Two posts to ping off from BJ.
Weakness only inspires your enemy or criminals.
Playing 'nice' does not prevent anything. See below.
Also the uproar over the number of people in US prisons is short sighted. Only a distinct group of any society are criminals. When they are no longer circulating in a given society, crime will fall. It takes criminals to commit crime.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2490
Sweden Learns That Appeasement Doesn’t Pay
From the desk of Fjordman on Wed, 2007-09-19 23:22
While the largest political party in Sweden, the Social Democrats, are launching a formal cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood for the mutual benefit of both (Muslims predominantly vote for Leftist parties) Muslims are openly threatening the life of cartoonist Lars Vilks ("Let his destiny be a lesson to others," as one Muslim preacher warned during a free speech seminar in Stockholm organized by humanists and ex-Muslims).
Islamists are pushish for a boycott of Swedish firms. Websites run by militant Islamists have listed the names of over 100 Swedish companies as possible targets in the ongoing row surrounding the publication in Swedish newspapers of Vilks’ caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Detailing the addresses, maps and logos of Swedish businesses, the websites called for their readers to boycott these firms and "take revenge" on Sweden for the publication of the controversial cartoon.
It should be mentioned here that when Britain, Israel, the United States or any other country gets attacked by Muslims, this is always blamed by the media on past colonial history, occupation, aggressive foreign policy etc. Well, Sweden doesn't have a colonial history, its political establishment is among the most anti-Israeli in Europe and Swedish media have always been critical of US policies. Muslim immigration to the country has created the worst rape wave in Scandinavian history (which was indirectly blamed on global warming by the nation's largest newspaper some weeks ago), and the authorities have more or less abandoned their third largest city, Malmö, to Muslim gangs.
In short: It is hardly humanly possible to appease and grovel for Muslims more than Sweden has done, yet for some strange reason, Muslims don't get less aggressive because of this. On the contrary. Maybe there is a lesson to be learned here somewhere?
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2487
Crime Rates Up in Britain, Down in Romania
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2007-09-19 19:48
A quote from The Daily Mail, 19 September 2007
The influx of Romanian migrants has led to an explosion in crime in this country, it emerged last night. As recent members of the EU, Romanians have had free access to Britain only since January 1. Yet in the first six months of this year, police say, they were responsible for 1,080 offences. Police believe some migrants from Romania are running organised criminal gangs. During the same period in 2006, only 135 such crimes were recorded. In an ironic twist Romanian authorities say crime there is dropping, fuelling suspicions that some offenders may have moved here. […]
Stan Bitlan, head of the police force in Ialomita County, Romania, said: “Yes there is a connection between what is happening here and the UK. What they are doing in the UK appears here in Romania in the form of luxury cars and houses.” […] Vasile Save, the mayor of Tandarei – a town that has seen 800 inhabitants leave in the first six months of this year – admits there is less crime in the area. […]
The leaked Home Office memo said an estimated 45,000 potential criminals from Romania and Bulgaria – which also joined in January this year – would travel to Britain following EU expansion. […] Previously, they could be identified and barred from entering Britain through the checks required to obtain a visa. As EU citizens, however, the only requirement is to produce a valid passport on entry – making them harder to spot.
Another quote from The Daily Mail, 19 September 2007
A Chief constable has ignited a new race debate in Britain by warning that more police officers are needed to deal with traffic offences and crimes such as prostitution caused by an influx of East European migrants. Cambridgeshire chief constable Julie Spence says the increase in migrants has left her force struggling to cope […] “We now deal with people from many different countries, speaking more than 90 different languages. While the economic benefits of growth are clear we need to maintain the basic public services infrastructure which means increasing the number of officers we have.”
“When they arrive they think they can do the same thing as in the country they have come from,” she told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. “There were a lot of people who... because they used to carry knives for protection, they think they can carry knives here.” […] Migrants got into difficulties because they were unfamiliar with traffic laws, but police had also noticed a growth in prostitution, driven by the influx of large numbers of single men.
