French special forces operation foiled by villagers

[Kralizec]

Using SWAT teams will just cause them to cry that they are being repressed and one thousand pseudo humanist NPP organizations will bitch to Brussels of how the BG government is terrorizing the minorities. Remember last time with Milosevic? Because the Albanians back then were a similar problem for Serbia. Don't ask me though, ask the Serbian guy right there.

I don't know what incident you're referring to (in regards to Milosovic)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Roma apologist. I'm sure they'll find excuses to complain one way or the other regardless of what's done or not done. The SWAT part was hyperbole, meant to express that the state should ensure every kid gets a minimum of education, even those with uncooperative parents.

[HoreTore]

I don't know what incident you're referring to (in regards to Milosovic)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Roma apologist. I'm sure they'll find excuses to complain one way or the other regardless of what's done or not done. The SWAT part was hyperbole, meant to express that the state should ensure every kid gets a minimum of education, even those with uncooperative parents.

A little on the side, but anyway:

In On Freedom, the second part of the book is dedicated to practical applications of the theories on liberty in the first part of the book. There, Mill argues that given his theory of liberalism, parents should be hanged if their children don't perform well at school.

[Kralizec]

I have that book, the original English text. It's called On Liberty

Been a while since I've read it.

[HoreTore]

I have that book, the original English text. It's called On Liberty

Been a while since I've read it.

Gah, of course. I have a norwegian translation called "Om Friheten", and the word "frihet" translates as both "liberty" and "freedom"...

Myth, I wasn't talking about using force against roma. I was talking about the need for another Milosevic-operation. We'll get there sooner or later if the balkans don't shape up soon.

[Myth]

Ain't no one arguing for extermination and genocide, but now I think the western countries are overcompensating up to the point the when justice has to be delivered it can't be done without raising a red flag somewhere on the other side of Europe that those damn Balkan peeps are molesting the gypsies again.

I can show you a video documentary where anonymous cops are admitting that arrests are impossible in the Roma ghettoes. They come out in droves of 50-100 and threaten and shove the cops away. If this was America they would have gotten shot in their damn faces, but if it happens here the conflict will escalate and the gendarmerie will have to move in. And then we have Faux news blabbering about "Civil unrest and trampling of human rights against ethnic minorities." When Bulgarian students go out to protest they get beaten with batons, but the cops refuse do use the special police forces against the Roma, because if nothing else, the Roma have learned that there is strength in numbers and unity and they all stick together. That's why it's funny when urban legends about skinheads going and beating them abound - everyone who's been in a ghetto or even a bar fight that involves Roma knows that you're not fighting one guy or two guys but every gypsy within a radius of half a kilometer.

They rioted, right here in Sofia, a few years back. They had come out wielding knives, scimithars, pitchforks, staves and other assorted arms from the 1200s and shouted how heads will roll. The police had shrunk back like a scrotum in cold water, from fear that if they use their shields and batons the fighting will not end there and fundamentally we're back to square 1. So the current (retarded) decision of the government is to leave them be and let them steal, beg, prostitute and rape instead of having a much messier problem on their hands, one which could possibly make us seem even more incompetent before Brussels (but I think that's rather hard to achieve).

If you see videos of the riots in Spain you see police brutality abounds. For example this:



America isn't bombing them because that's acceptable, since ethnic Spaniards are having their heads caved in. If we do that here in order to remove the illegal buildings, to evict/arrest those who have broken the law, to stop the bands who lie to elderly people over the phone and steal their savings, to stop those who steal livestock and produce in the rural areas (heck, they even steal the doors off of people's fences) we would get a knee-jerk reaction from western europe that we're bullying the minorities. And believe me the roma stick together so much that it's impossible to bring law in their ghettoes without the aforementioned methods.

[Kadagar_AV]

HoreTore, I had the same view as you about the "poor gypsies" before I started frequenting Romania some many years ago...

Myth strikes me as a rather normal representative of how they think. The Romanians I met by and large wished for a good solution with the gypsies, given the amount of tension and problems, I think the Romanian people are VERY understanding and accepting, if anything. There are of course the odd extremist, but by and large, I saw a people trying to make their country work with a VERY problematic minority group.

[HoreTore]

This thread delivers.

[Myth]

Well, if we're talking Romania: I visited Bucharest 3 times this year. In the summer, I parked my car in the dead center - next to that big mall with the screens protruding out of it's side. There's an excellent pedestrian area full of pubs and young (and hot) people there. One hundred meters to the right i saw a bunch of Roma, bare footed and dirty, listening to some loud oriental crap on their car radio and washing their carpet with a hose in the middle of the street.

[Sarmatian]

It's already done, so this post isn't relevant.

Yeah, for like 5%, after centuries of effort.

Allthough you're presumably using it as a random example, I'd pitch in and say that if that's what it takes, then do it. If their parents cause trouble, use SWAT teams to get these kids into school. If those kids grow up without high school diplomas I garantue you the next generations of Roma will be as bad as the current lot.

That alone is not going to solve the problems, but it's a precondition.

I agree, but for 300,000 Roma, that's one million policemen. In a country of 8 million people.

It's hard to do anything because they're simply outside the system. No address, no telephone number, no job, no schooling, no birth control, no family planning, no goals (in out western sense), no care for their children, no nothing.

You put a gypsy in jail, it's like a vacation for him - hey, it's free food, warm room and more comfortable bed. And I don't have to do anything? Take me in, I'm yours. And then 12 (aged from 3 to 15) of his kids are out on the street begging. And he doesn't care. Usually, they're on the streets even before to get him more money.

I'm all for integrating them, but they resisted it for centuries. And then you have people and NGO's from the west blubbering nonsense how it's easy and it could be done in the blink of an eye if someone just wanted it. After that they open an office in <insert Balkan country>, receive 5 times local average salary for doing absolutely nothing but sitting in a nicely furnished office with air-condition on, repeating the same phrase like a parrot.