* Of course the flow of people can be stopped. But have you ever noticed that those who say it cannot be stopped are also the ones who get to make the rules regarding what methods are and are not acceptable to use? It really helps your side in winning the debate when you get to disqualify your opponent’s best weapons from the get-go. This would be akin to fighting a war with another nation and allowing that nation to dictate your order of battle. What nation would do that? Yet we allow our best defenses against this invasion to be systematically dismissed out of hand, and just bend over and take it on command. Ridiculous.
* Angela Merkel has, once again, demonstrated that the EU is, perhaps, the most ridiculous and lawless political organization on the planet. She has unilaterally decided to suspend the Dublin Agreements, whereby asylum seekers must apply in the first EU country they enter. Instead she has ordered German officials to process migrant applications and used the police to batter German citizens protesting her actions.
The United States, while not exactly ruthless in its efforts to deter illegal immigration, did not send out the Coast Guard to rescue and bring to the US Haitian migrants as the EU is now doing with the flood of refugees crossing the Mediterranean. Even our government officials knew what would happen if Haitians realized they had only to threaten to drown themselves to be allowed to enter the US. Our ships were deployed to intercept and return to Haiti those attempting to illegally enter the US. Why Europe is not doing the same is astonishing! You only have to do it a few times for the word to get out that paying a smuggler for a spot on a overloaded boat is a waste of time and money.
The EU, if it wants to help the Syrians ( or Afghans, Somalis etc) should offer military training to the men and tell them to go back and fight for their homelands instead of risking their families lives trying to escape to Europe. Shame them as cowards and offer humanitarian aid to their families only on condition that they do return to their homelands and fight to overthrow the tyranny they claim they are fleeing from.Oh, and pay Turkey or Jordan to keep the families in a Muslim land where the men can visit or summon their families home when they have won their war.
* I used to be a PSYOP soldier back in the day. One of the themes we could use to lower the enemy’s morale was “inevitability.” We would produce leaflets, handbills, posters, and broadcasts that reinforced the message that our march just could not be stopped. If the march can’t be stopped, there isn’t any point wasting lives and resources attempting to do so.
I think this is what’s going on here. I keep seeing the same message over and over again from various news sources. “Nothing will stop them.” “No fence will work.” It is obvious to me that this is a well coordinated psychological operation to get us to just give up and accept our “fate.”
The good news, if there is any, is that the existence of this psychological operation means that the bad guys believe we could stop it if we were determined enough.
* It’s just funny how few ever flee to Japan, China, India or heck even Australia these days.
It appears as Europe has become less Christian it’s become more maniacal in following it’s edicts where foreigners are concerned. The fact that these people turn up their noses at staying at the first peaceful country they enter should give EU leaders pause however the only venom they can muster are at people who protest taking in more.
Oh well Macedonia is doing the right thing. No use trying to stop them only for liberals to wag their fingers at you. Help them on their way to Germany.
* I have been reading Camp of Saints for the past couple of days. I highly recommend it. It is so freaking powerful in how prescient it was. Heck the guy even used the word “cuckold” in talking about immigration. And one of the characters calls all these Universalist men that facilitate this mad rush of these “immigrants” toward the west “Traitors”. All of these have been used by current Alt-right guys in the fight against immigration. And the speech given by some Hindu guy to the crowd at the point of embarkation remarkable resembles rhetoric produced today by pro-immigration people and current immigrants belittling westerners for not wanting more immigrants. This author was a genius.
* Israel’s border fences have sensors, cameras and are intensively patrolled and the Israelis will shoot at intruders. Few years ago I read how some Palestinians were just toying around with the fence and were shot.
Would we have shoot to kill at a Donald Trump border fence? Highly doubtful. We’ll just have to move ‘em on, head ‘em up (Rawhide) back to Mexico. And if you keep on trying you get thrown into an open air tent city prison for a few months.
* I think Israel is building fences along its Jordan border, too, just in case. It didn’t used to need an Egyptian fence because the Egyptian military government kept Africans away, but the short-lived elected government in Egypt stopped bothering, so Israel built a fence.
