Posts Tagged Romania
State persecution?
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in News, Social Discourse on August 20, 2010
It has been a while since my last blog. A good while. I cannot think of any specific reason as even with my busy I have always been able to find a spare five minutes here and there, but hey.
This article in The Guardian however did stick in my craw – yet another wormy diatribe from an ivory tower dweller about our good old friends the Romany people and the rather unfortunate news that the French government has finally started to crack down on their itinerant and criminal behaviour. So Sarko and Co. have finally woken up and realised that something needs to be done – resulting in the usual hysterical bleating from the usual circle of do-gooder scribblers. Read the rest of this entry »
Stop beating about the bush…
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in Everyday, News, Social Discourse on April 14, 2010
There are a number of things that annoy me – politically correct bullshit masquerading as policies deemed to be in the common interest, homeowners not being able to use the right level of force to deal with burglars, the media’s obsession with the pointless and often sordid lives if Z-list “celebrities”, interlopers from God knows where dining out on swans, Julius bloody Malema… That sort of thing. Read the rest of this entry »
When in Rome… or Romania?
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in News, Social Discourse on June 17, 2009
Just this morning I happened to read what would otherwise be a rather horrifying story about a spate of racist attacks in Northern Ireland which led to over a hundred Romanians fleeing their homes for the sanctuary of a local church.
I say “otherwise” because I know better – and that behind this pall of fetid smoke lies a fire that has been slowly burning across much of Europe for centuries. Read the rest of this entry »