Posted on 09/23/2015 10:28:44 AM PDT by dennisw
Built in a matter of weeks by soldiers, prison laborers and cadres of the unemployed, a vast new wall along Balkan frontiers is a monument to the ruthless efficiency with which Prime Minister Viktor Orban has mobilized Hungary against migrants.
Orban describes the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants in Europe this year from Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an attack on the continent's Christian welfare model.
Until last week, most trekked through Hungary, the main overland entry route into the EU's border-free Schengen zone from the Balkan peninsula, which they cross after arriving by dinghy in Greece.
While Europe dithered over a collective response, Hungary took matters into its own hands, shutting off the route with a new fence along its entire 175 km (110 mile) border with Serbia, topped with razor wire and guarded by helmeted riot police.
Erected at a cost of $80 million dollars, a rare example of efficiency in a country which built its last underground metro line ten years behind schedule at triple the projected cost.
The government says it put the military in charge of the construction so that it could act more quickly. By swiftly mobilizing state resources, the authorities also managed to turn the fence into a national project, immensely popular even as it is denounced by European partners.
"It took a while but the government’s campaign to rouse public opinion against the refugees is paying dividends,"
"By properly filtering the message through public television, what viewers at home see is that this is a mob, throwing stones and attacking police."
In just days since it shut the Serbian frontier, Hungary has already moved even faster to shut the border with Croatia, which is inside the European Union but outside the Schengen zone.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
In before the “Donald Trump is an obnoxious azz, and no way can we build a giant wall and/or deport 11 million illegals” posters.
If you are going to spend dollars on a European vacation, Hungary sounds like a potential top destination. Germany should be avoided like the plague until the current government is thrown out.
Wait till you see who the security screeners are at Frankfurt...hint: don't bring a yarmulke.
IOW, it is like Detroit’s airport?
Interesting Swedish guy that does some writing and commentary. (you gotta get past his looks--he looks like a giant Norse god of some sort). He is a little weird in that European way but exceptionally eloquent and can make the f word sound simply sublime.
Anyhow he goes by the name "The Golden One". Anyhow here is the youtube video I first saw.
“...don’t bring a yarmulke.”
Why? Are the screeners all Turks?
A fair number of them, yes.
More then a bit disconcerting.
Yup!!
Or that woman with the Hijab I saw at Philadelphia last year...terrifying to see that with a TSA uniform.
She messaged back--"What exactly do you spend your time on?"
He gets it though.
Was there a few months ago, highly recommend it, especially a night cruise on the Danube in Budapest.
Hey! At least they are working at jobs.
Ain't diversity wonderful!
The ‘Syrian’ ‘refugees’ were throwing *babies* over this fence last week.
Paging Donald Trump. :-)
Heh
You guys crack me up...that’s the right attitude!
It’s ridiculous there now. In Stockholm a couple of years ago a guy named Mohammed was the chief screener. I looked at his badge and said, “Really?”
He went A**s**t and followed me around the airport babbling in Ethiopian or something. I just laughed and said, “find anything? if not, I’m late for my flight”
He left.
I saw that. A guy that was on the scene said, about one of the women doing it, it’s the 3rd time this week she’s done something like this. They were threatening to do these type of things unless they were given money. The bystander said the Euros were just opening up their wallets handing over money.
“You cannot build a wall!”
-Whoregay Ramos
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