Monday - July 17, 2006
The Little Dutch Boy
The little Dutch Boy is in trouble. He better get his finger out of the dyke because there’s a dirty old man sneaking up on him. It’s official. The Dutch can now have a pedophile party to run for elections and serve in government making laws if elected.
I was barely making it through this news story when I came to the last sentence below and completely cracked up. Who knew the Dutch had trailer parks? Is there possibly a Euro-Peon version of Jerry Springer who is willing to cover these jerks ...
Dutch Court OKs ‘Pedophile’ Political Party
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - July 17, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT
A Dutch court refused Monday to ban a political party whose main goal is to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12. The judge said it was the voters’ right to judge the appeal of political parties. The party has only three known members, one of whom was convicted of molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1987. Widely dubbed the “pedophile” party, it is unlikely ever to win a seat in parliament. The group would need around 60,000 votes, and pollsters estimate it would get fewer than 1,000.
Opponents had asked The Hague District Court to bar the party from registering for national elections in November, arguing that children have the right not to be confronted with the party’s platform. “Freedom of expression, freedom ... of association, including the freedom to set up a political party, can be seen as the basis for a democratic society,” Judge H. Hofhuis said in his ruling.
“These freedoms give citizens the opportunity to, for example, use a political party to appeal for change to the constitution, law, or policy.” He noted that the PNVD party, the Dutch abbreviation of Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity, had not committed a crime, but was calling for a change in the law. “It is the right of the voter to judge the appeal of political parties,” he said.
The party sparked outrage when it proclaimed its existence in late May, but prosecutors declined to prosecute its members as a threat to public order. “We expected this result,” said party treasurer Ad van den Berg, 62. “We are not doing anything illegal so there is no reason to ban us.” Van den Berg was fined and given a suspended prison sentence for molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1987. After his background became known last month, he was chased from the trailer park where he lived in the city of Oostvoorne.
- More pedo-crap from AP here ...
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Permalink • Thursday - July 06, 2006
Catch And Release
This was sent in by Brit reader Peiper, who is an American living across the pond. What he doesn’t realize is that the same thing happens here in the US every day. Here they catch Mexicans, hold them until INS or ICE says they can’t handle them, then they are released on their own recognizance. In Britain, it’s Africans and Arabs instead of Mexicans. The only difference between us and the Brits is that we get our grass cut and our cars washed cheap. All the Brits get is bombs in the tube. Both the US and Britain have the same problem though - politicians who literally don’t give a damn.
Illegal Immigrants Found Hiding In Back Of Lorry
(HAMPSHIRE CHRONICLE) - June 29, 2006
Five illegal African immigrants found in the back of a lorry, spent the night at North Walls police station, before being packed off to London by train the next day. Winchester Police had received a tip-off about a “suspicious” lorry at Bar End, and the vehicle was tracked and eventually stopped in South Drive, Littleton, at 5pm last Wednesday.
Three men and two women, thought to be aged between 20 and 26, were found in the back of the Spanish lorry, and were arrested on suspicion of entering the country illegally. The group was taken to the Winchester police tation, but officers were told that Home Office immigration officials did not have the resources to deal with them at the time.
Instead, they were given shelter overnight in a front office at North Walls, and then put on a London-bound train the next morning. A police spokesman said the lorry was filled with cacti plants and blankets, and was believed to be en route to a local nursery. Winchester’s top police officer, Inspector Kevin Baxman, was on duty when the Africans were brought to the city station.
“It was pretty crammed in there,” he said. Insp Baxman said they were all “very hungry, very tired and weary. We called immigration and they told us they didn’t have the resources to deal with them. They then told us to release them with directions to the Immigration headquarters in Croydon,” he said. ”They didn’t speak English, they didn’t have any identification, they had no money, they had not had any food, and they didn’t know where they were.”
Insp Baxman said he had concerns for their safety late at night, and allowed them to spend the night in a front office at North Walls. The following morning, he followed the instructions of immigration officials, and gave them directions to Croydon. Police officers escorted the Africans to Winchester station, and negotiated with a rail company to transport the group.
They travelled on the next train, free of charge, unescorted. The Home Office said it does not comment on individual cases, and therefore could not confirm or deny whether they arrived. Insp Baxman added: ”Once immigration had made the decision, we couldn’t lawfully hold them. Fingerprints were taken in a bid to identify them, but there were no records. It’s not the first time it has happened,” added Insp Baxman. “Those people are in this country, but no one has any idea where they are.”
Winchester police detained the Spanish lorry driver, but immigration officers told him there was not enough evidence that he had done anything wrong, so he, too, was released. Insp Baxman added: “We have five cells in Winchester and when we have five people in custody obviously it ties up a lot of police officers and it’s very frustrating for nothing to happen.”
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Permalink • Friday - June 30, 2006
Most Ridiculous Headline Of All Time
OK, boys and girls! It’s time for Uncle Reginald’s bedtime fun story. Today’s fun reading comes to us from Britain’s extremely prestigious, principled, honest and unbiased newspaper, The Record.
CRAP! I just broke my personal bullshit meter. Hang on a second, kids .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
OK, that’s fixed. Actually, The Record makes the NY Times sound like Rush Limbaugh. No kidding! The Brit loons** are a precious crop of Liberal asshats and their bile and venom toward anything conservative is world-class (much like the Brit soccer fans’ beer drinking abilities). I stumbled across this little gem while wandering around across the pond getting updates on reaction to yesterday’s Supreme Court vomitus extremis.
** Disclaimer: not all Brits are loons. Our British friends who visit here are a fine example of good Limeys. So there!
Within the space of just a few thousand words, The Record manages to:
(1) refer to Gitmo as “kangaroo courts” when they surely must know there are no marsupials in Cuba,
(2) accuse Tony Snow of “re-writing history” when the news of the ruling was still warm and hadn’t had time to age properly which is a requirement for becoming “history”,
(3) break the secret Conserva-Code used by the Bush administration to hide their evil designs in spite of the fact that all neo-cons who are “in the know” fully understand that the codes change daily,
(4) use “crucial sound-bite”, “right-wing punditry”, “ram through a bill”, and “ignore any language he dislikes” - all within one short paragraph,
(5) give us all a lesson on the Constitution from the many constitutional experts currently residing in Liverpool,
(6) claim that President Bush has obtained “grotesquely swollen powers”, and managed to do it without a single Viagra pill, and finally
(7) conclude this insightful analysis by referring to a South Carolina Senator as “sleazoid”, in spite of the fact that the Senator referred to has never gotten drunk, driven his car off a bridge and left a young lady to drown while he manipulated the system to avoid prosecution.
I say, old chap! I certainly hope our Brit friends here do not use this rag to wrap fish and chips in. That could cause anything from mild dyspepsia to extreme dysentary. Regardez-vous! I have included the convenient web page where you may reply to the author of this drivel at the bottom of this horse-shit. Be careful when writing though. If you use the word “sleazoid” you might offend and hurt this nice chap’s feelings. Now toddle on off to your reading assignment, kiddies ...
Supremes Axe Gitmo Kangaroo Courts
Thursday 29th June 2006 22:42 GMT
(THE REGISTER - UK) - The US Supreme Court has axed a pillar of the Bush Administration’s national security strategy by insisting that prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba not be subjected to the kangaroo courts, otherwise known as “military tribunals,” that the Bushies have attempted to use in disposing of terror suspects.
Within minutes of the ruling, during a press conference, the President graciously offered to “consider” the Supreme Court’s ruling. And within the hour, White House flack Tony Snow hastened to re-write history, claiming that the decision had “emphasized” the need for Congress to grant the President the authority he has thus far been wielding illegally. Actually, the issue came up most notably in a concurring decision by Justice Stephen Breyer, rather than the majority opinion. Nevertheless, Congressional rubber-stamping was “the most important” issue in the ruling, Snow explained.
It’s a complicated decision, with numerous dissenting opinions, Snow allowed. Therefore it will take some time for the White House to “figure out what it all means.” Which is code for “we’re going to interpret it in our own way and act on it however we please.”
But for now, at least, the White House has found its crucial sound-bite incantation: “Congressional authorization.” We will be hearing nothing else from the right-wing punditry until a popular myth is established to the effect that the Republican-controlled Congress need only ram through a bill legitimizing the existing system, to which the President can even append “signing statements” indicating his determination to ignore any language he dislikes.
In the near term, we will see a media blitz with the phrase “Congressional authorization” repeated ad nauseam, culminating in a hastily-drafted bill rammed through the House, plus a slightly more intelligent version making slower progress through the Senate, to be reconciled in Conference Committee and endorsed by the President with a classic “signing statement” indicating his profound contempt for the very laws that he swore an oath to execute faithfully.
It’s clear that the Bush Administration reads the Constitution of the United States with a contemptuous and very selective eye. It finds within it a plethora of concomitant rights for itself, such as the right to deny trials to so-called “enemy combatants,” to torture foreign captives, and to spy on innocent US citizens without a warrant.
All of these activities are expressly forbidden by the Constitution. Denying trials is forbidden by the Fifth Amendment: “No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Note the key phrase “no person,” as opposed to “no citizen.” The right to trial is not something that the Constitution grants in a conditional manner. It is not conditional upon anything, including citizenship. It is, rather, a hard restriction on government authority. Denying due process is something that the government simply cannot do legitimately. Period.
Torture is forbidden by the Eighth Amendment: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” The restriction is unconditional. Torture is something else that the government simply cannot do legitimately. Period.
Warrantless spying is forbidden by the Fourth Amendment: “...no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.” Here again, we confront a thing - warantless spying - that the government simply cannot do legitimately. Period. Yet the Bush Administration does it with impunity.
The Constitution is paramount to all other laws: Congress can pass all the bills it pleases to create loopholes in it, but any such laws are invalid. And yet, the Bushies contend that the same Constitution, which plainly forbids all of these abuses, empowers it to enact all of these abuses. It has wrung enormous mileage out of Article II Section 2, which says simply that, “the President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States when called into the actual Service of the United States...”
From this single enumerated duty, the Bushies have extruded a plethora of imagined concomitant rights to ignore any part of the Constitution that inconveniences them. Said another way, the argument is that the President cannot be an effective Commander in Chief unless he’s got the (presumed, or concomitant) right to chuck any part of the Constitution that gets in the way of dispatching his duty, which he alone is free to interpret.
This leads to the bizarre conclusion that there are greater and lesser rights within the Constitution. But of course there are not. Congress is expressly forbidden to draft laws that violate its provisions, or even weaken them with wiggle room. (Not that this has ever inhibited it in doing so. The Fourth Amendment in particular has been gutted through the years, and the Supreme Court has capitulated repeatedly, which in practical terms means that we’re stuck with the situation.)
But today, the Supreme Court decided to defend the Constitution against executive abuse. It ruled that Article II Section 2, and the Congressional resolution authorizing the use of military force against terrorists, do not even “hint” at the grotesquely swollen powers that the Bushies have claimed.
The Court said it: the President does not have the power to violate the Constitution. And, we will add, Congress does not have the power to authorize the President to violate the Constitution.
This was made evident by the simple fact that the Supremes heard the case, which Congress had decreed it cannot do. The Court ignored the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which illegitimately attempted to strip the Supremes of jurisdiction over the Gitmo mess. (It also outlawed torture, but the President issued a “signing statement” informing the world that he had no intention of obeying it. Not that the Act, or the statement, matter; torture is already outlawed by the Constitution.)
When Justice Breyer wrote in his separate decision that “nothing prevents the President from returning to Congress to seek the authority he believes necessary,” he did not mean that Bush and his compliant Red-State yokels in Congress can collaborate to draft an unconstitutional law. Of course, this is precisely what the right-wing punditry will claim, but it is absolutely wrong.
The Supreme Court does not issue rulings that it intends to see violated. What Breyer meant is that the White house and Congress are free to seek an alternative to courts martial, so long as it satisfies the requirements of the UCMJ, the Geneva Conventions, and the Constitution of the United States.
He did not mean, as a certain sleazoid Senator from South Carolina insisted, that Congress can “bless” unconstitutional kangaroo courts. So don’t be fooled as the right-wing media blitz arguing otherwise gathers momentum.
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Permalink • Sunday - June 25, 2006
Monumental Suck-Up
Memorials should be built for wars, not for religious groups who participated. There are probably an equal number of Muslims who fought and died in WWI from the other side, the Ottoman Empire, which sided with Germany. Chirac is simply sucking up to the Muslims in France who are gradually taking over the country. Meanwhile, at other cemeteries in France, Jewish graves in France are being vandalized by “parties unknown”. Yeah, it must have been Norwegians who did it, right?
What someone in Europe needs to do is build a huge 1,000,000 ton marble monument to the utter supidity, the rank indifference to potential deaths and the slimey political backroom games that were being played by Europe’s Kings and Emperors and Czars and Kaisers in the late 19th century that caused hundreds of millions of deaths, solved nothing and merely provided a breeding ground for an even worse conflict thirty years later. That’s the monument I’d like to see ... and after it’s built - drop it on Chirac’s head. Merde!
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 14:26 GMT
French President Jacques Chirac has marked 90 years since the Battle of Verdun by unveiling a monument to Muslims who fell in the key WWI battle.
The memorial is the first to Muslims who died in 300 days of clashes over the strategically located French town and in other World War I battles.
Mr Chirac hailed the French army in Verdun as “France in its diversity”. He also spoke of friendship with Germany at the ceremony, which was attended by the German ambassador.
France erected monuments in the 1930s to Jewish and Christian soldiers among the 300,000 who died at Verdun in 1916.
But until now Muslim soldiers have been honoured only by a small pillar dedicated to Africans who fought in the French army, and 592 graves in the Muslim section of a war cemetery in the town of Douaumont near the battlefields.
At the inauguration of the new white-walled, Moorish style memorial, Mr Chirac remembered Verdun as a moment when “the French nation came together and went forth to the end”.
“People of all walks of life, of all beliefs, of all religions, are at Verdun,” he said. Some 72,000 soldiers from France’s colonies - including Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia and Madagascar - died fighting under the French flag during World War I, he said.
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Permalink • Friday - June 02, 2006
Nugent Rocks
I love it when the Brits try and understand us. Even better when they do it with Ted. So they send this guy to Texas to meet with Ted and find out what’s going on with his relationship with GWB, his board member status with the NRA, his hunting, his guns and a bunch of other stuff. What a great read. I think this poor chap had to go change after the interview was over.
Here are some bites to whet your whistle:
We sit down to coffee, eggs and grits. Ted is 6ft 3in; to get a sense of his general demeanour you could do worse than imagine the body of John Wayne possessed by the spirit of Ian Paisley in one of his less conciliatory moods. He launches into a fevered monologue about how much safer Britain would be with more guns on its streets.
“Never has there been such an upsurge in crime since they confiscated all your weapons. Why don’t you arm yourselves? You Limeys have a zipper that’s locked in the closed position, because you don’t have a constitution. You’re rewarded for shutting the fuck up.
Back at the ranch, he shows me a selection of his firearms. Laid on a table in his garage are enough Uzis and AK-47s to wipe out three platoons. Everywhere you look there are Magnum pistols, ammunition cases and crossbows. In a nearby field there are battered, life-sized sculptures of animals including a wolf, a deer and a coyote. He fires at a Styrofoam bear using his weapon of choice, a traditional bow and arrow. “Straight through the heart… dead bear,” says Ted, as his heavily pitted target submits to yet another onslaught. “Both lungs… dead bear.” The arrows, which he makes himself, keep flying. “Dead bear… dead bear… dead bear.”
Ted, like his father, has the rage. At one point, when he’s describing how he gave a Crawford vandal so frightening a telling-off that the teenager had to be admitted to psychiatric hospital, he is shouting inches from my face, reliving the scene. The experience is alarming.
“I’m feeling sorry for that kid,” I tell him.
“That’s your Limey coming out in you.” Nugent is trembling with fury at the memory of the confrontation. “I think I’m going to have an aneurysm.”
Great stuff.
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Permalink • Tuesday - May 30, 2006
Deranged Dutch
When it comes to living way out there in LooneyLand, the Dutch are a prime example. They already have legalized marijuana use, prostitution and gay marriage. They are also home to the Euro-Peon “Supreme Court” at The Hague. In fact the literal translation of “Netherlands” is “land at the bottom, or lowest”. Some would say that is because, like New Orleans, the country is below sea level. Other might conclude (after reading this news release) that there are other reasons ...
Dutch Pedophiles To Launch Political Party
Tue May 30, 8:55 AM ET
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals. The Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party said on its Web site it would be officially registered Wednesday, proclaiming: “We are going to shake The Hague awake!”
The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether. “A ban just makes children curious,” Ad van den Berg, one of the party’s founders, told the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper.
“We want to make pedophilia the subject of discussion,” he said, adding that the subject had been a taboo since the 1996 Marc Dutroux child abuse scandal in neighboring Belgium. “We have been hushed up. The only way is through parliament.” The Netherlands already has liberal policies on soft drugs, prostitution, and gay marriage, but the NVD is unlikely to win much support, the AD quoted experts as saying.
“They make out as if they want more rights for children. But their position that children should be allowed sexual contact from age 12 is of course just in their own interest,” anti-pedophile campaigner Ireen van Engelen told the daily. The party said private possession of child pornography should be allowed although it favors banning the trade of such materials. The broadcast of pornography should be allowed on daytime television, with only violent pornography limited to the late evening, according to the party.
Toddlers should be given sex education and youths aged 16 and up should be allowed to appear in pornographic films and prostitute themselves. Sex with animals should be allowed although abuse of animals should remain illegal, the NVD said. The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public. The party’s program also includes ideas for other areas of public policy including legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all.
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Permalink • Wednesday - May 24, 2006
Metric Revolt
We went through this in the US several years ago. I remember when our politicians tried to ram the metric system down our throats and states passed laws saying road signs had to display miles and kilometers and they tried to convince us that 15 centimeters was more impressive than 6 inches.
Fortunately, we were able to get rid of the politicians who dreamed up that idea and we’re back to the normal system of weights and measures (except for those damn two-liter bottles of Coca-Cola that just don’t match up with those 1.75 liter bottles of Jack Daniels).
This whole metric crap is for the birds (and sissy EUro-Peons). British market traders are about to start a revolt. Key quote: “Why do we have to do what Europe wants? They have never done anything for us. Americans still buy things in pounds and get their petrol by the gallon. We should be following them, not Europe.” Mheh-heh-he-he ...
10:49am Tuesday 23rd May 2006
HERTFORDSHIRE-UK (NEWSQUEST)—Furious market traders in High Wycombe have hit out at European plans that will stop them selling their produce in pounds and ounces or be slapped with a £5,000 fine. Law makers in Brussels want to see imperial measurements banned from market stalls in Britain to come in line with the rest of Europe.
The move, which comes into effect in 2010, will see pounds replaced by kilograms on every sign selling bananas, potatoes and carrots. Anyone caught even mentioning the price of their fruit or veg by the pound could be made to pay. Stall holders have warned almost all their customers that still use “old money” measurements and have no idea what a kilogram is.
Tony Burgess, from the Wycombe Fruits stall, said the idea just does not weigh up. He said: “Ninety-nine per cent of the public want things sold to them in pounds. When we first tried it four years ago we took a quarter of our usual sales. It is a load of rubbish, nobody has a clue what you are talking about when you talk about kilos.”
Until the new law comes in, traders are allowed to advertise their products in pounds and ounces as long as they also show the metric equivalent. But in four years’ time they will have no choice and everyone will have to get their head around the idea of buying apples and spuds by the kilo.
Shawn Rutter, who sells meat from Geraghty’s Meat Auction in High Street, said: “We have the metric measurements but when we are selling we talk about the price per pound. The only people who want things in kilograms are foreigners. I do know the measurements but my customers don’t.”
Tony said: “Why do we have to do what Europe wants? They have never done anything for us. Americans still buy things in pounds and get their petrol by the gallon. We should be following them, not Europe.”
The British Weights and Measures Association (BWMA), with celebrity members such as Jools Holland and Antony Worral Thompson, wrote to Tony Blair last month to protest. David Delaney, from the BWMA, said: “We are still waiting for a reply from Blair. Imperial measurements are very popular. They are a part of every day life.”
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Permalink • Monday - May 22, 2006
Kibbles And Bits
“EU-Bonz" -by- Cox & Forkum
- Islamic Republic News: “EU’s draft resolution on Iran aimed at spreading disinformation”
- Bloomberg: “China, Germany Agree Iran Shouldn’t Have Nuclear Bomb”
- CNN: “ Israel: Iran ‘months’ from making nukes”
- MehrNews: “Iran says no rush to comment on EU offer”“Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity. My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time… Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.”
-- Neville Chamberlain - “Peace In Our Time”, October 3, 1938
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Permalink • Friday - May 05, 2006
Debt Free At Last
It’s official. Britain has made the final payment on the Lend-Lease borrowing from World War II. I’ve been wondering why some of our Brit readers were in such a good mood today (Yeah you, Bulldog!). I guess they’re happy now that they have an extra $45 million each year to spend importing more Muslims to live on the dole. When are they going to learn their lesson over across the pond and at least teach the blighters how to mow grass and clean toilets?
Friday May 5, 2006
Britain owes its survival in the second world war to many causes. A standard list might include the bravery of our Battle of Britain pilots, the leadership of Winston Churchill, the resilience of the people - and the sacrifices of the Red Army. But there is little doubt that Britain would not have survived without lend-lease either.
Between March 1941 and September 1945, the United States’ lend-lease programme transferred some $48bn worth of war material to other nations, the largest part of it (worth some $21bn) to Britain. This was an enormous sum, nearly equal to an entire year’s UK gross national product. But it came at a price and the Americans drove a hard bargain. At one point Washington pressed for the transfer of the British West Indies in return. Though that proposal fell through, Britain did agree to give up the rights to and royalties on innovations such as radar, antibiotics, jet aircraft and nuclear research to the US as part of “reverse lend-lease”. And when the war was over, the Americans handed in their bill.
Britain has been paying off our lend-lease bill in annual instalments ever since 1950. This week the Treasury confirmed that the last payment of £45m will be made by the end of this year. Lend-lease was an extraordinarily far-sighted American move - hardly “the most unsordid act in the history of any nation”, as Churchill described it. But it was also the price of our survival. Repayment of debt may be unfashionable these days. But if ever a debt deserved paying it was lend-lease.
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Permalink • Tuesday - April 18, 2006
The Borg Solution
Brilliant solution. If you can’t beat ‘em, assimilate ‘em. Resistance is futile, Muhammed. I predict this will work just fine and the former rioting youth will have jobs and that should keep them quiet .... until the next round of riots (and they are inevitable). At that time, these kids in the police force will have to make a decision: side with the police who employ them or side with their friends in the ghetto. My money says they’ll drop the uniforms and run with their rioting friends. What say you ...
April 18, 2006, 5:01 AM EDT
PARIS (AP via NEWSMAX)—“Don’t be indulgent!” the French policeman barks at a group of youths. “No excuses!”
For many from the troubled Paris suburbs that were engulfed by rioting last fall, being yelled at by police is nothing new. But these youths are on the side of the law, and are learning how to write parking tickets.
They are among dozens of young people from the capital’s tough suburban areas in a fast-track training course to become police officers—a program designed to address high unemployment levels in poor, largely immigrant neighborhoods.
“I never thought I’d do this job, because police work has a negative image,” said Najma Azzouz, 24, who hails from a working-class part of northern Paris. “Even the officers whom we interned with said, ‘You’re a surprise. We expected a bunch of hoodlums.’”
The “Cadets of the Republic” program started last fall just before France was swept by a wave of rioting by marauding youths who burned thousands of cars, clashed with police and vandalized shops across impoverished suburbs.
The program aims to respond to many of the problems that led to the rioting—discrimination faced by Arab and black immigrants and their French-born children in the poor suburbs, widespread suspicion of police and high youth unemployment.
Officially, France does not have an affirmative action policy similar to the one in the United States that is designed to give a hand to minorities and women who have historically suffered discrimination in education and employment.
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Permalink • Wednesday - April 12, 2006
French Whinery
“Whinemaking" -by- Cox & Forkum
- CNN: French Protests Target New Reforms
In case you missed the latest news out of Fwance, the protest kiddies got what they wanted - Chirac’s government withdrew the new labor law. Now the kiddies, having gotten what they were whining for, have decided they want more. They are going to continue the protests for more labor reform.
Is it just me or does anyone else out there find it ironic that Fwance once again falls into the trap of appeasement, only to find out there are more demands. Some things never change, do they? For a really hilarious view of this madness in France, look no further than the World Socialist Website ....
US Media Reacts To French Protests With Hatred And Fear
The US media, not known for following the internal political developments of other countries too closely unless it has a direct impact upon the US, has provided an inordinate amount of ill-tempered commentary on the wave of protests and strikes in France against the introduction of a law that enables employers to fire young workers without cause.
The reaction of the media has been universally hostile, varying from denunciations by the right-wing press of “mob rule” to the more low-key perplexity expressed by the liberal media, which suggests that French are suffering from some type of collective dementia because they believe they have the right to such things as job security.
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Permalink • Tuesday - April 11, 2006
French Crybabies Persist
This just gets better and better. The Frog government caved in to the striking students and surrendered without a shot being fired. So what do the stoopid Frog kids (tadpoles?) do then? Why ... they keep protesting and marching. For what? Nobody knows. Maybe they just like to protest and avoid having to go to class. Typical Frog behavior - sit in a pond a croak .... ribbit .. ribbit ....
French Students Protest, Despite Victory
April 11, 2006, 12:22 PM EDT
PARIS (AP)—Students and unions staged new protests Tuesday across France, hoping to ride the momentum that led President Jacques Chirac to scrap a youth labor law and force the government to pull other contested reforms.
Chirac’s retreat and school vacations that began this week were expected to deplete turnout from massive recent protests and university sit-ins that prompted him to abandon the “youth jobs contract” on Monday.
Hundreds of students marched in northeastern Paris—far fewer than the 84,000 who turned out in the capital for protests that drew 1 million demonstrators nationwide on April 4.
Police were on high alert to head off a possible replay of violence that marred earlier marches, checking bags of people leaving a subway station near the start of the march. A few tourists heading to a Paris department store expressed alarm at the line of police vans.
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Permalink • Monday - April 10, 2006
France Surrenders - Again
Thanks to a hot tip from one of our covert sources in Europistan, we see the Fwench have surrendered again. That white flag must be getting pretty worn out by now. This time the government surrendered to its own young people who were whining and crying over a new job law that allows employers to fire young employees during a two-year probationary period.
Obviously, the Fwench kids and the unions who supported them have no clue what “at will employment” is. For the education of our Euro-peon friends, let me explain: “At will employment” is how most of us here in America work. Basically, the rule is that I can quit any time I want to and my employer can fire me any time he wants to. It keeps us both honest.
Unfortunately, under the rules of New Socialism in Europistan, this is considered inhumane so young people across the pond have nothing to fear ... except for the loud swirling noise as Europistan slowly flushes down the toilet of history. I urge the Fwench kiddies to enjoy it while they can. Pretty soon, all that cheap labor from the Middle East will replace every one of them. One way or another ....
Monday, 10 April 2006, 09:38 GMT 10:38 UK
PARIS (BBC)—French President Jacques Chirac has announced that the new youth employment law that sparked weeks of sometimes violent protests will be scrapped. He said it would be replaced by other measures to tackle youth unemployment.
Millions of students and union members have taken to the streets over the last month in protest against the law, which made it easier to fire young workers. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said the law’s aim had been to tackle high unemployment among the young.
The law, known as the First Employment Contract or CPE, introduced a new work contract for under-26s. It was to allow a two-year trial period, during which employers could end a contract without explanation. The plan to replace the law was announced after a meeting between the president, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and other senior ministers on Monday.
Speaking in a live television address, Mr de Villepin said the president had accepted his proposed changes and that the new measures would be presented to the various sectors concerned during Monday. He said he was convinced that the only way of addressing joblessness in France was a better balance between flexibility for employers and security for employees.
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Permalink • Friday - April 07, 2006
Shopping For Cheap Labor In France
Hmmmm, let me see, mon ami ... I’ll take three of those Poles, one Romanian and you may dispose of those Algerians over there. We do not need any more of them, n’est ce pas?
The French are finally realizing their open door policy is a miserable wreck. Minister Sarkozy is giving it his best shot. I like the quote about “cannot continue to welcome people whom we have neither jobs nor housing to offer.” Well, that’s a no-brainer. It’s too bad they didn’t think of it 40 years ago. Then again, here in America we’ve just about filled our quota of gardeners, cooks and toilet cleaners - what are we going to do with more Mexicans if they continue to pour in?
April 7, 2006, 4:15 AM EDT
PARIS (AP)—The curtain falls on a bevy of near-naked dancers in feathered headdresses, and Adir Rafael Pires glides into action. As a set-changer at the Lido, the racy cabaret on Paris’ Champs-Elysees, Pires could not be farther from his desert birthplace: Cape Verde, a rocky, drought-stricken archipelago off West Africa’s coast. But the door that allowed Pires to make France his home may now be closing. France, like other European countries, is taking a harder look at the immigrants it lets in.
The drive toward “selective” immigration is inspired by electoral politics, by fears that some immigrants are not integrating and may even be vectors for terrorism and militant Islam, and by widely shared concerns that immigrants overtax welfare systems and compete for scarce jobs. French Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy championed a bill that would make it more difficult for poor immigrants with little education and few skills to start a new life in France—long one of Europe’s most coveted destinations for immigrants.
Pires, 24, reached the ultimate goal—acquiring French nationality—at a naturalization ceremony last month after spending more than half his life here—much of it as an illegal immigrant. Hi mother, Vitalina, came to France in 1990 on a tourist visa, then stayed on as a live-in maid with a Parisian family. Pires visited her for summer vacation, and never returned to Cape Verde. Nearly sixteen years later, mother and son became French thanks to a provision that allows foreigners to apply for citizenship after 10 years in the country—even if they were here illegally.
That is one of many immigrant-friendly provisions that would be scrapped under Sarkozy’s immigration bill. Sarkozy, whose father immigrated here from Hungary, argues that France should take a more pro-active approach to immigration by hand-picking foreign workers. His arguments gained resonance after riots ripped through heavily immigrant French suburbs last fall. Sarkozy acknowledges that he wants to court voters away from the far right, which argued that the riots showed the perils of immigration.
If passed, the law would form part of France’s multi-pronged offensive against clandestine immigration that also includes stepped-up border controls and deportations. Under Sarkozy, deportations have increased 72 percent over the past two years, with a record 20,000 illegal immigrants expelled in 2005. “France cannot be the only country in the world that refuses to adapt its immigration policy to its economic needs and its capacity to absorb new arrivals,” Sarkozy said recently. “We cannot continue to welcome people whom we have neither jobs nor housing to offer.”
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