Topic: Politics
Of all the things I could mention to illustrate the decadence of Western Europe, few could match the story of the mass rampage that took place on a beach near Lisbon last Friday. If the story has slipped under your radar, the facts are these: a group of 500 young people from the city invaded the beach, robbing and attacking people in packs of thirty. The police were woefully outnumbered and only made three arrests. They fired shots into the air but could do little else. Victims later described the attackers as 'gangs', a word which in Portugal has come to refer to African immigrants.
While that's shocking enough, the truly sickening part is the spin that has been attached to the story by the BBC's Alison Roberts in her video report from the scene. Check out the story here:
Portugal youths in beach rampage
Then click on this video link:
and feel your jaw hang when she says 'Portuguese holidaymakers can only hope a fashion for it does not develop', before stressing that the authorities 'may worry about racial tensions worsening'.
How insulated from reality is the elite that controls our media! In the world of Alison Roberts, Portugese citizens, who pay tax to their authorities in return for the maintenance of order, should hope that such attacks don't become a fashion.
Hope?!
As for the idea that the authorities are supposed to worry about future racial tensions, I can guarantee Miss Roberts that the damage has already been done. To state the facts again: 500 adolescents swarmed the beach and attacked innocent people; 497 returned home free.
When I used the word 'decadence' in the first paragraph, I did not use it in any pejorative sense. I was being entirely literal. Such attacks take place because a criminal underclass feels that the willingness to maintain order has decayed and that everything is up for grabs.
_ DY
at 3:19 AM BST
