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I live in Germany....so I’ll address three observations over this.

1. The whole immigrant, asylum seeker, and refugee crisis....was this barn-door open deal where no one at the top level of the government could contemplate what was going on, or to what extent, or determine a cost factor in terms of tax funds required, or grasp how disenchanted the public was as each month went by.

2. The state-run news media (funded by the TV tax mandated on everyone) gets a fair dose of positive immigrant slant, and have been getting this for three years now. The public....I’d guess....around sixty-percent now...don’t believe the story anymore and at least thirty-percent question how this can ever be solved/fixed.

3. Any time that a German journalist, political figure or intellectual utters “far-right”, xenophobic, or racist...it’s all key-words that’s supposed to click in your mind and act as a reset button to your political motivation. The problem is...that the anti-immigrant crowd made up two new words on their own: “gutter-Deutscher” (meaning a naive German who can’t live in reality), and “luegenpresse” (meaning a journalist or news group who can’t do much but lie).

I should note there’s another invented word, used by German teens to a great degree now...Merkeln. It means to be in a leadership role, but make no decisions and issue no statements. Kids apply this to school directors, professional political figures, and anyone of authority.

Yeah, if you were looking for a loss of respect over authority, we’ve reached that point in Germany.

I hope you are armed.

The Times says Petry refers to the “pinocchio press.” I kind of liked that one.

Thanks for the report!

3. Any time that a German journalist, political figure or intellectual utters “far-right”, xenophobic, or racist...it’s all key-words that’s supposed to click in your mind and act as a reset button to your political motivation. The problem is...that the anti-immigrant crowd made up two new words on their own: “gutter-Deutscher” (meaning a naive German who can’t live in reality), and “luegenpresse” (meaning a journalist or news group who can’t do much but lie).

I have recently read two articles regarding the collapse of the Ceaușescu government in Romania. People had been encouraged to lie so often about how they felt regarding the government that most people didn't realize that everyone else hated the government too.

When events revealed that some people hated the government, the rest of the crowd realized they weren't alone in their hatred of it, and so a seemingly sudden outflow of popular will swept the Communists away. It wasn't sudden at all. It had been building for many years.

The seeming "suddenness" of it is the consequence of fooling the people with propaganda for so many years.

I predict something similar is going to happen in Germany and Scandinavia, and eventually in most of Europe. If the Muslim invasion is not stopped, opposition to it will eventually turn violent.