Most days I try to get out the house at least once, if only for a brief while. I tend to get antsy if confined to barracks.
That rule doesn’t apply if the rainy season is with us, which it has been, recently. However, from mid-morning till sun-down today, my part of Jakarta was blessed with glorious hot sunshine.
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As foretold last night, this blessing was put to good use, my new paperback devoured, at least half of it, whilst its owner basked merrily. Every so often, I felt the need to repair indoors to get a coffee or some cold water – it was that hot.
And one of those trips coincided with a short Euronews tv feature on the Scandinavian cartoonists targetted by primitive savages for reasons as well-known as they are infantile and absurd.
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No need to go through all the obvious reasons why threats to kill, maim or otherwise torment anyone for a drawing are, among civilised people, intolerable. What gave me pause me today were their descriptions of the lives these cartoonists lead as a consequence of their perfectly legal and harmless artistry.
One elderly man – almost murdered in his own home by an axe-wielding pig-ignoramus – observed how sad it was to see how his Denmark had changed from the free and easy place it had been when he was young.
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Another – obliged to do the interview by Skype – talked of how the hard part was not being able just to go out!
Round-the-clock police or private security protection, living in homes turned into something like small fortresses – Good God!
All the things most of us take for granted – taking a stroll out to the minimart if you run out of cigarettes in the late afternoon, as I will be shortly…
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… or just enjoying a jaunt around the city you live in, another simple pleasure of mine, are just no longer within the bounds of possibility, thanks to the bigot intolerance of people who should never have been allowed to settle in the country in the first place.
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What a mindless migration policy, to admit ingrates who are as attached to their backward barbarism as to the greedy snouts that they consciencelessly, instantly, prod into the nation’s benefit trough.
But what was worst came at the end of the programme, a poll noting that before the recent attack by murderous scum in Copenhagen, some 80% felt that cartoonists etc. should be free to publish whatever they please.
After that Islamist atrocity, the figure fell to 60%.
Clearly, people who believe in freedom don’t suddenly cease to understand what it means because a gang murders innocents – so twenty percent of Danes have simply been intimidated into acquiescence in sectarian censorship.
That is a monstrous indictment of Danish society.
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If that proportion of citizens, instead of buckling to fear, would get organised and DEMAND deportation of enemy aliens, using protest demonstrations and marches, along with massive mobilisation of voting power, what could not be achieved?
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Veritas 15:45 on December 22, 2017 Permalink |
Casting out devils, but doing it in dribs and drabs, is not enough. Your ideas make more sense, give then a fair chance to show they should be allowed to remain in Denmark.
Then if they refuse, get rid of them in one fell swoop.
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Larissa 19:13 on December 22, 2017 Permalink |
I see why you include reverend clergy of all denominations in your proposed injunction. Nobody can then start griping about certain ‘phobias.’
But until we have Episcopal suicide bombers, or Methodists marching through our cities chanting ‘Behead All Those Who Take Christ’s Name In Vain,’ it could be the net is spread too widely.
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