Quelle: Facebook
New Year's Eve in Cologne saw a huge number of sexual assaults and thefts in the main train station, pictured here, and on the square in front of the station. Witnesses spoke of around 1,000 men, many of them of North African or Arab descent, out of which gangs of pitpockets and sexual molesters emerged.
Spiegel Online: Chaos and Violence: How New Year's Eve in Cologne Has Changed Germany
New Year's Eve in Cologne rapidly descended into a chaotic free-for-all involving sexual assault and theft, most of it apparently committed by foreigners. It has launched a bitter debate over immigration and refugees in Germany -- one that could change the country.
A lot happened on New Year's Eve in Cologne, much of it contradictory, much of it real, much of it imagined. Some was happenstance, some was exaggerated and much of it was horrifying. In its entirety, the events of Cologne on New Year's Eve and in the days that followed adhered to a script that many had feared would come true even before it actually did. The fears of both immigration supporters and virulent xenophobes came true. The fears of Pegida people and refugee helpers; the fears of unknown women and of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Even Donald Trump, the brash Republican presidential candidate in the US, felt it necessary to comment. Germany, he trumpeted, "is going through massive attacks to its people by the migrants allowed to enter the country."
Update: Germany on the Brink (Ross Douthat, NYT).
WNU Editor: When you have Spiegel Online AND the New York Times .... two publications that have unabashedly supported open borders in the past ..... now openly questioning what is happening .... tells me that the debate is shifting. Here is an easy prediction .... open borders/immigration/refugees/migrants/etc. .... this debate is going to be ongoing throughout 2016.
WNU Editor: I have travelled all over the world .... I know only too well on how poor and destitute much of the world is .... and how incredibly lucky we are in the West .... that is why I personally think this is a low number .... Only Ten Percent of Migrant Influx Has Reached Us So Far, Says German Minister (Breitbart).
Update #2: Bleak Outlook for Europe’s Migration Crisis in 2016 (Rhodium Group).
Update #3: If true .... this is beyond shocking .... New Year violence cases up to 516: Cologne police (AFP)
When this whole thing started, my first suggestion to the German powers that be was to "treat this migrant influx as an invasion and act with any and all means necessary to repel the invaders." Since I'm not German nor do I have any influence over German leadership, all I could do was shout at the computer. The German leadership acted in a complete opposite manner than what I suggested which no doubt they did not hear. They are now reaping the results of this action.
ReplyDeleteWhile I feel for them, there is nothing I or America can do for them. The sooner we/America cut all ties with them the better for us. As the saying goes, "you made your bed now you must lie it" seems to apply here.
As for America, the same applies to the hordes invading us from south of our borders. These are invaders bent on conquering us and should be treated as such. This means any and all means necessary need to be employed to thwart this.
Since you have traveled the world, your perspective on this is much appreciated. Since I have not traveled the world, I'm in no position to argue.
With that said as an employee/business owner I do understand that one MUST satisfy their customers and suppliers or they are doomed. Since the United States currently depends upon others to supply much of its oil and manufactured goods much as a slave depends upon his/her master to supply things and they understand the master can execute them at their pleasure, I'm pretty sure most people in the world live far better than most Americans do. If they don't, this is their own problem and there's nothing we can do to help them.
The comment above says those coming across our borders are invaders. No. They come for economic opportunities and/or to escape dreadful drug and gang warfare in Central America. The difference, however, is that those flocking into Germany are refugees from war, and those coming here via Mexico seek safety and jobs. Americans provide many of these "invaders" with jobs, and so that encourages still others to come. No jobs give, no reason to come unless to escape the horrors of their own nation, and that then is a refugee problem
ReplyDelete"A lot happened on New Year's Eve in Cologne, much of it contradictory, much of it real, much of it imagined."
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't imagined, liberal turd of a journalist.
"It wasn't imagined, liberal turd of a journalist."
DeleteWow, commenting on an article and at the same time making it clear you didn't read it, couldn't have been made more clear.
Jay. You broke the rule (that you taught me) of not responding to anonymous comments!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, WNU Editor, you go to all of the trouble to compile and publish these articles,
DeleteThe reporter goes to the trouble of investigating and writing a well sourced, comprehensive article documenting both what was claimed at various times, what is now know , and what is unknown,
And Anon. publishes a knee jerk response, showing beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they didn't read it.
True.
ReplyDelete:)
WNU Editor,
DeleteBehaviour like that particularly bothers me these days, because with the advent of the Internet, blogs, alt media, and the fact that the whole "evolution" of a story from the first breathless speculative headlines, to factual stories, to the point an event becomes documented "history", is available online,
Ignorance requires a certain obstinate stubbornness.
BTW,
ReplyDeleteAn interesting "think piece" on Bernie and Donald in Iowa.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/10/white-man-pathology-bernie-sanders-donald-trump?CMP=fb_us
Jay. That is why I have developed a very thick skin over the years. :)
ReplyDeleteBut what I find unfortunate is that many people do refrain from making comments not wanting the blow-back. I find it a crying shame that many who email me (government officials, politicians, journalists, Generals, etc.) do so but on the condition that I do not publish their remarks. I know that what they say and their input would enhance the conversation .... but they do not want the Anon comments that would then follow. So I try my best, and I am always grateful that people like you are around who provide much to the discussion, and have the thick skin to deal with the Anons of the world.
WNU Editor,
DeleteLot's of sites have gone to "moderated" comments, or have had to shut down the comment feature on "hot" topic's because of the vitrol,
Personally, I don't particularly like this because it "hides" the amount of hate and hasbara out there.
On the other hand, I don't like the "anon" feature because it is publically "anon", if "you" have something to say, you should either state it openly and publically, or through an on-line personna.
You should encourage your "insiders" to post under a nom-de plume as much as possible, just not from a work computer, and they don't need to try to establish bonifides, as everybody's a General , a Porn Star, ( how come everbody is a Porn Star? Are there no Porn Charactor Actors?), or a Captain of Industry on the web. : ).
The Guardian piece is interesting ... but you do not have to go the U.S. to understand this divide. As you know .... I live in Montreal .... and even though I am White .... I am not French Quebecois. The discrimination crap that I have to go through (and others who are not French Quebecois) .... Jay .... it would completely shock you .... even though I speak so-so French. But as much as I complain, I feel for those who are not white and who are not French Quebecois .... not a pretty sight here. Which makes me come back to the Guardian post. Why should someone from Toronto go to the States .... they should come here.
ReplyDeleteWNU Editor:
Delete- because the White Privledges Epidemic is a wave in the US and a statistical blip in the Oil Sands,
- because Bernie and Trump get's you 44, 500, 478 more page views than Jean Francois Asgard.
Editor,
ReplyDeleteI'll never forget Parizeau stating that the separatists lost the last referendum due to the "ethnic vote".
Jay,
there is an interesting read from the far left by a guy named Sakai. While I can't say I subscribe to it in its entirety, (the Maoist/Third Worldist ideology doesn't work for me) it does go some way in explaining the genesis and persistance of what you've been bringing up; with all of its attendant discomfort.
He makes an interesting allusion to white America as a "garrison community"
and presents examples of campaigns to "protect our women" etc. from rambunctious negroes.
I see shades of this in Germany today.
http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/books/raceburn.html
I should state that I don't agree that any ethnic group should be tarred with the same brush.
DeleteRRH,
DeleteThe North won the Civil War, but they lost the reformation. There was no 40 acres an a mule,
Slavery was simply replaced with various forms of indentured slavery backed by force of law that endures to this day and spread far and wide beyond the southern states,
http://www.thenation.com/article/town-turned-poverty-prison-sentence/
Compare and contrast the Battle of Athens:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
To the Fergusson Unrest:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_unrest