German Terrorism

[Mad Cyril]

If you have done your bit then yes, but not all want to. In fact some would really love to work after being left on the scrap heap because of ageism.

I want to be one of those elderly have a go heroes that foil bank robberies etc.

Some day a real rain will come to wash the filth from the streets.

 

[londonblue]

I think you're underselling the impact of 2 (the economy) in Merkel's decision-making. She knows that Germany - like other Western Countries but probably more so than most as the engine-room of the Eurozone - needs a supply of young, fit and hungry workers from non league to meet the demands of its ageing population. There was much more to her decision than compassion.

Edited for accuracy

 

[MK Shrimper]

Not everyone has one of those railway pensions...

Yer, luckily I wasn't allowed to opt out at 17 or I'd be up **** street.

 

[mrsblue]

I think you're underselling the impact of 2 (the economy) in Merkel's decision-making. She knows that Germany - like other Western Countries but probably more so than most as the engine-room of the Eurozone - needs a supply of young, fit workers to meet the demands of its ageing population. There was much more to her decision than compassion.

Within the EU there is mass unemployment espicially in Spain with their under 25s,Merkel could have invited young Spaniards who gleefully would have accepted any job to better their lives.

 

[MK Shrimper]

So one priest gets murdered and we get outpourings of grief across the internet.

A car bomb blows up in Syria and kills 44 people and garners a few lines in the press and disinterest in the western world.

 

[Uncle Leo]

In simple terms we could save far more than the 1% by employing older people (60-70) to look after the really old.

(Barna alert)

As an aside, I was always quite touched that my wife's grandfather, well in to his 70s, used to drive around delivering prescriptions to 'the old folk' on behalf of his local surgery.

Some of them were younger than him!

 

[Benfleet A1]

So one priest gets murdered and we get outpourings of grief across the internet.

A car bomb blows up in Syria and kills 44 people and garners a few lines in the press and disinterest in the western world.

Yeah, lets behead a few more elderly priests in rural France and slash a few nuns up as well while remembering 44 dead in a ****ing warzone. It was reported in the western press wasn't it, or have you taken to reading arabic newspapers recently?

 

[MK Shrimper]

Yeah, lets behead a few more elderly priests in rural France and slash a few nuns up as well while remembering 44 dead in a ****ing warzone. It was reported in the western press wasn't it, or have you taken to reading arabic newspapers recently?

Briefly reported. And that's my point. Je suis Syria? Not a chance.

 

[rigsby]

Briefly reported. And that's my point. Je suis Syria? Not a chance.

Always been the same with any conflict. You don't think for one second anyone had any more sympathy for the innocent Irish in the 70's.

British troops were being killed by the dozens in NI so came as relieve if the IRA or the UVF targeted some locals.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

If and when an ISIS nutter commits an outrage and murders innocents in a "newer" EU country, for example Hungary or Poland; then the reaction from those governments is likely to be immediate and sharp, and in all probability counter productive BUT in line with that nation's emotions.

 

[GBJ]

I think you're underselling the impact of 2 (the economy) in Merkel's decision-making. She knows that Germany - like other Western Countries but probably more so than most as the engine-room of the Eurozone - needs a supply of young, fit workers to meet the demands of its ageing population. There was much more to her decision than compassion.

Ok then, let's go on the basis, that number 2, was a big factor of Merkel's thought process. She has still sold factor 1, (public safety) down the river. A supply of new workers is one thing, but to potentially risk citizens lives for it, is odd, to say the least. And seeing as Pubey rightly mentioned "balance", I'm glad as ****, we didn't follow the German blueprints for it.

So one priest gets murdered and we get outpourings of grief across the internet.

A car bomb blows up in Syria and kills 44 people and garners a few lines in the press and disinterest in the western world.

Probably because it's closer to home. I suppose it's similar to when you hear about crimes around the country. Someone murdered 300 miles away, won't garner as much personal interest, as someone being murdered in your own town.

 

[ozzie]

my son had to take a big detour tonight after work in Nürnberg...checking out if there is a bomb??But if it is,which people doubt,it maybe "right wing" having a "go" again as his area is a lot of Turks in it.
A small bomb!! went off in a case near Nürnberg an hour ago..first reports think its a right wing attack!!
If anybody knows about German politics(last 30 years)...the right wing have killed many,many more people here than ISIS..etc,etc
This is what the right wing want here... hate muslims...then the other "auslanders" later

 

[Benfleet A1]

my son had to take a big detour tonight after work in Nürnberg...checking out if there is a bomb??But if it is,which people doubt,it maybe "right wing" having a "go" again as his area is a lot of Turks in it.
A small bomb!! went off in a case near Nürnberg an hour ago..first reports think its a right wing attack!!
If anybody knows about German politics(last 30 years)...the right wing have killed many,many more people here than ISIS..etc,etc
This is what the right wing want here... hate muslims...then the other "auslanders" later

Think you might find it was the left that enjoyed bombing innocents back in the late 60/70's.

 

[ozzie]

I think you mean the RAF !! not our RAF.:smile:
But you can go, say from the Oktoberfest 80..a bomb explodes...killing 8?? right wing idiots...
even now,think the trail is still going on,Right wing gang,bombs etc..shooting Turks or people who look like Turks..killing 10 people,9 who worked at kebab shops(drive by shootings)...police thought it was a Turkish gang war...but it was not,only found out when a bomb they were making exploded and killed 2 of them.

 

[A Century United]

Perhaps not on topic, but an interesting insight into the way that Muslims get, in my humble opinion, very preferential treatment when there is any suggestion that their faith might have been in the least bit "insulted" - contrast and compare with how other religions are treated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36900310

 

[Rusty Shackleford]