Crime waves committed across Europe by “migrants” and authorities’ habit of punishing law-abiding citizens for pushing back are just two crises suggesting Europe’s fate hangs in the balance, asserts Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness. Add to these debt-bloated governments, unsustainable social spending, feckless foreign policy and economy-choking regulations and, Hanson concludes, Europe’s path is increasingly diverging from that of a reinvigorated America.
Inhuman for Criminals, the Luck of the Draw for You and Me
The EU may have banished the “‘inhuman,’ ‘degrading,’ and ‘irreversible’” death penalty for criminals, writes Frank Haviland in The European Conservative – but its member states’ soft-on-crime, easy-on-illegal-immigrants policies are making violent death an increasingly common fate for innocent Europeans. In a world gripped by barbarian forces, writes Haviland, it’s time for Great Britain to hold a national referendum on restoring an older form of justice.
