Summary: Immigration is one of the big — perhaps the biggest — story of our time. Yet we know little about it, in part because the news media filter what we see. Only fringe sources give us glimpses of truth, albeit with their own biases. Here is one, conveying a litany of bad news.
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
— John Adams in A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law(1765).
America’s major news media have a near-blackout on reporting news from Europe’s newspapers about the adverse effects of immigration. Almost the only english-language source is The Gatestone Institute. It publishes information from a right-wing perspective (along with far-right editorializing. Founded in 2008 and based in NYC, John R. Bolton (former Ambassador to the UN) is its chairman. Here is one of their recent stories.
“Germany: Police Powerless Against Middle Eastern Crime Gangs”
by Soeren Kern at the Gatestone Institute, 18 June.
“The clans simply have no respect for the authorities.”
It refers to this article (translated): “Police angered over mild verdict against Lebanese clan” in Focus (a large German weekly; see Wikipedia), 18 May 2017.
“It was only luck that nothing more happened,” said Stefan Joseph, judge of the Hanover Regional Court, about the violence on 14 January 2015. Among other things, stones and pepper spray injured 24 policemen and six other people. The trigger was the fall of a 26-year-old alleged robber in an escape attempt from the seventh floor of the magistrate’s office. Members of his family then rampaged before the court and before the hospital, where the man died a little later.
Now the trial has ended: despite the brutal riot, six members of the large family, Mhallami Kurds from Lebanon , received only sanctions. The five men and a woman were sentenced on Wednesday …to parole of six months to two years.
The judgment was not well received by the police. Dietmar Schilff, the Lower Saxony federal and vice-chairman of the police union union (GdP), told FOCUS Online that especially the Hameln police were “very surprised and annoyed”. They had not even been called to court for the trial. “{The police are upset} because they expect protection and support from the state,” says Schilff. “If we want to protect those who care for our security, it is clear that anyone who attacks police officers attacks the state – and has to fear appropriate consequences. It does not matter where the perpetrators come from. “
The Gatestone article cites other articles in the German press pointing to a breakdown of law enforcement before the growing power of gangs of immigrants from the Middle East.
“The clans reject the authority of the German state. Instead, they run a “parallel justice system” in which disputes are resolved among themselves with mediators from other crime families. A classified police report leaked to Bild described how the clans use cash payments and threats of violence to influence witnesses whenever German police or prosecutors get involved.” {Bild is a large German tabloid; see Wikipedia.} …
“Berlin is lost,” said Michael Kuhr, a well-known Berlin-based security consultant. “These clan structures have established themselves in all areas of organized crime. We will never go back to how things were 20 years ago. In addition, these people are highly dangerous and have lost all respect for the power of the state.”
In Duisburg, a leaked police report revealed that in the Marxloh district, the streets are effectively controlled by Lebanese clans that reject the authority of German police. They have taken over entire streets to carry out illegal business activity. New migrants from Bulgaria and Romania are contributing to the problems. Marxloh’s streets serve as invisible boundaries between ethnic groups, according to Die Welt. Residents speak of “the Kurdish road” or “the Romanian road.”
Gatestone cites this “In North Rhine-Westphalia ‘problem areas’ are increasing” in the Rheinische Post. (a regional newspaper; see Wikipedia).
“In North Rhine-Westphalia, the criminality in the so-called ‘problem areas’ appears to spread more. The local police no longer seem to be able to control the violence in these neighborhoods, and they more often have to ask for support from the state police. …
“The brutality and aggressiveness of the clan members of the police are alarming. In Gelsenkirchen, and Duisburg, there have been several confrontations between police and relatives of the criminal family associations. Policemen often suffered injuries.”
Back to the article at the Gatestone Institute.
If police dare to intervene, hundreds of clan members are mobilized to confront the police. A local woman interviewed by Deutschlandfunk radio said she was afraid for her safety: “After dark I would not stand here because there are a lot of conflicts between foreigners, especially between Lebanese and Turks.”
A 17-page report prepared for the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) revealed that Lebanese clans in Duisburg divide up neighborhoods in order to pursue criminal activities. These clans do not recognize the authority of the police. Their members are males between the ages of 15 and 25 and “nearly 100%” of them are known to police.
The report also described the situation in Duisburg’s Laar district, where two large Lebanese families call the shots: “The streets are actually regarded as a separate territory. Outsiders are physically assaulted, robbed and harassed. Experience shows that the Lebanese clans can mobilize several hundred people in a very short period of time by means of a telephone call.”
Peter Biesenbach of the Christian Democrats (CDU) said: “If this is not a no-go area, then I do not know what is.” He has called for an official inquiry to determine the true scope of the criminal clans in NRW. NRW Interior Minister Ralf Jäger rejected that request because such a study would be politically incorrect:
“Further data collection is not legally permissible. Both internally and externally, any classification that could be used to depreciate human beings must be avoided. In this respect, the use of the term ‘family clan’ (Familienclan) is forbidden from the police point of view.”
In nearby Gelsenkirchen, Kurdish and Lebanese clans are vying for control of city streets, some of which have become zones that are off-limits to German authorities. In one incident, police were patrolling an area in the southern part of the city when they were suddenly surrounded and physically assaulted by more than 60 members of a clan.
In another incident, two police officers stopped a driver after he ran a red light. The driver stepped out of the car and ran away. When police caught up with him, they were confronted by more than 50 clan members. A 15-year-old attacked a policeman from behind and strangled him to the point of unconsciousness.
Senior members of the Gelsenkirchen police department subsequently held a secret meeting with representatives of three Arab clans in order to “cultivate social peace between Germans and Lebanese.” A leaked police report revealed that the clans told Police Chief Ralf Feldmann that “the police cannot win a war with the Lebanese because we outnumber them.” The clan members added: “This applies to all of Gelsenkirchen, if we so choose.”
The Gatestone article continues with more citations of similar news stories. They publish one or more of these every week, usually from Germany and Sweden. They document a serious problem growing worse, with their governments either afraid to act — or passive for political reasons. Which is worse?
Conclusions
We are ignorant because we rely on our news media for information about the world. Unfortunately the US news has become — on many subjects — to large extent a source of carefully filtered news. In effect, propaganda. Chief among them are effects of the massive wave of immigration flooding the West.
But slowly the news leaks through the American people. The news companies are sacrificing their credibility for this cause. Why are they doing this?
As for immigration – what is happening? Why have our borders been opened? What are the effects now? What effects can we expect to see in the future? We won’t learn the answers from our newspapers. Fringe sources like the Gatestone Institute can help, so long as we are aware of their biases.
Successful action begins with clear vision. It never comes easy.
For More Information
See the articles in the archives of the Gatestone Institute. Lots of disturbing information there, plus right-wing propaganda.
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