{"id":63748,"date":"2017-07-10T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63748"},"modified":"2017-07-09T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T14:04:06","slug":"63748","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63748","title":{"rendered":"The Sieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flood of immigrants into Europe again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4665198\/Bill-Gates-warns-open-door-migration-overwhelm-Europe.html\">85,000 so far this year,<\/a> mostly people looking for the gravy train.\u00a0 \u00a0Immigrants generally first arrive in Italy, which is supposed to be able to pass them on to other nations in the European Union (that\u2019s the point of open borders within the EU) but after their experience over the last couple of years, some nations are reluctant to take them.\u00a0 Hmmmm, imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves Italy stuck with them.\u00a0 I\u2019m waiting for the Italians to start torpedoing refugee ships; quietly, at first, claiming they were \u201clost at sea\u201d but eventually openly, as necessary public policy to defend the nation from invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think you&#8217;ll see &#8220;The EU&#8221; (meaning, let&#8217;s be honest, Germany) bailing out Libya first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Flood of immigrants into Europe again, 85,000 so far this year, mostly people looking for the gravy train.\u00a0 \u00a0Immigrants generally first arrive in Italy, which is supposed to be able to pass them on to other nations in the European Union (that\u2019s the point of open borders within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63754,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63748\/revisions\/63754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}