrolling road crossing points with Austria at 5.30pm on Sunday. These checks may be rolled out to the borders with Poland and the Czech Republic. Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed the details in a conference call on Saturday with her Social Democrat coalition partners. The Czech republic said separately that it would boost controls on its border with Austria.
The emergency measures are designed to give respite to Germany’s federal states who are responsible for looking after refugees.

There is also discussion inside the government about sending troops to the road and rail borders with Austria to reinforce security, Der Spiegel reported.

 

The move comes amid extraordinary scenes at Munich’s main train station over the weekend and a growing backlash inside Germany over the decision last week by Merkel, to allow unregistered refugees to enter the country. The numbers exceeded all expectations.
On Saturday, 13,015 refugees arrived at the station on trains from Austria.

Another 1,400 came on Sunday morning. The city’s mayor, Dieter Reiter, said Munich was “full”, with its capacities completely exhausted. Some refugees slept on the station concourse on Saturday night.
Germany’s stunning ad hoc move sets the stage for a bitter showdown on Monday at a meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels. Hungary’s president Viktor Orbán welcomed the decision and said it would protect “German and European values”. He and other east European leaders are insisting they will not accept a plan set out last week by the European commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker for mandatory refugee quotas.
De Maziere said Germany had reintroduced border controls for reasons of security but added pointedly that they were also “a signal to Europe”. Germany, Austria and France support Juncker’s proposal which would see 160,000 asylum seekers shared out across all 28 EU states. The refugees would be allocated to each country on the basis of its size and wealth.

 

 

Analysis How much longer can Germany keep its doors open to refugees?
The country responded generously as Angela Merkel threw open the borders, but as 1,000 people a day arrive in the capital alone some doubts are being voiced.
There has been implacable opposition from other EU states including Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania. On Sunday, the Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, said: “I think it is impossible to retreat. Our position is firm.”
Previously Orbán has blamed Berlin for the crisis, and Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s borders. Budapest is racing to complete a fence on its border with Serbia, where 4,330 people crossed on Saturday. On Tuesday, it introduces tough laws which make crossing the border punishable with jail.

“These migrants are not coming our way from war zones but from camps in Syria’s neighbours. So these people are not fleeing danger and don’t need to be scared for their lives,”

Orbán told Germany’s Bild newspaper. European leaders were “living in a dream world”.

 

Orbán’s hardline populist stance has exasperated his neighbours. Austria’s chancellor, Werner Faymann, said Hungary’s harsh treatment of refugees was reminiscent of the second world war. “Piling refugees on trains in the hopes that they go far, far away brings back memories of the darkest period of our continent,” he told Der Spiegel.

 

[patriot 7,197]

Good for Germany! We need to follow suit.

[XD45 7,124]

They can either close the borders or put up signs Welcome to Germanistan.

 

I thought they had already chosen the latter. This was a quick reversal from last week.

[james lambert 3,059]

Europe is done and dead, the PC crowd just doesn't know it yet.

 extermination by emigration 

[HB of CJ 1,263]

Liberals will do anything and everything to get more liberal votes.  Perhaps they already know that the tide will quickly or eventually turn against them?  What we may be seeing right now in Germany is the signs of things to come here in the USA.  The question remains when will most USA voters see the light?  Dunno.

[mancat 2,368]

lol

 

Germany said they could easily accept 800k "migrants" and then buckled in a hurry after only around 15k left a trail of trash, waste, and theft all the way there.

 

Word is that border police counted several thousand crossing in a single day.

 

Now Germany is saying they will join Russia in sending troops into Syria. 

 

Notice a distinct lack of leadership from the US. The rest of the world wanted us to stop meddling in their business, so now that it's happening they are perhaps recognizing that they might actually have to do warrior shit.

 

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[frz1197 128]

The global elites are trying to kill off all the whites.

 

From there they can control the third world hordes with their Marxist governments.

 

Diversity = White Genocide

[6500rpm 670]

I work with a former East German that told me stories of housing and benefits being given to those who stayed and propagated ....boy the times have changed!  Anything to keep them off our terra.

[Mullet Man 2,114]

The global elites are trying to kill off all the whites.

 

From there they can control the third world hordes with their Marxist governments.

 

Diversity = White Genocide

 

Interesting take.

[Sim_Player 1,939]

Europe's Progressive Policies were already encouraging native depopulation thus elimination of their tax base.

 

They were just dealt a staggering blow to their welfare state.

[macbeau 902]

Capitolism = the unequal sharing of the blessing.

Socialism = The equal sharing of the misery

 

Western Europe is going to have a huge long-term problem out of all this.  These "refugees" are coming for the security, but they will stay for all the free stuff....  That, and no one will make them leave when (if) things settle back down again.

[Dad2142Dad 6,559]

Notice a distinct lack of leadership from the US. 

 

 

For 7 years and 9 months now

[storm6490 2,768]

If you think that's cool, check out what Hungary is doing against the rules of the EU! They declared a state of emergency and militarized the boarders. You will be rejected entry and if you do, will be arrested and not given a translator. They will then prosecute you and put a mark on your Shenzhen records that will bar you from the EU for 10 or more years.