Posted on 10/29/2015 9:47:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not that long ago, Austria's Nazi collaborationist party was accusing Hungary of being Nazis for the whole border security thing. Now Austria appears to have had enough and has caught fence fever.
Austria on Wednesday said it plans to build a fence at its main crossing with Slovenia, the first such barrier between two members of Europe’s document-free travel area, in one of the clearest signs to date of how Europe’s migrant crisis is undermining Europe’s institutions and sowing discord across the bloc.
News of the plan, aimed to slow the stream of migrants headed toward Germany via Austria, drew sharp criticism from Berlin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has sought to preserve freedom of travel across the continent, even as she struggles to maintain her own open-door refugee policy in the face of mounting opposition at home and growing impatience in other European countries on the migrants’ route.
“The federal government and the chancellor repeatedly have stressed that we believe that the refugee crisis can’t be solved with the building of fences,†Ms. Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said Wednesday.
Pretty sure it can. That's what fences are for.
Austria has been overwhelmed by rising numbers of migrants streaming through tiny Slovenia since Hungary, once a key transit spot on the route, built razor-wire fences on its southern borders, first with Serbia and, earlier this month, with Croatia.
Austria has invoked its intention to beef up border security before but until now carefully avoided the word fence. That changed on Wednesday when Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner told public ORF radio “of course it’s about a fence, but not just that, it’s also about fortified structures in the border crossing areas.â€
For now the fences are more about herding migrants in an orderly fashion and preventing them from just overrunning the country while redirecting them to other countries than really keeping them out, but it's a start.
Austria understands now!
Sympathetic idealism meets reality.
Mugged lefty syndrome
The fences are going up all over Europe. We shall not see them down again in our lifetime.
How to create a new conservative: mug a liberal.
No real shock. There’s been comments by the Bavarian state government that they’d go on their own....without the Berlin leadership approving it, and build the fence. If they did that....it’d open big issues across the nation.
I will say this....having been stationed in Germany during the cold war period....the fence idea barely gets you to first base....you end having to put land-mines out to really hamper people crossing. The public will not be happy when they discover there’s another step in the process.
And...fences and minefields only work if they are overwatched and patrolled regularly.
regards,
SHAZAM!
Epic Muddog!
Excellent Play on "The Lamps" Quote from World War I.
Baybe we could send the anti-fence brigade on Free Republic who assure us fences don’t work over there to get their minds right.
Actually come to think of it, sending FR’s anti-fencers into an islamic war zone gives me a warm and fuzzy tingle all over. God knows it would vastly improve the quality of the conservative gene pool.
Speaking of fences i think, and i hope Donald Trump realizes the buzzword Wall of China is old and stale, he really needs a better description, especially when i personally think of it i connect it with having to take many, nany years to build.
The great wall of China was first built by a cruel tyrant, by Qin Shihuang, the first Emperor of a unified China.
It also cost many lives.
Aw shucks, if my daddy could see me now... Thanks!
progress will be measured on how many are deported and how many are shot..... you’re welcome!
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