Posted on 01/16/2016 11:00:00 AM PST by marshmallow
The police in Cologne have been criticized. So have the police in Stuttgart and Hamburg. The German media have been criticized. The Justice Minister spoke of "organized crime." (Though it appeared to me to be badly organized.) The Chancellor's office was offended by the presumption that any wrongdoer might be a recent refugee claimant. This because of rumors that they had been criticized.
And all this because of people out on the streets of those cities, and others, in the night following 31st December, wishing Frohes Neues Jahr to each other across their various cultural divides.
It took the state broadcaster, and other media, three days to report the story. Instead, they had reported "no incidents" that night. I suppose, like the police, they were short-staffed. And how, anyway, could it interest anyone that so many young men "of Arab or North African appearance" had been out and about in the middle of Cologne, around the ancient Cathedral and, we now learn, so many other German cities (and their respective cathedrals).
With firecrackers, I gather, it started in Cologne. The young men "of Arab or North African appearance" were firing them directly into the crowds of German-looking revelers. But few injuries came of this.
And in what followed, I gather, few women were actually raped. Most only received "unwanted touching," from up to thirty at a time of these young men. In the account of one, only a few hundred unwanted touches, as she screamed and thrashed and fought her way out of the railway station. (There have been no arrests.)
The new mayor of Cologne, a lady elected on the strength of her credentials as a kind, tolerant, refugee-loving person, blamed the women. They must not have known how to behave. They need a "code of conduct" to avoid......
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However, I ALWAYS and ALWAYS got felt up in too many places to recall. That is what drunk men DO.
I was cute, had long blonde hair and had a great butt. Go figure. I finally made boyfriend, whoever it was at the time, stand BEHIND me and, er, guard my rear. That worked.
Now I avoid crowds like the plague.
You can’t criticize the criticizers because they don’t like to be criticized. Criticism.
“zero to jackboot in ten, nine, ...”
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