The police are really grinding my gears as of late with their two-tiered policing and blatant antagonism to the public that they are supposed to serve.
Case in point, a man was arrested yesterday for carrying the Union Jack (our national flag) in public because he was "a threat". Yet a few days ago when a man was flying an Al-Qaeda flag at a rally in London, yet the police were filmed walking right past it without doing anything. When social media made a ruckus about it, the police replied that the man had not committed an offence in doing so.
And those military generals wondered why there was such opposition to conscription when it was floated last week, nobody wants to die for a country that openly despises them.
Same is happening here in ireland @Lain , in fact they made it a law now that it is hate speech and other crimes if you speak out about mass immigration way beyond capacity of mostly men, no background checks or identity paper trail.
It is gone so bad with the tens of thousands of said men, not women and kids or elderly , being taken into towns and villages and more at night under the radar that citizens have started doing arson on buildings being provided out of sheer frustration for not being heard and watching homeless die on the street
In the US, we have millions of people coming across the southern border from all over the world. Who are these people? No idea. Where are they from? Don’t know. Why are they here? Anyone’s guess. Why is it mostly men? Doesn’t matter. How’d they get an iPhone? Shut up, bigot!
Here in Finland, the Russian Government has started an act of hybrid warfare by transporting people from third countries on our Eastern border. Basically the FSB facilitates their flights and a taxi to the borders and tells them "there's EU, run, we're not letting you come back". Our borders are officially closed but these dudes are just running through the forests. It's winter now so its not yet a big problem, but I'm pretty sure it WILL be a problem when the weather gets easier.
As a lawyer, I completely understand the international obligations here (basically forcing the country to take them in as they shout ASYLUM on sight), but I also agree with most legal experts that there is a problem in the fact that international treaties with such obligation were made
decades before hybrid warfare was a thing.
I prefer not to take a stance whether these people are in real need of asylum or not. That's a
secondary question and beyond my capacity to comment. The
primary problem is that whether they need it or not, countries engaging in hybrid warfare are taking advantage of human beings as well as the outdated international treaties, and it's ripping us apart, internally and globally...
basically because people cannot tell the difference between these two questions.
In the distance I already hear someone shouting "Shut up, racist" right now even though the issue I'm talking is purely legal. If we have outdated laws, treaties or regulations, we need to update them. There are people in the Parliament whom we are actually paying to do so ffs!