Posted November 15, 2015
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Epitaph666: So yes. Closing the border would help. A LOT.
*Btw i didn't state that many (or how many) of those immigrants come to Europe for terrorist attacks.
Just meant to say that there's a portion of them.
as we had established just a few sentences before, there are enough people already in europe who are willing to take up the torch to fight for the IS. Closing the borders won't give us security from more terror attacks. *Btw i didn't state that many (or how many) of those immigrants come to Europe for terrorist attacks.
Just meant to say that there's a portion of them.
Mind you, of course it is true that we still need some solution for the immigration/refugee problem. But mixing that problem with what happened in Paris and deciding some drastic measures in the emotional aftershock of that horror just to fullfil our need to feel a bit more secure, seems ill-advised.
Post edited November 15, 2015 by immi101
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immi101: as we had established just a few sentences before, there are enough people already in europe who are willing to take up the torch to fight for the IS. Closing the borders won't give us security from more terror attacks.
Mind you, of course it is true that we still need some solution for the immigration/refugee problem. But mixing that problem with what happened in Paris and deciding some drastic measures in the emotional aftershock of that horror just to fullfil our need to feel a bit more secure, seems ill-advised.
But that's exactly what Polands new government just now announced. Mind you, of course it is true that we still need some solution for the immigration/refugee problem. But mixing that problem with what happened in Paris and deciding some drastic measures in the emotional aftershock of that horror just to fullfil our need to feel a bit more secure, seems ill-advised.
My deepest condolence for all the victims of this utterly despicable attack.
It's a very difficult situation. I would mostly compare it to 9/11. It's just pure terrorist attacks driven by hate (and maybe a bit of religious fanatism). Terrorists want to induce fear, paralyze and divide their enemy. And they are incredibly difficult to get.
We could go into Syria with ground troops and destroy ISIS completely, no matter what anyone else says. Or we could increase surveillance and wait for the next attack with the next dead civilians on our side. Both is not very nice and I don't know which I should prefer. But I guess that one of the two will happen.
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Sockerkaka: The problem isn’t that most aren’t real refugees, we know that they are and we know why they’re here, they’re arriving from the conflict in Syria and Iraq as well as from political oppression and war in central Africa. No one spends thousands of dollars to get the chance to risk their own and their families lives on tiny boats on the mediterranean, or walk across Europe, without a life threatening situation at home. The refugee problem is a problem because Europe wasn’t prepared for the amount of people seeking shelter, agreements such as the Dublin Regulation weren’t meant to handle these numbers of people, this is why we label it a problem.
Why are they crossing the Mediterranean? Is it not safe in Turkey - I know they deal with ISIS, but so does the USA. Europe, left this all too late. We should have gone in and supported Assad from day one, we should have supported Gaddafi, we should gave supported Mubarak. Not because these were the best leaders, but they were the legitimate leaders of their countries and if we truly believed that those countries needed change we should have worked our arses off to put in a legitimate handover, not a bloody war that then leaves bloodthirsty tribal groups vying for control. That then leads to the expansion of ISIS.
Also where the hell are these "poor" "refugees" getting thousands of $? I do not have enough to scape together thousands.
Sockerkaka: Europe have the economical means though to give these people places to stay and in the long run it will benefit economical growth in the EU, but political will is missing. Those who arrive aren’t that different from us, they are doctors, engineers, teachers, farmers etc. We need them, refugees or migrants, to sustain the living standards we have today with dwindling birth rates and increasingly older population.
How? In Europe there are millions of unemployed people already. Why not put them to work in these mysterious jobs? It would save us all billions in our taxes. There are not the jobs for all those "refugees", so many will just end up on welfare. Doing nothing but begrudging the countries they end up in and hating the people. Then you get crime, then you get the violent attacks.
You have a misplaced seance of us all feeling equal. We do not, we are born wanting, demanding and we have to be taught restraint. Some people never learn restraint, and others learn they can get by without.
Sockerkaka: Sharia Law is not present anywhere in Europe unless people practice it in their own homes. Germany, UK or any other state in Europe have the power, through police or military, to uphold law and control in it’s own territory, with violence if necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQk_VklYUc Shut your mouth and open your ears. They are not supported by law, but this has been going on in the UK for over a decade.
Sockerkaka: Radicalization doesn’t have anything to do with pushing away the blame for these actions but to understand them, because a person who haven’t gone through a radicalization process will not be a violent extremist.
So the IRA were radicalised violent extremists? The Tutsi were radicalised? Pol Pot was he radaclised? Or was he a mad man?
When you claim someone is radicalised you ARE removing the blame from them and passing it on. These people doing these actions are responsible, and should be held as such. These are not influenced little boys, these are grown men. Men who had managed to function in their societies. They are nothing more then killers for a falsified idea that they are superior to those they kill.
Sockerkaka: Extreme ideas about society are central when talking about radicalization, without these a person can’t be defined as radical. A terrorist is radical, he have adopted extreme ideas about how society should be and through violent means he tries to change it. These ideas may arise by reading extremist websites on his bedroom PC or in an IS-training facility, but we need to figure out why some people who are attracted to these ideas turns violent, rightwing, leftwing or religious, and what we can do to stop that.
Hypersensitive agency detection. Basically people like this are screwy in the brain and are just latching onto something that fits into the narrative within their little skull. Easy to brainwash, and easy to influence. Still this does not remove the blame from them having taken the actions they will take. It just means these individuals cannot live without god or something else directing them in circles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_detection
Sockerkaka: Many famous persons through history can be labeled as radical though, Voltaire, Marx etc. Someone who have gone through a radicalization process do not have to be violent, and anyone who is violent do not have to be a radical.
It's saturday and late so I hope this got out of my head in a somewhat understandable form.
Karl Marx did not believe in what he wrote. He knew it was all doomed to failure. Just like the immhams who tell these young men all about these virgins and us despicable unclean westerners. The immham will never die for these beliefs, he knows it is all a crock of shit. It's saturday and late so I hope this got out of my head in a somewhat understandable form.
Voltaire, yeah, there is a radical (to the best of my limited knowledge of him).
No radical and violent are not always a pair. You are right.
Both attacks on France this year have involved violent narrow minded people. Nothing less, and do not follow the mass media in giving them a get out of jail free card.
Sockerkaka: The problem isn’t that most aren’t real refugees, we know that they are and we know why they’re here, they’re arriving from the conflict in Syria and Iraq as well as from political oppression and war in central Africa. No one spends thousands of dollars to get the chance to risk their own and their families lives on tiny boats on the mediterranean, or walk across Europe, without a life threatening situation at home.
flammenbringer: Bullshit! If they were fleeing for their life, they wouldn't leave their women and children behind. The people that are invading Europe are migrants, not refugees! Face it, do you want that ugly old bag and the 3-6 kids weighing you down? You know when you get to Europe there are all these sweet virgins just waiting for a bit of the exotic.
Why would you not leave her there? Start life afresh in a brave new uncultured land.
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Posted November 15, 2015
doronnorod: Popcorn...where is my popcorn?
This thread is so entertaining and exciting that I must have my popcorn.
There is some entertainment value, but if you want a serious dicusssion of the Paris attacks go elsewhere. This thread is so entertaining and exciting that I must have my popcorn.
Problem is people bring the same fanboy attiudes they have towards games and movies to political discussions on "Geek" sites and the results, though often hilarious,are worthless as serious discussions. Lots of posturing, lots of cool hipster cycincism,lots of over the top blind ideology,and lots of trolls.
tinyE: I know none of you give a shit about American Football, and there is no reason you should, but this was taken this morning as two of our college teams took the field.
I know, stupid symbolism, but I still admire the gesture.
That team is the West Point team. Those players, after they graduate with their commissions as 2nd Lts in the US Army, stand a very high chance of being in combat with ISIS along side the French.I know, stupid symbolism, but I still admire the gesture.
Post edited November 15, 2015 by dudalb
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Posted November 15, 2015
since its past some days, are there any articles that sums up everything what happened, longer with more details preferred?
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Posted November 15, 2015
Sockerkaka: But on what basis do you have the right to shut the other 99,99998% out? Do they not deserve help? Will it not feed the anger, have more people turn to extremist ideas because they have nowhere else to turn but back? How would you react if you were in their situation? And how would it work out in reality to close the border? Is there enough people to guard every meter of it every hour of the day, every day of the week? Who will pay for it? What if there is a crisis in Europe, do we have the right to call for help, flee or migrate, if we don’t help others?
How would we react? I would take my partner, and take her to my parents. I would make sure she was sent somewhere safe. If it came to it I would fight to defend my family and loved ones. Were could I run if the UK became overrun with radical muslims. They leave you with no other option then to fight them and in the UK we are at a strong disadvantage.
We are not even allowed to carry knives or pepper spray legally. Less right to defend and just a right to die.
Sockerkaka: Some of them are leaving their families behind in the refugee camps, the arrival of men/women is about equal there, but why do the men leave? Because it’s the easiest way to get the whole family safely to Europe. If the men make the way through Europe, apply for asylym and get their application approved, then the women and children can follow a safer route since they are family members. It’s easier to flee alone without the need of carrying a child or loose your loved one in the ocean, very simple.
1- See earlier quote. 2- So what you admit, and we all know, is that the total influx will be 2-6x what we see now. Yet you say lets keep taking what we cannot afford to feed, or house.
Sockerkaka: If all the countries in Europe were to help eachother and accept a proportional number of refugees the crisis wouldn’t be as noticeable as it is now, when Sweden, Germany, Austria, Serbia and Hungary take in an overwhelming amount by themselves. Then there wouldn’t be any trouble with education and housing etc.
????????????????? I really do not know what to say. Except that maybe you have been radicalised by your government.
Not to worry we wont blame you, we will just blame someone else. After all you know no better, you are just a poor marginalised radical thinker in a backwards world.
Sockerkaka: Stopping radicalization is not as easy as censorship in the age of the internet, and you can’t simply forbid what is the pillarstone in the lives of 21% of the worlds population without significant backlash. Islam is in itself no more violent, and feeds no more violence, than any other religion or philosophical idea. Extremist buddhist monks are present in southeast asia, Behring Breivik was a rightwing christian and the enlightenment philosophers ideas were used as guiding stars during the colonisation of Africa, putting thousands of people in chains as slaves ”for the greater good”.
So all you do show is that we can indeed fix this problem. We just need to stop people from thinking. Who would have thought that Fox News and MTV would be the answer to anything.
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apehater: since its past some days, are there any articles that sums up everything what happened, longer with more details preferred?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34818994immi101
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Posted November 16, 2015
immi101: as we had established just a few sentences before, there are enough people already in europe who are willing to take up the torch to fight for the IS. Closing the borders won't give us security from more terror attacks.
Mind you, of course it is true that we still need some solution for the immigration/refugee problem. But mixing that problem with what happened in Paris and deciding some drastic measures in the emotional aftershock of that horror just to fullfil our need to feel a bit more secure, seems ill-advised.
Trilarion: But that's exactly what Polands new government just now announced. Mind you, of course it is true that we still need some solution for the immigration/refugee problem. But mixing that problem with what happened in Paris and deciding some drastic measures in the emotional aftershock of that horror just to fullfil our need to feel a bit more secure, seems ill-advised.
but then, their refusal to take more refugees isn't really a new position. They just found the "right" time to say it out loud.
Trilarion: We could go into Syria with ground troops and destroy ISIS completely, no matter what anyone else says. Or we could increase surveillance and wait for the next attack with the next dead civilians on our side. Both is not very nice and I don't know which I should prefer. But I guess that one of the two will happen.
i think Afghanistan showed us clearly that we are not capable of erradicating a terrorist group and bring peace to a country. And you could say that the recent terror attacks in France show that surveillance doesn't work either. so ... ?
the only hopeful developments so far imo are the Syria talks that just took place in Vienna. That might lead to something ...
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Posted November 16, 2015
Trilarion: It's a very difficult situation. I would mostly compare it to 9/11. It's just pure terrorist attacks driven by hate (and maybe a bit of religious fanatism). Terrorists want to induce fear, paralyze and divide their enemy. And they are incredibly difficult to get.
We could go into Syria with ground troops and destroy ISIS completely, no matter what anyone else says. Or we could increase surveillance and wait for the next attack with the next dead civilians on our side. Both is not very nice and I don't know which I should prefer. But I guess that one of the two will happen.
Its more or less decided already. France is in a state of war for a minimum off next three months and attacks on Syrian IS positions are already beginning. Its probably just a question of time before France activates article 5 of Nato treaty which will mean that the alliance (NATO) will go to war. Same as in Afghanistan and Irak. Sadly this is what open borders have brought us.We could go into Syria with ground troops and destroy ISIS completely, no matter what anyone else says. Or we could increase surveillance and wait for the next attack with the next dead civilians on our side. Both is not very nice and I don't know which I should prefer. But I guess that one of the two will happen.
Post edited November 16, 2015 by Matruchus
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Posted November 16, 2015
Hope those in france and affected will be ok.
Honestly anyone surprised by this?.
Been surprised there had not been similar attacks
like this previously. With the whole isis thing would have
Thought terrorism would have gone through the roof.
Honestly anyone surprised by this?.
Been surprised there had not been similar attacks
like this previously. With the whole isis thing would have
Thought terrorism would have gone through the roof.
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F4LL0UT: It's not. The point is that even without a selective review process of immigrants the results tend to be positive and your 60 year old goat herders are not a problem in the big picture.
timppu: First of all, your blanket statement is just that, a blanket statement, not some undeniable fact. It depends on e.g. the target country's economy and what kind if immigrants they mostly entice. Furthermore, that doesn't make lumping completely different kinds of immigration together any less silly. The processes for asylum seekers and e.g. work immigration can be completely separate from each other, like e.g. Australia and many other countries demonstrate, so why should they be lumped together? You can have your doors wide open for young professionals and Nobel prize winners, and shut for unskilled asylum seekers. You don't need to give refugee status for a 60 year old goat herder in order to entice skilled professionals, almost completely the opposite.
The only reason to lump different forms of immigration together is to trick people to believe that low-skilled asylum seekers are also good for the economy. Quite often they are not, unless you pick only the cream of the crop from them.
As I already explained before though, the effect to economy shouldn't be at least a primary reason to decide whether to accept an asylum seeker as a refugee, their true need for an asylum should be. At the same time, people like you shouldn't pretend they are automatically good for the economy.
F4LL0UT: Starvation and sickness are a also threats to one's life, you know, and apparently that's what refugees have been facing in those camps since the budget cuts.
timppu: Starvation and sickness are not considered as valid reasons for a refugee status. Read the definition here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee
Post edited November 16, 2015 by monkeydelarge
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My thoughts and prayers are with France and her people. As we enter tomorrow, let's try to reconcile our differences and band together against these terrorists.