BRUSSELS — In the wake of the crisis meeting of the European Union’s Population
Board, EU ministers have called on the United States to begin an emergency airlift of
“population uncontrol” measures to the European Union’s shrinking native
populations. European historians are likening the crisis to West Berlin’s cry for food
and medicine following the Soviet blockade in 1948.
In a unprecedented bipartisan agreement, the United States Congress voted nearly
unanimously to fund and supply shipments of Viagra and oysters, which wil be air
dropped using NATO aircraft, to key areas of thirteen European countries where native
Europeans are at least still sizeable minorities.
“The logistics of the drops are key,” said General James L. Jones, the Supreme Allied
Commander, Europe and the Commander of the United States European Command,
who will head the mission, code named Operation Oyster, speaking from the Supreme
Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium.
“If we inadvertently supply immigrant populations instead of actual Europeans we will
exacerbate rather than ameliorate the problem. The way I read it that would be bad,”
said Jones.
“The latest demographic analyses are graphic: without outside assistance Europe as
we know it will cease to exist within the next 50 to 75 years — just a blink of the eye in
the context of the storied history of ‘old Europe,’ which is, not uncoincidentally,
becoming ‘old Europe’ even as this report is being written,” Wolfgang Lutz of the
Vienna Institute of Demography, a part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The EU Population Board is also calling for the Roman Catholic Church to take the
unusual step of extending its ban on artificial birth control beyond its own adherents to
“lapsed Catholics, unbelievers and infidels.” Although the Board says it recognizes
that this measure may have limited impact, it feels it may help create “an
uncomfortable atmosphere regarding birth control use among the general population,”
which it thinks may have some utility in increasing birthrates.
Air drops are necessary, rather than standard military truck convoys, demographics
experts say, because of residential patterns in most European urban areas as well as
the necessity of hitting remote rural areas.
“Most native European populations are essentially held hostage inside their old cities
ringed by large complexes of subsidized housing filled primarily with immigrants, legal
and other than legal,” said Belgium’s Louvain-la-Neuve University professor and
demographer Michel Loriaux.
“As the French riots in 2007 showed, traversing these areas in land vehicles can be
extremely hazardous,” said Dr. Loriaux.
“It’s funny how this whole thing has turned three sixty. The feared population bomb of
the 1970’s has turned out to be a dud. Now the military that used to bring us wars as a
primitive form of population control is being asked to use its bombers as storks flying
in the babies,” said demographer Loriaux.
The countries receiving assistance are Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden,
Portugal, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
In an extremely rare instance of Franco-American military cooperation, the French will
prepare the oysters for eating by sautéing them in a light sauce béarnaise. The French
are also providing a supply of barrel fermented off-dry Chardonnay, which is nicely
balanced and complex, and works well with Viagra.
Gary D. Gaddy was a German major in college who studied in Austria and has in-laws
from Sweden.
A version of this column was published in the Chapel Hill Herald Thursday April 16,
2009.
Copyright 2009 Gary D. Gaddy
garygaddy.com 