{"id":65579,"date":"2018-01-03T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65579"},"modified":"2018-01-01T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T19:21:53","slug":"not-that-theres-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65579","title":{"rendered":"Not That There’s A Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, “the authorities” dismissed reporters that gangs of Middle-Eastern and North-African migrants roamed the streets of German cities during the New Years celebrations, attacking women in an orgy of depredation Europe hadn’t seen since, well, Europeans were doing it to each other in the thirties and forties.<\/p>\n

Dismissals aside, The Authorities” saw fit to staff “women only safe zones” in Berlin for this year’s New Year celebration in Berlin:<\/p>\n

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Organisers of Berlin’s New Year’s Eve celebrations are to set up a “safe zone” for women for the first time.<\/p>\n

The new security measures planned for the Brandenburg Gate party come amid concerns about sexual assaults…Women who have been assaulted or feel harassed will be able to get support at a special “safety zone”, staffed by the German Red Cross, on Ebertstrasse…The city’s police have also issued advice to women<\/a>, encouraging them to seek help if they feel threatened and to carry a small bag with no valuables.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “zone” will be staffed by counselors and psychologists.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking the\u00a0Bundeswehr\u00a0<\/em>would be a better idea, but then The Authorities never ask me about these things.\u00a0 Still, I’m not the only critic:<\/p>\n

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Critics say it does not tackle the perpetrators of sexual violence, while some others complain it is discriminatory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A society that thinks giving refuge from rapists “discriminates” against…rapists may be too far gone to save.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Berlin is, in American terms, a hard-blue city.\u00a0 Which brings us back to “perhaps too far gone to save”.<\/p>\n

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Two years ago, “the authorities” dismissed reporters that gangs of Middle-Eastern and North-African migrants roamed the streets of German cities during the New Years celebrations, attacking women in an orgy of depredation Europe hadn’t seen since, well, Europeans were doing it to each other in the thirties and forties. Dismissals aside, The Authorities” saw fit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65580,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65579\/revisions\/65580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}