European Dreams

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A World Without Roma
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Imagine a world without rats. No mice either for that matter. No more need for mice traps or glue filled boxes. No need for boxes of poison or even cats. That is how Hitler viewed the “Jewish Problem”. He even had videos made up to be displayed before the public where images of rats were used to portray the entire Jewish population. So again, imagine a world without rats.
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Currently the world is trying desperately not to watch the new age Europeans as they dream of a world without rats. Most, excluding Hungary, dream of the Roma being the said rats. France spent the summer playing out their fantasies while Germany tried to slyly advance racist laws “help immigrants voluntarily leave Deutschland”… once again on trains.
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Sweden, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Ireland, and other major European member states have tried many policies for decades now to “evict” the “long-term unemployed”. These laws are only enforced it appears if the “long-term unemployed” individual happens to be Roma.
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In Italy the laws are put in place only to “protect ourselves from rampant Roma violence”. However the only person being attacked in a Roma – non-Roma incident is the Roma individual. In the last two decades alone the number of “incidents” involving attacks on Roma has risen so sharply that groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch can no longer overlook them. Yet the EU continues to turn its blind eye to the Roma’s plight in Italy (even after the most notorious “incident” in which two Roma girls were drown to death and left on a public beach, the locals simply covered the bodies with beach towels so as not to have to look at the victims lifeless bodies).
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History has shown that the anti-Gypsy sentiment is well ingrained in European consciences. For centuries the tendency for violence against Roma has been tolerated due to an underlying lack of respect for the ethnic group across Europe. Whenever a scapegoat has been needed in European history the Roma has fit the bill due to social prejudice condoned by the European states. Even in the Holocaust, the Roma were targeted with as much of a dogged resolve as the Jews in most of Europe.
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In Hungary, where anti-Semitism is rampant even in condoned politics, the need for an “anti-Roma” platform has given rise to the Jobbik (or “better”) Party. This extremely right-wing racist party is currently the third most powerful political party in Hungary. And for the most part, it and its leaders flamboyantly boast their anti-Roma redirect as something of a “badge of honor”. The only targeted group the Roma take back seat to with this party happens to be the Hungarian Jews (so much so that the party only recently dropped the Nazi uniforms and swastika flags from their party gatherings).
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When asked about his parties platform Jobbik party spokesperson Zsolt Varkonvi pointed to a “case” that was more than three years old (not proven by the courts or even collaborated by eye-witness accounts) in which he claimed a single man was mugged and killed by a roaming group of Roma thugs. He has since, and his party has since, never once been able to point out a true incident of Roma perpetrated violence. However in 2009 alone there have been two men and four women and children killed in attacks on Roma in Hungary (forty other attacks have been reported without loss of life so Zsolt and his party do not recognize them).
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On February 23, 2009 Robert Csorba and his five-year-old son were shot and killed after fleeing from their home. Their house had just been set on fire by a group of Hungarian men (known to be racially motivated) when they were gunned down. Zsolt seemed to have overlooked the fact that Robert Csorba and his five-year-old boy were Roma. The town they were attacked in… Tatarszentgyorgy, Hungary.
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In the two years prior to 2009 there were a recorded 50 attacks on Roma in which 10 resulted in fatalities.
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A Jobbik Hungary, a Better Hungary, appears to be a Roma free Hungary. This would be a Hungary in which the Roma (and “their eight or nine kids”) were dead or at least gone. And as for Zsolt… well he agrees with that view wholeheartedly.
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Zsolt however is not alone. Far from it.
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Italy, May 11Th of 2008… attackers ignite a Roma camp with Molotov cocktails in Via Novara, Milan. May 13Th… a mob hurls stones and Molotov cocktails into a Roma camp in the Ponticelli district of Naples. The mob grew in size the following day, May 14Th, as they systematically torched the camp in Ponticelli. Then to top things off, June 9Th, a mob systematically burns a Roma camp in Catania, Sicily. No charges are pressed and none of the mob is arrested. Italian police are actually thought to have helped but nobody knows since nobody cared enough to stop it.
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By law the member states of the European Union are supposed to have designated camp sites for the Roma. These camps are supposed to be protected from such acts of violence just as the main streets of Vienna are protected from hoards of angry Molotov tossing thugs. Yet just as the poem goes… First they came for the…
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As of now, they are still trying to take away their silent prey. Yet just as the poem goes… I (the world at large) am saying nothing… doing nothing.
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The laws of Europe are clear and rather flat in their depictions of what must be done in this case. The deportations, or attempts to eradicate in-part or in-whole, cannot nor should not be accepted as “age old anti-Roma sentiment”. The willful infliction of harm to an ethnic group with intent of destruction of the said ethnic group (once again… in-part or in-whole) is Genocide. And the last time we saw this in Europe we muttered those hollow words “Never Again”.
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Germany recently stated that it would begin shortly deporting its Roma population back to Kosovo. Before I start on Germany it is important to note that Germany’s Roma population is only partially from Kosovo or even the surrounding area. And the small portion that happens to be from Kosovo was granted asylum, and for the most part… citizenship, was granted such due to the German’s desire to help stop the Serbian genocide in that area. This “goodwill gesture” was only made due to Germany’s lack of will to intervene in any other form (the new German mentality of “no war at any cost”).
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Like France, Germany is shallowly claiming that the “immigrants” are willfully returning and that it is the Fatherland’s duty to help them. Unlike France however, Germany is not about to offer each Roma (over the age of 18) 300 Euros for going away. And unlike France, Germany is sending its Roma population to Kosovo… a country that is not nor will not be part of the European Union.
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The tail of Germany’s plan gets even more interesting when you note that Germany is one of the few European nations to recognize Kosovo as a sovereign nation after it split from Serbia back in 2008. The reason, a nation that is not recognized or part of an ongoing conflict will never be given membership into the European Union. Thusly, Germany’s population of Roma will never be allowed back into Germany.
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France on the other hand is sending its population of Roma (with a slap on the butt and 300 Euros in hand) to countries that only recently were accepted into the European Union. Yet, just like Germany, the Roma population in France is being sent to Romania and Bulgaria… places that they and their families have not lived in for generations. And those who did immigrate to France from those two countries… well they did just that, they immigrated and thusly are French citizens.
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On the other hand you have to look at this from an even more awkward angle than before. Think about it like this. You are from Idaho but you move to Florida. Well the job market if Florida goes belly up so all of a sudden the local sunshine state boys decide it is time to send you and your family back to Idaho. Only problem is that you already got your “Sunshine State” license plates and changed your place of citizenship. Heck, you even got two or three different magazines coming to your house… you know, you home there in Florida. But hey, you aren’t a Floridian now are you? After all, you emigrated from Idaho.
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The same can be said about the legal citizens of the European Union. See, you can live in Hungary and yet you are a citizen of Austria. You have your Euro-pass so you’re good to go. One day you decide to pack up and move on up to Sweden… fine, fine… you are European right? We all get along here in this liberal peace loving society right? Nope, you happen to be Roma and the Social Democrats up there in Sweden just happen to hate you.
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So now we come back to the fact that all these “cases” and “incidents” are occurring because of one thing… race.
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The “feel good” politics of Europe have made the Europeans’ world much smaller. People are free to travel from one end of Europe to the other without much to stop them. And this is now leading toward one of the worse cases of “ethnic cleansing” Europe has seen in some time. We have major nations in the European Union deporting those they find “undesirable” or “problems”. The BBC does one report on it and all of a sudden France and Germany are at each others’ throats. Viviane Redding does her little bit before the European Union and Sarkozy’s Parisians are suddenly storm troopers.
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Yet none of this happened overnight. The practice of targeting Romani populations has long been a problem in Europe. The open door policies of European borders have just amplified it. Throw in the economic depression and you have “ethnic tensions” so razor thin that something is bound to rise to the surface sooner or later.
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As for now we seem to be in the organizing stage of this coming nightmare. Maybe, hopefully, the racist banter dies out and the continued “occasional incident” is all I’m really focusing on here. But this is the same sort of violence and the same “tensions” that sparked the Serbian Genocide in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. This is the same stepping stone Hitler used to take his step up to the Holocaust.
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If we don’t open our eyes soon the ghettos currently being used to “house” Roma populations will quickly turn into the things of nightmares. It is only a matter of time before the barbwire comes out of the closet and the skulls start to stack up again.
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Since 2006 Italian cities have quickly adopted “Security Packs” so as to rid themselves of Roma populations. No violence has to be perpetrated by the Roma to induce these racist policies; they simply have to be insinuated. The attacks that follow are always Italian mobs attacking Roma camps… most often in the dead of night.
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These sorts of laws cannot be tolerated by the civilized world. They must be stopped before it becomes truly legal for an “Italian” to shoot and kill any Roma they find within their “Secure” Italy.
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I need to stop this post now… I can’t think anymore about this tonight. My heart aches in much the same way it does when I look at pictures of the Armenians. To be honest… it is getting hard to think straight enough to string these words together.
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Please continue to read these articles and please continue to “Scream” for those without a voice. We as a race, the human race, have witnessed far too many of these senseless acts to remain silent any longer. We cannot nor should not remain silent as our brothers and sister remain beneath the heel of such tyrants. We must scream out from the Armenians’ graves with a determination that makes them think we are truly mad… NEVER AGAIN!