Cut to the quick
We had another of those strange knife attacks yesterday.
This is where some bloke wakes up and thinks to himself “It’s Sunday and I’m bored. I think I’ll go out and knife a few strangers”.
We’ve had a few of these in the last while, with the most notorious being the attack on kids coming out of school, which led in turn to the Dublin Riots.
What amuses me is the spin they put on these incidents. Obviously they are trying to prevent more rioting so go to great lengths to avoid mention of foreigners.
Yesterday started as a “serious incident” which could mean anything. But then they admitted that the “incident” had happened in several locations. So obviously it wasn’t a gang fight or an argument outside a pub. It had to be a stabber.
The general consensus seems to be that these attacks are caused by immigrants which, I might add, does tend to involve characters with Scrabble surnames. The powers that be are therefore scared witless that an attack may result in more riots or general unrest. So the next official announcement stated that the person who had been arrested “was not seeking asylum or international protection“. Aha! So he’s definitely foreign and they are trying to calm us into thinking that he’s of good Irish stock.
Unfortunately for the authorities we live in an Interweb world where word spreads like wildfire so it’s only a matter of time before alternative narratives start spreading. Sure enough, today they decide to come clean and admit that the perpetrator “is homeless and originally from South America“. I might point out that the Dublin Riots bloke was also a homeless foreigner.
There are times when I find it difficult to disagree with the anti-immigration mob.
Over here on the Blue Left coast of Oregon Portland has the occasional riot. Of course, it is way more about the ‘smash and grab’ free stuff than it is about the protest that started it.
Our one was a full blown “let’s burn the city down”. It caught everyone by surprise.
We are getting similar here in New England. I’m not anti immigrant, but more often that’s who’s been apprehended.
Nine rimes out of ten, the perpetrator has a name I couldn’t possibly pronounce.
You wait till the Palenstinian’s remember Ireland’s support for Hamas and start making their way to Dublin.
Must be quite a shock for Ireland, a country more accustomed to emigration than immigration. Unlike where many of your readers are, in the UK and USA, both of which have successfully accommodated immigrants for centuries with many upsides and few downsides.
The difference now is that the latest flow of immigrants do not copy their predecessors in seeking to integrate fully into the host country, rather they seek to replicate their source cultures from dense new ghettos of like-minded incomers, whilst taking advantage of all the material benefits of the more developed Western lands.
Therein lies the reason why so many find the current situation unacceptable, with an increasing tendency to express their feelings very publicly and often violently, a tendency which can only grow as the issues remain unaddressed.
My biggest problem [and an argument that always crops up] is that we have tens of thousands who are homeless. Families have to couch surf, move back with their parents and even sleep in their cars. There is a massive housing problem here and my argument is that there should be a moral imperative to house our own homeless before importing more. Over the months I have noticed my attitude changing so more and more I tend towards the anti-immigrant side.