tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post7807272080072570602..comments2023-06-11T13:12:20.435+01:00Comments on The Anger of a Quiet Man: We only need to get it wrong once...Quiet_Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-17892120386618503202013-02-25T14:32:40.929+00:002013-02-25T14:32:40.929+00:00Looking at the press reports of this particular &q...Looking at the press reports of this particular "plot" I reckon it's what Bruce Schneier would call " movie plot threat".<br /><br />In other words one that could only work in the fevered imagination of your average plod, or the world of a politician itching to impose more restrictions and more spying on the population.<br /><br />Incompetent nincompoops doesn't even come near. My cat is more of a threat than these pathetic specimens.<br /><br />Someone it taking the proverbial.Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-36265301428084362902013-02-22T11:44:54.522+00:002013-02-22T11:44:54.522+00:00Immigration versus colonization is the real differ...Immigration versus colonization is the real differenceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-69124147589271618152013-02-22T10:48:33.883+00:002013-02-22T10:48:33.883+00:00I note that the BBC reported that three British me...I note that the BBC reported that three <i>British</i> men were caught. This adjective is becoming a synonym for those that ethnically and culturally aren't. One just knows that reports of a <i>British</i> couple being shot in Pakistan will more likely relate to a family argument than intrepid travellers rubbing up the natives the wrong way.<br /><br />It wouldn't be so bad if our media were consistent: remember this report? "Single young Norwegian man from Oslo accused of attacking left-wing training and indoctrination camp". No? Accurate? Yes!<br /><br />I live in an area with lots of tourists from around the world and we also have our share of foreign students and immigrant workers. Why is it that most of them blend in, the differences only being apparent as they pass close by and I catch a foreign word or visage? The exceptions all come from the same sub-continent. They dress differently and inappropriately. They strip out front and rear gardens of their houses to create arid courtyards which are swept by elderly women bent double with a handful of twigs. Integration or invasion?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-50790610048825802412013-02-22T10:18:19.033+00:002013-02-22T10:18:19.033+00:00I can't see a peaceful end to all of this eith...I can't see a peaceful end to all of this either. Previous issues of racial tension (the problems of integrating the West Indian immigrants for example) have eased over time as the immigrants became more part of the nation as a whole. The idea of discriminating against a British born black man who lived next door became ludicrous when you were there on the terraces every weekend cheering another one on to win the game for your team. <br /><br />But here we have an immigrant population that is getting more and more isolated over time, not less. The children are less integrated than the parents and grandparents. The lines are diverging, and there seems to be no way of bringing them back together.<br /><br />Jimnoreply@blogger.com