Posted on 06/28/2006 8:02:28 AM PDT by Tancred
The dhimmi-fication of Europe continues.
The Economist addresses similar questions in a recent (might be the current)issue. IIRC the cover is the Eiffel Tower with an islamic crescent on top.
Ouch!! spanked hard ...
Blow it out your ass, and don't call me a "Yank."
Though only 18 years old, two of them were hanged. The chief instigator ("Flossie Forsyth")was said to have screamed during prison exercise- "I don't want to die"- he ran and struggled. He cried all night before his execution. Death by youth was somewhat rare then- I wonder why?.
Now death by youths is not uncommon in that country- or other countries. I would use an old statement by an English magistrate.
"Men are not hanged for stealing horses. They are hanged to prevent horses being stolen". Bring back the noose.
Oh, we do, we even had Bernie Goetz "talk back" to a gang of muggers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Hugo_Goetz
That was quite awhile ago (1984), though. I still wouldn't be too eager to ride NY subways outside of downtown and midtown Manhattan, but conditions seem to have improved a lot there.
Quick question for fellow Freepers.
Who has intervened when witnessing someone else being endangered or harmed by another?
I have.
Belgians will need an underground resistance to fight their own government and these gangs. A few of them strung up facing west may encourage civility.
Anyone Remmeber this guy?
Bernard Goetz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Goetz
Well said
We don't mind if you defend yourselves. Hell, we don't mind if the Russians defend themselves.
I'm sure it happens, but I'd say it's rare for a gang of thugs to randomly terrorize people in broad daylight...At least where I live it's rare. When it does happen it's not random - usually gang-on-gang violence.
Oh, I don't give Leopold any credit at all. :) The Belgian army, however, fought quite well in places despite being horribly overmatched and not properly integrated with the French and the BEF.
I'm not going to get smug on this thread about us being so much superior to the Belgians on that bus who watched those "yoots" beat the man to death. You could hear a story just like this coming out of New York or Los Angeles or Detroit tomorrow. And yet there's some indefinable difference, something I can't put my finger on, about how we would react versus how the Belgians are reacting in this article. I can't help but think that here, there'd be less hand-wringing. The police in almost any American city would react, and react quickly. They'd investigate aggressively, they'd get tips from the 'hood, they'd be able to find the perpetrators without being run off by "dozens of youths."
The difference, I guess, is that here, a bunch of Crips or Bloods that beat a bus driver to death wouldn't have a support system outside their gang, or maybe their families. Society would ostracize them. But as for the Belgians...these punks are *empowered* by militant Islam. They aren't observant Muslims, I'd be willing to bet. But the Muslim immigrant community in Belgium will defend them--out of respect, our of fear, out of tribalism, whatever--and has their backs. They have an entire subculture of hundreds of thousands of people who will stonewall the authorities, who will hide them, who will praise them for what they've done. That's the biggest difference.
These scum aren't doing what they're doing in the name of Islam. But Islam is making it possible.
}:-)4
31 against 6 and 30 of them ran away. Cowards.
Schadenfreude...
Cowards !
"At the next stop thirty passengers fled the bus..."
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