Hatchet Man said:
... and as per normal the victim is not co-operating with police and neither is anyone else in that neighbourhood.
This is one of the aspects of
self imposed isolation against which I have railed in The Mess/Political page, see: http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/32640/post-239906.html#msg239906
The problem
starts when a
community fails to achieve and maintain the
normal socio-economic levels
and then proclaims itself the
victim and decides, for itself, that it should isolate itself from the larger society within which it has failed to advance.
It is a downwards spiral sort of thing â “ in the case of
some visible minority communities exacerbated by chest-beating proclamations of guilt by the social mainstream which further reinforce the
â ?It ain't my fault I failedâ ? syndrome.
(This is not, for a second, to suggest that
racism and worse did not and do not exist and those attitudes and actions did not an do not contribute to the failure of many, many young black men to 'make it' in our society.)
In
some communities thugs and criminal gangs have, nearly completely, displaced the established forces of order â “ armed/uniformed and civil.
Some other communities want to use organizations with close, direct links to global terrorist organizations (like the
Tamil Tigers and
Hezbollah) to manage 'social' affairs â “ things like schools, non-commercial-bank savings/loan agencies and clinics - inside ethnic communities in Canada. The 'community leaders' complain that the national/provincial/municipal 'mainstream' is
culturally insensitive and deficient in e.g. language skills (often true) and cannot, therefore provide adequate social services.
This
self imposed isolation, resulting in
de facto parallel administrations which command the loyalty of the community, is a danger to Canada because it provides a 'sea' within which
terrorist,
enemy agents can 'swim' to stretch one of Chairman Mao's dicta just a bit.
