Barry Op/Ed
A recent Tory candidate getting roasted over his comments, has many wanting his Head for not kowtowing to the rules of Political Correctness. Opposition Political parties are salivating at the political brownie bit in their quest in calls for his resignation.
Truth being, what he says is true, but only partially. It is not immigrants per say who are the cause of some of these crimes, but more so their children, whether they are Canadian born or not, disillusioned, poverty stricken, and most likely just plain lazy to study in school or earn a living and feeling out of place in a Canadian Culture, many of these kids feel a cultural kinship with their like minded brethren and form or join gangs.That is just the way it is.
Having a MTV culture and Movie Culture which glorifies Gang violence, bling, bling, HO’s and drugs and money doesn’t help when the “Have Nots” want what their Gang idols in the music and movie industry have.
Somalian youth in Ottawa with their penchant for machetes hidden in their pant legs frequented the streets and high schools looking to jack goods off citizens, though usually they would prey on their own kind.
Asian gangs, in BC, particularly Vietnamese especially would venture into gang mentality and criminal enterprise, Guatemalan gangs violence and drugs at one time in New Westminster are a way of life.
This is just a small percentage of Immigrants children who feel it is better to steal than earn a honest living. Montreal and Toronto’s Haitian community are much the same as the rest. These cultures grew up in horrendous countries whose norm was rob and kill to earn your keep.
The East Asian Gangs in Surrey, BC have their niche in the drug trade as well, much to the displeasure of their parents who try and make a life for their children the best they can, like most immigrants.
Big cities breed gangs, small towns rarely do.
Many forget that in the dirty 30’s , 40’s and 50’s Italian, Jewish and Irish Gangs were the norm as children of immigrants from these cultures(Most living in poverty) in large cities would forge city blocks as their own criminal territory, preying on other immigrants trying to make a living.
Movies in the 1930’s based on Bootlegging, extortion, money and fast women didn’t help these kids either , much like todays Culture.
So in ending perhaps, this Tory candidate should have gone into more detail and not grouped all Immigrants as Criminals, when in fact it is their children and today’s “Gang Culture” who most likely are to blame.
There was or is a push to settle immigrants in small towns instead of big cities to reduce the gang mentality, as small towns normally are not thought of a “Crime central”, for the most part immigrants prefer Big Cities for employment opportunities and where cultural ghettos seem to prevent immigrants into integrating into Canadian Society.
Hells Angels grew from a culture of Air Force pilots in World War II disenfranchised with society after the war, were looking for the Thrill that was lacking when in Combat, motorcycles gave them that thrill as well as the camaraderie that gang Culture mentality brings, similar to a military unit of Brothers in Arms.
Todays Hells Angels are nothing like the Brando style Wild Ones on Motorcycles roaring through small towns harassing the small two citizens. Guess this was before the Canadian and American Legions were formed, where booze, food and retelling war stories was good enough.
Certainly not what Immigration was meant for when “Assimilation into Canadian Culture” seems to be a dirty word among the politically correct society and those politicians looking for that Ethnic Edge in Votes who continually monopolize on Immigrant fears.
If Kids are so fascinated with Guns and Gang Mentality, at least join the Military where at least you can get something out of it and get paid for it. You may turn out better than you thought possible.
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=a27eb6f6-d62b-4de7-876a-77648ea4360d
Immigrants aren’t as law-abiding, Calgary Tory claims
Jason Fekete, Canwest News Service Published: Friday, September 26, 2008
CALGARY — Opposition parties are demanding Calgary Conservative incumbent Lee Richardson resign for suggesting that immigrants are to blame for much of the crime in Canada.
In an interview with a Calgary weekly newspaper, Richardson is quoted as saying many crimes aren’t committed by people who “grew up next door” and immigrants aren’t as law-abiding. “Particularly in big cities, we’ve got people who have grown up in a different culture, and they don’t have the same background in terms of the stable communities we had 20, 30 years ago in our cities . . . and don’t have the same respect for authority or people’s person or property,” Richardson told Fast Forward Weekly, when asked about recent gun violence in Calgary.
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