We are watching the death of open frontiers in Europe

Telegraph ^ | 10/27/2015 | Philip Johnston

[Signalman]

The endless wave of migrants - for which we have utterly failed to prepare - will unleash extremist politics throughout the Continent
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The extraordinary aerial photo of a column of refugees and migrants tramping through the fields of Slovenia may come to symbolise the moment the EU began to fall apart. The irony can be lost on no one: it was in order to prevent such scenes happening again in continental Europe that the alliance was forged in the first place in the late 1950s. Yet here we are more than half a century later facing the prospect of thousands – maybe hundreds of thousands – of displaced people freezing and starving in the grasslands of eastern Europe as winter closes in.

It is hard to comprehend the stupefying naivety of those, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who thought it a good idea to send out an utterly self-serving signal a few weeks ago inviting anyone who could make the journey to head for Europe. This was ostensibly aimed at Syrians who had fled the civil war in their homeland; but the exodus has been swelled by migrants from many other countries looking for a better life – and who can blame them?

[Jack Hydrazine]

The end of Schengen agreement could be end of EU
http://www.sott.net/article/301868-The-end-of-Schengen-agreement-could-be-end-of-EU
Tue, 15 Sep 2015

Is this the end of Schengen?
https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/09/is-this-the-end-of-schengen/
16SEP2015

Merkel ‘expects Cameron to back EU army’ in exchange for renegotiation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11861247/Merkel-expects-Cameron-to-back-EU-army-in-exchange-for-renegotiation.html
12SEP2015
The paper says it is “urgent” to integrate armed forces “in the face of multifaceted crises”.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[canuck_conservative]

open borders = no control = idiocy

Whatever made Europeans think they could have open borders and NOT be swamped by the World??

For the moment, let’s just hope European politicians are naive idiots ... and not deliberate saboteurs .... cuz events could fit either description

[fieldmarshaldj]

Secure borders = extremist politics.

[chris37]

[clearcarbon]

"The extraordinary aerial photo of a column of refugees and migrants tramping through the fields of Slovenia may come to symbolise the moment the EU began to fall apart."

Locusts.

[dp0622]

We’re extremist nutcases!!! Why we even think Gay marriage and men using women’s bathrooms is silly!! And abortion ain’t a good thing!

We’re fringe maniacs!!

[Mark17]

For the moment, let’s just hope European politicians are naive idiots ... and not deliberate saboteurs ....

I think they are deliberate saboteurs.

[kallisti]

See also, Camp of the Saints.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Up is down. Right is wrong. Liberal depravity is good. Christian values are bad.

[dp0622]

yep

[justa-hairyape]

All the western governments need to be replaced. They are corrupt to their core. They are delusional and they are committing suicide.

[publius911]

See also, Camp of the Saints.

Great book!
Depressing, scary, but very realistic "prediction" from 40+ years ago...

[867V309]

Ol' Barkey's geo-political blunders cause the downfall of the EU!

'Tis an ill wind that blows no good.

[Helvan]

This reeks of wishful thinking and/or deliberate media gaslighting designed to lull the sheep into thinking it’s inevitable that “other people” will be doing the pitchfork marching and protesting that has to happen before this problem can be “fixed”..

Nope, there will just be quiet, polite, p()ssy-Euro demonstrations that the media will either ignore or demonize.

[aquila48]

A very good historical reflection by a commentor in the Telegraph... History repeating itself?

“As author Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez tells it; in the year 376 AD, an enormous mass of men, women and children appeared on the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire. They were refugee Goths who sought asylum, pressed by the advancing hordes of Attila. For several reasons - among others, that Rome was no longer what it had been - they were allowed to enter the territory of the Empire and were not exterminated, enslaved or conquered, as according to the custom of the time had happened to previous waves of immigrant peoples (I suspect they considered themselves more civilized than earlier times).*

In the following months, those refugees discovered that the Roman Empire was not Paradise, that the governors were weak and corrupt, that there was not wealth and food for all, and that injustice and greed were fattening upon them. And so, two years after crossing the Danube, these same Goths killed Roman Emperor Valens and destroyed his army at the battle of Adrianople. And ninety-eight years later, their grandchildren dethroned Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman Emperor, and liquidated what remained of the Roman Empire.”

[Hoosier-Daddy]

The Law of Unintended Consequences on display. See what Liberal feel good policies do for everyone.

[Daffynition]

Tangentially, relating the state of our foreign policy to the Consitution:

Foreign Policy and the Constitution, speech by Tom Cotton

From Imprimis [Hillsdale College]

[Oldexpat]

The extremist’s are Merkel and others in power at the EU. The rational normal people want to end the chaos and close the borders.