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Juggernaut
06-29-2011, 07:56 PM
The European Union’s grand experiment in open borders and multiculturalism has become a grand failure. Europe has suddenly rediscovered the old adage that says, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Ahhh, yes, in Europe, just as in the United States, leftists dismiss every right wing worry as uninformed at best and racist at worst. And the Sleazy Times wants everyone to think the far right are behind this when in fact the right are right and centrist on the border.



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/world/europe/25denmark.html?_r=4&scp=2&sq=denmark&st=cse
Denmark Leads Nationalist Challenge to Europe’s Open Borders

Back then, most Danes dismissed the move as a colorful publicity stunt by the newly formed right-wing party.

But last month, the Danish People’s Party was doing a victory dance, offering to donate its picturesque brick guardhouse at the German border to the government. The party had achieved its goal: Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen had agreed to restore 24-hour customs control in exchange for support on a difficult budget package.

The deal set off an outcry in the European Union as tiny Denmark became the first member to seriously challenge the union’s crowning achievement: the free movement of goods and services across borders.

Italy and France, wrangling over a huge influx of immigrants from North Africa, have been pushing for a lesser step — the ability to temporarily close borders in an emergency. This got the official nod of approval during a meeting of European leaders on Friday.

What will happen in Denmark remains less clear. The Danish Parliament has yet to ratify its border deal, and the union has issued a stern warning, saying Denmark’s plans are probably incompatible with its “obligations under European and international law.”

But experts say the situation in Denmark, where support for the far right has risen steadily over the past decade, is part of a worrying trend for the European Union. Small nationalist parties in many European countries, determinedly anti-immigrant and anti-European Union, are leveraging important changes in policies.

In Denmark, political analysts say the Danish People’s Party has not only drawn more and more voters since it was founded in 1998, getting 13 percent of the vote in 2007, but it has also pulled more mainstream parties to the right as they try to win those voters back, a phenomenon that experts say has occurred in many other countries.

Prof. Marlene Wind, a political scientist at the University of Copenhagen, said that with new elections likely in the next few months, only one small party, the Social Liberal Party, initially spoke out against the border deal. “Hardly anyone said anything because they think it might get them voters back from the D.P.P.,” Professor Wind said.

Much of the support for the far right in Denmark comes from the working class, which chafed the most at ultraliberal immigration policies that allowed thousands of immigrants — from Iran, Iraq and the Balkans — to enter the country in the 1970s, ’80 and ’90s.

Mister D
06-30-2011, 07:56 AM
The far right has given voice to the will of the majority. The political class is being forced to reckon with them. We are seeing a nationalist revival in the face of globalization.

Juggernaut
07-20-2011, 07:17 PM
The political class deserve to lose ground. Geert Wilders trial showed people just how corrupt the PC class are. May as well call them the Thought Police. The far right will balance out as centrists push the norm, its been a long time coming.

Here's a multicultural story, praise be to Allah: Dutch officially abandon multiculturalism ;D
It took mooslims to open their eyes.

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2219/netherlands-abandons-multiculturalism

Mister D
07-20-2011, 07:33 PM
The political class deserve to lose ground. Geert Wilders trial showed people just how corrupt the PC class are. May as well call them the Thought Police. The far right will balance out as centrists push the norm, its been a long time coming.

Here's a multicultural story, praise be to Allah: Dutch officially abandon multiculturalism ;D
It took mooslims to open their eyes.

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2219/netherlands-abandons-multiculturalism


What's funny is that Wilders is hardly far right even though his enemies try to make him out to be.

Good for the Netherlands. They will start falling like dominoes.

Juggernaut
07-20-2011, 07:56 PM
The political class deserve to lose ground. Geert Wilders trial showed people just how corrupt the PC class are. May as well call them the Thought Police. The far right will balance out as centrists push the norm, its been a long time coming.

Here's a multicultural story, praise be to Allah: Dutch officially abandon multiculturalism ;D
It took mooslims to open their eyes.

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2219/netherlands-abandons-multiculturalism


What's funny is that Wilders is hardly far right even though his enemies try to make him out to be.

Good for the Netherlands. They will start falling like dominoes.


That's true. His interviews showed him to be a proud and patriotic centrist.

hotwire
08-18-2011, 08:43 PM
It boils down to keeping the muzzies out.They dont blend in,They take over