With the region still reeling from last week’s ISIS attacks on Paris, the Belgian government has announced they are raising their alert level in the Brussels region to the highest possible level, citing a “serious and imminent threat” which is related to the aftermath of the Paris attacks.
Under the heightened alert, the Interior Ministry is warning the public to avoid places with a lot of people, including concerts, sporting events, airports, and train stations. Officials declined to offer further details, saying they wanted to “avoid endangering judicial investigations” that are ongoing.
The Brussels region encompasses the capital and 19 neighboring municipalities, including Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. The rest of Belgium is under the second-highest alert level possible.
Molenbeek has been hyped as one of Europe’s largest havens for jihadists, and has been the target of post-Paris raids. Locals have held massive vigils to honor the victims of the Paris attacks, trying to shake off their new-found reputation as a “terror capital.”
All this draws the EU ever closer together. There's now talk of even closer police co-operation than is provided for under the Schengen Agreement. The whole "point" of the EU is to face up to common external enemies. It was originally set up as part of the cold war defence mechanisms.
> The whole "point" of the EU is to face up to common external enemies. It was originally set up as part of the cold war defence mechanisms.
This is COMPLETELY false. It was set up for economic cooperation, first as the EGKS for steel industry in the Lux-Be-France space, it the morphed into a Europe-wide economic unification mechanism (and of course the utter folly of the EURO springs from that). There is a dedicated organization called the WEU which is for "external threats". Predictably one never hears from it as bombing tasks are given to the US occupying forces, i.e. NATO.
Also "external threats" and "police cooperation" are two things one should never have in the same sentence except in a fascist rant.
So a whole district of Brussels ise now smeared with the media air-brushed label of 'terror capital' because of some wild accusations that have been thrown about in the confused aftermath of Paris. A group of 'suspects', we are told, are on the run still with their suicide vests on and ready to set them off at any given moment, after supposedly 'chickening out' of doing it in Paris. Huh?
And this after three people are blown to bits in a Paris apartment siege, becoming 'unrecognisable' in the process (yet identified as the 'terror mastermind' by his DNA), and out of the 8 survivors only one is detained and the other 7 are set free (?). And then it turns out that the girl who 'blew herself up' in said apartment didn't actually do so at all, but was 'crying for help' when the explosion happened. Huh?
Do not ask questions! STAY at home, where we can tell you what to do and think. Do not object to masked troops on the streets (they are there for your own good) or to our arbitrary suspension of your civil liberties! But FEAR and HATE this picture of some random person of muslim extraction that we put on your television screen! OBEY what the government tells you!