Phrase of the Day: “known wolves”

Almost every major terrorist attack on Western soil in the past fifteen years  has been committed by people who were already known to law enforcement.

-- The New Yorker, 27 Jan 2015

The expression lone wolf attacks has burst its way into the English vocabulary of late.    This followed a major media push by al-Qaeda a few years back:  stymied in their 9/11-style coordinated attacks (thanks to our watchful eyes in the sky), they launched a series of random, infra-theological, to-whom-it-may-concern appeals to Westerners to simply go out and slaughter people.   A few heeded the call.  Subsequently, ISIL began pushing the same thing -- though, crucially, only as a distant second-best to emigrating from the Dâr al-Kuffâr and making a new life in the Caliphate.  (In some ways, ISIL is more principled than is AQ.)

In French, the equivalent phrase is loup solitaire. (German, less zoomorphically: Einzeltäter.)  Fair enough;  but it is often used by the socialo appeasers  in a disinformational, self-protective way, implying that

(a)  Don’t blame us for not preventing this;  no-one could have foreseen it; the guy just came out of nowhere.

(b)  His attack was a purely individual act of madness, with no further motivations or connections, certainly not to [name of named confessional persuasion redacted]!   Ne faites surtout pas l’amalgame !

I did it ... *my* way

The New York Times this morning has a useful corrective to all that:

Brooklyn Arrests Highlight Challenges in Fighting of ISIS and ‘Known Wolves’

In Canada and Australia, young men inspired by the bloody, apocalyptic vision of the Islamic State were thwarted in their efforts to join the battle in Syria, so they took up arms in their homelands, staging small attacks that drew widespread attention.

In London, Mohammed Emwazi was known for years to be sympathetic to the message of Islamic extremists, and by 2013 he had joined the militants on the Islamic State in Syria. Now he is better known as “Jihadi John,” the black-masked figure who has appeared in numerous beheading videos.

[NDLR:  Many further cases could be added, of assassins antecedently well-known to the police for recidivism or violent crimes, from Denmark, France, etc. -- dbj]

In stark contrast, two young men in New York who were similarly enthralled by the Islamic State’s vision and who the government claims wanted nothing more than to join the fight, were arrested before they could make it to the killing fields in the desert.

In all of these cases, the suspects were known to the authorities. But only in New York were the suspects arrested, accused of pledging support for the Islamic State and trying to leave the country.

The decision to arrest the men highlights the evolving challenges confronting law enforcement as officials calculate whether and when to intervene in instances of what some have begun calling “known wolves.”

There are “lone wolves and known wolves,” said a law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation. “A lone wolf is someone who comes out of the woodwork; a known wolf is on your radar.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/nyregion/brooklyn-arrests-highlight-challenges-in-fighting-of-isis-and-known-wolves.html

Sidenote:    The same issue has a quite interesting article on one of the more influential Islamist provocateurs for Egypt.  His background might give some people pause, but not the tens of thousands who follow him on Facebook:

Bolsen was born a freckled redhead, named Shannon Morris, and baptized as a Catholic. He converted to Islam in his early 20s, and he adopted the middle name “King” after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his mother’s maiden name, Bolsen, to become Shahid King Bolsen.

The family’s life in Dubai came to an end three years later in a lurid scandal. Prosecutors later accused Mr. Bolsen of posting a picture of the family’s Ethiopian maid on the Internet in order to lure a German businessman, Martin Herbert Steiner, 48, with offers of sex.

They met at Mr. Bolsen’s home, and in the interview Mr. Bolsen said he had sought to convince Mr. Steiner to change his ways. “He was soliciting illicit sex with Muslim women in the United Arab Emirates, and I was trying to convince him that this was dangerous,” Mr. Bolsen said.

Mr. Steiner was drunk and tried to force himself on the maid, Mr. Bolsen said. “We fought and I unfortunately caused his death,” he said.

The cause of death was an overdose of chloroform, which Mr. Bolsen told the court he kept in the house to fight insomnia but had used to try to sedate Mr. Steiner. After the killing Mr. Bolsen stuffed the body in a suitcase, disposed of it by a desert highway, and was arrested as he tried to fly to Oman, he acknowledged.

Mr. Bolsen was initially convicted of murder and sentenced to death by an Emirati court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/world/american-agitator-helps-fuel-attacks-in-egypt.html

Well, well, you take your imams where you find them, I guess.

 

Footnote:  For some reason, Shahid King (a.k.a. Jihadi Jerkoff) has an especial animus against Kentucky Fried Chicken;  after his incitements, several franchises in Egypt  were hit.  In this,  “King” follows in the footsteps of that other noted crusader for human gallinaeous rights, the shred guitarist Buckethead.

"You deserve a break today ♬"

[Appendix] Désabusé French commentary on the issue of what had been called “les électrons libres du jihadisme”:

Le loup solitaire n'existe plus. C'est un vestige de «l'époque» afghane, qui occulte les profonds changements survenus dans les mouvements islamistes radicaux depuis le début de la guerre en Syrie, et l'engouement des jeunes européens pour le jihad. Nous ne sommes plus face à une poignée de combattant venus d'une terre lointaine, mais à des milliers de jeunes volontaires immergés dans une nébuleuse salafiste qui contrôle désormais une grande partie des «cités» européennes.

Cheik Omar Bakri, une figure emblématique de l'Islam radical qui a endoctriné des dizaines de milliers d'européens, me confiait à Tripoli que «le jihad ne s'arrêtera que quand le drapeau de l'Islam flottera sur le balcon de l'Elysée et de la Maison Blanche».

Pour connaitre personnellement les membres de ces organisations, je puis vous affirmer que ces loups sont tout, sauf solitaires…

http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/monde/2014/06/20/31002-20140620ARTFIG00352-comment-al-qaida-s-est-implante-en-france.php

 

[NB: «cités»  means ‘public housing projects’.]

 

[Update 27 April 2015]

L'affaire Sid Ahmed Ghlam signe une fois pour toutes l'acte posthume de la théorie du «loup solitaire». Comme Merah en 2012 ou, plus récemment, Amedy Coulibaly en janvier dernier, l'étudiant algérien soupçonné d'avoir voulu perpétrer un attentat contre au moins une église de Villejuif pourrait être au cœur d'une nébuleuse qu'explorent les enquêteurs. Ces derniers sont persuadés que les quatre fusils d'assaut Kalachnikov, les pistolets, les gilets pare-balles, les brassards ainsi que les chasubles siglés «Police» retrouvés dans sa chambre et son véhicule représentent une panoplie trop importante pour un seul et unique assaillant.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2015/04/27/01016-20150427ARTFIG00310-attentatdejoue-les-complicites-au-coeur-de-l-enquete.php

Appendix to "la quenelle" : the "Rabi`ah"

[Update Jan 2014]   There is a ludic, aesthetic dimension to this, which you notice immediately in the case of the ungainly quenelle (at least you do if you are not humor-impaired, like Valls and Hollande), along with a certain modest pride in coming up with a gesture that never previously existed.   Here is a somewhat subtler case:

This gesture is new to the global political landscape, and could only have been born in Arabic, in particular in Egypt.   For it depends upon an Arabic double-pun.

The hand is holding up four fingers (thus the visual pun in "R4BIA").  The reference is to Râbi`ah Square in Cairo, where protests against the military coup that overthew the elected President Mursi were held.  The square is so named after a medieval saint,

رابعة العدوية

“Huh?” you say.   Well, although Râbi`ah was her name, like many names in Arabic  it has a literal dictionary meaning:  in this case, the feminine form of the adjective meaning ‘fourth’.   Reinforcing the four-ness of it all is the fact that Râbi`ah Square, unlike its more famous Cairene sister Tahrîr, a large, roughly round arena,  is a quadrangle, fed by four streets, in which the demonstrators massed.   So something of a pun.

Or actually, a double one, or else none at all, depending upon whether you think the next link in the etymology reinforces or reverses the sense of word-play.  For the saint herself was named, not by randomly selecting a girl’s-name out of a hat, but because she was the fourth born in order.

[Update]  The Director of the Latin Divison at the World of Dr Justice (headquarters:  Geneva), Dr Keith A. Massey,  weighs in with this:

Romans also named their children by ordinal numbers, hence things like Julia Secunda, Quintus, etc.

Somehow, to our present perspective, that seems sort of impersonal.  But -- autre temps, autre moeurs.

[Update 2]  For a tendentious piece, but with lots of intriguing information, try this:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dawn-perlmutter/a-new-muslim-brotherhood-symbol-r4bia/

[Update 3]

It is a  matter of current debate, to what extent this Rabiah symbol, born in a broad-based protest, has been hijacked by extremist jihadi groups.   The matter is not entirely academic;  it could affect actual choices in CT.

My hunch is that, simply as a matter of psycho-geometry, the symbol is ill-suited to serve Salafists, let alone out-and-out takfiris.   It is too inclusive, like those four streets all leading into the square, as though from all four corners of the Earth.  Quadruplicity, as we know from Russell, drinks procrastination;  it does not quaff Hotspur.  (Inside joke, folks, you get it or you don’t;  moving along.)   And if Jung is correct (which he probably is not), this implication common among Westerners  should be universal.   

Indeed, if any number were to be a symbol for Muslims, it would have to be one, since Muslims are such rigorous monotheists.  As, accordingly, the finger-gesture:

Kamal asked, “When is he going to forgive you?”

The mother gestured upward with her index finger and murmured, “Forgiveness comes from God.”

-- Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (transl. of Bayn al-Qasrayn, 1956), 1990, p. 210

(That gesture has also been common in recent years  among evangelical Christians.)

Note further that, for those using the gesture, it is not simply “holding up your open hand” (as opposed, say, to a militant fist), as it might strike a Westerner;  it quite definitely contrasts with a five-finger symbol that antedates it by centuries in the Mediterranean region:

To ward off the evil eye, Khadija spread her fingers apart  and held up her hand with the palm facing Yasin, reciting “And from the evil of the envious person in his envy.” (Qur’an 113:5)

-- Naguib Mahfouz, Palace of Desire (transl. of Qasr al-Shawq, 1957), 1991, p. 34

If someone flashed you that symbol, it would be an insult;  much as the Quaker/hippie two-fingered “Peace” sign, if performed palm-in and in England, means something very bad.   And, just as with that last example, if you turn the palm inward for the Muslim five-finger gesture, it changes the meaning, in this case from hostile to friendly:

He spread his hand across his chest to express his thanks.

-- Naguib Mahfouz, Palace of Desire (transl. of Qasr al-Shawq, 1957), 1991, p. 138

For more on the khamsa  خمسة‎, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa

[Afterpiece]

Let us dwell a bit upon the semiology of gesture in the Arab world.

Some gestures are apparently instinctual, and hence seem transparent, and probably universal.  As:

… flogging the ground with his camel-stick  to give emphasis to his words

-- Wilfred Thesiger,  Arabian Sands (1959; repr. 1990), p. 160

He shook his head rather forcefully  as if to expel these thoughts.

-- Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street (transl. of al-Sukkariyya, 1957), 1992, p. 30

Others are clearly more culturally conditioned:

We squatted down to drink, for no Arab drinks standing.

-- Wilfred Thesiger,  Arabian Sands (1959; repr. 1990), p. 165

She held her hand out to him  after wrapping it in a corner of her cloth, so she would not nullify his state of ritual cleanliness.

-- Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (transl. of Bayn al-Qasrayn, 1956), 1990, p.

I once put my hand on the back of bin Kabina’s neck, and he turned on me and asked furiously if I took him for a slave.

-- Wilfred Thesiger,  Arabian Sands (1959; repr. 1990), p.  163

Ibn Sa’oud had ridden up to his enemy’s tent, and laid his hand upon the tent pole  so that the prince of the Shammar had no choice but to let him enter.

-- Gertrude Bell, The Desert and the Sown (1907, repr. 2001), p. 47

Antiquity breathes through such gestures.   Intrigued, I queried the official Latin and Theological authority of this site, whether there were any parallels from Roman history, and received this reply:

Roman citizens always reclined to eat or drink. The slaves always stood.

In fact, one of the accepted rituals for manumission was to ask the slave to recline and join you at table. If you did this in the presence of witnesses, you had de facto set the slave free.

It is for this reason that the default stance at Liturgy in the Historical Church has always been standing. At Liturgy we are hoi douloi tou Theou, the servants of God, standing ready to serve him.

Early on, people began to feel that, at particularly "high" moments of Liturgy, the reading of the Gospel, the Consecration of the Eucharist, the Lord's Prayer, they wanted to kneel.

The Fathers of the Church were so concerned at this incorrect impulse that they passed a Canon at the 1st Council of Nicaea, banning kneeling on Sunday, period.

When people persisted in violating this Canon, St. John Chrysostom wrote into the Liturgy the correction:

"Let us stand upright and listen to the words of the Holy Gospel."

And yet, in most Orthodox Churches you will still see people drop to their knees, precisely when the Liturgy reminds them that they are forbidden to do so.

Rome has recently also waged a war on this point, reminding the faithful that the only stance that is always correct in Liturgy is standing.

For further thoughts on psychogeometry, in a mathematical/theological context, try this:

On Symbols.

[Update 13 Sept 2014] Another visual Muslim symbol, this one banned in Germany:

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2014/09/flagge-verbot.html


 [Update 3 Oct 14]  For a lovely gallery of recent political hand-gestures, now this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/02/hong-kongs-crossed-arms-and-other-hand-gestures-of-defiance-around-the-world/?tid=hpModule_04941f10-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e

One might add the "one-finger" gesture of ISIL, but that is not so much protest as triumphalism.

The Goose and the Gander again

In a recent post,  we noticed how wildly at variance is the reporting, among mainstream sources, of so basic a fact as whether the total for those slain in the past week’s assault by the Egyptian military  runs in the hundreds or thousands.  And now here is another example in which the basic information you receive  varies drastically  depending on your news sources --- and this, again, as regards the MSM, rather than small sectarian outlets that self-create their own little worlds.

Consider the following headline:

World reacts with outrage

 as Chicago mobs storm, burn, dozens of mosques and Muslim businesses

Now, that did not in fact happen;  had it done so, it would be all anyone was talking about.

By contrast, the following is essentially true

America reacts with indifference

as Cairo mobs storm, burn, dozens of Christian churches

News of the attacks is not suppressed, exactly;  you can find it online if you hunt for it, though mostly only in Christian news sources.   Today’s Sunday New York Times, for example, makes no mention of it, though it does have a large headline “Sectarian Attacks Return with a Roar to Iraq” -- the attackers here being mostly Sunni Moslems, the victims Shiites.  The only reason I even learned of these events is that they are prominently featured in middle-of-the-road French-language publications.  In Le Figaro,

Égypte: « Les Frères musulmans

sont farouchement antichrétiens »

and even on the largely-Muslim Morocco-based radio station Medi1: http://www.medi1.com/player/player.php?i=5584255

Go figure.

[Update 20 August 2013]  OK, now the MSM is paying attention:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/ravaged-churches-reveal-sectarian-split-feeding-egypts-violence/2013/08/20/59902866-09bc-11e3-9941-6711ed662e71_story.html

That article has an interesting wrinkle:

“We have seen zero indication that the Muslim Brotherhood as an organization is organizing these attacks,” said a high-ranking Western official ...  The official said the blame more likely rested with Islamist vigilantes rather than Brotherhood members acting on orders.

What the truth may be -- Allahu a`lamu.  But it is certainly the case  that AQE has been hostile to the MB, as not being sufficiently extremist.

The New York Times has likewise belatedly caught up as well:

Hundreds of Islamists poured into the street, torching, looting and smashing the village’s two churches and a nearby monastery, lashing out so ferociously that marble altars were left in broken heaps on the floor.

Over the next few days, a wave of similar attacks on the Coptic Christian minority washed over the country as Islamists set upon homes and churches, shops and schools, youth clubs and at least one orphanage…  [T]he authorities stood by and watched: in Nazla, as in other places, the army and the police made no attempt to intervene.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/world/middleeast/attacks-rise-against-egypts-christians.html?ref=global-home&_r=0

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Which broadcast d’ya listen to?

Today at work, an Egyptian friend watched aghast throughout the day, as al-Jazeera provided footage of the military assault on those protesting the recent coup that removed President Mursi from office.   Apparently the station was reporting two thousand dead, and ten thousand wounded.   That would be extraordinary, difficult to believe;  so it was eagerly that I turned on NPR at five o’clock, to hear updated and verified figures.

But the headline didn’t mention any casualties at all, referring rather to the worldwide “reaction” (a typical media slant these days, showcasing, not the facts, but various interest groups’ reaction to the facts,  how they feel about the facts, whatever the latter might be) to the “dispersal” of the demonstrators.

I checked aljazeera.net;  they still are showing an allegation of those figures on their front page.

I checked the website of the Washington Post.  As I write (it is just short of six p.m.), they headline “clashes across the country that leave 149 dead” -- without saying which camp suffered which losses, but immediately below there is a “Live Blog” report of “43 police officers killed”, which would leave a toll of at most 106 dead on the demonstrators’ side (“at most” because some of the government dead were soldiers rather than cops).

As of this moment (email alert from Le Figaro),  AFP reports "au moins 124 personnes sont décédées au Caire lors de ces affrontements."

[Update 6:30 p.m.]   The Egyptian pseudo-independent newspaper (actually government-controlled) headlines:

Egypt clashes leave 43 security personnel killed: MOI

Ahram Online

That falls into the genre “Demonstrator’s head inflicts severe splintering upon officer’s nightstick”.

No political act to grind here, folks;  just pointing out that listeners breathe different air, in different media bubbles:  not only as regards the attitude towards the facts, but the bare numerical facts themselves. 

[Update 15 Aug]  Medi1 is now reporting 600 killed according to "official" figures (a ludicrous word in the circumstances;  also, no distinction between sides), but also mentions the Muslim Brotherhood's upward-revised claim of 3000 (of their own, presumably).
Wa-Allahu a`lamu ...

[Update 16 Aug] NPR's Morning Edition is sticking with "over 200" killed -- roughly the number that die in your typical Asian overfilled-ferry accident.

This whole subject segues into that of victimology porn.

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For a somewhat similarly themed examination of mutually exclusive factual worlds, consult

            Which Wikipedia d’ya read?

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2013/08/which-wikipedia-dya-read.html

The Rise of «la Racaille»

Depopulation had begun in Italy and Greece  in the third century B.C.  … The Roman army was kept to strength  only through the recruitment of barbarians -- a practice that was destined to bring disaster.  The emperors invited immigrants from beyond the frontiers  to colonize Italy,  and even the uninvited joined them.

-- Morris Bishop, The Middle Ages (1968)

My favorite radio journalist (and this amounts to:  broadcast journalist, since I almost never watch TV) is Fouad Laroui.  Trilingual, tricultural, with a generous sense of humor and a keen eye.   Here is his latest, and well worth a listen:  Des villages pour la racaille.  (Be sure to learn French first, if you have previously neglected that detail.)

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We suddenly find ourselves living  in unsettled times.

It is difficult to recall a time, since 1848 (when a wave of revolutions swept Europe), when there was upheaval across so broad a swath.  I do not yet say “revolutions”, since it is as yet unclear, whether these will prove to have been more than a popularly instigated palace coup (Mubarak’s gone, long live Sulayman:  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss  [cf. now this -- and now [3 IV 11] this as well], and also [22 IV 11 this) and the prelude to chaos or civil war:

Reform Lawyer Says Tunisia Risks Anarchy

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/world/africa/22tunisia.html?ref=tunisia

Qaddafi’s Son Warns of Civil War as Libyan Protests Widen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/world/africa/21libya.html?scp=1&sq=tunisian%20lawyer&st=cse

But meanwhile, largely off-camera so far as the American public is concerned, recent events in the Maghreb -- including simply the breaking of political taboos -- are beginning to jiggle the perilous metastability of Europe.

Here is a mild, not to say mealy-mouthed view (typical of anything with dateline BRUSSELS):

In Unrest, Europeans Focus on Migration

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/world/europe/22migrants.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=print

For the full-bore, dead-center, shape-of-things-to-come version --  listen to Laroui.

(Further background to Wilders' proposal here:)
http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2824/Politiek/article/detail/1833354/2011/02/10/Nieuw-is-het-idee-van-Wilders-tuigdorpen-niet.dhtml

Laroui was translating Wilders' Dutch  with the term made infamous by Sarkozy.

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It is difficult to find first-hand information about the Wilders incident.  We did eventually find this third-hand reference, on a blog:

Enfin, le Monde jette un regard sur les Pays-Bas, mais cette fois il s'agit d'une nouvelle rodomontade du populiste Geert Wilders, qui préconise l'installation, en bordure des grandes villes, de "tuigdorpen", littéralement des villages à racaille, où s'entasseraient tous les indésirables: récidivistes, personnes en attente de procès, ou en période de probation. Un système déjà appliqué dans quelques villes danoises.

Assuming that by “le Monde” he meant the well-known sheet  which enjoys a (partly undeserved) reputation as the French newspaper of record, I searched their site.  But met only stonewalling:

Aucun élément publié "depuis un mois" avec le(s) mot(s) ou expression(s) "geert et wilders" dans "tout l'élément" et classé par "pertinence".

There are genuine issues here which the European establishment -- both politicians and press -- are too squeamish to confront.  Which is why the public discourse winds up dominated by wackos like Geert Wilders.

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[update 12 IV 11]
Re the renationalization of European countries
("Renationalization":  another term for le grand remplacement.)

[update 18 IV 11]
"The dignity train" 

France blocks Italian train carrying Tunisian migrants

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tunisia-refugees-20110419,0,4474996.story

"Mais le convoi, baptisé «train de la dignité», n'a jamais quitté la gare..."
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2011/04/18/01003-20110418ARTFIG00444-train-bloque-a-vintimille-l-ue-conforte-la-decision-de-paris.php

[Update 25 VI 11]
Denmark (in an article that actually mentions the working class)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/world/europe/25denmark.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=print

[Update 30 VII 11]
A good-humored  cinematic treatment.
(Note the similarity to the Pied Piper of Hamelin motif.)

[update 200 BC]
"The Roman army was kept to strength  only through the recruitment of barbarians -- a practice that was destined to bring disaster.  The emperors invited immigrants from beyond the frontiers  to colonize Italy, and even the uninvited joined them."
-- Morris Bishop, The Middle Ages (1968)

[Update 3 Aug 2011]
Too tired to fight, they pass the torch.
(" Las des intimidations, Vinci a abandonné la gestion d'un parking dans un quartier sensible de la cité phocéenne à un groupe d'individus qui facture cinq euros le stationnement.") Selected readers' comments (chosen as much for linguistic interest  as anything else):

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Bientôt, les commerçants de Marseille payeront le pizzo, comme à Palerme .

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Faut-il que les citoyens s'organisent en milices pour faire respecter un ordre dont l'État, que ce soit de droite ou de gauche, se fiche éperdument ?

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Les voitures seront sans doute mieux protégés par cette "bande" que par les vigiles de Vinci ou que de la Police Municipale. Alors 5 euro pour un stationnement sans limitation de temps etezteeet avec c'est une aubaine

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L'indulgence coupable prônée par certaines organisations angéliques est aussi en partie responsable de la faiblesse des forces de l'ordre. Et dire que le fond n'a pas encore été touché...

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La France devient par endroits un far-west, un univers type mad max

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Et pourtant des spécialistes hautement informés viennent encore clamer que l'immigration débridée rapporte plus à la France qu'elle ne lui coute.

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Ce genre de faits divers, qui deviennent monnaie courante en France, sont un symbole de l'échec de la politique LAXISTE de Sarkozy, qui n'a été que la continuation de la politique laxiste du PS. Le plus rageant c'est qu'il a construit sa victoire en 2007 en promettant qu'il mettrait fin au laxisme chiraco-socialiste!!!!!

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Marseille, c'est Sarajevo dans 20 ans, avec une force d'interposition chinoise, indienne, japonnaise, bresilienne et russe

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quelle honte pour la France victime de toute cette bande de politicards intellos verreux

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Faisons de Marseille une ville de garnison . Je conseille la légion . Ca se calmera rapidement .

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On peut dire, sans crainte de se tromper, qu'un tel événement sonne le glas de l'ordre républicain, de l'autorité de l'Etat, de la souveraineté nationale, et de l'intégrité territoriale. --- [Update 9 Aug 2011] For a picture of press coverage of recent events in London, click here.

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Pour d’autres friandises

de la confiserie 

du docteur Justice,

consultez:

http://www.linguasacrapublishing.com/justice.html

[Update 4 Oct 2011]

And now this, re Bulgaria and the gens de voyage.  (En bref, on veut qu’ils voyagent ailleurs.)

http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2011/10/03/01003-20111003ARTFIG00730-poussee-de-fievre-antirom-en-bulgarie.php

Check out the reader commentaries.  One reader summarizes them thus:

J'hallucine vraiment lorsque je lis les commentaires.

Demain si tout cela continue, nous allons avoir une guerre civile en France.

A lire vos messages on se croierait sous l'occupation et entendre le discours du régime de Vichy.

-- [Update 13 Dec 2011]  

France experiments with political correctness  à l’américaine:

Sciences Po(pulaires)

First paragraph, describing the dropping of a key entrance exam, in favor of what America has the sobriety to call “”life experience””,  but which the grand école, figleafless, calls simply “personality”:

Sciences Po Paris continue à réformer ses examens d'entrée dans le sens d'une «discrimination positive» assumée par son très politique directeur, Richard Descoings. Dès 2013,son examen d'entrée en première année comportera

 une sélection sur dossier, davantage d'oraux et la suppression de l'épreuve de culture générale, afin de «diversifier son recrutement». Il s'agit désormais de miser sur la «personnalité» des étudiants.

Readers’ comments (again, chosen as much for linguistic elegance  as for political content):

Avant à Sciences-Po, on brassait du vent avec un certain enrobage de culture qui pouvait faire illusion, maintenant j'ai bien peur que l'enrobage tombe et que l'on brasse du vent avec le vocabulaire des cités.

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Supprimer la culture générale pour diversifier le recrutement, pour favoriser les familles pauvres et une ineptie.

Quoi de plus accessible que la culture dans ce pays ? Avec la profusion de médiathèques,de musées et de théâtres abordables dans toutes les villes de France, la culture générale est le véritable témoin de la curiosité sur le monde, quel que soit son milieu d'origine.

Bien entendu, elle est une ouverture vers l'élitisme, ce qui est loin d'être un mal. La France se nivelle de plus en plus par le bas, le pouvoir est au mains des marchands de tapis.Bientôt tout le monde ne parlera plus que de football et de soldes. Quelle désolation

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[Update 2 III 12]

Les gens du voyage  expelled from a squat near Versailles:

http://plus.lefigaro.fr/article/versailles-roms-expulses-dune-caserne-20120301-787545/commentaires?page=1

Observe the tone of the readers’ comments.  This, from a nation that used to take pleasure in lecturing America about race relations.  ----

[Update 11 III 12]

The Presidential campaign looming, Sarkozy suddenly has second thoughts about Schengen:

http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2012/03/11/97001-20120311FILWWW00107-sarkozy-veut-changer-schengen.php#xtor=EPR-31-[flux-migratoires-nicolas-sarkozy-veut-reviser-les-accords-de-schengen]-20120311-[titre]

Again, the readers’ comments are barbed (I quote only from among the more literate):

Plus que Schengen, c'est le regroupement familial et les accords avec l'Algérie qu'il faut annuler !!!

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Pourquoi renégocier Schengen ? La solution la voici, la voilà :

Prix du Barbelé militaire, la bobine de 60 m Ø 2,7 mm : 16.00 EUR HT (sans crampillions, ces petits clous qui piquent quand on s'y pique). Calculons, pour arrêter l'immigration : 16,00 euros les 60 mètres ; Frontières maritimes et terrestres de la France : environ 5 600 km, soit 5 600 000 mètres. Coût en barbelés : 93 333 rouleaux de 60 mètres, soit 93 333 X 16 euros = 1,49 millions d'Euros. Sachant que l'immigré est capable de cisailler le barbelé, il faut 1 (un) gendarme tous les trente mètres, soit 189 666 gendarmes. Salaire moyen d'un gendarme au mois : 2 000 euros Coût d'un gendarme à l'année : 24 000 euros (hors cotisations sociales et primes) Comme il faut trois gendarmes par jour (il font les 3x8), coût total des gendarmes pour empêcher les immigrés de cisailler les barbelés : 13 655 952 000. Coût total pour arrêter l'immigration : 13 655 952 000 + 1 490 000 = 13 657 442 000. Un peu plus de 13,6 milliards d'euros. C'est pas cher et ça vaut le coup et même le coût.

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Pas possible de réviser le dernier traité Merkozy mais par contre pour Schengen pas de problème !!! Comme quoi la mauvaise foi...

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Décidément N Sarkozy n'en fini pas de copier le programme du Front national... Ceci dit, si je fais confiance à Marine Le Pen pour mettre en pratique ses propositions, ce n'est pas du tout le cas pour N Sarkozy. Comme disait ma grand-mère, chat échaudé craint l'eau froide

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 [Update 8 April 2012]

Dati fustige le "mépris" de Hollande

[Update 28 IV 2012]

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/04/27/01016-20120427ARTFIG00636-deux-agents-de-police-blesses-a-istres.php

Attirées dans un get-apens, les forces de l'ordre ont été prises à partie. Sept personnes ont été interpellées.

Deux policiers ont été blessés et sept personnes ont été interpellées dans la soirée de mercredi lors d'une violente altercation dans le quartier des Échoppes, à Istres (Bouches-du-Rhône).

Vers 21 h 30, les policiers d'Istres ont d'abord été alertés pour une fuite de gaz dans ce quartier proche du centre-ville. L'incident s'avère factice, mais, peu de temps après, les forces de l'ordre sont rappelées pour un prétendu différend entre riverains. Les agents constatent que cette alerte est également sans fondement. Lors de cette seconde intervention, plusieurs individus commencent toutefois à s'en prendre aux policiers. Tristement courant dans certains quartiers sensibles, le guet-apens ne fait plus de doute.

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[Update 27 May 2012] http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-africa-refugees-20120527,0,4865471.story  

 === [Update 4 June 2012] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/06/firebomb-african-refugees-jerusalem.html === [Update 9 Aug 2012] Expulsion des Roms: --> «c'est cette colonne de fumée noire toxique qui s'élève du camp » quand des câbles sont brûlés pour récupérer le cuivre  ...

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[Update 28 IX 12]
 

http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2012/09/28/97001-20120928FILWWW00310-des-marseillais-brulent-un-camp-de-roms.php?m_i=IlHIhba_9BkOUzv6LTNqJf30IFiCwGaHxykTzT4Ma53tqfkIM

Des Marseillais brûlent un camp de Roms

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[Update 20 X 12]
A favorite party slogan: “Get the Stench out of Greece.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/anti-immigrant-golden-dawn-rises-in-greece/2012/10/20/e7128296-17a6-11e2-a346-f24efc680b8d_print.html

[Update 3 XI 2012]

Afflux massif de Roms de Serbie et de Macédoine

http://www.medi1.com/player/player.php?i=5317350

[Update 22 XI 2012]
Laroui himself calls for tougher measures against illegal aliens:
http://www.medi1.com/player/player.php?i=5335949
even though "beaucoup de belles dames vont jeter de hauts cris".

 [Update 23 XI 2012]  

Des immigrés très courtisés par les indépendantistes

Ayant étudié le précédent québécois, les indépendantistes catalans  ne veulent rien laisser au hasard, et font campagne  jusque dans les mosquées.

http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2012/11/23/des-immigres-tres-courtises-par-les-independantistes_1795168_3210.html

[Update 31 I 13]

Roms : le retour des bidonvilles de la honte

Au sud de Paris, dans le camp de Vigneux, 800 Roumains s'entassent dans les immondices et la boue. Le maire se dit abandonné et la préfecture tergiverse. En France, ces migrants sont maintenant des dizaines de milliers.

[Update 6 III 14]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/world/europe/spain-struggles-to-halt-migrants-at-two-enclaves.html?hp&_r=0

MARCH 6, 2014

“There are 40,000 people in Morocco who are waiting to cross illegally into Spain, and 40,000 more at the border between Mauritania and Morocco.”

15 migrants drowned off Ceuta as they tried to swim around a sea wall marking the enclave’s border.

Rajoy’s conservative Popular Party, which has a majority in Parliament, rejected demands from opposition parties to set up a parliamentary committee to investigate the Ceuta drownings. The refusal came even after the government admitted, after initially denying, that the police had fired rubber bullets into the water.

a metal netting system would soon be added to reinforce the perimeters of the enclaves.

Madrid is also negotiating with Morocco on a change of law that would allow the authorities to turn back illegal migrants almost immediately, once they entered Spanish territory. At the moment, when these migrants enter the territories, they cannot be legally expelled and must be processed the same way economic migrants or asylum seekers are on the mainland.

The refugee center in Melilla is now home to about 1,300 migrants, almost triple its planned capacity. To help alleviate the problem, Spain this week transferred about 100 migrants, some of whom had been in the Melilla center for as long as three years, to the mainland.

[Mise à jour, 11 mai 2014]  “Guardian Angels” redivivus:

http://www.bvoltaire.fr/damienrieu/generation-identitaire-ressusciter-civisme,59505

The "Femen" group has its own, quite distinct, immigration policy:
http://fr.novopress.info/167508/femen-appelle-les-francaises-sucer-se-faire-lecher-branler-doigter-pomper-niquer-autant-detrangers-quelles-peuvent/

[Mise à jour, 28 Oct 2014]  Trouble in Calais.
http://www.nzz.ch/international/ein-neonazi-profiliert-sich-1.18412750?extcid=Newsletter_28102014_Top-News_am_Morgen

[Update 16 April 2015]  They don’t want them either:

Thousands flee after South Africa mobs attack immigrants

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/africa/south-africa-anti-foreigner-attacks/

Anti-immigrant attacks kill 5 in Rainbow Nation

Thousands of people have sought refuge in temporary shelters in South Africa after mobs with machetes attacked immigrants in the city of Durban, leaving at least five people dead.

And, a remarkable observation from a man on the ground, not widely reported.

South Africa's police minister echoed the president's comments during a press conference on Wednesday.

"I can tell you now that this so-called xenophobia is not that. It's more 'Afrophobia.' It's ideologically driven. But we are on top of it. We are in control and are handling the situation well," Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko said during a briefing on the attacks.

"It is African-on-African. It is not on other nationalities," said Nhleko.

http://www.newsweek.com/south-africa-grapples-resurgence-xenophobic-attacks-322625?piano_d=1

Beleaguered immigrant in Durban

Ponder that.