Europe opens doors to migrants, terrorists

AS SOON as you can, watch this “With Open Gates” video before it is taken down again as it goes viral in Europe that is grappling with terrorism riding on the waves of mass migration: http://tinyurl.com/nubd453.

We call attention to this video to encourage free discussion of the attendant issues threatening world peace.

Oliver Lane of Breitbart London said in a Nov. 11 update on it: “After gaining a million and a half views in less than five days, the Open Gates video was taken down by YouTube after a copyright infringement. Although the rights company in the claim has been named in allegedly spurious claims in the past, there is no reason to suggest that is the case with this video.”

The original article said in part: “’With Open Gates: The forced collective suicide of European nations,’ a slick, hard-hitting film about the European migrant crisis is going viral in Europe, already watched at least half a million times.

“Although the 19-minute film may feel like a dispatch from the future, it is cut entirely from recent news reports, police camera footage, and interviews. Kicking off with scenes of a modern car ferry disgorging thousands of illegals into Greece, the film then cuts to dozens of aerial shots of columns of migrants marching north into Europe.

“The film then changed to the harrowing testimony of a young Greek woman unable to hide her horror and despair at the scale of the migrant crisis sweeping over her home island of Lesbos. Just six miles from the Turkish coast, the island was subjected to migrant riots in September as newcomers turned on their hosts for not moving them to mainland Europe fast enough.

“As Breitbart London reported at the time, the tearful woman tells a news crew: ‘We are in danger, every day, every minute. We need someone to protect us. They come into our houses. I want to go to work, but I can’t. Our children want to go to school, but they can’t. They have stolen our lives!’

• Europeans to be minority in Europe?

“ALSO featured is American presidential hopeful Donald Trump, who gives his opinion on the migrant crisis:

“’I’ve been watching this migration, and I’ve seen the people. I mean, these are men. They are mostly men, and they are strong men… they look like prime time soldiers. Look, Europe is going to have to handle, but they are going to have riots in Germany. I always thought Merkel was a great leader, but what she’s done in Germany is insane.’

“Breitbart London has reported at length on the rising anti-Semitism in Europe that has arrived with mass migration. From Jews being targeted for degrading house-invasion rape-thefts to Jews being excluded from Holocaust commemorations because of Muslim attendees hijacking events, migrant-Europe is now hostile towards Jews at a level not seen in decades.

“Below the YouTube video, the editor warned: ‘At current immigration levels and disappearing birth rates native Europeans are destined to become a minority in their own countries within decades. This is already the case for many of Europe’s largest cities.”

“Millions of young Muslim men leave behind their family, pay thousands to criminal traffickers to reach the land they have been promised by European politicians.

“Dubbed by the media as refugees, they cross through six to 10 safe countries to reach such wealthy nations as Germany and Sweden where they hope to receive a better life.

“Only a fraction of them are Syrian, as they enter unfiltered without documents and without any legitimate right to claim asylum. Women and children are rarely seen, except in the cherry-picked sob stories of the media.”

• US itself has ignored UN court ruling

AMONG readers who had reacted to last Sunday’s Postscript (“Courts not allowed to settle EDCA disputes”) was Mario E. Valderrama, who said:

“You mentioned that the Philippines, with US support, pushed for arbitration in its dispute with China.

“But what China is doing now, and is expected to do – ignore the arbitration – was already done by the US. This was in the Nicaragua vs. United States Case decided by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The US did not only refuse to participate, but also refused to negotiate with Nicaragua after a decision adverse to the US was rendered.

“The Philippines is in fact in a worse situation.

“The Nicaragua case was decided by the ICJ. So, several avenues of possible enforcement are available, such as before the Security Council and the UN General Assembly. The US ignored them all.

“In contrast, the procedure in the Philippines vs. China case is state to state arbitration.

“It may be that the awards of the arbitral tribunal, both the preliminary one and the expected one on the merits, are final. The counterbalance is that there is no enforcing authority. So, the ‘winner’ will have to rely on the voluntary compliance by the ‘loser.’

“’In practice,’ said Gary B. Born (International Arbitration: Law and Practice, 443 citing M. Shaw, International Law 957, 5th ed. 2003), ‘[T]he principal mechanism for enforcement of state to state arbitral awards has been diplomatic persuasion and counter-measures.’

“It is obvious that the Philippines had no capacity to conduct ‘counter-measures’ against China. So, it could only be through diplomatic persuasion, which could be a euphemism for negotiation.

“It seems incongruous that the Philippines shunned negotiation, opted for arbitration, and then at the end of the day will have to go back to negotiation. Or ‘diplomatic persuasion’ if you prefer this term.

“We could say that the US will, and in fact may now be, conducting the ‘counter-measures.’ But then, the US has its own agenda. So, it may turn out that the US would be the real beneficiary of the arbitration.”

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