Text 15716, 61 rader
Skriven 2005-11-09 12:57:30 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 15664 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
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09 Nov 05 15:50, Ward Dossche wrote to FRANK SCHEIDT:

 WD> Frank,

 >> Of course, I'll admit, I'm spoiled, living in
 >> the United States where we have constitutionally-guaranteed free
 >> speech.

 WD> That is indeed what is written in the relevant ammendment.  It does
 WD> not mean that you have more freedoms than we do overhere ... except
 WD> of course when you mean that it is perfectly OK to distribute for
 WD> example the Nazistic innuendo we've seen in this or another
 WD> conference. Plus of course that there still is a Nazi-party in the
 WD> US, here that would be outlawed.

I wonder why they don't arrest and imprison those members of the Nazi
party in urope. It's there, your denial or not.

 WD> Freedom of speech?

Yours isn't as free as you claim.

 >> Obviously not *all* Muslims in France are burning cars.
 >> If they were there'd be no cars left to burn!

 WD> Time to make a one-way trip towards reality, Frank. Forgotten the
 WD> Watts riots from 1965?

No cars burnt there.

 WD> The Watts riots were a large-scale civil disorder lasting six days in
 WD> Los Angeles, California on Aug.11 1965.

Meanwhile, we're talking two weeks now in France and no end in sight. In
spite of curfews and more law enforcement on the scene, it continues.

 WD>  During the riots, 34 people were killed, 1,100 people were injured,
 WD> 4,000 people were arrested, and an estimated $100 million in damage
 WD> was caused.

But no burnt cars.

 WD> A gubernatorial commission investigated the riots, identifying the
 WD> causes as high unemployment,

Which is the same cause in France, 40% of the muslim community is out of
work and according to them, they can't get work because muslim people are
discriminated against in France.

 WD> What happened in France has the same problems at its roots ... high
 WD> unemployment, poor schooling, inferior living conditions. Remember a
 WD> couple of fires some weeks ago in housing blocks.

And no end in sight. However, there is one small item that may help to end
the riots at least, only 1% of the populace in France gives a shit about
what happens to the muslims.


Roy
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