In The Ghetto
Skipper Mark Steyn has written another excellent article about this issue in the Daily Telegraph. His summation (for Britons) is chilling....
As to where Britain falls in this grim scenario, I noticed a few months ago that Telegraph readers had started closing their gloomier missives to me with the words, “Fortunately I won’t live to see it” - a sign-off now so routine in my mailbag I assumed it was the British version of “Have a nice day”. But that’s a false consolation. As France this past fortnight reminds us, the changes in Europe are happening far faster than most people thought. That’s the problem: unless you’re planning on croaking imminently, you will live to see itI don’t doubt a lot of immigrants live in shitty housing but I bet they are better off than if they had remained in Algeria. Undoubtedly the lion’s share of the blame lies with the failed socialist doctrine of the past forty years, together with a large degree of racism endemic in French society. However the moooslims should also get their own house in order. There is too much reliance on welfare and it is in my belief a culture that at it’s heart desires the downfall of Western society. What better way to bring this about than by taking state handouts.
Awesome name—I hear flutes and tambourines playing. Good article.
Solution?
1. Duh Don’t let them in. Too late.
2. Don’t cram them all together in one place. Too late.
3. Don’t subsidize them. Already screwed the pooch on that, too.
4. Pick up a violin and play mournful music while Paris burns.
Posted by Oink
11/08/2005 at 02:17 PM
Lyndon: Your quote from England gave me a frisson! “Won’t live to see it”!
rain .. umbrellas .. and the words ”Peace in our time”.
But you say the people without advanced carcinomas ARE beginning to face the facts. GOOD ONE!
Posted by Oink
11/08/2005 at 02:35 PM
I wonder why the “cites” are starting to resemble the shitholes these people came from? The culture maybe, augmented by the socialist mindset that “‘They’ will take care of me, so what do you have for me today?” Villepin et. al. want to have more socialist insanity, expecting different results by applying the same techniques that have been failing for eighty years. They are stuck on stupid.
Before all the “helping” people came along, immigrants worked their asses off, learned the language, and strove for a better life for their children in their new country, and mostly succeeded. Look at the lessons of the Irish, the Chinese, and the Italians who arrived in the US by the millions during the 19th and early 20th centuries; they arrived with nothing, worked as near-slaves, were despised by their “betters” but worked their way into acceptance and prosperity. And they all learned English, ASAP.
Here’s a link to Mark Steyn columns. The latest is at top. Well worth reading. Particularly his latest about the EuroRebellion.
Un, let’s see. They gave these people new housing with indoor plumbing and somehow it is now decrepit and destroyed. I wonder how that happened.
When I was a lad in Scotland we moved into a new borough owned apartment in Wishaw. The first thing my parents did was to improve it. This was in 1952. When I went back to visit the old neighbors in 1971 the buildings still looked good.
I’d be willing to bet that, if those now 53 year old buildings havent been taken down to make room for some other development, they are still in good condition and eminently habitable. It all depends on the occupants. They take good care of the place or they destroy it.
To clarify, these weren’t low income housing projects. Rent was collected regularly, it just happened to be local government owned housing as most rental property was/is in the U.K.. (Someone will surely correct me if this is no longer the situation.)
It’s a dirty bird that fouls its own nest. I think that the French have taken in a lot of dirty birds.
It should be an easy transition from France to Francistan
Posted by piccalo
11/08/2005 at 03:04 PM
READ Mark Steyn’s column --linked in StinKerr’s above comment.
...the rioters aren’t doing a bad impression of the Muslim armies of 13 centuries ago: They’re seizing their opportunities, testing their foe, probing his weak spots. If burning the ‘burbs gets you more ‘’respect’’ from Chirac, they’ll burn ‘em again, and again.
Posted by Oink
11/08/2005 at 03:39 PM
You can take the people out of the third world, but you can’t take the third world out of the people
I saw some apologist for the rioters on the idiot box a little while ago. “They were not given respect, they were not given jobs they were not given yada yada yada.”
There’s the problem. In the real world you earn respect, you earn a job. In short, you earn your way in the world. Sit on your ass and expect it to be given to you and you’ll be disappointed, disenfranchised, angry and bitter. Sorta like those freeloaders rioting now.
"Courtesy is owed, Respect is earned, Love is given”
Posted by Oink
11/08/2005 at 08:01 PM
Very good, Oink, I like that. Of course I give a certain measure of respect to everyone I meet. It’s up to them whether they add to it or subtract from it. Sorta like maintaining a seabag. Some folks get down to a raggedy sock and a tattered skivvy shirt in short order.
Others build it with each interaction.
You give them good manners, courtesy, and the benefit of the doubt.
In the military, you can always fall back on “respecting the man’s rank”—specially when you wouldn’t follow the man himself to the head (toilet) if you had dysentery. For other NCOs/Officers you’d run thru hell with gasoline-soaked skivvies. Chesty Puller was one such man. Exhausted troops in Korea would walk past him, standing alongside the road, and stand taller and feel stronger.
Posted by Oink
11/09/2005 at 02:24 AM
Stin if you visited parts of Scotland now I think you would be horrified at the changes. Parts of Glasgow have always been pretty poor, but instead of putting natives into council accomodation you’re more likely to find Iraqi asylum seekers. Those would be the ones fleeing persecution from Saddam....Oh wait he’s gone now so what’s their excuse now?
Sorry for going off on a tangent, but to update you somewhat, Margaret Thatcher’s “big idea” was to sell off council (local authority) owned homes. This made the general population into home owners who now felt they had a stake in society. This was inspired and made for some huge changes in the landscape. Unfortunately socialists are still in the majority and nowadays private landlords can rent their houses out to dirtbag tenants knowing the state will pick up the tab. You now have a situation where hard working decent folk who are buying their homes are forced to live next door to pond life who exist on state handouts. I have one such next door to me. Believe me I know from where I speak. Now because of uncontrolled immigration the government is proposing building thousands of houses on green field sites in the South East. The landscape of Sussex and Kent will never be the same and this is what was once known as “The Garden of England” a concrete jungle will be Blair’s real legacy.
Rev, as for the “Get the heck out of Dodge” remark. I am giving it my best shot. I for one do not wish to grow old in a moooslim dominated Europe.
OCM: Back in the Good Old Days of the Cold War, there was U.S., U.S.S.R., then everyone else who wasn’t allied with one of us—the Third World.
I know you know this, it’s for the benefit of the kids. Now we have the U.S. in first, the developed countries in third, and everybody else suckin’ hind tit. We’re sliding slower into Multicultural Socialism than the rest of the world.
Posted by Oink
11/09/2005 at 10:34 AM
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