Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Brexit Betrayal – Humiliating A Once Great Nation







Prime Ministers Questions (PMQ’s) from the British Parliament has a global audience, so the reputation of the nation as projected by Theresa May and Parliament is at stake.

It was pointed out at today’s session that Prime Minister, Theresa May, has reiterated unequivocally 108 times in Parliament that Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will not be extended therefore Great Britain will be leaving the European Union on the 29th March 2019. (See here)

Mrs. May humiliated the entire nation when she went back on those solemn promises and sent a request to the unelected President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, begging for an extension to Article 50 delaying the promised departure until the 30th June 2019.

To add insult to injury, she made another solemn promise that Great Britain’s membership will not go beyond that date and we will definitely leave the EU on the 30th June 2019. (Bookmakers are taking bets on whether she can beat 108 repetitions of that promise before going cap in hand begging for a further extension)

After two years of supposedly complex negotiations Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration is a surrender document that leaves Great Britain in a worse position than if it remained a member.

According to the Agreement for the extendable two year ‘implementation period’ Great Britain will remain subject to the rules, regulations and diktats of the European Union with no representation in the institutions that produce them and will remain subject to the jurisdiction of EU Court of Justice.

This is the humiliating ‘vassal state’ status that will be bestowed on the British people by this long-predicted Brexit-in- name-only deal.

This so-called deal was designed in secret by EU bureaucrats, in conjunction with British Europhile civil servants, then approved by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, before being given to Theresa May to steer through the British Parliament.




This has been rejected by a Europhile Parliament who have also rejected leaving under  World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules which in effect prevents the clean Brexit that the people voted for in the 2016 referendum.  

It is worth reiterating that Parliament is overwhelmingly Europhile and it is using every means possible to sabotage Brexit and keep Great Britain locked inside the European Union against the will of the people.

Mrs. May and Parliament should have realized by now that the European Union is set on a course for full integration and to that end it does not negotiate or compromise. In exchange for an extension and delay it will demand conditions even more humiliating than those in the Withdrawal Agreement in addition to billions more in contributions.

There is a glimmer of hope for the long abused and humiliated people of Great Britain. To agree an extension to Article 50 and delay Great Britain’s departure from the Union requires unanimity of all 28 nations on the European Council.

There are indications that both Italy and Hungary intend to veto the extension which would mean that Great Britain would leave as scheduled on the 29th March 2019 with or without an agreement.

To be concise, the survival of Great Britain as a sovereign, self-governing nation is on the shoulders of  Giuseppi Conte of Italy and Viktor Orban of  Hungary.


Thursday, January 10, 2019

Pigs Fly Over Italy and Poland As They Plan A ‘European Spring’






News that Italy and Poland are discussing plans to form a united front to overthrow the French-German axis that controls Europe is an indication of how their leaders are not only utterly deluded but also they haven’t been paying attention to recent history.

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini met with Poland’s Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawieki, where they announced plans to give the European Union a new energy and new equilibrium to replace the dominant French-German axis and overhaul the Brussels institutions from within.

Either these politicians are extremely naïve, or they are completely ignorant of what the European Union is and how it works. The EU is a political project and the course is set for ‘ever closer union’ toward a single, centrally controlled sovereign state. It does not negotiate, and it does not tolerate dissent.

The Italians should know better than anyone since the unelected EU bureaucrats dismissed the democratically elected government of Silvio Berlusconi and replaced it with Brussels appointed technocrats because he suggested giving the Italian people a referendum.

Italy is treated as a second-class nation with an impotent government in what is supposed to be a Union of equals.

In neighboring Greece their impotent government is controlled by a troika of Brussels appointed technocrats who refuse to accept a budget that alleviates the suffering of the Greek people.

As is the case in Italy, attempts to pass a budget that doesn’t get the approval of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, fail every time thus prolonging the poverty and misery of the Greek and Italian people for decades to come.



The plan to reform the EU institutions from within is so delusional its laughable. On three occasions the British government has tried to reform the EU from within to no avail.

Margaret Thatcher did have a small success with her budget rebate which lasted until Prime Minister, Tony Blair, negotiated it away in exchange for institutional reforms on which the EU promptly reneged.

If that isn’t enough proof to convince the leaders of Italy and Poland to get real and stop deluding themselves, they should look at the current Brexit negotiations.

Despite having two of the biggest mandates in history to leave the EU the British people are still bound hand and foot to the supranational institution after two years of negotiations.

It must be admitted that incompetent leadership by a Europhile Prime Minister has given the EU bureaucrats the upper hand, but they have remained resolute that Brexit will not deflect the nation building project from its course.

To bring the leaders of Italy and Poland down from cloud cuckoo-land and back into the real world of EU power, Great Britain is the fifth largest economy on the planet, it is the third biggest contributor to the EU budget, it is a nuclear power with its own seat on the UN Security Council and yet it has failed time and again to reform the EU from within.

Italy and Poland are economic basket cases and two of the biggest recipients of EU funds, so they need to explain what leverage they have and how do they plan to succeed where Great Britain has failed?

In conclusion: The EU cannot be reformed, it does not negotiate with bankrupt nations with unstable governments and they will wipe the floor with any nations that try.

The only possible way for Italy, Poland, and any other nation that wants to free itself from French-German domination and take control of its own destiny, is to join the British people and leave the corrupt and increasingly authoritarian EU and join an alliance of independent sovereign nations.


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Thursday, December 13, 2018

Vassal States - EU Robs Nations of Their Sovereignty and Dignity







Spirits in Europe were raised to the heavens when it was announced that the reign of Angela Merkel, the fanatical German Chancellor, was coming to end only for them to be dashed when she appeared in the puppet European Parliament she controls advocating the formation of a European Union (EU) army.

Although it’s been vehemently denied for decades, it is common knowledge that the EU would have to establish a military force independent of NATO if its quest to become a sovereign nation state was to be realized.

To help justify the formation of this military machine, the United States of Europe has already identified the enemies it will defend itself against in the future and they include the United States of America as well as China and Russia.

Since, in theory, the British will no longer be members of the EU and no one in their right mind will countenance a German led military machine in Europe, it will be down to France to lead the charge should America, China or Russia decide to invade the corrupt and failing EU.

Although he might think otherwise, the silly little boy President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is no Napoléon or Charles de Gaulle, so the history writers of the future would have a field day should battle commence on the continent.

Nations take enormous pride in their armed forces and hold their heroes and heroines past and present in the highest esteem. Therefore, having one’s armed forces put under foreign control is the ultimate insult and the most humiliating consequence of a nation having its sovereignty removed. 

The establishment of a European Union military is just one aspect of the transfer of sovereignty from the national Parliaments and legislatures to the unelected ruling bureaucrats in the Brussels autocracy.

In the biggest deceit ever perpetrated on the British people the government of the then Prime Minister, Edward Heath, denied that any sovereignty at all will be transferred from the Westminster Parliament to Brussels after accession to the then Common Market in June 1975. This is in despite of advice to the contrary from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office contained in document FCO 30/1048. (See here)

This recently released document was kept hidden from the British people for almost half a century by consecutive governments while their sovereignty was surreptitiously transferred to Brussels.

While some politicians are still denying that this transfer of sovereignty has taken place, some maintain that even if it has taken place it has had no detrimental effect on democracy or the British people’s right to self-government. 

Economic sovereignty has already been surrendered in the Eurozone leaving member states powerless to make their own budgets. This has been a disaster for nations such as Greece, Italy and Spain who cannot compete with the German and French economies but cannot budget accordingly. This leaves their own citizens in such poverty and despair their only option is to migrate in order to have any hope of a prosperous future.

The sovereign right to trade with other nations has been surrendered to the European Commission who act in the interests of the big banks and the multinationals not the ordinary citizen.

National jurisprudence has been surrendered to the European Court of Justice which is occupied by political activists who are fanatical disciples of the European empire building project. With the pan European Arrest Warrant the ancient right of Habeas Corpus enjoyed by British citizens for centuries has been surreptitiously removed.

Slowly but surely sovereignty over international diplomacy and security is being surrendered since the creation of the grandiose sounding High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security.

In a blatant power grab which diminishes our influence in the world, the empire builders are demanding Great Britain surrender its seat on the UN Security Council to an EU bureaucrat.  

The surrender of territorial sovereignty is the worst and most damaging surrender of all. Surrendering control over national borders has been a complete and utter disaster for the people of Great Britain and the other nation states of Europe.

The mass immigration of economic and culturally incompatible migrants from the developing world and the poorest countries in the EU has resulted in depressed wages accompanied by shortages of housing, school places, health care provision and other desperately needed social services.

The most horrific consequence of surrendering control over borders and immigration has been the dramatic increase in violent crime which includes robbery, rape, violent sexual assault and murder.

In a single generation unheard of words and crimes such as beheading, female genital mutilation, honour killings, child brides, grooming gangs, jihad etc. have become part of the everyday lexicon of British vocabulary.

It cannot be denied that although some of the blame should be laid at the door of cowardly and treacherous politicians the bulk of the blame for this social, cultural and economic disaster lies with the fanatical and mentally unstable German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

Opening the borders of Germany to all and sundry from around the world knowing that after obtaining documentation they were free to travel anywhere in the borderless EU was a calculated act of a malignant lunatic. 

This is especially true after admitting some years previously that multiculturalism was a disaster that had failed in Germany.  


 In conclusion, nations that voluntarily surrender their sovereignty to a foreign political entity are also surrendering their dignity and with it the birthright of their citizens. In all of history there is nothing more undignified than a supine vassal state.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

G7 Circus – President Trump Kicks Arse and Takes Names





I must admit to getting sadistic pleasure watching the PR manufactured leaders of the world’s major economies get their collective arses kicked and their noses rubbed into a dose of reality by a businessman from the real world who speaks and acts on behalf of the people who elected him.

Their hysterical reaction to the measures taken by President Trump to redress the one-sided trade deals that have been screwing the American people for decades is illuminating. A straight talking, newly minted political leader fulfilling the promises he made during his election campaign is obviously an alien concept to these people.

Perhaps these world leaders expected President Trump to adopt their modus operandi and make different promises to different demographic, ethnic and religious groups to get elected then renege on every promise the day after the votes are counted.

Apart from building a big beautiful wall, candidate Trump reiterated at every rally, debate and press conference that he believes in free trade, but it must be fair trade. He followed this up by stating that he would pull out of the unfair Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), renegotiate the unfair North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and pull out of the Paris Climate Accords which punished America but let countries like India, China and other third world polluters off the hook.

He also promised to use tariffs to immediately redress unfair trading practises and as leverage to encourage serious participation in trade deal renegotiation's.

Watching the previously invincible Angela Merkel meet her match and not get her own way was epic and a new experience for the mentally unstable German Chancellor who has caused murder and mayhem across the continent by bullying the European Union (EU) member states into adopting her disastrous economic and immigration policies.


The hopelessly inept anti-Trump Prime Minister Theresa May was brushed off like a piece of dandruff on Macrons collar and refused a one-on-one meeting with the President because he is tired of her school mistress-like, hectoring attitude.


The two Presidents of the EU, Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Junker wisely kept their heads below parapet knowing that President Trump is a firm believer in nation state democracy and detests their corrupt and failing dictatorship with a passion.

At this point in his country’s history Prime Minister Conte of German governed and bankrupt Italy is a total irrelevance and his country will only return to relevancy in global affairs after they have thrown off the shackles of the EU that have turned it into a vassal state of Germany.

The biggest laugh must be reserved for the two sissy girly boys who are fast becoming the biggest laughing stock on the world political scene.

Hilariously, President Macron of France whose economy is seven times smaller than the USA threatened to ‘isolate America’ if President Trump persisted with his tariffs. I guess the President was left quaking in boots at the thought of a trade war with bankrupt France.

No circus would be complete without a clown and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fitted the bill perfectly when he stepped into the ring to supply the entertainment.

Like the coward that he is the fawning pantywaist was meek and mild in the presence of the great man but immediately the President left on his peace mission to meet the North Korean dictator he stabbed him in the back with an eyebrow dropping performance of false bravado, threats, snide remarks and veiled insults.




This attack on the absent the President when he was unable to respond in person was an attempt by Trudeau to look tough to folks back home who are tired of his infantile behavior which they see as an embarrassment to their country on the international stage. 

President Trump’s contempt for the entire G7 circus and their globalist ambitions was made plain when he left early, refused to be associated with the final communique and questioned the absence of Russia. The EU empire builders are targeting Russia because of their hatred of President Putin who opposes their continued eastward expansionist plans and his hold on Ukraine.

If this summit is anything to go by things can only get more entertaining in the future as the globalist leaders of the corrupt EU fret and watch as their beloved superstate project implodes due to Brexit and the rise of people power in the nation states with President Trump, and myself, enjoying the spectacle from the sidelines.



Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Eastern Europeans And Italians Join The Anti-EU Revolution





To the consternation of the UN/EU globalists, opposition to the economic, cultural and demographic disaster that has been wreaked upon the people of Europe is at last gaining traction across the continent.

Discontent has been building for decades as the people of Europe were being systematically impoverished by socialist policies and the unsustainable influx of economic colonists. 

Worse than this is the fact that innocent people are being raped, mutilated and murdered by Islamic jihadists who have been invited in by the agenda driven ruling class to facilitate their Islamization program.

This discontent has been made infinitely worse by the ruling elite shutting down any opposition using censorship, demonization and threats of prosecution for anyone voicing dissenting opinions.

In addition to this, democratic elections, and referenda, when they are allowed, are either weighted or the results ignored if the people vote ‘the wrong way’.

The anti-EU revolution started from small beginnings with political dissidents such as Gert Wilders in the Netherlands, Marine Le Penn in France and the inimitable Nigel Farage in Great Britain battling against the globalist establishment. 

Labeled as ‘far-right’, these three in particular have suffered abuse, demonization, vilification and smear in addition to death threats.

To the horror of the ruling EU autocrats, defiance and opposition to their diktats has spread to the Eastern European members with the normally subservient Italians joining the uprising.





Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic are refusing to obey the EU diktats especially when it comes to opening their borders to mass immigration. They are also refusing to accept quotas from the phony ‘refugee crisis’ which was deliberately manufactured by the clearly insane German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.




Horror of all horrors, they are also refusing to accept any Muslim colonists in order to protect their people and their cultures from the demographic and Islamization disaster that has engulfed the rest of the EU.

This brazen defiance, especially on immigration and Islamization, has angered the autocrats because the core of the EU project is a single, borderless, multi-cultural state centrally governed from Brussels in a post democratic age.

Citing so-called 'EU solidarity', the autocrats demand that national governments implement EU diktats without question or opposition. Refusal to obey will attract sanctions which can include financial penalties, and in the case of Poland, the removal of voting rights in EU institutions.

The success of the Brexit referendum and the election of President Trump in the USA has emboldened dissidents across the EU and demonstrated that the will of the people can prevail against overwhelming odds.

In conclusion, it is hoped by all freedom loving people who believe in the sanctity and sovereignty of independent nation states that the momentum of the rebellion will gather pace and eventually destroy the malignant cancer that is the European Union and return government of the people, by the people, for the people to this blighted continent.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2018

The Architect Of The EU Immigration Disaster Kicks The Bucket






There was much weeping and wailing in the gilded halls of the global elite recently as they mourned the mortal coil shuffling of Peter Sutherland, one of their most senior and revered members.

Known as the father of globalism, the term ‘faceless bureaucrat’ doesn’t begin to describe this fanatic who is the man largely responsible for the economic and cultural destruction of EU basket cases such as Greece, Sweden and Italy along with his native Ireland.

The cultural and demographic disaster engulfing Europe from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Balkans is the result of this globalists’ total commitment to destroying the ancient cultures of Europe using mass immigration and replacing them with so-called multi-cultural societies.

He always used the term ‘destroying national homogeneity’ when referring to this cultural replacement agenda which is a politically correct term for what can only be described as ethnic cleansing.

The achievements of this monster of which he was most proud include the descent of Sweden into third world mediocrity and the rape capital of the world. Likewise his native Ireland, areas of which resemble Lagos or Mogadishu instead of the Emerald Isle we know and love.

The mass sexual assaults and mass murder of innocents by Muslim jihadists which is rampant in Europe, including the more advanced countries such as France, Germany and Great Britain, are the result of Peter Sutherland’s fanatical dedication to imposing multi-culturalism using mass immigration from the backward, uncivilised world.

The malign power and influence of the global elite is highlighted by the fact that Peter Sutherland held enormous power over the Presidents and Prime Ministers of Europe; the policies he advocated destroyed entire countries and the lives of hundreds of millions of people and yet he was never elected to anything via the ballot box in his entire life.

Such was his remoteness from the real world, his soulless carcass will be sent on its way unmourned by the ordinary people of Europe who’s lives and countries have been destroyed by the malignant ideology of this evil globalist fanatic and his ilk.

In line with the standard practice of the global elite, the word ‘appointed’ dominated the curriculum vitae of this powerful yet unaccountable bureaucrat.

His career as an international 'political fixer' was stellar and began when he was ‘appointed’ Attorney General of Ireland. A committed believer in replacing the independent nation states of Europe with a single, borderless, superstate he was then ‘appointed’ as a European Commissioner in the corrupt EU Commission of Jacques Delores.

European Commissioner is a powerful position which serves as a conduit for multi-national enterprises, big banks, international corporations and the UN to control the phony European Parliament and implement policies that imposes the new world order they have planned.

Other ‘appointments’ in the international banking, industrial and education sectors followed thick and fast for Sutherland including:

Allied Irish Banks, Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland, BP, ABB and the London School of Economics etc.

With a CV like this it was inevitable that Sutherland would be a believer and advocate of a New World Order comprising of a single, borderless, egalitarian world governed by the likes of him and his ilk.

Hence his ‘appointment’ to the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization before being ‘appointed’ as the UN Special Representative for Migration.

Sutherland and the rest of the global elite are divorced from reality believing only what they want to believe while ignoring the disastrous consequences of their actions.

An example of this disconnect is his ‘appointment’ to the Global Forum on Migration and Development which promotes international dialogue on the positive link between migration and development.

The link between migration and development in Europe and the western world has been an unmitigated disaster with no resultant development whatsoever. In fact, as the whole world can see, this mass migration has had the opposite effect by reducing the host countries, both economically and culturally, into replicas of the backward third world countries the migrants left behind.

Any development or economic improvement that has been achieved is by the efforts of the indigenous population despite the degenerative influence of millions of backward economic migrants.   

Despite the evidence before their eyes Sutherland and his fellow elites refuse to acknowledge this fact because it conflicts with their globalist agenda.

It must be noted that the Sutherland's’ lectures on ‘destroying national homogeneity’ and the creation of mythical ‘multi-cultural societies ‘applied only to Europe and the western world. While he toured the capitals of Europe advocating the abolition of borders and the free movement of peoples, he never delivered the same lecture in Saudi Arabia or any other Arab country in Middle East.

His lecture tour also omitted China, North and South Korea, Africa, India, Pakistan, Indonesia etc. In fact if Europeans migrated in large numbers into Africa in order to 'destroy national homogeneity' and create a multi-cultural societies they would be derided as white imperialists or exploiting colonists by the likes of Sutherland and his ilk.

In conclusion, the globalists have lost one of their founders and favorite sons but notwithstanding the efforts of President Trump and Brexit, their destructive agenda will roll relentlessly onward regardless of the damage it will do to western civilization, global prosperity, security and peace.


Related Articles:


Death of Peter Sutherland, Mass Migration Advocate Dubbed 'The Father of Globalization


UN: EU must destroy homogeneity of member states through immigration


Sweden Deploys An Army Of Bureaucrats To Sign Up Migrants To State Welfare


UNHCR - joint statement on Mediterranean crossings 



Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Poland Resisting Yet Another German Attempt To Destroy Europe





The plan by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to destroy then subjugate the nation states of Europe is painfully simple and a classic example of government by autocrats in a post democratic age.

Firstly, under the guise of a ‘refugee crisis’, and regardless of the clear and present danger to the citizens of Germany, she opened the borders to hordes of migrants from the middle east and Asia without proper vetting despite the fact that ISIS and other Islamic jihadis announced they would infiltrate their fighters into the deluge to kill and maim.

Merkel knew that once these freeloaders and jihadis were issued with documentation they would be free to move throughout the borderless Schengen area and the rest of the European Union countries using the freedom of movement rules.

Secondly, her announcement to the world that everyone is welcome was a signal to tens of thousands of dirt poor, backward economic migrants from Africa to traverse their continent and cross the Mediterranean Sea which forced already bankrupt Greece, Italy and Cyprus into a deeper, unsustainable crisis.

The EU autocrats then used this manufactured crisis as justification to impose mandatory quotas on the rest of its member states forcing them to accept these economic migrants into their societies without consultation dragging them further down the road to third world status and civil strife. 

Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Ireland, Spain and Portugal have been destroyed economically by German control of the Eurozone. Greece and Italy have been destroyed democratically by having their governments overthrown and replaced by EU appointed bureaucrats and all the nations of Europe have been destroyed socially and culturally by open border mass immigration.

Despite many of the member states being on the brink of civil war due to the mass immigration/cultural replacement agenda, the leaders the western European and Scandinavian member states go along with this madness because they are fanatical believers in the globalist EU project coupled with a fear of incurring the wrath of mad Merkel.

It falls upon the Eastern European members to fight for their citizens, along with their independence, national dignity and culture, just as they did against Hitler and his National Socialist Third Reich and Stalin with his United Soviet of Socialist Republics.

Led by Poland, the former Russian satellite countries of Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are refusing to accept immigration quotas citing the terrorist attacks across those EU countries that have been accepting Muslim refugees and imposing Islamification.

(Poland Rejects EU Immigrant Quotas - Sets Example For The United States of America. See here)

To the dismay of the EU autocrats they have also thrown political correctness to the four winds by stating that they are proud of their ancient cultures and do not intend to replace them by imposing ‘multi-culturalism’ on their proud and patriotic citizens.

These brave leaders are ignoring the heavy censorship that is being used across the EU to hide the truth by talking openly about the murder and mayhem being suffered by the people of Europe resulting from the mass influx of Muslims and imposed Islamification. 

(Hungarian PM Orban: The Islamization of Europe is real. See here)


(Political Islam is the Future Of Europe - EU Security Head, See here)

In a further act of defiance they have also stated that if they are forced to accept a quota of immigrants they will not accept any Muslims, strictly Christians only.

(No More Islamists: Poland gives epic response to EU after EU tried to force them to take Muslim refugees. See here)

The response of  Mad Merkel and the EU autocrats to this insubordination and brazen defiance is the usual dictatorial behavior typical of tyrants. Threats of economic sanctions, removal of voting rights in the sham Parliament and its committees withholding of funding for infrastructure projects etc. coupled with a campaign of vilification against the leaders.

To the surprise of nobody the politicized judges of the European Court of Justice has rejected a complaint by Hungary and Slovakia over the legality of the mandatory quota system which requires all member states to admit tens of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East against the wishes of the people. (See here and here)

It is widely accepted that the European Union (EU) is dominated by the clearly demented German Chancellor. What she says is accepted without question by the spineless bureaucrats who are in charge of the nation building project.

With increasingly megalomaniacal behavior she treats the 27 nation bloc as her private fiefdom and has even declared what she is prepared to accept and not accept during the Brexit negotiations. This is despite the fact these negotiations are between the twenty-seven country bloc and Great Britain not with Germany exclusively.

With the prospect of four more years of Mad Merkel and her insane open border policies, if Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic want to preserve their culture and protect their citizens from the rape, murder and civil strife that is being wreaked upon the already Islamized countries of the EU they should trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and throw off the shackles of oppression just like they did with communist Russia in the recent past.