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Information til Margrethe Vestager (i 2005 kendt her som “Not in my back yard Vestager“):

– Du bliver rost for at være velbegavet, men kritiseret for at være for elitær?

“Det med at være elitær er noget pjat. Hvis vi fortsat skal kunne rekruttere bredt til det politiske arbejde, må man give plads til, at vi kommer som dem, vi er. Jeg har som opgave at kommunikerer skarpt og præcis, men jeg skal også holde fast i, hvem jeg er. Og jeg er altså både til actionfilm, og Truffaut, italiensk madlavning og rugbrød på køkkenbordskanten. Vestager: Magten siver fra Fogh

Det er da overhovedet  ikke elitært. Men hvis Vestager kan fortælle os  hvor gammel Truffaut blev, hvad han døde af, hvor han ligger begravet og hvis hun har været der, så kan hun vinde en leverpostejmad her. Det ville være super-Radicoolt. Iøvrigt vejrer partiet morgenluft, som altid når Danmark kan underløbes udefra,  så Vestager behøver ikke hænge med mulen:

Man behøver ikke længere være individuelt forfulgt for at få flygtningestatus i et EU-land. Det bekendtgjorde EF-domstolen i en dom i dag. Dommen er første skridt på vejen mod en mere human asylpolitik, siger Radikale Venstre spidskandidat til Europa-Parlamentet Sofie Carsten Nielsen, som efterlyser handling fra integrationsminister Birthe Rønn Hornbech (V).”EF-domstolens asyldom viser vejen for en mere human asylpolitik. Der er områder i verden, hvor situationen er så kritisk, at det ikke giver mening at kræve dokumentation for personlig forfølgelse,” siger Radikale Venstre spidskandidat til Europa-Parlamentet. EU-DOM BANER VEJ FOR HUMAN ASYLPOLITIK

Sofie vil gerne i Europa Parlamentet. Det forstår sig. Se nedenfor.

Når kriminelle “kropsvisiterer”, er den sociale kontrakt så brudt?

I debatterne på nettet luftes der fra tid til anden ønsker om ret så korporlige modforholdsregler mod indvandrerrelateret (dvs. fortrinsvis muslimsk) kriminalitet – helt udenom de myndigheder der ellers har monopol på den slags. Nogle af disse indlæg er givetvis først og fremmest udtryk for frustration, og havde nogen virkelig til forsæt at gå dén vej ville de næppe udbasunere det i fuld offentlighed. Argumenterne imod er oplagte: Det ville ende i det vilde vesten med lynchninger og vold mod sagesløse, og skal der ydes en indsats der gør en forskel, skulle hele det statsautoriserede apparat sættes ind. Men det er der som bekendt ikke opbakning til i befolkningen – ikke så det giver sig udslag i mandatfordelingen i folketinget.

Men er der en kridtstreg der, hvis den overskrides, vil gøre selvtægt moralsk forsvarligt? Som vil legitimere privates indsats – lovlig eller ej – på lokalplan, fordi en given bydel begynder at ligne den tredje verden i en grad at der bare må siges stop? Tja, jeg plejer at hævde at man kan argumentere for dette i visse bydele i Sverige, og der har vist også været eksempler på privat patruljering med henblik på at gøre gaderne sikrere for svenske kvinder. Men med denne nyhed vil jeg godt nok sige at nu er det lige før der behøves en Travis Bickle, hvis ikke …. ja, hvis ikke hvad? Hvilke politiressourcer vil kunne løse dette problem, og vil en sådan officiel indsats overhovedet være mulig, og ikke blot føre til at de pæne og anstændiges vrede vil blive rettet mod ordensmagten? Konkrete forslag modtages gerne i kommentarsporet, for jeg er helt blank (LFPC).

Bandeopgøret i København mellem indvandrergrupper på den ene side og rockere på den anden ser ud til at være under optrapning. Så sent som i eftermiddags blev en dansk mand kropsvisiteret af en gruppe på fire indvandrere ved Blågårds Plads på Nørrebro, og selv om politiet i København netop har sendt 35 ekstra betjente på gaden til at tøjle bandeurolighederne, lykkedes det ikke at få fat i nogle af parterne.

– Der har været flere af den slags episoder, og efter hvad vi hører, bliver der visiteret helt ned i underbukserne, siger politiets centrale vagtleder, John Hansen.[…] Og der er meldinger om, at helt uskyldige bliver visiteret og forhørt af folk, der næppe har helt rent mel i posen.[…] Bander kropsvisiterer folk på gaden

 

For at borgerne i blandt andet Blågårdsgadekvarteret igen kan føle sig trygge, sætter politiet i denne uge yderligere 35 uniformerede betjente ind i jagten på banderne. Men Søren tror ikke, at mere politi i gaderne vil hjælpe. Han har med egne øjne set, at kvarterets drenge gemmer skydevåben og knive i buske  og under skøjtebanen, når politiet kommer for at visitere dem. Han mener, at der skal  10-12 mand til for at mandsopdække et bandemedlem og ikke 35 betjente til at klare samtlige. »Mon en cykelhjelm afbøder skud«

Parisisk betjent dræbt

med to hovedskud fra sit eget tjenestevåben. Seks pakistanere (andre kilder siger Srilankanere)  anholdt. Le Monde

How to make a million £ in five years: become a Euro MP

(= 8.5 mio danske kroner, vel at mærke med hjem på bankbogen, efter i forvejen at have  levet som en belgisk baron)

[..] I soon realised that the EU project and the institutions have been hijacked by an arrogant, self-serving and undemocratic elite, which has become increasingly isolated from and disdainful of the people who pay their considerable salaries, expenses and pensions – us.

Among the things that shocked me were the arrogance, cynicism and avarice of the MEPs, commissioners and EU staff; and the extraordinary levels of thieving.

To say this is not especially high is to reckon without MEPs’ overliberal expense allowances. Becoming an MEP is a bit like joining a millionaires’ club – you can easily live like royalty and still walk away with more than £1m saved up in your bank account from serving just one five-year term at the European parliament.Get elected twice or more and you can become a multi-millionaire.

The benefits of being an MEP don’t stop here. MEPs also have a huge list of other entitlements that are generously subsidised by Europe’s taxpayers. If they take language and computer courses we pay their fees, travel and living expenses.

They have full, free accident insurance, travel insurance and life assurance. They and their families get money for spectacles, contact lenses and dental treatment. MEPs and their families can also get full payment for things such as hydrotherapy, mud baths, aerosol therapy and acupuncture.

Even when MEPs lose their seats in the European parliament, they don’t have to bid goodbye to the financial benefits immediately.

Once they leave office they continue to enjoy a “transitional allowance” (basically their parliamentary salary) for anything from six months to two years, depending on their length of service. They can also keep on using the parliament’s subsidised restaurants and cafeterias, libraries and telephone facilities in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg.

Moreover, once they start drawing their EU pensions, these are subject to special, low EU tax rates and not the usually much higher tax rates in whichever country they may retire to.

There have been repeated attempts by a small number of more responsible MEPs to have the expenses system changed to a more honest and transparent one.

In June 2005, under pressure to clean up their act, MEPs finally agreed to move to a members’ statute by which they would all get the same salary and would be reimbursed for the real cost of their weekly travel expenses. However, the new rules will not come into effect until after the European elections in June this year. And they may not be quite as “open” and “transparent” as the EU might like us to believe.

All MEPs will receive the same salary, which will be fixed at 38.5% of the salary of a judge at the European Court of Justice. At about £6,800 a month, this will give most MEPs from the wealthier EU countries a large pay rise (30% for the British).

The only group which could have seen pay significantly cut are Italian MEPs, who were on the highest salaries, but they managed to block the reform package until their government agreed to compensate them with Italian taxpayers’ money.

Austrian and Irish MEPs also could have been losers, but under article 25 of the members’ statute, MEPs are free to choose whether they wish to remain on the pre-2009 salary and pension scheme or move to the new one. This creates a “heads I win, tails I win” situation: MEPs can take whichever salary and pension option gives them the most money.

Moreover, as with their pensions, all MEPs who move to the new salary scheme will no longer have to pay national income taxes in their countries. Instead they will pay a special EU tax, which for most should be between 13% and 17% depending on their family circumstances.

As another reform, MEPs have voted to ban the hiring of close family members as assistants. However, any family member employed as an assistant in July 2008 may remain on the EU payroll until the 2014 European parliament elections.

And then there is the “reform” on travel. From July, MEPs’ weekly travel expenses will be paid out only against actual expenses incurred, but experience suggests that the more enterprising MEPs will find it easy to get friendly with a travel agent, buy a full-price airline ticket each week, take the receipt page out of the ticket, get a full refund from the travel agent, change the ticket to a low-price alternative and hand in the original expensive, full-price receipt to the parliament bean-counters as part of MEPs’ expenses claims.

As far as the payments for subsistence and constituency offices of up to £94,000 a year are concerned, these will continue as before with no need to produce any proof that any money was spent, allowing MEPs to legally make many tens of thousands of euros or pounds a year, tax free, thanks to the generosity of the parliament’s still enviably lax expenses payment procedures.

In other words, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Loading up the gravy train

The biggest pot of money MEPs can dip into is for employing staff. This stands at about £182,000 a year after increasing by an inflation-busting 34% in the past five years.

There are no guidelines regulating how much an assistant should be paid, and many MEPs use this allowance to pay members of their own family. The amount is so generous that an MEP can slip his or her spouse or offspring £50,000 to £60,000 a year and still have enough loose change to employ more than one full-time secretary and a few researchers.

Each MEP is provided with two fully furnished, rent-free offices in the European parliament building and an allowance of £43,600 a year for having an office in their constituency. No receipts are required. Many MPs claim that their constituency office is in their own home. This allows them to rent out a room in their homes to themselves, paid for with taxpayers’ money. Some take all the cash without having a constituency office at all.

MEPs can also claim a subsistence allowance of £257 a day, tax free, for every one of the 40 or so weeks of European parliamentary sessions without having to provide receipts. There is no requirement to attend a debate or committee session. On Fridays at 7am there is usually a queue of MEPs with their luggage waiting to sign in to get their allowance before rushing off to the airport or station.

The £257 subsistence allowance is meant to pay for accommodation and meals. Most MEPs can pocket more than £90 of it every day tax free. A three-star hotel near the European parliament costs about £112 a night, including breakfast. That leaves about £145 a day for lunch and dinner — and there are subsidised canteens and restaurants.

In addition, MEPs get generous travel expenses. They can claim weekly flights from their constituencies. They are not asked how much they have paid, but are usually reimbursed for more than a business class fare. By buying cheap tickets, MEPs can rake in more than £270 a week tax free. They also get an allowance of £3,600 a year to go anywhere in the world as long as this travel is “connected” with their work as an MEP.

MEPs have made sure they have one of the best pension schemes in Europe. They get the same benefits as national politicians but can save for an additional voluntary EU pension. For every £900 they pay into their pension scheme each month, the EU will pay double. MEPs are allowed to pay this £900 from their £43,600 office expenses. In theory, they are supposed to reimburse this money from their own bank accounts. But a few years ago they voted down a proposal that auditors should check whether any of them did so. This means an MEP would have to work for only about 15 years to get a pension of half their final salary.

Adding all this up, a typical British, French or German MEP is getting more than £400,000 a year in salary, pension and expenses — more than £2m for each five-year parliamentary period in Brussels. With judicious financial management, they can probably get by on about £200,000 per annum.

This means they can save about £200,000 each year. It’s easy to see how, by careful choice of travel and modest accommodation, they can walk away with savings of more than £1m after five years. David Craig, Times Online

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A LEAKED internal report has revealed systematic abuses by Euro MPs of parliamentary allowances that enable them to pocket more than £1m in profits from a single five-year term, writes Jonathan Oliver.

Secret report reveals how MEPs make millions

– The Great European Rip-Off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives by David Craig and Matthew Elliott will be published by Random House Books on March 5 at £8.99. Copies can be ordered for £8.54 including postage from The Sunday Times BooksFirst on 0845 271 2135

Man husker måske dette tyske TV program om EU fusk – Fanget med fingrene i kagekassen

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Janne
Janne
15 years ago

Anna Lyttiger

Linket skulle gerne virke hvis du fjerner mellemrummene i http. Det var i hvert fald ikke noget problem for mig at læse artiklen.

Anna Lyttiger
15 years ago

Janne

Har du et link til artiklen, som virker?

Mvh
AL

Johansen
Johansen
15 years ago

Janne

Tak for de pæne ord. De luner. 🙂

Janne
Janne
15 years ago

Johansen

Det er en flot og væsentlig artikel du er medskribent af i Ugeskrift for Læger. Tak for det.

“Det er ikke de danske sygehuse, som skal integreres i islam, men de muslimske kvinder, som skal integreres i moderne, verdslige institutioner.”

h t t p://www.ugeskriftet.dk/portal/page/portal/LAEGERDK/UGESKRIFT_FOR_LAEGER/TIDLIGERE_NUMRE/2009/UFL_EKCMA_2009_9/UFL_EKCMA_2009_9_55751

Johansen
Johansen
15 years ago

De radikale har udviklet sig til et asylparti.

De ignorerer den almindelige dansker og vender i stedet blikket ud i verden, hvor de kan vise deres uanede godhed ved at invitere den 3. verden indenfor. På bekostning af den almindelige dansker, som betaler prisen for multikultur og rå formørket machokultur.

Pk
Pk
15 years ago

De Afghanske flygtninge i Parkistan får arbejde.
Sidder på “marken ´” og laver mursten.
Hårdt arbejde og lav løn.
Skandinavien er nok bedre, lønmæssigt.

JensH
JensH
15 years ago

Istedet for at være taknemmelig over at han overhovedet får noget, så har denne for Danmark uvedkommende person gudhjælpemig valgt at sagsøge Danmark:

http://www.berlingske.dk/article/20090223/danmark/902230396/

Hvad laver han overhovedet her?? Hvorfor flygter han ikke til et nabo-land istedet for halvejs rundt om jorden til Danmark?? Hvor meget mon de Afghanske flygtninge i Parkistan får??

Hele sagen er fuldstændig grotesk, og Berlingske-artiklens offer-tone er mindst lige så grotesk.

Magga
Magga
15 years ago

Enig, Det Radikale Venstre og Politiken-slænget mangler ydmyghed og lydhørhed, og uden de egenskaber kan man ikke tale om virkelig dannelse.

Magga
Magga
15 years ago

Danskerne er det mest lykkelige folkefærd, får vi at vide, og Danica Pension hævder, at kvinder er lykkeligere end mænd.

Er vi islamkritikere som ofte hævdet nogle sure, mislykkede og bitre outsidere?

Det er ikke mit indtryk, og jeg vil også hævde, at meget tyder på, at vi – om end meget forskellige – for en stor dels vedkommende hører til i en helt anden kategori, hvor jeg hjertens gerne vil være. Faktisk har jeg ikke anden mulighed. 🙂

Føler mig ret så meget lykkelig og scorede også over gennemsnittet i testen.

http://lykkemaaler.boyle.pil.dk/

Janne
Janne
15 years ago

steen

Faktisk så mangler Det Radikale Venstre og Politiken segment i den forstand dannelse. ;o)

Janne
Janne
15 years ago

steen

“Den elite, jeg ind imellem har været så heldig at træffe, har haft nogle ting tilfælles udover deres andre kvaliteter: ydmyghed og lydhørhed overfor andre.”

Ja, lige præcis.

Steen
Steen
15 years ago

Jeg tror også Information forveksler to ting : De Radikales forkærlighed for upopulære standpunkter, bliver ikke elitære af at være upopulære. Så skulle en holdning være finere og ædlere, desto færre der deler den ? Det er den fornemmelse man får, når man surfer forbi Radikale Net. Jo mindre tilslutning partiet har, jo mere klapper de tilbageværende hinaden på ryggen i overbevisningen om, at de dog har ret alligevel. Fantastisk mekanisme. Elite er også et svævende begreb. Den elite, jeg (efter mine egne begreber) ind imellem har været så heldig at træffe, har haft nogle ting tilfælles udover deres andre… Read more »

Janne
Janne
15 years ago

M.h.t. Vestager så er det elitære vel ikke det værste. Jeg kan ikke se at det skal være et problem i sig selv at nogen har læst flere bøger og ved mere om kultur og kunst end andre gør. Problemet er den udbredte usolidaritet med den almindelige dansker og dennes hverdag i den rå og barbariske del af multikulturen, som mange af Vestagers ligesindede lider af. Her tænker jeg også på Politiken segmentet.

Magga
Magga
15 years ago

Dette handler om medlemmer af vor journalistudnævnte lokale elite. 1. I “Unge og frække” skriver Christopher Arzrouni om sin tid i Venstres Ungdom og om “et møde i Abdul Wahid Pedersens lokaler på Vesterbro med et broget persongalleri med interesse for Afghanistan. I en pause fumlede jeg rundt og opdagede pludselig, at nogen var ved at oversætte ”Mein Kampf”. Det lærte mig, at ens fjenders fjender ikke nødvendigvis er ens venner. ” Det er klart. Wahid Pedersen = Det Muslimske Broderskab = Begejstring for Hitler og “Mein Kampf”. ————— 2. Juraprofessoren Ole Hasselbalch – tak og lov for den mands… Read more »

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