Name: Anonymous 2015-08-27 20:25
Rome today is not the city it was even twenty years ago. Like white-flight from the US city of Detroit, large areas of Rome have the stamp of a city abandoned by Italians whose sense of civic responsibility has been turned upside-down by a corrosive self-blame culture of surrender -- a culture, many believe, endorsed by Pope Francis who publicly kissed the feet of illegal migrants in a show of solidarity with them as “victims”.
With such misplaced sentiment distorting the public’s sense of civic responsibility, it’s no real surprise the Italian police look on indifferently as law-abiding people are ruthlessly intimidated and robbed by criminal gangs.
And it’s not only Rome that has migrant problems. On a visit to the town of Vicenza in northern Italy I witnessed one evening an extraordinary scene.
A group of migrant African men were hanging around the Basilica Palladiana, a famous World Heritage Site associated with the Renaissance architect Palladio. Two of these men were urinating up against the famous columns, with several police officers looking on but studiously ignoring the criminal act.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5988/the_changing_face_of_immigrant_europe
With such misplaced sentiment distorting the public’s sense of civic responsibility, it’s no real surprise the Italian police look on indifferently as law-abiding people are ruthlessly intimidated and robbed by criminal gangs.
And it’s not only Rome that has migrant problems. On a visit to the town of Vicenza in northern Italy I witnessed one evening an extraordinary scene.
A group of migrant African men were hanging around the Basilica Palladiana, a famous World Heritage Site associated with the Renaissance architect Palladio. Two of these men were urinating up against the famous columns, with several police officers looking on but studiously ignoring the criminal act.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5988/the_changing_face_of_immigrant_europe