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Os Cangaceiros
2nd August 2010, 03:52
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100801/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_security_measures

I wouldn't expect anything less from that asshole.
DragonQuestWes
2nd August 2010, 04:14
Man, if I'm not mistaken, is the French Presidential election going to be in 2012? I can't wait until then so I could see the fucker get voted out.
gorillafuck
2nd August 2010, 04:22
You know it's bad when centrist journals are calling him out for being anti-immigrant.
Magón
2nd August 2010, 18:00
Man, if I'm not mistaken, is the French Presidential election going to be in 2012? I can't wait until then so I could see the fucker get voted out.

He'll definitely be voted out, and probably defeated by his old rival in '07 Ségolène Royal on the Socialist ticket (or whatever it is they have in France.)

And Zarkozy has always been anti-immigration for as long as I can remember. (He's never been on the left, no matter who or what says he has or was.) This is no surprise really, because with his support of that French law that said Muslim women couldn't wear a vail or shawl over their face, it really brought him down a peg with the French people.
DragonQuestWes
2nd August 2010, 19:31
He'll definitely be voted out, and probably defeated by his old rival in '07 Ségolène Royal on the Socialist ticket (or whatever it is they have in France.)

And Zarkozy has always been anti-immigration for as long as I can remember. (He's never been on the left, no matter who or what says he has or was.) This is no surprise really, because with his support of that French law that said Muslim women couldn't wear a vail or shawl over their face, it really brought him down a peg with the French people.

Quite ironic that he is anti-immigrant considering that one of his parents came from Hungary. He'd be better off being part of France's far-right National Front rather than the UMP. But knowing him, he probably joined the UMP just so that he could win.
Magón
2nd August 2010, 19:42
Quite ironic that he is anti-immigrant considering that one of his parents came from Hungary. He'd be better off being part of France's far-right National Front rather than the UMP. But knowing him, he probably joined the UMP just so that he could win.

Well the UMP is by no means a leftist party, it's like how Obama and the Democrats aren't quite left, they're more Center-Left. Well Zarkozy and the UMP are Center-Right, and it seems Zarkozy's really just Radical-Right almost in some cases I've heard about him. And the irony is, that like Hitler being an Austrian, and not an actual German, Zarkozy is hardly known for being part Hungarian. Everyone I know thinks he's French through and through. :rolleyes:
Widerstand
2nd August 2010, 20:26
I don't like this at all, that sounds even worse than what Germany is doing to the minorities under the "Gypsies" umbrella.
Red Commissar
3rd August 2010, 01:35
This isn't the first time Sarkozy has peddled legislation to gain support from nationalist sentiment in the nation. And unfortunately presents a grim image of the situation of the Romani in Europe.

As the article mentions in passing and as Chammer has pointed out, there has been an upsurge in negative legislation dealing with the Romani. Across much of Europe the governments have been passing legislation all entrusting power to the state to expel Romani populations. And it's no secret that part of this is pandering to nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiment.

Romani tend to get the brunt of bad publicity. People attribute crime spikes to Romani, they feel "disgusted" by their habits and appearances, and an all-around general sense of hatred can be garnered from this. I recall a discussion I had with a friend in the Czech Republic. He proclaimed himself to be Communist, and from my discussions with him he seemed to be knowledgeable about it and socialism in general. However he had a glaring discontent for gypsies, often talked badly about them and how they create problems in his corner of the country. And I don't think his mentality his unique to him, and I would say that it is present in many people who have Romani in their nations.

An additional problem is really there is no place to "deport" Romani to so to speak... most European nations seemed to've settled with deporting them to Balkan states like Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria. The situation of the Romani is no better in those nations, if not worse. Additionally many of them probably don't know the languages of those nations, posing another problem in settling in a nation that already despises them.