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Belgium: Amid violent protests, Prime Minister resigns over his support for UN migration pact

Dec 18, 2018 5:50 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Belgium is descending into chaos; the UN Migration Pact has caused a crisis in the nation. The country’s Prime Minister Charles Michel has now quit after losing a vote of no confidence.

“Demonstrators clashed with riot police and targeted the EU Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters, which suffered several smash [sic] windows.” Critics, “including former Belgian immigration minister Theo Francken, argue that the agreement will increase migration to Europe.”

The upheaval in Belgium comes as a result of the concern and frustration of citizens who have been left in the dark, but are astute enough to oppose and ask questions about the UN Migration Pact. Some of those protesting “said the public should have been consulted before adopting the migration pact.” This should be the demand of every prudent Western citizen.

Some considerations about the UN Migration Pact: it stipulates that migration is a human right. Recall the flood of Muslim migrants into Western European countries including Germany, France, Sweden and the UK, and the crisis of crime that followed. Many people noted that many, if not most, of the migrants were not refugees at all, but economic migrants. But soon this became clear to all honest observers, given the flocking of the migrants to the wealthier European countries — as opposed to seeking refuge from persecution and war in the first nation to which they arrived.

The rise of so-called “populist” movements helped to educate a largely ignorant public that had been virtually ambushed. Globalists then decided to try to protect the flow of economic migrants by designating it a “human right” for migrants to swarm into Western countries. To sign on to the UN Migration Pact means an acceptance of indiscriminate, open-door migration. The countries that have signed on have also committed themselves to helping these economic migrants actually choose the country that they think best serves their needs, and settle there.

Left unmentioned are all the costs associated with the plan: health-care, resources to help migrants, and the security costs of host countries, which are bound to increase, given what we have already seen across Europe since the migrant crisis began. The Pact also puts migrants at the front of the line for a range of state benefits and services. What are the immediate and long-term implications of all this for patriotic citizens, including those immigrants who have settled into Western states through legal means and have respected and obeyed the laws of their host societies?

The UN Migration Pact also demands a commitment from participating states to “eliminate all forms of discrimination, condemn and counter expressions, acts and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, violence, xenophobia and related intolerance against all migrants in conformity with international human rights law.” Citizens of Western countries are given no indication of what form such a commitment would take. Given Canada’s anti-Islamophobia Motion M-103 and the aggressive efforts by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to criminalize speech that offends Islam, this is worrying. The freedom of speech in the West has long been hanging by a thread. Also, there is a little-discussed Turkish influence in the Pact that should give everyone pause.

It is good that Michel is gone. We may hope that the citizens of many other countries in the West awaken to the globalist agenda and the dangers of the UN Global Compact on Migration before it’s too late.

“Belgium Chaos: Prime Minister RESIGNS as UN migrant pact crisis ERUPTS,” Harvey Gavin, Express, December 18, 2018:

BELGIUM’S Prime Minister Charles Michel has quit after losing a vote of no confidence, Belgian media reports.

Mr Michel was forced to reshuffle his government to avert its collapse after Flemish nationalist party the N-VA pulled their support in protest over Belgium’s decision to adopt a controversial UN Migration pact. King Philippe of Belgium allowed Mr Michel to continue with a minority government, which agreed to the United Nation’s Global Compact on Migration. The decision to adopt the pact sparked violent protests in the Belgian capital, Brussels, on Sunday, amid fears it could lead to an increase in immigration.

Demonstrators clashed with riot police and targeted the EU Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters, which suffered several smash [sic] windows.

The UN pact was agreed in July by all 193 UN members except the US, but only 164 formally adopted it at a meeting last Monday in Morocco

It sets out a series of non-binding guidelines aimed at improving global cooperation on migration, combating people trafficking and protecting the human rights of migrants.

But critics, including former Belgian immigration minister Theo Francken, argue that the agreement will increase migration to Europe.

Some of those protesting in Sunday’s demonstrations said the public should have been consulted before adopting the migration pact.

Ten countries, mostly in formerly Communist Eastern Europe, have since pulled out of the pact.

Hungary’s right-wing leader Viktor Orban has previously branded it a “threat to the world” while Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said he would not sign up in order to “defend its national sovereignty”….

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  1. Renate says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 6:04 pm

    Michel has the right idea. Justin Trudeau, watch and learn. Please follow suit!

  2. Wellington says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 6:14 pm

    The EU is arguably a greater enemy of European civilization (oh, gee, is this racist?) than any of the hordes of Muslim invaders who began from 711 AD. onwards trying to insert themselves, after effectively destroying Christian civilization in North Africa, into Europe proper. Charles Martel stopped this invasion at Tours in 732 A.D., as did Byzantine Emperor Leo III on the eastern side of Europe fifteen years earlier at the Battle of Constantinople.

    Now, foolish European elites aplenty want to overturn what occurred in the eighth century by WILLINGLY inviting the Saracen into Europe. Instructive, exceedingly so, when the eighth century looks wiser and better than does the twenty-first. Yes, I’m afraid it’s gotten this bad.

    • cassandra says

      Dec 18, 2018 at 7:51 pm

      You left out the first 911: A 70,000 man army under Polish-Lithuanian King Janis Sobieskus defeated the 300,000 strong Ottoman army on September 11, 1683, at the Battle of Vienna. This broke the very serious threat of Vienna becoming an Islamic base in the heart of mitteleuropa. Had the Turks prevailed, eastern Europe today might well be starting at the Rhine, instead of at the Danube.

      Leo III only postponed the later fall of Constaninople in 1453, and Islam eventually did advance into the Balkans. Sobieskus not only halted the advance of Islamic imperialism but actually drove the Saracens back. Why this event isn’t more widely publicized is hard to understand. Poles just don’t get no respect!

      This event still resonates with the countries of eastern Europe (Austria, Hungary, Cach Republic, Slovakia and Poland) who are intent on maintaining the integrity of their countries. In fact, I learned about this episode because of a banner “9/11/1683” displayed in a Polish stadium demonstration just a year or 2 ago.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 18, 2018 at 8:42 pm

        A great hero.

      • Wellington says

        Dec 18, 2018 at 8:46 pm

        I have mentioned the “rescue of Vienna” in 1683 several times over the years here at JW, ditto for other thwartings of Muslim “ambition” like the extinguishing in 1492 by Ferdinand and Isabella of the last Moorish polity, i.e., Grenada, in Spain, the naval Battle of Lepanto in 1571 and, of course, the two-hundred year effort to reverse the tide of Islamic imperialism which were the Crusades. I merely wanted to note the beginning of the resistance to the Islamic attempt to conquer all of Europe, which is now being done not by actual warfare but rather by mass immigration, demographics, terrorism and the foolhardiness of many influential dhimmis.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 18, 2018 at 9:50 pm

          +1

    • J D S says

      Dec 19, 2018 at 9:46 am

      UN…EU what a mess..Is there any hope for western Europe…Only God can sort things out.

  3. abad says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    “Some considerations about the UN Migration Pact: it stipulates that migration is a human right. ”

    That is because the UN doesn’t respect property rights.

    You know what – the UN sounds more and more like Alistair Sim (you know, Scrooge) in the 1938 movie “Climbing High” every single day.

    “I’m a Communist. I don’t recognize property rights.”

    • Anne Smith says

      Dec 19, 2018 at 5:42 am

      The UN is dominated by Islamic Countries.

      Says it all.

    • Joe says

      Dec 19, 2018 at 7:19 am

      Okay, then I’ll migrate into the Soros mansion. After that place is trashed, then like Alice in Wonderland I’ll stay at Clinton’s estate, when they are not there. It is my “human right”.

      The security and locks on these elite properties are xenophobic! What backwards bigots must live there! They don’t just let anyone walk in and make themselves at home.

      • Carolyne says

        Dec 19, 2018 at 7:47 pm

        Go ahead and stay when the Clinton’s are there and then move on to the Obama’s.

  4. Tom says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 6:29 pm

    One down, now Merkle, May, Macron, Trudeau, and any other globalist political leader are teetering on the brink.

    Yellow vests are a strong symbol of people power and freedom of speech. We need more in western countries to display their opposition to globalist tyranny.

    • A_M_Swallow says

      Dec 18, 2018 at 11:37 pm

      Do not bother with Mrs May, she will soon be gone. Do bother about her possible successors and Britain’s Foreign Office. They have to understand that tax rises are unpopular and immigration is the Home Office’s job. So anything on immigration counts as ‘Brave’.

  5. David M says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 7:16 pm

    Stating that migration is a human right is like stating men should be able to rape any women they want to. They are both a form of invasion that takes absolutely no consideration of the people getting invaded.

  6. Huh!?! says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 7:22 pm

    Migration is not a human rights issue. This whole pact is designed to weaken or eliminate Western culture from within. Please let this spread to the rest of Europe.
    This article is correct on the cost of this migration as human rights issue. The burden on social services would be enormous.

    The “discrimination” is setup for islam good and keep your mouth shut. This is stealth jihad.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 18, 2018 at 7:30 pm

      It’s a worldwide COUP D’ÉTAT to overthrow the power of sovereign states.

  7. loki says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 7:34 pm

    It’s too late to save Belgium. It’s muslim population is currently well beyond the 5% threshold after which it becomes impossible to guarantee the continuation of western civil and religious liberties. I suggest Christian Belgian citizens buy a plane ticket to Mexico, cross unimpeded into the US and claim asylum from religious persecution in their native country.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 18, 2018 at 8:46 pm

      Patriotic Westerners should *not* cede their civilized nations to the Muslim invaders. It is *not* too late–Infidels have taken back their lands before, and can do so again.

    • A_M_Swallow says

      Dec 18, 2018 at 11:41 pm

      Hmm. Europe could be 2 -3 years away from civil war.

      Belgium may need military help from other countries.

    • Stephen OBrien says

      Dec 20, 2018 at 11:53 am

      From what I’ve read, Belgium is about 8-9 years away from being a majority Muslim country. That timeline does not take into consideration white flight as the end approaches. Is there any question what will happen once the Muslims are a majority? Oh, and the Netherlands is only a few years behind Belgium.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 21, 2018 at 11:17 pm

        Belgium is about 5% Muslim right now. Patriotic Belgians can still save their nation.

        • A_M_Swallow says

          Dec 23, 2018 at 1:02 am

          If Belgium goes Muslim that both the EU and NATO will lose their capital. That will cause lots of problems.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 23, 2018 at 11:38 pm

          I’m not saying that 5% Muslims in Belgium is not a problem–just that it is not yet cause for surrender.

  8. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 7:56 pm

    ==QUOTE== Some of those protesting [the UN Migration Pact] “said the public should have been consulted before adopting the migration pact.” This should be the demand of every prudent Western citizen. ==UNQUOTE==

    This wording made me stop and try to figure out what it means. I thought, “Did Robert Spencer write this? He’s usually clearer.” Let’s pause a moment and try to analyze why this wording in unclear. [1] What is “this”? What should every prudent Western citizen demand? (And why are the imprudent excluded?) [2] To say “we should have been consulted” is not a demand that something should be done, but a complaint about something that has already happened.

    • A_M_Swallow says

      Dec 18, 2018 at 11:43 pm

      The EU (and USA) have been letting Muslims immigrants in for several years. The UN Migration Pack is the 3 or 4 wave of the invasion.

  9. Dean says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 8:05 pm

    Very well done, Christine. There is a price to be paid by leaders for forcing their people to accept economic and political migrants at the expense of European citizens and at the risk of disaster. Showing off and following the demands of EU and UN elites will either spell the end to the moonbat leaders in power or it will end in the Islamization of Europe with all the sharia and jihad it takes for the newly invited to conquer the world.

  10. gravenimage says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 8:33 pm

    Belgium: Amid violent protests, Prime Minister resigns over his support for UN migration pact
    …………………

    Glad to see there is *finally* some protest against this suicidal madness.

  11. Buraq says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 11:31 pm

    Would that mean it is a ‘human right’ for Jews to migrate to Israel? Or would the fascist-left mark that down as an exception?

    • mortimer says

      Dec 19, 2018 at 12:17 am

      No ! It would mean that 500 million AFRICANS would have a right to migrate to Israel !!!

  12. Beware of Fake NEws says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 12:41 am

    The N-VA is not a Nationalist party-its a separatist party!

    You dont belive?

    N-VA is member of the EU Party EFA:
    “The EFA broadly stands on the left-wing of the political spectrum.[21][22] The Brussels declaration emphasises the protection of human rights, sustainable development and social justice. In 2007 the EFA congress in Bilbao added several progressive principles to the declaration, including a commitment to fight against racism, antisemitism, discrimination, xenophobia and islamophobia, and a commitment to get full citizenship for immigrants, including voting rights”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Alliance

    A Nationalist party that want to let foreigners vote???

  13. Older Canadian says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 5:22 am

    Yes the man is a gentleman and a scholar. He knows that when everyone has their rights no-one will have any.

  14. No Muzzies Here says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 7:48 am

    The UN seeks to eliminate national boundaries and to establish a One World Government, in which names like France, Germany and Belgium will be nothing more than distant reminders of a once-glorious past.

  15. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 9:19 am

    More truth than fiction

    The King wanted to go fishing, and he asked his royal weather forecaster the forecast for the next few hours. The palace meteorologist assured him there was no chance of rain, and so the King and Queen went fishing. On the way he met a man with a fishing pole, he was riding a donkey and the King asked the man if the fishing was good.

    The fisherman said, “Your Majesty, you should return to the palace, in just a short time I expect a torrential rain storm.”
    The King replied: ” I hold the palace meteorologist in high regard. He is an educated and experienced professional. Besides, I pay him a very high wage. He gave me a very different forecast. I trust him.” So the King continued on his way. In a short while a torrential rain fell from the sky. The King and Queen were soaked.

    The furious King returned to the palace and gave the order to fire the royal forecaster. He summoned the fisherman and offered him the royal forecaster job. The fisherman said: Your Majesty, I do not know anything about forecasting. I obtain my information from my donkey. If I see his ears drooping, it means it will rain for sure.” So the King hired the donkey

    AND THUS BEGAN THE PRACTICE OF HIRING DUMB ASSES TO WORK IN INFLUENTIAL. POSITIONS OF GOVERNMENT. The practice is unbroken to this date.

    i.e. Take a look at what is ruining, oops running Canada.

    MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE.

  16. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 12:41 pm

    Happy Hanukkah to Dear Frank Anderson and all our other Jewish friends on JW.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 21, 2018 at 11:20 pm

      🙂

  17. Giacomo Latta says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    Clearly not all migrants are economic migrants. Most are sexual migrants. Who would want to stay in a shithole country where the females parade around in their private prisons, the only place where they are safe? Why when their religion allows them to do whatever they want to the endless amount of sex-slave material in Western democracies?

  18. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 4:46 pm

    I no longer have a phobia of politicians, It is time we all stood up to good verses evil. I do not wish to live in fear of Islam and all the Shariàh garbage. ENOUGH bullshit.

  19. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Dec 20, 2018 at 3:55 am

    This Satanic “pact” should be the last straw needed for Trump to disband the Undermining Nations.

  20. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Dec 20, 2018 at 4:06 am

    Politicians (aka power-traders) are all spineless worms with no integrity who have only succeeded in their party-gangs because of their ability to go along (with criminal lies) to get along (with all the other lying criminals). In short, they’re all too scared of losing to dare to try to win, and so always choose secure slavery over risky freedom.

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