From: Horse (horse@darkstar.uk.net)
Date: Tue Dec 14 2004 - 12:38:25 GMT
Hi Platt
Isn't this just another example of right-wing, conservative, politically correct nonsense?
:)
Horse
On 13 Dec 2004 at 7:52, Platt Holden wrote:
> Dear Wim,
>
> If you would like, please comment on the following article:
>
> Ambrose Evans Pritchard writing in the Telegraph:
>
> "Escaping the stress of clogged roads, street violence and loss of faith
> in Holland's once celebrated way of life, the Dutch middle classes are
> leaving the country in droves for the first time in living memory.
>
> "The new wave of educated migrants are quietly voting with their feet
> against a multicultural experiment long touted as a model for the world,
> but increasingly a warning of how good intentions can go wrong.
>
> "More people left the Netherlands in 2003 than arrived, ending a half-
> century cycle of surging immigration that has turned a tight-knit Nordic
> tribe into a multi-ethnic mosaic with three million people of foreign
> roots out of 16 million.
>
> "Ellen Bles, 43, a lawyer and banker who votes for the free-market
> Liberals, said the code of behaviour regulating daily life in the
> Netherlands was breaking down.
>
> " 'People no longer know what to expect from each other. There are so many
> rules, but nobody sticks to them. They just do as they want. They just
> execute people on the streets, it's shocking when you see this for the
> first time,' she said. 'We've become so tolerant that everybody thinks
> they can fight their own wars here. Van Gogh is killed, and then people
> throw bombs at mosques and churches. It's escalating because the police
> and the state aren't doing anything about it.'
>
> " 'There's a feeling of injustice that if you do things right, if you work
> hard and pay your taxes, you're punished, and those who don't are
> rewarded. People can come and live here illegally and get payments. How is
> that possible?' "
>
> Thanks.
> Platt
>
>
>
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