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Tensions Rise in Germany Over Handling of Mass Sexual Assaults in Cologne
The Guardian reports:
A ferocious debate has erupted in Germany over the handling of mass sexual assaults and muggings carried out by groups of young males during New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne, amid accusations of a police and media cover-up over fears of whipping up anti-foreigner sentiment in the wake of the migrant crisis.
About 100 complaints have now been made to police, two-thirds of which are linked to sexual assault, including two rapes. According to police and witnesses, the perpetrators were of north African and Arab appearance, although neither the identity nor origin of any of them has so far been established.
If you're not already feeling queasy enough be sure to read the link "Asian sex-grooming gangs in the UK" in the article. Apparently you can find similar stories from all over the UK, these sexual crimes against underage girls perpetrated by muslims are sickeningly common.
Conspiracy of Silence - or Sensationalist Reporting?
There are a number of marginal news sites posting stories out of Europe these days, mostly from Germany, Sweden, as well as other claims made regarding Finland and the UK. The claims all center around a huge increase in rapes by immigrants, outright take over of public train stations, and mass groping of women passing through the stations.
According to these reports, the incidents started in midsummer and continue to this day, but the local news organizations have refused to publish reports of these incidents even after arrests have been made. Often police are accused of withholding the news of any complaints or arrests for months.
The clear implication, more often implied than stated is that the national leaders who went public in their pledges to accept refugees from the middle east war zones as well as northern Africa are leaning on main stream news outlets to suppress news reports of these rapes and sexual assaults. This suppression, if it exists, also appears to extend to the US press.
The assaults aren't limited to European women, but also include women in the immigrant shelters, some as young as 16. The immigrant shelters population in Munich is 80% male. But not all the alleged perpetrators are migrants from the recent wave of mass migrations over the summer and fall. Some are earlier immigrants from North Africa who don't necessarily live in the camps.
Finally some reports are leaking into the western press in the US, such as this brief report in the New York Times about events on New Years Eve. That same event was reported by a couple of the British tabloids.
Many reports are in German, Here and Here. (Google Translate does well with these pages). Others are in English such as this one and this one.
Are any Soylentils living in the EU near refugee centers seeing these problems? Is it being reported? Is it being repressed? Or is the whole thing a made up issue by biased articles in fringe news sites?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2016, @03:29AM
(sarcasm font) I'm certainly happy that you are a less judgemental person than I am. (end sarcasm font)
BTW - please cite that basic tenet of the Republic which I am opposing. Maybe you refer to that tired poem, "Send me your tired, your hungry, your poor". That is NOT a tenet of the Republic, it's just a stupid poem, inscribed on a plaque, affixed to a statue donated to us by some crazy French people. There is nothing in the constitution that can be interpreted as welcoming invading hordes from a hostile culture or civilization.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday January 09 2016, @03:53AM
please cite that basic tenet of the Republic which I am opposing.
My comment has zero to do with Emma Lazarus' poem. Rather, it has to do with the individual rights ensconced in the U.S. Constitution and the amendmens thereto. James Madison expounds on this in the Federalist Papers (#51) [billofrightsinstitute.org]:
This is discussed, in great detail, in a wide variety of forums. Here are a few from the first page of a google search [google.com]:
http://www.aclunv.org/blog/preventing-tyranny-majority-original-plan [aclunv.org]
http://www.garlikov.com/philosophy/majorityrule.htm [garlikov.com]
http://www.rense.com/general64/madi.htm [rense.com]
http://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/primary-source-documents/the-federalist-papers/federalist-papers-no-51/ [billofrightsinstitute.org]
There is nothing in the constitution that can be interpreted as welcoming invading hordes from a hostile culture or civilization.
True enough. However, that's not what we're talking about here. Immigration is not invasion, except to xenophobes, religious nutjobs and bigots. All of those labels, IMHO, apply to you.
tl;dr: You're talking out of your ass and it smells that way too.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2016, @02:53PM
Outsiders who want to come in are not "part of society". They are outsiders who wish to gain entry into your society. The constitution wasn't written for those outsiders. In view of the fact that MOST Americans aren't welcoming these people into our midst, yes, they are invaders, not immigrants.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.