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Merkel's Former Interior Minister: Merkel's Refugee Policy
2015-09-11
Link is in German(Google translation)
Below the Google translated text with some fixes.
Thank you for that last, Elmerert Hupens2660.
The former Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) has sounded the alarm: The decision to let the refugees from Hungary uncontrolled and unregistered in the country was "an unprecedented political blunder" of the federal government and would have "devastating long-term consequences," Friedrich said in an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse. Despite all the touching gestures of society shown upon the arrival of the refugees, it is "the task of politicians to think beyond the present and make decisions for the future". Given the streams of refugees moving though Germany without police checks, one has to constate: "We have lost control."

According to Friedrich, it is "totally irresponsible that right now tens of thousands are streaming into the country unchecked and unregistered, and one can only unreliably estimate how many of them are IS fighters or islamist sleepers". He hoped, the CSU politician continued, "that this will not lead to a rude awakening. Anyway, I'm convinced that no other country in the world would be so naive to expose itself to such a risk."

Friedrich demands that the refugees be registered and, to the extent possible, checked outside of Europe's borders."For safety reasons, but also for monitoring the application of refugee quotas in Europe, we will soon have to introduce border controls again. Even if official statements still oppose this the federal government at present would be well advised to prepare (the public) for this situation ," warned the former Interior Minister.

Meanwhile according to information obtained by PNP(the newspaper), intelligence services have identified "29 proven Syria fighters" among the asylum seekers.

Daily, they are receiving information on putative IS-fighters from initial refugee housing facilities.

BND chief Gerhard Schindler is being criticized. He had said in an interview that there was no evidence of terrorists among the refugees. Berlin security circles: "The interview no longer corresponds to reality."
Was this an honest mistake or an intentional lie to support Merkel's pollyannaish propaganda?

When you're letting into your country tens of thousands of brutalized and brutal people who sincerely hate you, bad things are going to happen.

Merkel is acting like a mixture of Jim Jones and Timothy Treadwell. Who will stop this madness?
I've read recently that Chancellor Merkel is bringing in these people because the aging German population has resulted in a worsening labour shortage. But if so, why not encourage hardworking and ambitious Eastern Europeans to come, instead?
The Germans haven't forgiven the Slavs for beating them in World War Two...
Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#5  Anyone think Vlad isn't smiling ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-09-11 09:20  

#4  Hey, only 1% of them are bad guys . . . .
Posted by: gorb   2015-09-11 09:17  

#3  Always good to keep in mind her upbringing was NOT in West Germany.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-09-11 08:26  

#2  Just use the word 'redistribution' to make her socialist heart happy.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-09-11 08:25  

#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  

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