The New Europe: Either pretend you love it or be intimidated into silence?

Online anti-refugee posts lead to offline visits by Dutch police
http://m.dw.com/en/online-anti-refugee-p...a-19005888

EXCERPT: A Dutch police campaign trying to counteract online incitement aims to let users know they're walking a fine line. So are the police. In rare instances, Dutch police are knocking on social media users' doors and asking them to be careful writing posts about refugees that could lead to real-life violence and, ultimately, to charges of online incitement. [...]

One example is Mark Jongeneel [...] "I asked them what the problem was. And they said, 'Your tweets,'" Jongeneel told DW. "And they asked me to be careful about my Twitter behavior, because if there are riots, then I'm responsible."....

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Stockholm main station is unsafe and overrun by Moroccan street kids
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...girls.html

EXCERPT: Swedish police warns that Stockholm's main train station has become unsafe after being ‘taken over’ by dozens of Moroccan street children. The all-male migrant teen gangs are spreading terror in the centre of the Swedish capital, stealing, groping girls and assaulting security guards, according to Stockholm police.

Members of the gangs, some as young as nine, roam central Stockholm day and night, refusing help provided by the Swedish authorities. Sweden has seen a dramatic increase in the number of Moroccan under-18s who apply for asylum without a parent or guardian in the past four years, with many later running away from the housing provided to live on the streets in the capital.

Stockholm police estimate that at least 200 Moroccan street children move in the area around the main train station in the centre of the capital, sleeping rough, and living off criminal activity.

'These guys are a huge problem for us. They steal stuff everywhere and assault security guards at the central station,' one police officer told SVT. 'They grope girls between their legs, and slap them in the face when they protest. All police officers are aware of this. 'I would never let my children go to the central station. No officer would.'....

Based on how tough things in Europe are, I'm glad I don't live over on that side of The Pond.

(Jan 27, 2016 11:58 PM)elte Wrote: Based on how tough things in Europe are, I'm glad I don't live over on that side of The Pond.

What's wild is that in the years ahead this might even trigger a new wave of European immigration to the New World and Australia. As Christians, Jews, truly westernized muslims, and secular people flee the growing influx and chaos of neo-Islamic gangster culture (whether of the organized ISIS kind or the feral street-punk variety).

Mitigated dictatorships might even return to the continent because of their apparent unattractiveness. I haven't heard much about invading hordes breaking down the doors to get into Putin's Russia, anyway. Trump's popularity seems to ride on a similar prospect of making the States' leaves too toxic for international Okies to want to stop and chew-on them anymore. Getting "Putin-ized" or "Trump-ed" would be an unfortunate consequence for Europe, but their current governments literally seem too ideologically paralyzed to give priority to the welfare of their tax-paying citizens anymore.

The "we serve as a life-raft for the rest of the world" philosophy has its altruistic, heroic aspect until the life-raft sinks or capsizes from the overload. Sometimes it's best to be a humble Good Samaritan that doesn't advertise and crave the spotlight.

Unfortunately people have needed to have a zone of private property to feel safe in, which laws have been needed to uphold.  The ideologically good idea of everything being in common turns out to work inadequately because of human nature.  The saying "a man's house is his castle" reflects the need for secure private property.  The citizens of European nations should probably think of their zone of private property extending to their nation's borders.