Våbenforbrydelser øger enormt i Bryssel. De seneste tal er alarmerende og Glenn Audenaert, direktør for Bruxelles´ kriminalpoliti bryder tabuet om kriminalitet i hovedstaden.

Ifølge den den officielle statistik øgede antallet af væbnede røverier i Bruxelles i det tre første måneder af 2010 30% i forhold til samme periode sidste år! 138 røverier på tre måneder, et gennemsnit på fem væbnede røverier om dagen i hovedstaden. Selvom tallene også i samme periode viser en stigning på 20-30% af væbnede røverier i Antwerpen, Charleroi og Liege, er brugen af militære våben “et trist monopol for Bruxelles-området, “siger Glenn Audenaert.Det tager mindre end en halv dag at skaffe sig en Kalashnikov billigt.

4000 Kalashnikovs er i øjeblikket i cirkultation i byen, krigsvåben, langløbede våben: “Du finder alt i Bruxelles i dag” siger Glenn Audenaert bekræfter rygtet, uden at afsløre de officielle tal. Ifølge La Libre Belgique og en betjent i kampen mod illegal våbenhandel i hovedstaden, kan alle på Bruxelles gader finde en Kalashnikov til 2.000 € på mindre en halv dag!

Fra krigene i det tidligere Jugoslavien: Våben kommer fra tre forskellige kilder. For det første fra lagrene af tusindvis af militære våben, der solgtes på det sorte marked i Belgien i 90’erne. For de andet fra tyverier fra kaserneer. For det tredje er der mange våben fra det tidligere Jugoslavien, hvor lagre af våben er forsvundet fra de regulære hære og våben, som blev beslaglagt besejrede hære har fundet vej til det illegale marked.”

Kriminelle nordafrikanere, albanere og belgiere: De kriminelle bliver stadig yngre, og kommer hovedsageligt fra Nordafrika, Albanien, men også fra Belgien. Der er to grupper ifølge den offentlige anklager i Bruxelles: mindreårige der begår uden skydevåben og kriminelle organisationer befolket af ægte “gangstere. Småvirksomheder er nu næsten de eneste der berøres af dette, fordi de store kæder i stigende grad beskyttet mod dette (kameraer, pengeskabe forsinkelse, etc). Bruxelles: 5 braquages armés par jour et 4000 kalachnikovs dans les rues ! m. video. (Snaphanens oversættelse.)

Man kunne tro, dette var en gentagelse af vores tidligere 5 poster om Bryssel, men artiklen er halvandet døgn gammel. Mens eurokraterne forsøger at lave nationalstaterne om til noget der ligner Bryssel, lider de selv hårdt under forholdene, som man kan se på videoen Brussels,the Capital of Crime. Optimismen er anstrengt, mimikken er stiv. Der er vel et uerklæret kapløb igang. Får Bryssel nedlagt sig selv, inden det får nedlagt nationerne ?

Mand-bider-hund: Vaskeægte hate crime mod muslimsk kvinde

Denne historie, der vist er ‘breaking’ lige nu, har alle ingredienser til at blive blæst op i et toneleje som hadeforbrydelser mod kristne eller jøder i Europa aldrig medfører – hvis det ikke lige var for signalementet af gerningsmanden:

A brutal robber wrapped a Muslim woman in a carpet and set fire to her after he raided her home. The attacker gained entry to the woman’s Westminster flat by claiming to be an inspector from her local council, but once inside he bashed her and tied her up before stealing thousands of pounds worth of valuables.

As he left, he wrapped her in a carpet and set it alight, telling her: ‘This is your Eid present, you Muslim.’ The woman, aged in her 40s, was saved by neighbours who broke into her flat after hearing her screams. […]

The attacker is a black male in his 30s who stands around 6ft tall.This is your Eid present’: What attacker told Muslim woman as he wrapped her in a carpet and set her alight

De groteske udenomsmanøvrer i dækningen af terrorbomben på Times Square i New York kunne godt foranledige en til at tro at der hos de anstændige og selvpålagt blinde lige nu foregår ‘seismisk’ aktivitet ud over det normale. Svælget mellem idealer og illusioner på den ene side, og penibel virkelighed på den anden, synes faretruende stort, og balanceakten på afgrundens rand bliver stadig mere anspændt. Kan man bygge en mainstreamfortælling op på noget der kunne være et udslag af velkendt fjendskab mellem muslimske og jamaicanske indvandrere i Storbritannien, eller må man lade den ligge i lyset af gerningsmandens ubekvemme identitet? (LFPC)

Den gådefulde Times Square-bombe: Ritzau bidrager nu til løjerne

“Ligner mere og mere” er vist det man kalder ‘jumping to conclusions’ eller ‘ønsketænkning’. Artiklens ‘analyse’ og konklusioner skulle altså i disse økonomiske krisetider  betyde at vi kan vente lignende terroranslag fra det ikke ubetydelige antal kristne i USA. Man ryster opgivende på hovedet, men som altid må aben desværre ende hos det mediemarked der opretholder Ritzaus eksistens, og dermed hos de forbrugere der gerne betaler for at få stukket blår i øjnene (LFPC).

New York-bombemanden Faisal Shahzad ligner mere og mere en ganske almindelig person, hvis nedtur fik ham til at søge mod ekstremismen. Lørdagens fejlslagne bilbombe rettet mod Times Square ligner resultatet af en indre krise.

Venner til Shahzad fortæller til avisen New York Times, at den 30-årige pakistansk-amerikaner først inden for det seneste år var blevet mere reserveret og religiøs. Samtidig stod han over for økonomiske problemer. – Der var ingen tegn på, at han var ekstremist, han var ikke engang religiøs, skriver en gæst fra Shahzads bryllup til New York Times. […] New York-bombemand var drevet af fiasko

Når selvpålagt blindhed bliver ufrivilligt komisk

På verdenskendte og prestigefyldte CBS vil man gerne gøre en indsats for læsernes og seernes forståelse af vigtige samfundsmæssige problemer. Her får vi et kig indenfor i myndigheders og eksperters utrættelige arbejde med at opklare motivet bag en dramatisk begivenhed fra de seneste dage: Hvad motiverede Faisal Shahzad til hans planlagte udåd på Times Square i New York? Shahzad havde succes i USA, men nylige økonomiske problemer antydes:

[…] Until recently, his life in the U.S. appeared enviable. He had a master’s degree from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, a job as a budget analyst for a marketing firm in Norwalk, Conn., two children and a well-educated wife who posted his smiling picture and lovingly called him “my everything” on a social networking website.

But shortly after becoming a U.S. citizen a year ago, he gave up his job, stopped paying his mortgage and told a real estate agent to let the bank take the house because he was returning to Pakistan. […]

Pakistan – så nærmer vis os måske noget: Vrede over angivelige amerikanske drab på en etnisk gruppe der, pashtunerne:

[…] Kifyat Ali, a cousin of Shahzad’s father, spoke with reporters outside a two-story home the family owns in an upscale part of Peshawar, Pakistan. He said the family had yet to be officially informed of Shahzad’s arrest, which he called “a conspiracy so the (Americans) can bomb more Pashtuns,” a reference to a major ethnic group in Peshawar and the nearby tribal areas of Pakistan and southwest Afghanistan. […]

Og sådan kører CBS rundt og rundt i tomgang, i stedet for at gå tæt på det oplagte. Ikke én gang forekommer ordet ‘Islam’ eller ‘Muslim’ i dette stykke journalistisk candy floss, hvor den nærmeste antydning man tør fremkomme med, lyder:

[…] Law enforcement sources tell CBS News motives pursued include religion (did he attend a mosque frequently?), hatred of Americans and money. […] Faisal Shahzad’s Motive Shrouded in Mystery

Overskriften fortæller hvad alternativet til nævnelse af ubekvemme sandheder endte med at blive: En pirrende appel til et næsten Dan Brown’sk motiv “shrouded in mystery”. Nyhedsorganisationen har i dagens virkelighed afskrevet jagten på sandheden som drivkraft, og gjort sig til propagandist for multikulturen (LFPC).

Jelved hjælper med “den svenske løsning”

“Retskravet” har været en parodi og en trussel, siden R skaffede os det. Hvorfor ikke et  retskrav der permanent kunne sende Jelved  og hendes parti til en norrrlandsk ødegård ?

Flyt til Sverige, få en familiesammenføring og flyt så tilbage til Danmark. Så kan din partner få permanent ophold meget lettere, end hvis I bare bor i Danmark og søger familiesammenfø ring via de stramme danske regler. Sådan lyder opfordringen til at benytte sig af EU’s udlændingeregler i en ny guide, som De Radikale offentliggør i dag sammen med Dokumentations- og rådgivningscentret for racediskrimination. Integrationsordfø rer Marianne Jelved (R) siger til Information, at der er tale om “god, gedigen folkeoplysning, som vi har følt os foranlediget til at lave, for ministeriet varetager ikke sin vejlednings- forpligtelse godt nok”. Radikale vil hjælpe trængte udlændinge.

»I believe we are being colonised here in the UK«

Weston goes as far as actually predicting the war in the UK in the next twenty years. In his views white working class kids will go fight against immigrants. “You don’t understand this. You are a woman. Women don’t understand war. High-testosterone men always find the reason for the war,” he says.

Interview: Paul Weston, The Ukip candidate for the Cities of London and Westminster airs some very forthright opinions. (Klik foto f. helskærm.)

“I am a natural Conservative. I have always been. But David Cameron to me is not a Conservative. The party is not what it used to be. The Conservative ethos is now semi-liberal,” says Paul Weston, 46, the Ukip candidate standing for the Cities of London and Westminster.We met in a pub in the City, and Weston has already been drinking as I walk in. Perhaps he knows there is no point of wasting time (and paper) on leafleting as the seat is far beyond his reach. He admits he had only just enough backing to register as a candidate.

The battle in this constituency is between Conservatives and Labour. But Weston is an interesting and outspoken character who got involved in politics to get his opinions across. And oh my, he has got quite a few. He expresses his controversial views on EU, immigration, imperialism, and even metrosexuals with such honesty that I believe him when he says: “I am not a natural politician.”

Weston shows his affection for an old style Conservative party, and admits he would have still been a Conservative had it not be for the EU. It is a truly painful subject for Weston. His eyes lit up with anger as he speaks of Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission.

“He is the guy with the power. All other MEPs are just rubber-stamping monkeys. They pass thousands of laws a year, and this guy just sits there and orders them what to do,” he says.

“Lord Pearson actually came over to David Cameron and said: “If you promise to have a referendum on EU, I will stand down.”

Every single person who is in UKIP because of the EU will stand down. But Cameron said “No”. Cameron should have had a proper majority by now but he doesn’t. UKIP could have helped him with votes.

“Pearson did it because he has principles. Most of politicians are just a bunch of power-hungry lunatics with no principles,” says Weston as he orders another pint.

Weston says he respects “real men” who stand up for their beliefs. He sees the lack of that in the modern UK.

“I watched tennis a few years ago and I saw this Russian tennis player Marat Safin turning up to a match with a bruised eye. Apparently, he got himself involved in a fight over a girl in the club. I think that’s a real man, not the kind of metrosexuals we see around.

“I was so impressed that I actually wanted him to win the championship,” he says.

Weston, whose wife is an immigrant from Romania says he does not judge anybody. However, he is convinced the UK is being colonised by immigrants. He calls it “ethnic cleansing of the English”.

“Look, I am not a racist. I just got really annoyed when I watched Question Time and Bonnie Greer said there was no such a thing as ‘indigenous English person’. Every single country has got indigenous population. England has that right, too.

“I do not judge immigrants. If I was born in Bangladesh the first thing I would do if I raise an airfare is come here.

“But we are only one per cent of the world’s landmass. If you open the doors you are going to destroy this country.”
As Weston gets on to this tricky subject, I notice the man drinking his afternoon beer in solitude at a table near us starts listening in.

“Nick Griffin is a Holocaust-denying Nazi lunatic but in my view he is also stupid. He could have got back to Bonnie by saying that there is UN declaration of the rights of indigenous people,” he says.

“I don’t believe that we have the right to go anywhere in the world and dictate how people should live. I understand that back in the day that is what England used to do, and I look at that with distaste. But I believe we are being colonised here in the UK.”

Weston goes as far as actually predicting the war in the UK in the next twenty years. In his views white working class kids will go fight against immigrants.

“You don’t understand this. You are a woman. Women don’t understand war. High-testosterone men always find the reason for the war,” he says.

As I doubt his predictions of the nearest future, Weston gets a bit angry with me. The tone of his voice is rising. He insists that I just don’t get it. Suddenly he goes silent, and with a much softer voice says: “I shouldn’t have got cross. I am sorry.”

I am confused with a sudden change in his manner.

“I have just noticed your ‘Help for Heroes’ wristband,” he says. “You should have told me you have that.”

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