A little word on Bulgaria

I was perusing the Gates of Vienna news feed to try and assemble another Weekly Retrospective (I must apologise once agian for being tardy in my posting. I do have an excuse for not posting much more than this today - my eye is irritated and I don't want to spend too much longer on the computer). Anyway, I came across this article about the Bulgarians rioting a local incident involving Roma basically being careless idiots.

The reason I'm bringing this up is because of Jock Palfreeman. Jock was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Bulgarian courts for going to the defence of two Roma who were under attack from a group of Bulgarian soccer fans who were drunk. It descended into a fight, and the son of a prominent public servant was killed. The charge against Jock is "violent hooliganism", and the entire thing is a judicial farce, with evidence being misrepresented, lost, ignored or barred from court that would acquit Jock. His younger brother was in my year at school, and I knew him fairly well.

I bring this story up because the two Roma boys that Jock went in to defend were never found and never testified in his defence. And now this. I cannot let it pass without comment.

I've had some contact with Roma in Rome (funny that), and their sense of entitlement and their arrogance (I do not use that word lightly) is galling. These people have no shame and afford themselves no dignity or independence. They march around in Piazza Nirvona and put their collection tray in your face, or play music on the train and finish as the train pulls into the station (that one was my father, who ran them over with my nephew's stroller). And then they run you over and don't care.

One cannot avoid the conclusion that Jock went to the aid of people who took full advantage of his generosity and then left him behind. Should that drunken mob have attacked them? No, of course not. But in retrospect, while Jock's sense of social justice has been brought up many times, I think this is a case where a bit of Divine Judgement needs to be indulged in. With a hat tip to Ann Barnhardt, here is David Berlinski. Watch from 27:15 - 29:10 on the Holocaust, and how Berlinski said that it reminds him of a Divine adjudication from the Old Testament.



That's more what I'm talking about here. If either of those Roma boys had a lick of integrity, they would have come forward years ago. As it stands, their abuse of the tolerance and hospitality of their hosts has pushed things enough that the hosts are starting to push back.

I will not deny the Roma that undeniable independence, that each is his or her own person, and that some Roma re actually successful and choose to make something of themselves. Alas, I'm sad to say that they are not the public face of the Roma, and the majority of thefts and other petty crimes in Bulgaria are committed by Roma (according to the article linked above). Much as said article tries to limit the damage this does to multicultural ideas, it stands absolutely fast and true - those whose culture is parasitic will eventually be treated as parasites. If we're talking cultural diets, then you are what you eat.

I'm sad to say it, but Jock will probably spend the next decade at least in a Bulgarian prison. With a well-connected bureaucrat in a corrupt country against him, his key witnesses too morally vacuous to even come forward and repay the debt they owe Jock, and being half a world from home, the options for him are slim indeed.

Alas, such a cruel fate for a man with the knowledge of Good and Evil, and the guts to act on it. His support site is www.freejock.com. If nothing else, pray for him. And his family.