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| Subject: Government idiots: Hungary thinks this giant border fence is the answer to Europe’s refugee crisis Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:01 am | |
| KYIV, Ukraine — What do you do when migration to your country doubles in a year, freaking people out about some kind of existential threat to you or your continent?
If you’re Hungary, you build a 13-foot-high, 110-mile-long fence along the border with Serbia to patch that problem right up.
By the end of the month, soldiers are expected to finish construction on the controversial project, which officials hope will stop migrants from illegally entering the central European country. Hungary reports receiving more than 100,000 migrants so far this year, way up from around 43,000 who came across its border all of last year.
The vast majority are refugees from the conflict-ridden Middle East and Afghanistan. Yet that's only fueled official rhetoric that migrants are a danger.
“As a matter of fact, the Hungarian border is the European border,” Zoltan Kovacs, a government spokesman, told PBS NewsHour recently. “So when we are protecting the borders of Hungary, we are at the same time protecting Europe.”
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6628786/2015/08/10/hungary-fence _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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