They want to get away from socialism and EU oppression.
The story does not say where they are all going? Would it be the US maybe?
Into the clutches of the evil George Bush and his war machine?
Last year, I was travelling to Kuwait with some coworkers, and we had a stop in Amsterdam. One of my co-workers and I decided that we'd take a trip into the city for a few hours until our flight left. So we got some Euros, boarded a train from the airport to the city.
We had walked only a few blocks from the train station, when we were accosted by an aggressive Arab-looking panhandler, who demanded money in broken English.
I told him, "Hey bud, we're from Jersey. We've been panhandled by experts, and your not gettin $#!.".
He seemed to understand that we weren't going to be co-operative, because he next put his hand inside his jacket with one hand, and then pointed to my friend and said, "I shoot you - bang - I shoot you". My coworker, who is a relatively good sized Italian guy, stopped dead in his tracks.
I put my hand on my friend's shoulder, and said to the panhandler, "Oh yeah ? You're going to shoot us ? Really ? Don't you know who this is ? This is Tony Soprano. You know Tony Soprano ?".
At this, the panhandler turned and fled.
Hurray for americanization.
-R
And will likely try to re-establish it in their new homelands ;kinda like what happens when blue state yankees infest red state cities and towns in their quest to rid themselves of the deplorable conditions they've created at home.