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Angela Merkel calls for burqa ban, says refugee crisis “must never be repeated”

Dec 6, 2016 1:34 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Angela Merkel has called for a burqa ban in Germany and said the refugee crisis “must never be repeated.”

Is this the same Angela Merkel?

“A situation like the one in the late summer of 2015 cannot, should not and must not be repeated,” she said. “That was and is our, and my, declared political aim.”

She has indeed struck a “new tone.” Merkel said only months ago that “Germany is facing a ‘major’ threat from terrorism but that this should not stop refugees being welcomed to Europe.” She even added that “Germany would ‘stick to our principles’ and ‘give shelter to those who deserve it.'”  What happened to Angela Merkel’s self-declared “principles” now? The likely reason? Votes:

Seeking a fourth term in office, Merkel must unite her Christian Democrats (CDU) and try to recapture some of her personal popularity, undermined by the crises that have rocked Europe.

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“Angela Merkel calls for burqa ban ‘wherever legally possible’ in Germany”, by Lizzie Dearden, UK Independent, December 6, 2016:

Angela Merkel has called for a burqa ban in Germany and said the refugee crisis “must never be repeated” while making her pitch for a fourth term as Chancellor.

Addressing her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Ms Merkel said she would support a nationwide prohibition on Islamic veils covering the face.

“The full-face veil is not acceptable in our country,” she told delegates in Essen, sparking rapturous applause. “It should be banned, wherever it is legally possible.”

Thomas de Maizière, the German interior minister and one of Ms Merkel’s closest allies in the CDU, proposed a partial burqa ban in August and called the veils “contrary to integration”.

He said the law would apply in “places where it is necessary for our society’s coexistence” including government offices, schools and universities, courtrooms as well as demonstrations.

Dutch MPs voted for a similar prohibition in the Netherlands last month, covering public transport, education, healthcare and government buildings and punishing any infractions with fines.

Support for bans on full-face veils has been growing across Europe since France became the first country to implement such a law in 2011, followed by countries including Belgium, Bulgaria and parts of Switzerland.

Ms Merkel ran unopposed for a new term leading the CDU, who first elected her chairwoman in 2000. She kept her position with the support of 89.5 per cent of party members, down on the 96.7 per cent result of two years ago.

Her popularity has been severely dented by growing anti-migrant sentiment in Germany following the arrival of around 1 million asylum seekers in the continuing refugee crisis.

Ms Merkel has been widely criticised for her decision to open the borders in September 2015, with opponents blaming the policy for mass sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve in Cologne and two terror attacks by Isis supporters.

She has repeatedly refused to reverse the policy amid a string of regional election defeats for her CDU party but struck a new tone on Tuesday.

“A situation like the one in the late summer of 2015 cannot, should not and must not be repeated,” she said. “That was and is our, and my, declared political aim.”

While Ms Merkel has continued to insist that Germany will take in people in genuine need of protection, her government has moved to toughen asylum rules and declare several countries ”safe“ – meaning people from there cannot expect to receive protection in Germany.

She was also a driving force behind an agreement between the EU and Turkey earlier this year aiming to stop crossings over the Aegean Sea by detaining migrants in Greece under the threat of deportation.

As well as discord over her policy on refugees, members of the CDU have also been unhappy about a perceived shift to the left during her 11 years as Chancellor.

Polls show a solid lead for the party, though their support is well short of the 41.5 per cent they won in Germany’s 2013 election.

They face new competition from the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which has thrived by attacking Ms Merkel’s policies on refugees and supports burqa bans as part of a wider anti-Islam stance.

Ms Merkel spoke for an hour and 20 minutes at her party’s rally, with the wide-ranging speech followed by 11 minutes of applause.

“2016 did not bring more calm and stability. On the contrary,” she told around 1,000 CDU members.

“We are faced with a world, especially after the US election, that needs to re-order itself, with regard to Nato and the relationship with Russia.”

The Chancellor called the bombardment of the Syrian city of Aleppo a “disgrace” and warned Britain there would be no “cherry picking” in its Brexit talks. She also made a case for free trade and won applause when she talked about slashing German unemployment.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s defeat in a referendum on Sunday and the impending departure of French President Francois Hollande have enforced her status as Europe’s most experienced leader, having come into office in 2005.

But Ms Merkel acknowledged that next year’s election campaign would be like none she has waged before, taking place against a backdrop of a polarised society, threats from the far-right and the possibility of a “Red-Red-Green” coalition of the SPD, left-wing Linke, and the Greens…….

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  1. Guy Macher says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 1:36 pm

    I don’t care if she bans Islam, she needs to be turfed!

    • eduardo odraude says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 2:20 pm

      Actually, is she bans totalitarian Islam (sorry for the near-oxymoron), I’d forgive her.

      • Veka Fitzfrancis says

        Dec 6, 2016 at 6:01 pm

        The problem is if she says she’ll ban Islam and then fails to keep the promise.

        • Guest says

          Dec 6, 2016 at 7:53 pm

          She has never said any such thing, nor will she.

        • eduardo odraude says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 11:05 am

          True enough.

      • andra says

        Dec 7, 2016 at 7:18 am

        She has never said that she is going to do anything against Islam. Her sentence structure is well picked and leaves her free to do what she has been doing all the time.

        The government and many others in political power repeat these weeks again and again that Germans need to go to Integration instructions because they have to integrate into the new Germany. And that´s what she is talking about: It must not repeat that the resistance against islamization gets so strong again as it si right now.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 7:08 pm

          Probably so, Andra.

        • rick says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 8:56 pm

          sounds exactly like Hillary Just say whatever you want to the stupid ignorant deplorables

        • SweetOlBob says

          Dec 11, 2016 at 9:03 pm

          NOW she appears to favor real Germans. Too little, too late Angela, you old vapid, stupid, islam kissing, twat ! Take your 18 to 40 year old, little boy, “orphans” and poor refugees and go live with them in the sand flea infested dung holes they came from.
          And don’t forget the able bodied, lazy, head banging slugs who won’t work at anything because you “invited them” to live free in Germany. They’re too busy raping your young German girls and young boys to have time to work anyhow.
          What a sickening mess you are ! How could a real German people ever have elected a stupid Nation killing bitch like you ?

      • Peggy says

        Dec 7, 2016 at 9:53 pm

        Is there another kind of Islam?
        You might forgive her but will the loved ones of murdered victims by Muslims or rape victims forgive her?
        Innocent blood was spilled because of her decisions. She doesn’t deserve forgiveness.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 3:43 pm

      Merkel’s new tack is due to a different wind blowing in Washington DC.

      Obama most likely blackmailed her into trying to Muslimize all of Europe using material from her time as a Stasi informer in East Germany.

      The timing of AM’s change of tack is consistent with this hypothesis. She clearly expected Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election. Now that a new sheriff is riding into town, politicians the world over are loudly proclaiming that “we have always been at war with Eastasia.”

      • Rev g says

        Dec 6, 2016 at 6:32 pm

        Either that or she had a desperate (or legally blind) ” migrant” try to sexually assault her.

        • Robeaver says

          Dec 6, 2016 at 6:45 pm

          Was not a try. Was huge success.Huge. just look at the numbers. Jihad by rape.

      • Custos Custodum says

        Dec 6, 2016 at 8:47 pm

        “Try” was intended to refer to the geographical scope of Obama/Merkel’s Project 3M – Eastern and Southern Europe rediscovered its historical aversion to Muslim rule.

    • Tom says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 8:56 am

      More political rhetoric. She, like Hillary, would say anything to be re-elected.

      Only fools would allow citizens to roam the land disguised. Halloween is bad enough.

    • CrossWare says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 9:14 am

      Merkel is only doing this to help islam… She wants to hide the symptoms so the disease can progress further. Of course she is doing this so she can be elected the 4th time, but the effect the same. If the German population can lulled back to sleep, the next time they awake when the muslims over-breeding the locals become a majority and they establish their islamic political parties and with the help of “democracy” they will destroy it and introduce shariah.
      (lowercase was intended!)

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 4:40 pm

      Guy, she’s a dollar short and a day late!!! All she wants is to be put into her 4th term!!! All she is doing is trying to fool the Germans into putting her into power, and keeping the EU in the mix. I pray the Germans are smart enough throw her to the curb, put a right winger in there, and clean up that mess before it is way to late!!!

  2. Crusades Were Right! says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 1:42 pm

    Suggestion for a cartoon:

    We see a man who has just shot himself in the head with a revolver. As he collapses to the floor, his speech bubble contains the words: “This is something that must not be repeated.”

    I thank yow!

    ; ¬)

    • john spielman says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 3:04 pm

      good one , Europe and the entire West- HAVE JUST SHOT THEMSELVES IN THE HEAD AND ARE WAITING TO DIE( islamists taking control of Western democracies and turning them into CRAPISTAN WESTS!)

    • Shmooviyet says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 5:22 pm

      Take a bow…

      Poor Angie’s feeling a little lonely without her American BFF. She deserves every sweaty minute.

  3. davej says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    That’s not “a change of tone”, it’s a complete reversal of her previous position. What right did she have to inflict such a predictably disastrous social experiment on her whole country?

    If it was such a mistake in the first place then the situation needs to be reversed, not her “tone”.

    • Mong says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 9:45 pm

      She’d say anything to get elected and knows that people want to hear this sort of stuff. Once elected, she’d carry on with her favoured policies of national suicide.

      Nobody changes their mind this absolutely. Just shows how retched and callous she is; tell people what they want to hear then screw them over. Hope the anti-Islam populists get in.

    • Anne Smith says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 5:35 am

      She is desperate to save her political skin and is reversing direction to try to keep in power.

      The only thing politicians care about is votes. She, or her advisers, have finally woken up to the fact that the virtuous admission of thousands of migrants was a vote loser, and they are back pedalling furiously.

      She doesn’t give a toss for the unfortunate position her voters now find themselves in, with rapes, murders, lawlessness etc. Nor does she care about the immigrants themselves. She thought letting in thousands of them would stand her in good stead with Hillary Clinton and Obama and is now frantically fighting a rearguard position to save her own power, having been completely taken aback by the US election result.

    • CrossWare says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 9:16 am

      It is not a reversal. She just wants to hide the symptoms, so she can be elected again.

  4. DFD says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 1:48 pm

    Total crap! Elections are in 2017, she’s shocked about Trump’s victory – and the defeat of her sister Hillary. Furthermore, even the government oriented polling organizations depict the AfD between 15 and 25%. Their polls are extremely manipulative, asking the target persons for DOB, address etc., and are always in favour of the ruling coalition of CDU/SPD. After their forcast for the AfD to obtain 5 to 7% at best, the AfD scored between 15 & 23% in Saxony. And that was their first election ever, they are barely 4 years old. Also, they are by now in 8 federal counties of the federal republic.

    She is simply trying to avoid further defections of CDU memebers and voters, as well as other voters, from voting AfD. And she does it in her usual manner, by lying and deceiving.

    In the meantime enjoy this: http://pi-news.net/wp/uploads/2016/12/merkel_jihad.jpg

    • DFD says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 1:52 pm

      Sorry, bit of explanation: “Also, they are by now in 8 federal counties of the federal republic.” means that the AfD is now in the Bundestag/Parliament and local parliaments of eight fedral states.

      Should have expressed myself a bit more clearly

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 6, 2016 at 3:52 pm

        It’s good that Merkel sees which way the wind is blowing.

    • Don McKellar says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 2:03 pm

      You are exactly right.

      • mortimer says

        Dec 6, 2016 at 6:10 pm

        Angela Merkel MUST NEVER BE REPEATED! Dump this arrogant fool! SHE’S BETRAYED THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY!

        • Robeaver says

          Dec 6, 2016 at 6:49 pm

          Betrayed the human raceThis (is lamination of europe) should be treated as the war crime it is. The court is in her country. Email her and tell her to get down there.

  5. epistemology says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 2:06 pm

    She simply admits her failure and tries to mend fences. It’s true, she’s afraid of the AfD’s success. Muzzies should be kicked out of all of Europe. Islam is Europe’s plague, These scumbags lead us to a pre-stone age era.

  6. eduardo odraude says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 2:08 pm

    She is worried about the “far-right” — well, if that is actually a worry, her idiotic policy of admitting a million Muslim immigrants is largely to blame. She should be impeached for negligence and recklessness. She should have at least minimally informed herself about Islam and the culture of the Middle East. If she already knew, then she is all the more culpable for her actions. So far, her current reversal is too little and too late. And these days, “far-right” more often than not does not mean fascists — it just means “not center-left.” All this crying wolf by the dominant leftish media will only lead to disaster if a real fascist comes along, because no one will listen to the media warnings. Who in NYC doesn’t know some relative — I think of an aunt of mine — who cried “fascist” as a description of any center-right politician? Those who label in that way anyone who disagrees with them are at least as close to fascism as those labeled.

    • Darryl Kerney says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 5:48 pm

      terrifyingly, few people anywhere seem to know what fascism even is, or communism or socialism, but it’s even worse that even fewer know that they are all just variations of Collectivism with the same ultimate goal, and while semi literates argue and throw accusations back and forth wrongly thinking that fascism and communism are opposites, they fail to see that they are tragically misinformed about capitalism, the only system that has brought about more overall prosperity and freedom than all others combined, they fail to see the superior system that stands opposed to collectivism, which they fail to see as the cause of all the problems they argue over. the progressive left has a done a great job of brainwashing, but the objectivist capitalists have reality and reason holding them up, against overwhelming odds, but truth sooner or later prevails either through success, or, as collectivism on a national scale always brings, catastrophic failure, a long list of countries, literally from A to Z have proven it….

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 6, 2016 at 6:44 pm

        Good post, Darryl.

        • Darryl Kerney says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 8:56 am

          Thanks.

      • Noel says

        Dec 7, 2016 at 3:17 am

        I agree Darryl. So many people think that Fascist means extreme right wing, even though Hitler’s party was National Socialist. They also think that Communism is the antidote to Fascism. That is, if they think at all.
        Knowing nothing has never stopped people from talking or having an opinion.
        All isms are to be avoided.

        • Darryl Kerney says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 8:59 am

          Not capitalism, it needs to be rediscovered.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 7:10 pm

          Agreed, Darryl.

      • linnte says

        Dec 7, 2016 at 10:01 am

        Capitalism is what has made the West what it is today. What I fear is Corporate Capitalism, where a few huge companies own the whole kit and caboodle. But true Capitalism is the way. I totally agree with your excellent post.

        Merkel is grasping at straws for her own benefit. I think her prior supporters will see through this ruse, due to Trump’s vocal stand on Islam.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 8:00 pm

          Yes–free trade is a virtue. “Crony Capitalism” is neither a virtue nor true Capitalism.

        • Darryl Kerney says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 8:10 pm

          Thanks Linnte.
          what angers me is the term “Crony capitalism”, because it ISN’T free market capitalism AT ALL, it is quite the opposite, it is Gov’t MANIPULATED AND CONTROLLED, a favorite tactic of the progressive left who are totally anti capitalist, but, they have appropriated the word in order to associate capitalism with Gov’t favors and special treatment, which in reality is the marxist way, they poison the name of capitalism even more than they already have, even though not one of them could ever show real life real world examples of how the collectivism they worship has ever produced prosperity and freedom on the level and scale as Gov’t NON INTERVENTION and a free market system of WILLING UN-COERCED traders making mutually beneficial deals WITHOUT Gov’t FORCE has. Capitalism is the only system that has CREATED wealth through work and trade instead of privilege and plunder, progressives can only see a finite amount of wealth that they must Redistribute to the “needy”, by taking it from the producers, the thought of helping the needy to create THEIR OWN WEALTH instead of giving them some of somebody else’s taken by force NEVER enters their minds, it seems they are utterly incapable of grasping that if you try to raise the bottom by chopping off the top you will in effect cripple the creation of wealth across the board. and they refuse to see that crippling the golden goose to parasitically feed of will not bring prosperity and freedom for all, it cause the golden goose to wither and die bringing poverty and famine and enslavement for all, except those who Redistribute stolen wealth while getting rich themselves for their “efforts” to help “the poor”.

      • eduardo odraude says

        Dec 7, 2016 at 11:47 am

        Darryl,
        I go along with you except with your three cheers for the current form of capitalism, to which I give only two cheers and which I think actually tends toward enlargement of the state and also, as backlash, leads paradoxically toward socialism. What’s more, a better form of capitalism is slowly emerging that shares wealth better and is a much better bulwark against socialistic enlargement of the state.

        The current form of capitalism leads to socialism in the following way. The huge economic inequalities of conventional capitalism lead many of those with great economic power to buy politicians and manipulate the law and the state for selfish purposes. (Crony capitalism is an example.) This subversion of the democratic state’s laws then leads to backlash, where you get more “progressive” types seeking to fight back against the injustice by enlarging the state socialistically for the sake of “equality.” This tends to have the opposite effect from that which the socialists expected — the socialistic state frequently enmeshes private economic interests all the more with the state — the state becomes the biggest capitalist, and the laws are corrupted even further. This dynamic goes through repeated iterations, whereby economic forces take over the state, and then the the state seeks to take over the economy in reaction. That is the paradox — standard capitalism does not keep the state and economy separate — on the contrary, it leads to their increasing enmeshment, as one can see looking back at the last hundred years of U.S. and world history.

        So what is a direction toward solution of the problem? Is there a type of capitalism that will keep economy and state more independent of one another, create less sense of injustice, provoke less socialistic backlash, and create more shared prosperity? Yes. Capitalism 3.0 is emerging. Sometimes called stakeholder capitalism (as against shareholder capitalism). See for example the movement toward certified benefit corporations. Here’s the difference: the officers of a conventional capitalist corporation are legally required to prioritize shareholder profits over all other stakeholder interests. By contrast, a benefit corporation has a triple bottom line — the officers are legally permitted to balance consideration of 1) profits, 2) people (workers and suppliers), 3) and environment. But the point here is not just to push benefit corporations. One could point also to other trends toward more cooperative forms of capitalism. One thinks for example of the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain — a hugely successful business group in which the highest paid executive gets no more than 7 times the pay of the lowest paid worker. They started up in the 1950s and today have over thirty thousand worker owners operating all kinds of businesses. The largest worker owned business in the U.S. today was designed on the Mondragon model (Cooperative Homecare Associates). Mondragon does not get state support and they do better economically than conventional capitalist businesses, because all the stakeholders have a strong interest in success.

        The point is, we need to move toward a more cooperative capitalism if we really care about keeping the economy distinct from the State. Cooperative capitalism shares the wealth with all stakeholders and balances interests in a way that traditional capitalism does not. Traditional capitalism often involves favoring one set of stakeholders — the shareholders who have capital — over others who get used, exploited to some degree — workers, suppliers, the community, the environment. If instead there is more balance and more cooperation, then there will be less call for the state to get involved and start taking over the economy to remedy exploitation of some by others.

        Here’s a short video on certified benefit corporations: https://www.bcorporation.net/what-are-b-corps

        B corps by themselves are not the point — they are just one example of a direction — the point is to move in a voluntarily, freely contractually, more cooperative direction economically — this will be a far greater bulwark against socialism than traditional capitalism can be.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 8:15 pm

          True free trade does not lead to Socialism. Only hybrid monstrosities like “Crony Capitalism” do.

        • Darryl Kerney says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 8:26 pm

          the “traditional” capitalism you are referring to actually a MIXED ECONOMY, not true capitalism, which is what most people think of, it is a mixture of socialism and capitalism, and all the traits that people denounce about capitalism are actually the Socialist elements poisoning the system with gov’t interventions that distort and unbalance things with favors and subsidies and regulations that prevent the free trading of willing participants through unfair advantages for some and unfair hindrances for others. and every time gov’t interferes and screws things up, they have to intervene again to “fix” the problem they created, by interfering more and screwing things up even more.
          there has never been a fully capitalist country, the closest and obviously most prosperous and free was the USA, the greatest rise in overall standard of living even the poorest in history, imagine what it could have become without the socialist baggage weighing it down.

      • eduardo odraude says

        Dec 7, 2016 at 12:03 pm

        darryl, another point — you suggest that fascism and communism are not really opposites, they are both variants of collectivism. But being opposites and yet the same is possible. Indeed, that paradox is the case with fascism and communism. Communism is based on a caricature of equality based on the idea of the worker’s paradise. Fascism is a caricature of freedom based on the idea of the superman and the super race.

        Cowardice and recklessness are both failures of courage. Yet cowardice and recklessness are opposites. Fascism and Communism in the context of the modern world are both barbarisms, yet they are also opposite.

        • eduardo odraude says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 12:04 pm

          Opposite to each other, I mean, but at one in barbarism.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 8:18 pm

          True, Eduardo.

        • Darryl Kerney says

          Dec 7, 2016 at 8:36 pm

          A Communism gov’t OWNS and controls the means of production, virtually everything is “property of the State”, a Fascist gov’t “LETS” the people have private property and own the means of production, but CONTROLS it entirely, in reality a meaningless distinction, the enslavement for all practical purposes is the same, it matters not one bit if you own a factory but have no say in its operation or if the gov’t owns it. the end result is the same, not opposite.

  7. eddie spotty says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 2:11 pm

    #AngelaMerkel is a #ClosetMuslim and an #islamicWhore… It then becomes obvious that she is practicing #Taqiyya (the are of #islamic LYING) to further the cause of #Pisslam .

    • eduardo odraude says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 2:16 pm

      She’s not a closet Muslim. She’s just utterly clueless about the world around her.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 6, 2016 at 3:53 pm

        Very true, Eduardo.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 3:51 pm

      Blackmail by Barry is much more likely.

      We know that Barry has from childhood been obsessed with strengthening the position of the Muslim ummah worldwide – the only community to which he feels he belongs – and that the CIA had obtained masses of information from East Germany’s secret services when that country collapsed.

      Merkel grew up in East Germany and appears to have been in a working relationship with the Stasi.

      • Darryl Kerney says

        Dec 6, 2016 at 6:25 pm

        Angela and her father were IN the east german communist gov’t…….

        • epistemology says

          Dec 6, 2016 at 9:42 pm

          Miss Piggy wasn’t in the GDR gov, she was just a Stasi (East German secret service) agent as lots of people were. Her moniker was IM (informal coworker) Erika. These people spied on their most intimate friends even wives on husbands and husbands on wives. The Germans have got to learn a lot about their past, Denazification isn’t completed as long as they accept Islam, so they better study the past and learn from it..

    • Tony Malta says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 6:48 am

      Look at the vague term that leaves wide open loop holes!!! The term being: ‘wherever legally possible’

      Easy to squirm her way out of doing anything if reelected!!!

  8. avi15 says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 2:25 pm

    It’s almost as if this woman will say and do anything to stay in power. You might even think that there are old curry wurst cartons and pieces of orange peel floating down the Rhine with more integrity and honesty than she has…

    • Robeaver says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 6:51 pm

      Like a politician? Who knew? PRINCIPLES OF A puke pirate.

  9. Stan Lee says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 2:31 pm

    “Must never been repeated.” (!!!) Is she bonkers? If deportations were ever needed, it is now!
    The U.S. Army and AF have been in Germany for a long time. I wonder how strong the German Army is since another army has been occupying space in Germany? Time to spend German Marks on an effective Army! It will be entirely necessary. All the EU will do is look on and look away.

    Well, whatever Merkel has, she needs to activate it and start deporting known bad actors first by all means….how about before any of them rapes and then murders another young woman?
    Either place these troublesome people in detention or deport post haste.

    There was a German government that had no difficulty deporting or imprisoning Jews and others by accusing them as “Enemies of the state.” And, they did nothing to deserve it!
    Now, there are far more real enemies of the German state, and Merkel does like Nero did! They are bad actors who have no regard for life nor limb. They know only of rape, murder, and complete disrespect for both national and local law. They belong in the circumstances they left! Send them back!

  10. eur says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 2:50 pm

    Too late for many girls Angela… too late. And not only because of the refugees, maroccans are very dangerous for our girls in Europe.

  11. Richard Paulsen says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 2:57 pm

    Time for de-Islamification in Europe. Time to de-Islamicise. Islam has for too long been allowed to spread its theories of conspiration in Europe.
    Merkel is not the right person to vote for in order to do it. Hope that she will not win again.

    • Robeaver says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 6:55 pm

      Incisive comment. Perhaps the Catholic church could help? Email your priest and find out.
      Exorcise your write.

  12. Agustinus Daniel says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 3:06 pm

    TRUMP FACTOR is working….

  13. Rachelle the Patriot says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 3:08 pm

    She talks about what’s happened as if she had nothing to do with it. And as if she has no power to change it TODAY.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 3:54 pm

      Yes–of course, a lot of this is CYA.

  14. K. says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    Campaigning for her re-election has just begun. Will be forgotten the day after.

  15. Leon Labuschagne says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    She is LYING her rotten ass off. She knows she will be crushed in the next election. She is a LEFTIST. She is part of the UN plan to exterminate the white cultures in Europe. She is running scared. She CREATED the problem in Germany. She played out ISIS’s plans to the letter. So this is all total rubbish. Who do you point the finger at for the problems in German? Merkel. (And the UN.) Merkel is evil and cannot be trusted. This statement is proof of her guilt.

  16. cs says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    Too late now, it will not really make such a difference now, for the people who is now in Europe will cause enough havoc forever.

  17. gravenimage says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 3:49 pm

    Angela Merkel calls for burqa ban, says refugee crisis “must never be repeated”
    …………………..

    I’ve always said that if enough Europeans stood up, that their leaders would *have* to take notice. Kudos to patriotic Germans. Even Merkel has realized that she has to take some actions.

  18. Dom107 says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 3:51 pm

    Yes,I think the burqa should be banned in Germany except for one person Angela Merkel whose bodily appearance shouldn’t be shown in public.They should also stick a gag in her mouth so as we do not have to listen to her stupid and inconsistent utterances.She is obviously trying to save her plump ass by pacifying the just anger which her people must feel about the pollution of their culture and country.
    Don’t be fooled Germans this woman does not deserve a fourth term.Nor does her party which was complicit in her naivety and foolishness.
    Only the AfD will role back the tide of Islamification which at a recent estimate has 40,000 Jihadis now placed and ready for action in Germany

    • Robeaver says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 7:03 pm

      I agree, but it will take civil war to rid Europe of Islamcrap . This is coming. Just watch.

    • epistemology says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 10:29 pm

      Let Miss Piggy wear her suits, she’ll always look dowdy. No way to make her look like Marilyn Monroe or Brigitte Bardot. I blame her for sucking up to Islam, she’s a silly twat, she didn’t learn anything from the German past. The Germans let the muzzie Nazis from abroad in, it’s preposterous

  19. Mark says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 3:59 pm

    Has she eventually seen sense?

  20. Sam says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    What an idiot. Lady, you are too late for doing any good to your own people. You invited millions of muslims in addition to the ones you already accumulated in Germany for years like Turks. Good luck with all the rapes, honor killings and Muslim patrols and terror thanks to the religion of peace.

    Hope your people will take control of their own destiny and topple you and kick out of the country most of the cult members of Islam. SOON!

  21. Bill says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    This is a ruse. Political dissembling. Here is what will happen:

    1. Merkel appears to get tough on Islam by announcing the burka ban.
    2. The burqa ban does nothing to address the underlying problem. It is a placebo for the masses.
    3. She does not change her policy of open borders and does nothing to expel the invaders she has already invited in.
    4. She gulls enough Germans to vote to keep her in office.
    5 She quietly instructs one of her stooges on the German courts declares the burqa ban to be illegal and discriminatory.
    6. Merkel throws up her hands in false frustration, telling the German people that she tried her best but she cannot overrule the Court.
    7 She then proceeds to brutally crush all opposition by all means at her disposal, including the use of force.

    I hope the Germans are not going to be taken in by this cynical ploy.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 5:30 pm

      The 3M cohort (Male Muslim Migrants) do not wear burqas in any case, so this noisy initiative is nothing more than a cynical misdirection.

    • Eric Jones says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 10:09 pm

      Yes. Accurate.

      Eric

    • eduardo odraude says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 12:15 pm

      Bill, even if you are mistaken, and she were to wake up and understand or care that Islam is an expansionist totalitarian cult with worldwide power, nevertheless, what she has done to Germany this year is so egregious that she should not be permitted to continue in office, unless her removal would lead to something still worse. German politicians must be taught a lesson for allowing a million Muslims into Germany. They must be made to understand that doing that will exclude them from a public position even as a dog catcher.

  22. awake says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 4:01 pm

    You know the old adage, fool me once…shame on you…fool me twice…shame on me.

    Angela is full of you know what.

  23. rara says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    Merkel still talks the same

    https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.faz.net%2Faktuell%2Fpolitik%2Finland%2Ftote-studentin-in-freiburg-merkel-warnt-vor-pauschalurteilen-gegen-fluechtlinge-14559359.html

    “Merkel warns against generalizations against refugees”

    “After the arrest of a minor refugee who has murdered a student in Freiburg, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel warns against xenophobic attitudes. “The murder case should not be linked to the rejection of a whole group,” she warned on Monday in the ARD, “just as we can not otherwise conclude from one to a whole group.”

    Previously, her spokesman had warned against lump-sum judgments. “We are talking about the possible action of an Afghan refugee, not of a whole group of people, like him, Afghans or refugees,” said Steffen Seibert in Berlin on Monday. ”

    “The deputy CDU leader Julia Klöckner told the newspaper: “Such atrocities are unfortunately committed as much by the Germans as by the foreigners, which is unfortunately not a new phenomenon.””

    “The young woman had been raped in mid-October, her body was found in the river Dreisam. She drowned. The medical student was on her way home from a university party when she became a victim of crime. The alleged offender is 17 years old and traveled to Germany in 2015. He lived thereafter as a minor unaccompanied refugee with a (caring) family. After his arrest on Friday in Freiburg, the juvenile without previous criminal record haven’t said anything according to the investigators so far.”

  24. Lesley says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    She is Germany’s Hillary Clinton and will say anything to get re-elected. I wouldn’t put too much stock into anything she says.

  25. Champ says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    “Angela Merkel has called for a burqa ban in Germany and said the refugee crisis “must never be repeated” while making her pitch for a fourth term as Chancellor.”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Merkel is playing politics …

    And has this woman finally come to her senses after how many rapes, murders and mayhem? …’bout time!!

    I guess a burqa ban is a start …although weak; and her delay in doing so is profoundly unconscionable.

    And I think a case could be made charging her with crimes against humanity. She deserves prison, not a “fourth term.” No way!

  26. duh swami says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    The picture is worth a thousand words…

    • Shmooviyet says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 5:30 pm

      Ha!
      She got the left-hand part correct, too.

  27. Marty says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 4:43 pm

    A person’s values don’t change overnight. If Merkel had a conservative bone in her body, she never would have allowed the migrants in the way she did. Merkel has not turned some kind of corner or come to her senses. She is lying and pretending she’s something she’s not to get re-elected.

  28. Troybeam says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 4:51 pm

    Re-election time,say anything to get re-elected and Merkel is trying really hard to back track on the Islamic mess she has made in her nation, people’s best bet elect someone with a back bone or a big set of junk to deport what she has allowed into Germany.

  29. Miss Anne Throp says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 5:15 pm

    Problem is the cancer of Islam has firmly embedded within European society. I say embedded as opposed to integrated because that’s the way it is. They have no intention of integrating. Even recently the MCB (Muslim Council for Britain; often used by the likes of the BBC to give opinion) has stated that it is the job of us to integrate with them and not visa versa. (probably code for we need to convert). Whatever Merkel now says I think it may now be too late!

  30. Guest says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 5:33 pm

    It’s a little late to try and win back the country Merkel.

  31. Richard Paulsen says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    Europe Population 2010-2050: Christians – 99,190,000 (-99,190,000) Muslims 70,870,000 (+27,400,000) Jewish 1,200,000. (-220,000)
    http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projection-table/

    • Richard Paulsen says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 6:19 pm

      It is a war.

    • Richard Paulsen says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 6:28 pm

      Popuation Europe 2010-2050:
      Christians 2050: – 99,190,000 (total 454,090,000).
      Muslims 2050: + 27,400,000 (total 70,870,000).
      Jewish 2050: -220,000 (total 1,200,000).

      It is a war,

  32. SAKOVKT says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 6:24 pm

    Instructions issued on 18 April, 1945 to all provincial chiefs of the Falange :……”to celebrate peace is to celebrate the triumph of the Falange and of the Caudillo”

    Because, el Caudillo and the Flange had always sought peace and to keep Spain out of the war.

    ,,,urp,,,Division Azul,,,whatever,,,

    Or, was that Eurasia and Oceania?

    Actually, though, Francisco Franco, the “Latin Charlatan”, was a lot smarter about this sort of thing than Merkel.

    Wonder if Merkel will last as long as Franco?

    “Great liars are also great magicians”

    But, of course, that is to say, that you do have to be good at it!

    Or, at least, good at something!

  33. Warren Raymond says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    “the refugee crisis “must never be repeated.”

    Two lies in one sentence: there is no “refugee crisis”. There is a Mohammedan invasion and she is their enabler, their beneficiary, their useful idiot.

    Second lie: “never to be repeated”.

    The invasion is ongoing.

    Simultaneously, Merkel facilitates “family reunion”, which means for every illegal migrant there is a whole family clan of up to 20 people, still to be imported from the ME, legally. For this there are not even preventative measures in place. That is part of their “human rights.

    Merkel can continue on her merry ways, legally. The law is on her side.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 8:33 pm

      True–it is not over yet. Muslims are still flooding into Germany.

  34. Praeceptor Maximus says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    I don’t believe her and I hope Germans are not that naive to believe her either. She says this so she can block any chance of AFD getting into power. She is a liar and will swiftly go back on her word once she is in power, hiding behind legal loopholes.

  35. Charles says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    Why do I hear that Donkey?
    Is she breaking wind? Or just issuing another Fartwah?
    It’s just far too insanely confusing for me to even begin to follow her “reasoning” on this Islamic Jihadist issue.
    Either you act at once to rid the nation of every last one! OR: you proclaim half measures in a weak attempt to appease the population, hoping for another Term in office.
    Either way, the rest of Europe may have to suffer the consequences of Merkel’s failed policy for years to come!
    Trial for high TREASON seems in order now.

  36. Angemon says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 7:34 pm

    The likely reason? Votes:

    Yup, that would be my first guess as well…

  37. David, Thailand says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    The German people are being industrially scammed by this woman. Earlier this year she announced she would not be running for her fourth term. Now she is, and needs to prepare the groundwork for the final destruction of Europe.

    Should she happen to win the election, she will confess soon after that Germany did indeed blunder last year with her open door policy, but now, miraculously, she has installed new measures for a more efficient immigration vetting system which together with her new generation security apparatus allows Germany to resume ‘refugee’ imports.

    Merkel is Europe’s Clinton, pure evil, and hopefully her audience will wise up like the UK and USA, before voting for their own demise.

  38. j_not_a says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    This woman, got to hand it to her, she’s got chutzpah coming out the ying yang – touting herself as the one to remedy the problems that she is responsible for creating in the first place. SMDH.

  39. Rocco Lore says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    Yet when her opponents wanted a burka ban, they were called “racist.”

  40. gary fouse says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    At this point that’s like Hitler telling the Red Army he is banning vodka.

  41. steve brown says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    Merkel is lying. She will never stop the massive immigration of jihadists into Germany.. She is a lier and a traitor.. Vote her out . Vote her out…

  42. Jaladhi says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    Merkel’s days in power are numbered and she is sensing it – therefore why not change the tune to fool the public. But just like Hillary she will be defeated in the next elections!

  43. More Ham Ed says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    A priceless photo. Robert has the best topic photo selection of any blog online.

  44. Michael Johnson says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 11:11 pm

    She was supposed to be for the refugees now she is saying she made a mistake its all political she just wazwaznts reelection that’s all

  45. SoCalMike says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 12:14 am

    Angela Merkel is a pig.
    She belongs in a BBQ or in front of a firing squad or on top of a gallows.
    Serve this pig on the dust bin of history.

  46. Richard says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 12:53 am

    She is trying to get re-elected. She cares 2 hoots about bringing Muslims into Germany.

  47. eL says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 1:50 am

    Do not be fooled guys, that witch is the most dangerous of all world leaders, hell she is more dangerous than IS.

  48. Gordon Miller says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 2:18 am

    Maybe Merkel had a brain transplant. Does anyone out there have any knowledge of this possibility?

    • Champ says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 2:25 am

      LOL!!!! …thanks for the belly laugh! 😀 😀

  49. Vlad says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 2:42 am

    Just get rid of da bitch by the most efficient way.
    The past actions of this excuse of a caring human should be enough evidence that she, like Hitler, had the destruction of the German people as their goal.

  50. Rufolino says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 3:02 am

    Anything that accursed woman may say now, is superfluous. What she has done has created massive problems for Germany which will in the 21st Century destroy German life, and with it European existence as it was known. By all civilised Europeans the name Merkel will be detested forever.

    • Noel says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 3:43 am

      Yes, and her name is mud. Perhaps we should use her name as in “Oh no, I’ve made a right Merkel of it”
      Or, if you are in USA – “Sorry, my Merkel”.

  51. Josephus says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 3:05 am

    Is she off the Obama drugs ? Every person who met Obama has been mesmerised by his devil eyes. Merkel ( Le Krim ) must not be allowed to stay in power. She is the last of the pro Islamic immigration. She LIES ! Take her down with your votes. Once an Islamic supporter, always an Islamic supporter.

  52. Mark A says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 3:30 am

    I’m guessing Angela Merkel has seen the most recent poll numbers, which show her and her party trailing by a wide margin.

    Let’s hope Germans are not gullible enough to fall for this blatant attempt by Merkel to distance herself from the damage she has done to Germany and to Europe by accepting over one million migrants.

  53. David M says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 6:01 am

    She is literally insane. Four years ago she said multiculturalism had been an absolute failure in Germany, then last year she took a million Muslims in, now she is saying this. A psychiatrist would have a field day with her.

  54. FYI says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 6:12 am

    Merkel is the very one behind the idiotic plan to allow mass immigration into Germany.
    She is well known to be involved with the infamous COUDENHOVE-KALERGI plan.
    So is Juncker.
    Feel free to look that up….

  55. Cretius says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 7:32 am

    It is time to mount a new Crusade to cleanse Europe of the gangs of criminals that claim to be refugees.

  56. Florida Jim says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 10:37 am

    Merkel is a fool trying to hold power at the expense of the Germ,an people. As Europe dies under her she is lost and joins Soros and Obama as globalist buffoons to be mocked by sane people.

  57. peter murphy says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 6:22 pm

    So Angela has changes her mind then has she ? I would not bet on that. Google People trafficking-you tube. Is this woman not the real leader of the Eu and as such these are her polocies. Truly horrendous

  58. Real McCoy says

    Dec 8, 2016 at 4:07 am

    Angela Merkel, Are you fooling the German people or fooling yourself ?. You can delude your people only once.

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