Riots in Denmark

[Thue]

Originally posted by Nikolai
I still can't get why burning down kindergartens and schools can help them in any way. If they wanted to become a respected and included part of the society, why destroy the very things that can accomplish that?

I think this just illustrates what kind of "people" we are dealing with here. Lost causes.

SlowwHand: This is not a normal riot. This seems to be a small group of trouble-makers. Who after having considered the situation to the limit of their mental abilities choose this course of action...

[DaShi]

It's because kindergartens and schools are conformist factories!

[Thue]

Originally posted by DaShi
It's because kindergartens and schools are conformist factories!

Pretty close; schools are the places where they failed to fit it, so they are taking their revenge.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Nikolai
While they might not be citizens, they have lived in Denmark for some years and one of them are married to a Danish convert, so I think they have some rights, haven't they?

Ordinarily, they would have. People on a permit to stay are not summarily thrown out. However, since 2002 and in the rarest of cases, the police can recommend that persons who do not hold citizenship be expelled, and upon approval by the Ministers of Justice and Immigration Affairs respectively, they will be sent on their merry way, without the courts getting involved.

These are interesting times we live in, as cases like this one serve to remind us. Basically, if people behave themselves, they have rights, plenty. These two didn't.

[Thue]

Originally posted by Winston
These are interesting times we live in, as cases like this one serve to remind us. Basically, if people behave themselves, they have rights, plenty. These two didn't.

Well, rights are not supposed only to apply to perfectly behaved model citizens.

IMO there should have been a judge involved.

[Winston]

Not according to the law. Which by the way was passed by a ~5/6 majority specifically with regard to situations such as this.

[Thue]

Just because it is written in the law does not mean that it isn't wrong.

For example, how big a majority passed the media license...

[Winston]

True. ( ) But it's still pretty darn near a general consensus.

I cry no tears for these two characters and others like them. I should hope you won't either.

[DanS]

I have no problem with throwing non-citizens out of a country. But if these folks are second or third generation immigrants, they probably should have been granted citizenship in the first place. I have the same problems with the French system (and others).

[Nikolai]

No, it's the terrorists who are not citizens. The immigrants are.

[Lancer]

All these white countries with aging populations which forgot to have kids are bringing in foriegn labor to do the work. Bringing in moslems is nuts because they a r e the e n e m y, they make themselves that by their actions. New Zealand has the right idea. They have opened up immigration from the Philippines so they will at least end up with friends among them.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Thue


I think this just illustrates what kind of "people" we are dealing with here. Lost causes.

SlowwHand: This is not a normal riot. This seems to be a small group of trouble-makers. Who after having considered the situation to the limit of their mental abilities choose this course of action...

It is exactly a normal riot. Riots are not the majority. Riots are violent attention-getting events by the minority.

[Dinner]

**** the Islamists.

[SlowwHand]

Radical Islamists. Don't make that mistake.

[onodera]

Where's tear gas and rubber bullets? Riots are supposed to be put down.