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German city protects Christmas markets from vehicular jihad massacres with gift-wrapped car barricades

Nov 25, 2017 2:18 pm By Robert Spencer

Wrapping up Germany’s capitulation and suicidal immigration policies in a neat little bow, and hoping the German people won’t notice that there is a war going on that has been enabled entirely by Angela Merkel and Co.

“German Christmas markets: City protects pedestrians with gift-wrapped car barricades,” DW, November 24, 2017 (thanks to Steve):

Cities across Germany are boosting security for Christmas market season, following the deadly truck rampage in Berlin last year. The city of Bochum put out massive car barricades – and then giftwrapped them.

Bochum authorities placed a string of 1.2 ton pellet bags in the downtown area to avert potential terror attacks ahead of the seasonal opening of the local Christmas market.

On Thursday morning, however, the bags took on a holiday look, with the city’s official marketing service turning them into novelty Christmas presents.

“For us it was very important to fit in those ugly barriers into the beautiful overall atmosphere,” said the head of Bochum Marketing Mario Schiefelbein.

Read more: Nuremberg Christmas market beefs up security for opening

The move surprised both local residents and the police, as the service reportedly giftwrapped up all of the 20 bags overnight without forewarning.

Other cities across Germany are also boosting their security ahead of the events, fearing a repeat of last year’s on a Christmas market in Berlin, when a Tunisian man killed 12 people by driving a stolen truck into the crowd.

Bochum is not the only city to put a bow on new security measures. In the Bavarian city of Augsburg, for example, authorities will use decorated trucks belonging to Christmas market stall owners as car barriers. Munich officials plan to block the streets with planters containing season-appropriate evergreen plants….

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 2:26 pm

    GOSH, BILL DEBLASIO MUST BE KICKING HIMSELF IN THE REAR END — for not doing that already.

    Or maybe he will, but our uber-left mainstream media is going to ignore it.

    • J D S says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 5:03 pm

      Gift wraps in Muslim country???

    • Donovan Nuera says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 5:06 pm

      He won’t use Xmas wrappings as Christianity cannot be promoted on public property but will use red star blazoned paper instead

  2. gravenimage says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 2:35 pm

    German city protects Christmas markets from vehicular jihad massacres with gift-wrapped car barricades
    …………………………….

    How festive! sarc/off

    More:

    “For us it was very important to fit in those ugly barriers into the beautiful overall atmosphere,” said the head of Bochum Marketing Mario Schiefelbein.
    …………………………….

    Yeah–but it does not really work. And how could it–the threat of Jihad terrorism at a lovely Christmas market is intrinsically ugly.

    My husband and I watched the wonderful Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade the day before yesterday, and the media matter-of-factly noted that surrounding streets were blocked with huge dumptrucks filled with sand to foil vehicular Jihad or bomb attacks.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 3:00 pm

      “the media matter-of-factly noted”: the New Normal.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 25, 2017 at 9:19 pm

        Grimly true, Michael.

        One moment the hosts were happily chatting about the Grinch float, the Charlie Brown Peanuts balloon, and some happily smiling Tween popstar waving to the crowd of families; the next about measure necessary to prevent a Jihad terror massacre. Just surreal.

  3. Mockingjay says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 2:51 pm

    Looks like crap.

    – Leave it to European bureaucrats to come up with something THIS ugly to try and hide the UGLY TRUTH.

  4. Sarah says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 3:02 pm

    Jesus Christ on a kangaroo. Now they just stick out like giant, badly wrapped plum puddings.

    We had safety barriers erected a while back in Melbourne’s CBD to prevent pedestrians from being mowed over by Motorized Muslim Mayhem – and in typical Melbournian fashion, the government let the artists have at it, so the barriers can be decorated, look less like dirty big safety barriers and more like, I don’t know, bizarre pieces of artwork dotted around between the footpath and the road.

    Germany should’ve done something like that. Wrapping the barriers up in Christmas wrap is SO GERMAN. Efficient, neat, organized, satisfactory etc etc – but ugly as all hell without even the slightest sense of aesthetics.

    And that’s not even touching on the whole topic of lunacy here- where we are adapting to life with Muslims and terrorism in our OWN STREETS, by pretending that things are normal and A-OK.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 9:21 pm

      And the same thing is being done in the UK, Sarah.

    • Obscura says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 8:28 am

      I like the one on Bourke Street that’s covered in Lego.

  5. Georg says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 3:17 pm

    The joke that practically tells itself is these are the gifts of Merkel. It’s all getting to be beyond parody. Winter wonderland meets maximum security prison. Isn’t that nice?

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 9:24 pm

      Grimly spot on observation, Georg.

      • mortimer says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 6:27 am

        +1 … Have a very Merkel Christmas.

        • dhans says

          Nov 26, 2017 at 11:11 am

          Someone called them “Allah Akbarriers”

  6. Eur says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 3:37 pm

    During the Ramadan Muslims who for a few years are living in my city gather in a park. They do not need any kind of security measure. Since last year any party, concert, market … the entrance is blocked with trucks or bollards. What does it mean that the Islamic festivities are celebrated safely and the rest (the native ones) must be protected? Uhmmmmmm

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 9:28 pm

      +1

      • mortimer says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 6:29 am

        +2 … We need to be protected from the alleged ‘religion of peace’, because it actually is the religion of terrorists.

    • j_not_a says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 1:00 pm

      Best post of the day, two thumbs up!

  7. Mishe says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 4:00 pm

    Dear Mr. Spencer,

    What is the complaint? These security barriers seem festive and represent a logical response to the security needs of the Holiday Season. Please note that we have similar concrete barriers in Washington, D.C. (in front of the White House, the Capitol building and other secure locations). As our own barriers are unadorned, their EU-style decoration may communicate the Joy of the Christmas Season.

    Despite short-term risks, security barriers signify the West’s long-term investment in multiculturalism. As former President Obama said so eloquently in his historic speech in Cairo, we “seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive… [Indeed] they overlap, and share common principles–principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”

    Let us in this Holiday Season transcend the imagery of concrete barriers to honor President Obama’s spiritual legacy: Migration is Peace. Fear is Freedom. Diversity is Strength.

    Thank you for your consideration.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 9:45 pm

      “Mishe” (he has misspelled his own username here; this is “Moshe”) wrote:

      Dear Mr. Spencer,

      What is the complaint? These security barriers seem festive and represent a logical response to the security needs of the Holiday Season. Please note that we have similar concrete barriers in Washington, D.C. (in front of the White House, the Capitol building and other secure locations). As our own barriers are unadorned, their EU-style decoration may communicate the Joy of the Christmas Season.
      ……………………………..

      Why do we have such “security needs”? We didn’t, just a few years ago. It is because of the flood of Muslims into the West, and the Jihad terror attacks they bring with them.

      (as always, I am assuming that “Mishe” is being honest here, and is not simply a troll hoping to get a rise out of people with his inane blathering).

      More:

      Despite short-term risks, security barriers signify the West’s long-term investment in multiculturalism.
      ……………………………..

      “Sort term risks”? What can lead anyone to assume that the risks of Jihad from Muslim conquerors are apt to go away any time soon? And what sort of “investment” is this, when it just brings the threat of rape and murder into our civilized societies?

      More:

      As former President Obama said so eloquently in his historic speech in Cairo, we “seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive… [Indeed] they overlap, and share common principles–principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
      ……………………………..

      In what way do our interests overlap? In this case, pious Muslims want to run us over or blow us up; we very much do not want then to do this.

      More:

      Let us in this Holiday Season transcend the imagery of concrete barriers to honor President Obama’s spiritual legacy: Migration is Peace. Fear is Freedom. Diversity is Strength.

      Thank you for your consideration.
      ……………………………..

      “Fear is freedom”? Is this a riff on Orwell’s “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength”? In this case, “Mishe” may be pulling our legs here, after all…

    • Expat88 says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 5:55 pm

      Obama said that the future does not belong to those who mock the prophet of Islam.

  8. Cheer Bear Girl says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 5:22 pm

    This is like putting a bandaid on a gaping wound. It is not good enough. Throwing Muslim migrants out would be more effective than this.

  9. Voytek Gagalka says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 5:37 pm

    “Gift-wrapped car barricades” packages – special Christmas present from “her majesty Frau Fuhrer” to her utterly stupefied, dhimmituded and terrorized (with threat of prosecution for any “wrong” word or gesture against their new masters) population. Merry Christmas, dhimmis!

  10. Older Canadian says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 5:39 pm

    How sad!

    Tell me how do the stop the bombs be it left behind, thrown or worn. Or casual knife attacks, and etc.

    If there is a will there is away.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 9:01 am

      How soon until the damn Mohammedans create an *extra*, *fake* ‘bollard’ that looks EXACTLY like one of these things, but is… packed with explosives? And set it off?

  11. Guest says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 6:16 pm

    They’re doing something similar in the UK. The car barricades look like Christmas trees though

  12. Benedict says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 7:17 pm

    The joyful expectation associated with Advent has changed into its opposite.

  13. gravenimage says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    The same thing is happening in Britain:

    “UK city protects shoppers from vehicular jihad massacres with anti-terror bollards disguised as Christmas trees”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/uk-city-protects-shoppers-from-vehicular-jihad-massacres-with-anti-terror-bollards-disguised-as-christmas-trees

  14. lucretia says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    A real case of cover-up

    • mortimer says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 6:32 am

      +1 Covering up the disaster of importing terrorists.

  15. tgusa says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 12:39 am

    The season of peace on earth and good will towards men, ruined, by what a US president once called the religion of peace.

    Ironic.

    So Mr and Mrs western establishment tell me again who our real enemies are, islamophobes, especially notorious islamophobes.

    Right.

    Merry Christmas and man the barricades.

    Wonderful.

  16. Eric says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 3:42 am

    Bruce Lee said to use what works. If it works, use it. Army’s disguise land mines, traps are always hidden. Bollards should wok however disguised.

    The key thing is for Europe is to realize that here is an effort to make Islam the dominate power on Earth. This must be opposed. This is war.

    Eric

  17. tgusa says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 4:00 am

    Bruce Lee also said,

    “If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you”

  18. tgusa says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 4:20 am

    Bruce also said,

    “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

    And that is exactly what their intentions are. Did they read Bruce Eric?

  19. JOHN FORBES says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 4:58 am

    IN THE WESTERN NEW COWARDS WORLD ORDER THIS IS THE NEW NORMAL!
    NEVER MENTION JIHAD OR ISLAM AS BEING AN ISSUE & NOT THE TEACHINGS OR INSTRUCTIONS SPELLED OUT IN THE HADITHS OR THE LIFE OF MOHAMMED AS BEING A BOOK TO FOLLOW TO THE LETTER OR THE ISLAMOPHOBIA NET WILL BE THROWN OVER YOU & YOU WILL BE DRAGGED OFF TO THE INQUISITION IN BLASPHEMY LAND!

  20. Baucent says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 5:36 am

    “For us it was very important to fit in those ugly barriers into the beautiful overall atmosphere,” said the head of Bochum Marketing Mario Schiefelbein.”

    Ah yes, if you hide the “ugliness” it means it has gone away.

  21. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 1:19 pm

    Merkel is as guilty as sin regarding taking part of the blame for that Islamic terror truck attack in Berlin last year. For her PC politics and polices led to that murderous jihad murder disaster. Furthermore, is should be made clear that the “holy book” of Islam, the Quran, [the Koran] gives instruction in the ways of the violent and deadly jihad. To give only one out of many examples of this from the Koran is Sura 47:4. Which teaches “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Let’s face it, using a large truck as a weapon, as the Muslim /jihadist did, can sure make a greater “slaughter among them” than a sword can.

  22. unbeleiver1 says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    Angela Merkel just learned that you just can’t significantly alter the demographics of a country and the voters not notice.

    https://omny.fm/shows/roy-green-show/hour-3-segments-1-and-2-professor-cheryl-benard

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