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UK article calls migrants ‘cockroaches’
iol ^ | 4-25-2015 | Reuters

Posted on 04/25/2015 8:18:17 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

London - The United Nations human rights chief on Friday called on Britain to tackle hate speech in the tabloid press after a columnist compared migrants to “cockroaches” and advocated using gunboats to stop them from coming to Europe.

New High Commissioner of the UN for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said the article was an extreme example of anti-foreigner articles that frequently appeared in UK tabloids, sapping compassion for people drowning in the Mediterranean in the desperate attempt to reach Europe.

He called on Britain and other EU countries to act against racism and xenophobia which “under the guise of freedom of expression, are being allowed to feed a vicious cycle of vilification, intolerance and politicisation of migrants”.

The Sun newspaper, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, published the article by Katie Hopkins on April 17.

Britain's Metropolitan Police said it had received complaints that it amounted to incitement of racial hatred and the matter was being considered.

A spokesman for The Sun declined to comment.

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To: Reno89519

I’ve always broken down people into groups when I’m talking about immigration:

Ants - the people that are productive citizens that set up colonies (civilizations and cities) and keep them properly maintained.

Termites - the people that move in to the Ant’s colonies and don’t maintain them. They rot and destroy them from within and perform little or nomaintenance.

Cockroaches - the people that move in after the Termites have done their damage and feed on the leftovers after the Termites have moved on to the next colony to destroy.


21 posted on 04/25/2015 9:03:42 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Aria

Democrats don’t see Mexico as a nation to be convinced to do anything. They see their citizens and those who transit through it from points farther south as a demographic voting bloc predisposed to voting Democrat. It is as simple as that.

A Democrat will hang onto their personal power and control and money as long as they can, and they will retire and go enjoy, their heirs and the rest of us be damned. The only example where I see the contrary to it is the Clintons and their foundation which is set up as a perpetual fountain of wealth, power and influence for the foreseeable future.


22 posted on 04/25/2015 9:05:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
I hear you.



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23 posted on 04/25/2015 9:13:01 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

See the Muslim far left?


24 posted on 04/25/2015 9:14:09 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Citizen Zed

They are not migrants.


25 posted on 04/25/2015 9:28:25 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
The foreign invasion will DOMINATE all Western politics for a few decades.

Here too.

26 posted on 04/25/2015 9:39:11 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

“...www.whocares?.com...” sounds like an Obama appointed anti terrorism commission.


27 posted on 04/25/2015 9:49:15 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Sasparilla

The various illegal alien invaders are human, but they for the most part are malignancies on other cultures and societies.


28 posted on 04/25/2015 9:51:23 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Sasparilla; Mariner

The last time I was in London, it looked like a 3rd world hell hole. They do indeed have cockroaches. Kinda reminds me of Southern California : )


29 posted on 04/25/2015 10:01:01 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Citizen Zed

Locusts, leeches, parasites...


30 posted on 04/25/2015 10:14:56 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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To: Citizen Zed

It has gotten so bad that France has ceded its territorial sovereignity to the UK Border Patrol at Calais where they determine who gets into the UK before they cross the Channel.


31 posted on 04/25/2015 10:50:54 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Gaffer

Yes I did notice that Mooselim looking shawl ...


32 posted on 04/25/2015 12:05:31 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Citizen Zed

That is patently unfair to cockroaches!


33 posted on 04/25/2015 12:26:31 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Citizen Zed

Dang, is Clarkson in trouble *again*?


34 posted on 04/25/2015 1:12:42 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Citizen Zed

I’d love for the media to run articles showing all the “lovely” terms these immigrants from other countries call europeans and americans.


35 posted on 04/25/2015 3:03:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I’m offended, it’s an insult to cockroaches.


36 posted on 04/25/2015 3:08:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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