The curse of Schengen

HUNGARY HAS CLOSED ITS BORDER WITH SERBIA, in order to keep at bay the rising tide of people seeking entry to Hungary as part of their transit to Germany whose chancellor has invited all and sundry from Syria to settle in Germany. Hungary has been heavily criticised by the UN and the unelected leaders of the European Commission for so doing; and media images of Hungarian police using tear gas to keep the Syrian refugees at bay are expected (or so the media hopes) to bring about the same kind of support for the refugees, that the image of a pitiful three-year-old child laying face down and waiting for rigor mortis to set in on a Turkish shoreline has already done.

                

                 Hungary (so far) has little to feel ashamed of in the way it is acting to protect its dominion over its own borders. Tear gas was used reactively not wildly without cause and effect as the media seems to suggest; the Hungarian police were not just lashing out but responding and the media had better start reflecting the difference to their readers, listeners and viewers. The Hungarian police found themselves under fire from migrant/refugees who started throwing missiles at what the media will no doubt now try to portray as their 'tormentors'. It is disgraceful that Hungary should be treated in such a way – one thing I believe is for certain; at least the Ukrainians have more sympathy for the Hungarian government than they do for the European commission.

                

                 If Angela Merkle had not been so generous as to invite this human tsunami onto European soil, then at some point there may have been an end to it – but no longer. She has opened her borders under Schengen, and now expects the other nations of Europe to comply. First of all, the Schengen Agreement was meant to open European borders to Europeans. If refugees landed in Europe they were meant to register in the first European country they entered to seek asylum. This corrective to (presumably) the spread of external European migration has now been allowed to lapse. As the numbers mount so the EU's backbone turns ever more into jelly.

                

                Merkle has had to abandon Schengen (temporarily at least) and has closed her country's borders to further Syrian migration, while those 40,000 that were already allowed into Germany last week and who were cheered at the point of entry by German citizens, are processed and found somewhere to reside; for they, like those that follow them will become citizens of Germany for life. For Syria as a country with its present borders will never rise again.

                

                 It is strange; strange indeed; that Syrian Muslims seek their refuge in the West. Why not venture into Saudi Arabia or Kuwait; or even Iran? If this tsunami sought refuge among their Muslim kind would they have acted more compassionately than the Hungarians? It is no accident that these people have tried to find a retreat from Syria in the West. In the 15^th century Muslims gave Christians and Jews a choice in the European lands they conquered – convert to Islam or die. Islam has not moved very far from this position, and has gone beyond it in the case of ISIS. Although the liberals will accuse me of Islamaphobia (whatever this means; the Left creates new phobias almost on a daily basis).

ANGELA MERKLE'S invitation to Syrian migrant/refugees will carry with it the prospect of German citizenship, which under Schengen, would allow all those granted it full entrance into other parts of Europe. Merkle knows that any individual or ethnic community she anoints with German citizenship will be allowed free transit between all countries within the EU, and thus sharing the burden among other EU nations of the Syrian tsunami that she welcomed to live with her in Germany.

                

                 If the EU nations seek to avoid this outcome they must leave Schengen once and for all or face the consequences within their own communities. If Schengen had not happened then the sympathy for the tsunami of refugees would have been proven to be more favourable and, as we did in Uganda in the 1970's, the UK would have born a far greater share of migrants/refugees than we are able to do today because of European open borders.

                

                 No country should ever be allowed to contemplate putting such social pressure on its indigenous citizens which would inevitably devalue status (under multiculturalism) of its indigenous population into becoming third rate, and left without meaningful representation as all the main parties become attuned to Multiculturalism.