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| Sweden refugees mutilate fingers |
| 2004-04-02 |
| Hundreds of asylum-seekers are cutting or burning their fingertips to prevent identification by EU authorities, Swedish officials say. The EU has a joint database where all asylum-seekers’ prints are stored. If migration officials discover applicants have already had their case heard in another EU state, they are liable to be sent back. Swedish officials have disclosed that hundreds of asylum seekers’ prints show signs of injury. Guess what you asshats, if your biometrics cannot be accurately recorded and evaluated, maybe all you’re going to get out of this is a free ride home (i.e., deportation to country of origin). To mutilate your own fingerprints only makes it more likely that you have something to hide. Whether this is true or not, it puts you directly under the heading of "Potential Terrorist." Great way to protest, ya fuckwits. Have fun back home when your local oppressive government finds out that you tried to sneak off. They’ll brand you as subversives too. That’s the beauty of honorable assimilation as an immigrant. If you really want to be part of another country, you play by their rules. Have a problem with that? Go back to where you came (escaped) from. What did you say? You spent your life savings escaping from there? Tough titty little kitty! If you prevent an inducting country from properly recording your identity, then you are shit outta luck. Thank you for playing, please (don’t) try again. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #20 Be advised that abrupt accusations of trollery are a serious matter. It frequently is taken to reflect a trollish attitude in the one who makes such claims without adequate substantiation. I thought this was particularly tortured and pretentious prose. Although he can spell. |
| Posted by: Phil_B 2004-04-02 11:17:51 PM |
| #19 Oh, good grief, instead of fingers, use their feet. Just like we do babies. |
| Posted by: Anonymous2U 2004-04-02 11:07:12 PM |
| #18 "Are you now or have you ever been a TROLL?" LOL |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-04-02 8:28:55 PM |
| #17 I (being of limited attention span and memory due to living in a fraternity during San Diego State college days) don't remember Zenster's other post, but I think the comments he wrote were spot on in this one... erasing ID criteria allows authorities to assume guilt, ergo: jettison at first opportunity back to their land they came from, toot-sweet ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-04-02 7:48:31 PM |
| #16 "Be advised that abrupt accusations of trollery are a serious matter." LOL! We have a pseudo-sagacious semi-sophist amongst us! I do admire the impeccable syntax and spelling, however! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 7:43:50 PM |
| #15 "Dumpster, you're full of "sound and fury," (not that you should rate Shakespeare) but 99% of your ravings here on RB signify nothing." -------------------- And attempting to discredit someone's opinions with intentional word play upon their screen name has all the sophistication of kindergarten name-calling. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-02 7:37:00 PM |
| #14 Dumpster, you're full of "sound and fury," (not that you should rate Shakespeare) but 99% of your ravings here on RB signify nothing. |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-04-02 7:23:55 PM |
| #13 Good literary reference, Raj. -------------------------- #5 I have a suspicion that Zenster is a troll playing with us. Look at his LLL Commondreams post about the FBI translator yesterday (complete with "Shrub"-Bush-hating comments). Now this. Something's fishy with that person. -------------------------- Be advised that abrupt accusations of trollery are a serious matter. It frequently is taken to reflect a trollish attitude in the one who makes such claims without adequate substantiation. Any alterations by myself of an article's original text will be explicitly clear, as in my "China Fair Trade" post. The admins have seen fit to assist me as a newcomer in altering my submissions so they comply with board display guidelines. They have not found any cause to remonstrate my actions, so I must be doing something right. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-02 7:18:38 PM |
| #12 Cutting off the nose to spite the face. Heh. |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-04-02 7:08:29 PM |
| #11 Fred - Oh, okay - I was pretty confused since what I saw did not match the story anywhere near well enough to meet RB standards. Thx! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 7:02:07 PM |
| #10 Ah. My fault. I hit the "submit" button by accident when I went to edit it. |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-04-02 7:00:36 PM |
| #9 Fred - well it was as described: Main Display and Comment Display quite different - and he even confirms what I'm saying. Either he has admin rights or an admin cleaned his post up so it matched the BBC story. On the first pass it did not - way too many liberties taken with statements, no yellow highlighting, admin indentation, etc. If I had known I would need to take a snapshot, I would've! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 6:58:30 PM |
| #8 TGA - and on the Ann Coulter story, as well. Troll he may be, but he certainly failed to make any point on this thread - so fay, anyway. I'm waiting for him to instruct me on the other post... so I may better myself. :-) |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 6:54:52 PM |
| #7 I don't see any diffo in the two versions, other than line length... |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-04-02 6:53:59 PM |
| #6 I certainly have no arguments with you on this story regards your comments. Those who make no effort to assimilate eventually become more akin to tumors than contributors. Illogically, many seem to forget why they fled their home of origin - and drag the very same baggage that drove them to leave along with them. It's actually insane, but the desire for the known, the comfortable, often seems to overcome the revulsion. The people your post refers to certainly make themselves obvious targets for investigation / deportation. But then we're being logical in the Western style... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 6:50:28 PM |
| #5 I have a suspicion that Zenster is a troll playing with us. Look at his LLL Commondreams post about the FBI translator yesterday (complete with "Shrub"-Bush-hating comments). Now this. Something's fishy with that person. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-04-02 6:42:47 PM |
| #4 My post was originally submitted with the BBC text inside a block quote and my own comments to follow, outside of that block. Perhaps the board administrator merely highlighted my own text as an expedient. Either way, we need to sling-shot these uncooperative moronic self-mutilators back to whatever cesspit they came from. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-02 6:35:14 PM |
| #3 Now they sync and match. Odd what was first displayed - and which I compared to the BBC article and saw huge differences, is not what is showing now. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 6:27:06 PM |
| #2 Fred, why is there a marked difference between this story in comment window vs main display? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 6:25:14 PM |
| #1 What he said. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-04-02 6:23:21 PM |