Large Fierce Mammal

Law enforcement officials lost control of the situation in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, according to an internal report by Germany’s national police, the Bundespolizei, obtained by DER SPIEGEL. The author of the report, dated Jan. 4, is a senior official. He writes: “Women, accompanied or not, literally ran a ‘gauntlet’ through masses of heavily intoxicated men that words cannot describe.” The horde in front of and inside the train station was unmoved by the presence of police.

According to the report, officers encountered many distraught, crying, frightened pedestrians, particularly women and girls. They reported “fights, thefts, sexual assaults against women, etc.” Groups of male migrants were repeatedly named as perpetrators.

Identifying those responsible — especially the perpetrators of sexual assaults — “was unfortunately no longer possible.” The reason: “Security forces were unable to get all of the incidents, assaults, crimes, etc. under control. There were simply too many happening at the same time.” Police were frustrated at their inability to help each victim. At times, it wasn’t even possible to record all of the complaints that were being lodged. ~ Spiegel Online

Contrary to what the current generation of politicians and serving members of governments might want to believe, one of the fundamental functions of government is the enforcement of laws that permit the populace to go about its legitimate business with at least some expectation of generally applied “public safety”. Since 9/11, currently fanned further by the rise of ISIS and the (believed to be) new societal toxin of “radicalization”, all manner of intrusions into the lives of the average citizen are sold by governments as the only path to safety. We now routinely hear ministers of government refer to constitutional or charter rights and freedoms as “privileges” subject to benevolent limitation, and no one stops them mid-sentence with a resounding, “Now wait just a God DAMN minute!”

Into this state of affairs comes a group culturally predisposed to misogyny because, where they spent their formative years, males and females understand it as a societal norm and so have no label that mirrors our understanding of the term, either for good or bad. For them, it’s simply the way of things, but we’re not talking about quaint cultural oddities from the old country here, so no dispensation can be granted on any level. And of course, this being The Century of the Ultimate Asshole (TCUA), some simply don’t give a fuck.

A man is quoted as saying: “I’m a Syrian! You have to treat me kindly! Ms. Merkel invited me.” ~ Spiegel Online

Absent complete indoctrination in Western values and the laws that support them, unattached males from such cultures, released into the wild of unprepared Western countries, can be expected to interact with the women in accordance with learned tradition. And so any unescorted, polite, laughing, smiling, even flirtatious woman that you happen to come into contact with, and find desirable in the moment, is the rightful property of any man who wants to have his way with her because hey dude, what else could she possibly expect?

Little by little, this terrible fact has exposed a horrendous, and if left unchecked disastrous, failing of the duty of many Western governments to the people who elected them. I say “many” because this situation has presented most blatantly in those nations that don’t require the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to reach. For those who don’t, as the most recent human wave of misery flees the flames of yet another war, every agency of good governance has proven completely inadequate to maintain anything resembling peace, order, and good government. Worse, as on the night that rang in 2016, any reference to the evident ethnicity of the sexual predators rampaging through the streets of Cologne was kept silent until it could no longer be so. Before that, warnings were issued that women should not be abroad in even small groups, most particularly at night. Who are they to be wary of? Everybody knew, but nobody “official” would say, for we dare not lest the revelation spark a “backlash”.

What is now knowable to even the most sheltered, and this for the most part because major news sources now finally find themselves dragged kicking and screaming into actually reporting what has been so far suppressed from release as Scandinavia – or more accurately, Scandinavian women – have faced a months long spike in incidents of sexual assault, points to an absolute incompatibility of cultures that will need to be embraced as a Truth by nations in the unobstructed path of this onslaught.

Until now, sensitivity to anti-immigrant backlash has prevented honest talk about sexual misconduct among immigrant men; such talk has been condemned as racist in the past. In Norway, for example, there have been reports that immigrants commit a disproportionate number of rapes, but there was pushback. Mainstream politicians and the media have been terrified of inciting xenophobia and fuelling the rise of the right-wing parties.

But what happened in Cologne was too big to cover up. News has now emerged of similar New Year’s Eve assaults in Austria, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden, as well as other German cities. The Viennese police chief has warned women not to go out alone at night. Sweden is now dealing with its own cover-up at a music festival last summer, where young girls were assaulted by hundreds of mostly Afghan men. As the official in charge of the festival’s policing told a local news source, “We sometimes dare not to say how it is because we think it might play into the hands of the [right-wing] Sweden Democrats.” ~ Germany’s brutal immigrant awakening

As nations, our response must spring from the foundation that we need care not for, nor sympathize with, the cultural or religious origins of sensibilities and behavioural “norms” that are outlawed as heinous under the laws of our lands. In the face of such outrage, our hands must not be stayed when it comes to bringing the full force of sovereignty to bear upon those who would seek to disregard the safety and security of our citizens. All the usual labels – xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism – they hold neither weight nor merit in this situation.

Speaking from the other side of the Atlantic Moat, I see a wise move on the part of the Canadian government in refusing entrance to single males among the throng that’s come to be referred to generically as “Syrian” refugees, and in this, control and restraint may be exercised that is denied to European nations through simple accessibility. That being said, and as the proud Husband of a Woman who is at once an immigrant, a former refugee, and the finest person ever to be in my life, I fully understand the way the system operates. A demonstrable understanding of one or both of Canada’s official languages, our system of government, and what we consider to be right and wrong, is essential to living in Canada, whether or not citizenship is sought.

What must be absolute for all Western nations, however aflood with the milk of human kindness they may be, is that if you come from a culture where rape can be justified – EVER and under ANY circumstances – and your behaviour expresses that, then you belong where that is the norm, and that isn’t here.