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Denmark To Confiscate Gold, Jewelry, & Valuables From Refugees
Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,
It started on December 8, 1931.
Germany was in a world of pain at the time. They were still financially debilitated from having to make reparation payments after losing World War I, and had just barely recovered from one of the worst bouts of hyperinflation in recorded history.
By the early 1930s, the onset of the Great Depression had taken hold in Germany, driving the government to desperation once again.
They needed cash. And rather than go back to the printing press and risk hyperinflation again, German President Paul von Hindenburg signed a decree to create a new tax called the Reichsfluchtsteuer, nearly 84 years ago to the day.
It was an exit tax… a type of capital control to dissuade people from leaving with their savings.
So any German citizen with a certain level of income or assets who left the country would be charged a 25% wealth tax.
The following year, in 1932, the government generated about 1 million marks in revenue from the tax.
Of course since the tax was a ‘temporary’ measure, it was set to expire at the end of 1932.
But they extended it. And kept extending it.
By 1938, the German government collected an astounding 346 million marks from this tax.
This nearly 350x increase in tax revenue over 6 years is incredible, making the Reichsfluchtsteuer one of the fastest growing taxes in human history.
(By comparison, income tax receipts in the United States grew about 9-fold in the first six years of its history.)
So what was the German government’s secret in having so much success with this tax?
Simple. Their secret was the Secret Police.
By the late 1930s, the Nazis had taken over.
And even though there was no longer a reason to keep the Reichsfluchtsteuer on the books since the Depression had largely subsided, the Nazi regime kept extending the law, using it almost exclusively to target Jewish citizens.
In fact, the Reichsfluchtsteuer became one of the core components of the Nazi’s confiscation strategy to plunder Jewish wealth.
Now, I couldn’t help but think of the Reichsfluchtsteuer when I heard about the government of Denmark’s latest tactic against refugees today.
This isn’t even something that has made the international, English-language news. We just happen to have a Danish-speaking member of our team.
As he explained to me, Danish Justice Minister Soren Pind recently announced his intention to have border guards confiscate gold, jewelry, diamonds, and other valuables from refugees as they enter the country.
After a bit of popular backlash, wedding rings are now off limits.
But just about anything else ranging from cash to expensive wristwatches, is fair game for confiscation, as long as the ‘loot’ (as they call it) is valuable.
So apparently Danish border guards are expected to discern whether a refugee is wearing a $15,000 IWC Schaffhausen or a $15 knock-off.
(Clearly they spent a lot of time thinking about this policy and how to implement it.)
Having armed men indiscriminately seize refugees’ personal belongings doesn’t strike me as the best representation of a free society. Not that this matters anymore.
The Danish government’s excuse is that they need to confiscate assets from refugees in order to pay for the services they’re providing to those same refugees.
This might even sound reasonable… until you realize that a government could make the same argument for every other public service they provide.
It’s the same logic as confiscating funds from your bank account in order to provide you with the FDIC. Or seizing other assets to provide ‘free’ healthcare or education.
When a government awards itself the authority to attack one particular group, they give themselves that same power to attack everyone.
In the Land of the Free, they call it Civil Asset Forfeiture– a legal form of theft in which the government can administratively steal your assets with no Constitutionally guaranteed due process.
The US government stole $4.5 billion worth of private property from its citizens last year alone, far more than the $3.9 billion stolen by common thieves according to FBI data.
The trend is pretty obvious—governments are not shy at awarding themselves the authority to take whatever they want, whenever they want, from whomever they want.
And they’ll always come up with a good excuse to justify it.
This risk is not negligible. So as an insurance policy, it makes sense to ensure that you’re not holding 100% of your assets and savings within the control of a single government.
After all, they may one day be so desperate that they’ll steal from you in the name of protecting you.
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Das ist unglaublich!
/sarc
Barrels full of gold teeth.
you have to confiscate all their valuables. Otherwise, its harder to press the line that they are a burden on a country's welfare system
Denmark could just decline to take any refugees...
And they all are pissing on The Donald
But but but, the Scandinavian Countries are so Welcoming!
The refugees obviously want that there free dental insurance:
http://euro2012girls.com/pictures/danish-girl-euro-2012_03-165x240.jpg
Just think of all the hair they can get to stuff pillows, line coats and the like from cutting off the guys beards and shaving the girls backs ....
Can even send the kiddies since they can't contribute enough hair, to peel shrimp
Sounds like bad and is bad. But Denmark with their intentions at least honest about, robbery from the front and not sneaking from behind to rob.
oh you poor little faggots having your physical gold taken. Don't you wish you were virtual like me?
love your new profile picture fonestar, thats EXACTLY what I would think you look like.
I'm a good ol' troll, ain't meanin' no harm..
An tax to exit on a citizen is far different from a tax to enter for a foreigner.
The word refugee is being misused. This is voluntary immigration.
Why would they confiscate gold? Afterall, it's just a useless relic.
That's Barbarous relic....lol
No sympathy. In a sane world, people without papers get shipped back, unless they can actually prove asylum status.
7.62x54r
In a 'sane' world, there would be no borders and no governments
...but they can keep their AK's and bomb-making supplies...
Pol Pot confiscated all their victims' gold before they either killed them or let them sneak across the border to a safer place Vietnam. I know two Cambodians who bought their way out of Pol Pot's rithless clutches using their family's gold coins. Otherwise, they said, they would have been shot in the back of the head and dumped in a ditch.
So it pays to have a few of those coins around ... just in case.
Silver to buy food, gold to buy your life.
never a dull(ard) moment.
It sounds bad, but there is a simple way for you to keep your money - don't go to denmark to leech off their welfare state. This is actually smart of them as a way to keep more of them from coming in. SInce these people aren't likely to wise up and simply say "no more refugees, anyone who comes here gets sent right back to where you came from" this is the next best thing. They aren't confiscating your money in germany or sweden, so more will probably go there now.
If it needs to be said, no, i don't condone government just taking things, I agree with the posters above, its a very slippery slope. But if I was danish, Id probably be pretty hopeful that this will at least prevent some of these people from coming there.
You condone everything you state-worshipping freak. Don't think you can just lie to us now like we are all stupid and forgot everything else you said.
No it isn't smart of them: it ensures they will only get refuges with nothing who will need everything. It's a 100% wealth tax.
This also only implementation the first phase, begins with refugees, immigrants.
Some time to pass and confiscators acquire a taste for their robbery habit.
Stream of immigrants eventually grows slowlier and adequation of stream of loot lessens.
Next phase confiscators seek the loot stream to grow and looking at non-immigrants, non-refugees as resources harvestable.
Do a dna swab for the databank. Maybe they'll tag a match for a kidney for some rich/famous/connected guy and can take that too.
It's a slippery slope when you start that shit for whatever justification you offer. It's starts out just for the dirty brown immigrants and next thing you have USSA style civil asset forfeitures during traffic stops.
Best way to start the day, coffee and a sweet, sweet Danish every morning.
No smoke?
It depends on the lube.
LOL
Well if the free dental insurance comes with her phone number attached, I'm gonna knock my teeth out and catch a flight to Copenhagen.
Bingo! Free society doesn't mean free room and board. Send them back to support themselves. Too many fucking leeches living off future generations via debt needed to support them.
~"The Danish government’s excuse is that they need to confiscate assets from refugees in order to pay for the services they’re providing to those same refugees."~
I have no problem with this. If you show up at my country's door hat-in-hand and a wad of valuables in your pocket and expect to live off the largesse of my citizens, hell, yes, you are going to get your hoard "taxed". Deal with it. (That includes your effin' iPhone and yes, I'm looking at your posts on social media.)
dmger14
So the U.S. instigates war in the Middle East, destroys seven countries, kills MILLIONS of innocent people and starves the remainder who have nowhere to go for shelter, food and safety and you call them 'leeches' because they flee for their lives with almost nothing but the clothes on their backs, walk hundreds of miles with thousands of their fellow refugees only to meet xenophobic 'western' societies who herd them in to concentration camps with razor wire and feed them gruel (if they feed them at all!) and then have the audacity to indiscriminately STEAL whatever valuables they may have managed to hang on to in order to PAY for what they need to start over.
You are so ignorant. YOU are the one living off whatever YOUR government provides to you after they have taxed your ass to death to pay for their State Approved Security Police and build more weapons to destroy more countries in their BIG PLAN to Rule the World.
Why they don't DEMAND billion$$ from the Military Industries, Banks and those that profit from the destruction of those refugees' homeland, I will never know. The oppressed shall never find justice. Sigh. Someone smart and empathetic should represent them in the international court to claim what they have lost.
Because the people who benefit from this, built this, and it works just fine.
Suckers, they would never find the solid gold plate in my head.
A 'goldmember', however, is definitely not safe - no matter where you try to hide it.
..and just as many doo-rags! Are we talking about the US?
I see no problem, or potentail problem, with this policy; I do it all the time...whenever someone shows up on my doorstep, I ROB THEM ON THE SPOT and then invite them in for coffee...
Hmmm. Great minds. Except I invite them over to the neighbors for coffee.
FireBrander
You need a /sarc tag
Too many idiots here may not get your sense of humor
We shook down some Folks
Nice, I did laugh out loud on that one. Thanks.
The migrant invaders should be machine gunned. Muslims are useless filth and Islam itself is a terrorist org.
Open wide.
So they take 25% to leave the country, 25% to provide documents and smuggler's transports, and then take the rest upon arrival at the port of call.
Presto! You're A GENUINE REFUGEE. Aren't you happy now?
That's not a bad plan. Sell work visas for $50k in Syria. Ship them back to Syria if they apply for welfare.
The Danish government’s excuse is that they need to confiscate assets from refugees citizens in order to pay for the services they’re providing to those same refugees citizens.
Fixed it for you.
it could have been worse, wouldn't it? it could have been EU frontier guards, instead of Danish frontier guards
as a reminder, Denmark is one of the countries at the very vanguard of the War Against Cash. it recently allowed shops to refuse cash. "electronic only" signs
but again, it could have been worse, wouldn't it? Denmark could have been using the EUR... the horror, the horror
If you like your Rolex you can keep your Rolex... oh wait.
You can keep it, just don't go to Denmark asking for FREE SHIT. Are they confiscating wealth from those using normal immigration channels? NO.
It is means testing of government handouts, a popular notion in the USSA and ZH from thousand dollar rims in Section 8 housing to Ag subsidies for Big Ag...
Comparing the Reichsfluchtsteuer to what the Danes are proposing is ludicrous.
Reichsfluchtsteuer >>> Reichs + flucht + steuer = Nazi + ESCAPE + tax
(The whole thing is PR ploy anyway to drive hordes Merkel invited to the EU over to her place, as opposed to seriously raising money to cover the costs of handouts for the invaders)
Works better than a fence.
Hey Greece!
Are ya seeing this?
See Something Steal Something.
The allah fuckers would reply,
See an infidel, rape/kill an infidel.
If they are not poor when the leave, they will be when they arrive just in time to sign up to the latest and greatest welfare program
Go Denmark. Fuck muslims. You are not a refugee when you travel trough seven save countries to get to the best handouts.
The German government's tax on fleeing Jews was a little more necessary than you make out; see Adam Tooze: The Wages of Destruction: The Making & Breaking of the Nazi Economy. Very interesting information in there shows that the German economy was absolutely starved for gold/hard currency to use in international trade because Hitler categorically refused to devalue the Reichsmark. The confiscations were literally paying for gas and groceries -- Germany was not self-sufficient in critical economic goods.
Denmark has no excuse. Those valuables are precisely how refugees try to carry sufficient resources to get them started in their new lives. Taking their treasure means condemning them to permanent dependence on the welfare state -- and incidentally assures that their children will despise the nation that accepts and feeds them, like the French Muslims responsible for recent terror attacks.
The STOOPID, it BURNS.
Sounds like a plan that may deter immigrants as well as any other. You sure wouldn't want to blame the violence on those that commit it would you.
Commie nations need everyone to chip in. Communism doesn't work unless you spend someone elses' money.
Not the leeches. They get free shit for nothing and make free shit for nothing babies who get pissed at the thought they should get a job.
If I spread my assets out over many countries then more countries will have an opportunity to steal from me and I won't be able to defend any of it. Which government do you think is trustworthy Simon? I don't like any of them. When I get some wealth some day I will keep it as close to me as possible. Then I will at least be aware of it when the gov. steals it. One thing I have already learned is that if I let someone else manage my money they will steal as much as they can. Why haven't you learned this yet Simon?
USA needs to confiscate about 100 million pairs of Nike's to help pay for our welfare system!
So don't be surprised to see a used movado watch show up in your tax return.
Most countries routinely confiscate the assets, at least partially, of those who cross its borders. Its called Customs.
Nothing new here. Move along.
Can't we just call this Civil Asset Seizure and go back to sleep?
It is just another way of telling those invaders, make no mistake about the real term, to keep the fuck away from Denmark.
Do you understand the difference between a fortress and a prison? Both have high walls, guards, locks on the doors, etc.
A country with an exit tax is a prison. A country with an entrance tax is a fortress. If you don't like Denmark's entrance tax, you can easily evade it by not entering Denmark. Duh.
Explains perfectly why prison planet fits America.
I think about all the shelved bullets we give our border patrol here in the US.
Just sitting there collecting dust.
Oh please; as if anyone's forcing these Arabs to come to Denmark. They're economic migrants and there is zero chance they will ever be economically productive in the net; fugghedabout this Nazi crap.
This little thing? Just a 10 pound golding weddingring with 200 50 karat diamonds.... nothing to declare...
Bomb them and then steal all the belongings when they run to you for safety. Great plan Denmark! Something is bound to backfire here. What a bunch of assholes. Deserve everything that happens to them.
Opening for dentists in Camp Blue Cheese
Just who is gonna check orfices. Orfice patrol?
Like civil judicial forfeiture here in the USA. Guys with guns taking your stuff - yeah, we know what thats like. At least the Danes have the decency not to do it to their own citizens.
We're talking with the girl's father who says what hurts the most is the fact his daughter will never get that moment back, on Channel 2 Action News starting at 4.
The 6-year-old girl was graduating from kindergarten, and her family was at the school to celebrate her shining achievement.
Instead, the night ended with her father in jail, her mother’s estranged boyfriend on the run, a child injured, and her graduation ceremony delayed for about an hour as police had to break up a violent fight between the two men.
“This was a serious incident. Someone’s child was hurt, and the fact that they fought at school graduation, where little children were their enjoying their day. Unacceptable,” Maj. Alan Parker, with the Clayton County School Police told Channel 2's Tom Jones.
This incident happened in May, but police say Jarke Barnes had been hiding from them and wouldn’t come in to speak with them about the incident.
The girl’s father, Rodrick Glenn, was arrested, but he says he didn’t start the fight.
What are you on about????
LOL that these 'refugees' have any wealth proves they are not refugees. There is nothing wrong with confiscating ill gotten gains, especially in wartime. How many of the wallstreet and FED wizards of theft are Jewish? Sieg Heil!
This is one of the faults of libertarianism, and promoters of the gold standard, is does nothing to right the injustices of the past. There is class and ethnic warfare, the ultra-rich Askenazi 'master-race' has been winning for a long time.
'keep your hands off of my stack, pig fuckers ' Being robbed of your worldly possessions is a deterrent.
In uptown Timbuktu, Mali and Aleppo, Syria DAESH will only confiscate half of your stack.
take every nickel you can squeeze 'em for
you're gonna need it later to pay for the social chaos and the damage from internal terrorist attacks
Small sacrifice to make for getting to cling to Denmark's welfare tit for the rest of your life.
Regarding the nazis taxing the population: fast forward to 1989 and Germany imposed the reunification tax to fund the reunification of Germany. The Germans thought it would cost them 75 billion D-Mark but it cost them ten times as much. But the reunification tax continued long after the reunification was paid off. This filled the coffers of German banks who then lend it to whomever wanted to borrow. This along with a good Euro exchange rate for their D-Mark led to the situation that we have now where Germany basically is boss in Europe. But the rest of Europe is getting back at them by passing on all migrants to them.
But taxing the obedient German worked in the 30s and it worked post 89.
Confiscating wedding rings or similar personal belongings was never discussed.
To understand the issue here, an understanding of the political situation in Denmark is needed. After the election in June this year a minority government by the party Venstre was formed. Venstre only has 34 out of 179 seats in our parliament. Even with the other right-leaning parties they cannot get a majority in parliament, which means they would very soon loose government. So they made an alliance with the left-leaning but quite xenophobic party Dansk Folkeparti.
As part of the recent negotiations regarding refugees an agreement between Venstre and Dansk Folkeparti was made. This agreement said that refugees seeking asylum in Denmark could be searched, and if large valuables (larger than needed for living a normal life here) were found, they could be confiscated. Personal belongings and belongings with special personal value (like wedding rings) can not be confiscated. The confiscation would be for one purpose only: To secure payment for special services offered to refugees (not public services). IMHO not unreasonable that people that have large values are required to pay for special services offered to them, and that such payment is secured before the valuables can be hidden.
Now we have a very public discussion between Venstre and Dansk Folkeparti about what actually was agreed. Venstre says that a refugee entering the country with a suitcase full of diamonds or cash should have this confiscated to ensure payment for special services rendered to him, but an expensive wrist watch is a personal belonging that should not be confiscated. Dansk Folkeparti thinks that items like an expensive wrist watch should also be confiscated. Nothing near the highway robberies done by police in the US.
This is nothing but political theater, with no real substance. It is simply Dansk Folkeparti trying to show voters that they are trying to make it as hard for refugees as possible, and highlighting that they got our government to agree to such confiscations. But they are not part of the government that will enforce these new rules.
Except for high taxation rates, we have a strong respect for property rights here in Denmark. This "confiscating" of large values are only so the state can hold on to them to ensure payment of special services (like free housing, food, and local language/culture education) offered to refugees that have money to pay for it.
Careful Denmark. The day will come when you'll be ruled under Sharia. The memory of these confiscations will gurantee the loss of several limbs for all Government Employees. You also know that I'm not joking. The cultural suicide of Sweden is simply the first on the list of European horror to come. A return to sanity means civil war. Civil war or Sharia. You've boxed yourselves in with only 2 choices. Will your beloved Denmark be the next Country to claim Sharia?
Thank you my good man for the explanation and reasoning behind the decision and actions of the Danish government. I suppose the refugees could refuse and go back to Germany or Sweden???
Which country offers the best monetary services King?
"This might even sound reasonable… until you realize that a government could make the same argument for every other public service they provide."
Except that these parasites are not Danish citizens and are not genuine refugees having come through numerous countries before arriving in Denmark. Denmark owes them precisely nothing.
I think I would just confiscate them with all their belongings and ... then ship them back home ... or to Iceland
http://time.com/4018241/iceland-syria-refugees/
Always carry a thousand (fake) silver rounds. They'll be so excited they'll miss the good stuff.
So is an Austrian gold Philharmonic just a 100 Euro coin - or a barbaric relic subject to confiscation?
And when is Europe going to start paying these same refugees financial compensation for destroying their homes and livelihoods in Syria??
Bernies socialist utopia. Bring in terrorists but take their gold...
Well so much for that unappreciated satire. DELETED
Denmark is a tiny country by land area.
The rapes and murders in Denmark by these "refugees" has been unprecedented.
All of the White homelands are being invaded either by refugees or other immigrants.
Big as the US is it will reach, according to Census projections, ONE BILLION population by end of this century.
90% of US Naturalizations from 3rd World
75% of population growth since 2000 from immigration, 100 million more by 2065
Feds plan MORE shelters as migrants SURGE at Texas border Dec 8 2015
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Professor Kevin MacDonald’s ‘The Culture of Critique’ Reviewed review written in 1999
I had to go research this story, just to see if it was true......Yes....it is....
I guess the refugees aren`t causing enough riots, so lets up the ante.....
Geezzz.....Europe never changes.....
Let's face it, the U.S. Government should also be confiscating gold and silver from Americans to help pay down the national debt.
Sites like this one should be subpoenaed and compelled to divulge user information that might be useful in tracking down precious metal owners.
When you finish sucking me off, I'm going to stick it up your ass for a few hours.
Okay?
Freedom aint free Ahkmed....
The Danes should take the same things from all the Turks who have moved in on the public dole for 2 decades now, but I guess that that's the Danes' business.
I'd think if you had a large quantity of valuables that you'd choose NOT to be a 'refugee', and just move your family somewhere else by choice. And that you'd have done that awhile ago.
Maybe it's just me...
When they ask why their shit is being taken, tell them they gotta pay for all the people in line behind them.
What's the prob, they do this to us with devaluation.... so the refugees are just starting...
This confiscation smells of Ponzi to me. Especially since it's coming from the Reich of Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
On the other hand, this may be Denmark's way of telling the refugees to go to Sweden.
The Danes should sterilize all of them upon entrance as well.
Why should the Danes work their butts off to provide freebies like benefits, healthcare, education and much else.
Why should they provide good free houses the Danes have to pay for themselves.
Why should these people march into Denmark and demand the lot.
The Danes are right - make them pay.
All Europe should be doing the same.
the refugees have iPhone6s...i dont have an iPhone. i dont see anything wrong with taking shit from 'refugees' and making them pay for the rapes. rape isnt free people.
nor is marriage.
I dunno, if I were gonna travel 1,000s of miles to a foreign country I might spring for an iphone or similar. I'd drop back a model year cause I am frugal.
Jee which Tyler wrote this crock. It's not the same as government taxes, because these (mainly) migrant freeloaders don't pay any taxes.
Isn't that just like the Danes.
Any excuse for a rubber glove test.
Whatever made the author think that only desperate governments will steal from you ? Governments view their people as LIVESTOCK. Remember that
My COMPLIMENT to ZH. Most people seem to think that Reichsfluchtsteuer, the EXIT TAX, was a Nazi invention. Getting this right is sensatonal.
Governments steal all the time. The Kohl-Regime stole our land Prenzlauer Promenade 191 in Berlin Pankow. No compensation, they just took it and told us we have no rights. It was valued as between 1.800.000 and 2.100.00 Deutschmarks at the time about 20 years ago. Like today, money is for foreigners, not for the German people. Our land was gifted to France although kickbacks were discovered for the CDU in Geneva.
Holy Fuck, the Refarters are smuggling shit? Welcome home boys! Step into my office.
Huh? This makes entirely too much sense for it to come from Scandinavia. Putting a price on immigration into the country? I mean, who the fuck does that. It might force those poor helpless people to go somewhere else.
<--- Pirate euroPeons & Americans
Pirate America & its euroPeons have always been like that
euroPeons were cannibals in ancient times they ate neanderthals to extinction
euroPeons then became pirates , looting & burning ships
euroPeons started slavery of people, treated humans as animals
euroPeons attacked (peace loving) advanced civilizations killed monks & ascetics & burnt libraries in asia (by turkish)
euroPeons then became colonialists , racists , treated people as servants
...and millions died in colonies
euroPeons started drug trade (opium wars)
euroPeons then started another form of piracy - swiss banks & britsh caymen islands
keeping stolen money by corrupt & became rich
Now euroPeons(& americans) want oil & gas monopoly
destroying country after country (Iraq, Libya, Syria etc) millions dead, injured, homeless
looting their gold
You euroPeons & americans are working against human rights ( Julian Assange & Snowden)
You euroPeons(& americans) are a disease to planet earth
It doesn't pay like it used to but it's still a living.
Europeans and Americans did all the inventions that make your life longer, healthier and happier. Things like cars, planes, aspirin, antibiotics and a whole range of other medications, your mobile phone, computer, internet, etc. etc. etc. You continue using them since you dislike Europeans and Americans so much would by hypocritical so goodbye onmail1.
Lest the poor & developing countries
Victims of past , not forget it
The post will be repeated
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Btw who makes ur all electronics
as well as all other goods
who writes the software
who invents new tech in ur research labs
its the bright ppl from those poor countries
while you all enjoy the rush of cocaine, heroin, DMT etc etc
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Also u ppl celebrate Christmas with goods imported from east
even the christmas trees and their decorative hangings & lights are imported from east
Hah ha
What do you think the "income" tax is?