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Brussels attacks also shatter confidence in Europe's open borders
LA LA Times ^ | March 23, 2016 | Matt Pearce and Sheldon Chad

Posted on 03/23/2016 5:55:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The physical damage was easy to see. The attackers' bombs shattered an airport terminal and a subway station.

But when one of the European Union's top leaders expressed his sympathies to the men, women and children hurt and killed in Brussels on Tuesday morning, he hinted that the three attackers purportedly acting on behalf of the extremist group Islamic State had caused even greater damage.

"These attacks have hit Brussels today, Paris yesterday," said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. "But it is Europe as a whole that has been targeted."

When the European Union was created in 1993, one of its founding principles was the notion of open borders and free travel among member nations. But this week's bombings in Belgium and a similar wave of attacks last year in France have raised questions about whether that very openness has left the continent too vulnerable.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brussels; eu; europe; migrants; openborders; refugees; terrorists

1 posted on 03/23/2016 5:55:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
As Fat Man In A Little Coat would say:

Well LA DE FRICKIN DA

2 posted on 03/23/2016 5:56:50 PM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They did it to themselves. Stop these killing bastards from coming in!! Does anybody disagree? Them go kill them in their nest!!


3 posted on 03/23/2016 5:58:13 PM PDT by WENDLE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIhGgrhQeE)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DUH


4 posted on 03/23/2016 6:04:30 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let me know when he Euros wake up and smell the coffee. I’ m not holding my breath on that.


5 posted on 03/23/2016 6:11:33 PM PDT by henkster
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Brussels attacks also shatter confidence in Europe's open borders


6 posted on 03/23/2016 6:11:53 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: WENDLE

“Stop these killing bastards from coming in!! “

The only sensible person in Europe is the PM of Hungary, Victor Orban, who refused to take in any of these “migrants” — built a fence and is manning the borders to stop them from coming in, for the very reason that many terrorists are coming in as well. The EU was seriously criticizing him, but now it turns out that he was right.


7 posted on 03/23/2016 6:12:54 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: henkster

Let me know when he Euros wake up and smell the coffee. I’ m not holding my breath on that.


I’ve seen numerous reports on the Brussels attacks. One thing sticks out:

The people in Belgium are ‘sad’ but not ‘mad’. I think it will take 10,000 dead before they get over the ‘sad’ and get ‘mad’. Liberals/progressives are a sick bunch.


8 posted on 03/23/2016 6:23:21 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

Very good point.


9 posted on 03/23/2016 6:32:16 PM PDT by henkster
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To: henkster

A large portion of Society is acting like it is begging to be put out of it’s misery.


10 posted on 03/23/2016 6:35:17 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."

George Orwell

11 posted on 03/23/2016 6:45:21 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: laplata

That portion of the population are feminists in their hearts and they hate their Fathers, Brothers, Sons, and Husbands with such a burning passion that they willfully vote in a block to shut them out of National decision making.

Because their ideology is based in hatred, they will all die. Or they can finally get their heads on straight, now that the hour is late and the fight will be much more costly, they can authorise their Fathers, Brothers, Sons, and Husbands the use of the violence of the state to destroyers threat.

Then once they are safe they can immediately go back to perusing their destructive feminist agendas.


12 posted on 03/23/2016 6:50:36 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Brussels attacks also shatter confidence in Europe's open borders
Do you hear that Heidi Cruz?
13 posted on 03/23/2016 7:03:26 PM PDT by lewislynn (Ted Cruz: " I'll never have 'a plane with my name" (or a Presidential seal))
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To: Innovative

I absolutely did not know that. ORBAN!! Thank you for that. Let me just say that if we do not get real and we continue in the naive denial , we are going to see these gawdless Wahhabi walk into a MEGA church of JESUS , over power the minimal security force and kill 600 innocent lovers of Christ! CLOSE THE BORDERS!!!Get REAL!!


14 posted on 03/23/2016 7:10:58 PM PDT by WENDLE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIhGgrhQeE)
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To: The Toll

I agree to an extent. This time Islam will subjugate or kill them off. There will be no more feminist mentality left.


15 posted on 03/23/2016 7:11:37 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"...confidence in Europe's open borders..."

It didn't take long to get right to the heart of the stupidity in that article.

16 posted on 03/23/2016 8:13:12 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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