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Sarkozy, EU Officials Trade Blows in Roma RowPosted on Sep 16, 2010
French President Nicolas Sarkozy fired back Thursday at European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, who had previously let fly about France’s controversial move to dismantle Roma camps and deport occupants thereof to other countries. —KA
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By gerard, September 16, 2010 at 3:51 pm Link to this comment
Guess us white folks always gotta have some darker skins to push around—even though that scene is so OVER. We can’t keep from dragging it up again and again. Sort of like the corporate greed thing:
Report thisWe (the minority at the top) are “superior” to the lower class, peasants, commoners—whatever—because, because, because, and in order to hold onto our (wealth, superiority, supremacy, dominance) we have to maintain power over, abuse, exile, exclude, punish, persecute, kick them out—whatever it takes to sit on top of somebody. Anybody.
That is because we actually don’t have the brains to figure out a better way to live with them.
“First they came for the Jews . . . . ” We all know the rest of that story—but we don’t want to admit it.
By skulz fontaine, September 16, 2010 at 12:06 pm Link to this comment
Nico the sark says, “well of course we’re gonna deport the Roma. Cause if they
Report thisain’t frogs well, we can’t eats ‘em.”
By berniem, September 16, 2010 at 11:05 am Link to this comment
Apparently ol’ Nick has been in touch with Jan over in Arizona. Maybe if the EU worked a little harder to bring the Balkans into the 21st century those folks may go home. Then again, maybe not, given how things have gone in that part of the world since at least the days of Vlad the Impaler!
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