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In reply to the discussion: Cologne Police: Roving Packs Sexually Assaulted Dozens on New Year's Eve [View all]DFW
(60,557 posts)We did not invite a million armed robbers and rapists to set up shop as our neighbors. Not all of these people were raised that way, just like not all Iraq vets were trained to come home and become steroid-addled murdering cops.
The Germans were aware that more a few bad apples would indeed be among them. They were incredibly naive in thinking they could weed them out before releasing them into the mass of immigrants. But it is also naive to think that the government deliberately invited nothing but violent single Muslim males to come molest their women. I know I'd go apeshit if my daughter living in Frankfurt got raped by a gang of them, and she has no big problem with the ones there now.
They badly underestimated their capacity to deal with the masses, but it would be fallacious to assume that it was their intention to terrorize their own civilian population. It was predictable due to the sheer numbers that there would be incidents, and it is scandalous that the German government did not think to take counter-measures in advance. But the Germans do not have a monopoly on sticking their heads in the sand, and they WILL get to attempting to attack the problems sprouting up, especially if the only alternative is facing a huge electoral backlash from the far right.