Leonard Cohen interviewet hjemme i Montreal om musikken, kærligheden, alderdommen, depressionerne, et man nok ville gå glip af, hvis man havde et dansk TV at spilde tiden på. Dejlig interviewer Jian Ghomeshi (han er ikke journalist) og det hele gennemspiller en kurve, der varer så længe som en god samtale skal: tre kvarter. Ghomashi har bla. interviewet Woody Allen, Van Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits og Neil Young. Læn dig tilbage og nyd det!
(Jeg har klippet rubrikken ud af interviewet, det kunne også have heddet “The slogans are jamming the airwawes.” Cohens prosa tangerer af og til hans lyrik. Det er forresten i afsnittet hvor han taler om politisk propaganda og ‘gender politics’, så her er lidt ‘videnskab’ fra Lunds Universitet, jeg gladeligt overlader til stærkere nerver end mine: Marginaliserade kvinnor väljer SD för att hitta sammanhang i vardagen.)
A Shooting in Nice Exposes France’s Crime Problem
By THEODORE DALRYMPLE
In France the current minister of justice, Christiane Taubira, is determined to reduce the number of law-breakers sentenced to imprisonment, despite a recent steep rise in burglaries. By no means does all of the French public approve. Many want severe and unequivocal punishment of criminals, in the absence of which they approve—with varying degrees of reluctance or enthusiasm—of victims taking the law into their own hands.
This was illustrated to perfection recently in the case of Stéphan Turk in Nice. Just over a week ago, the jeweler, of Lebanese extraction, shot dead one of the two armed robbers who had threatened him with what looked like an automatic weapon. Mr. Turk pulled the trigger as they were making their escape, having relieved him of money and jewels. Mr. Turk was subsequently arrested and charged with voluntary homicide.
A page was set up on Facebook in support of the jeweler, and within a week it had accumulated 1.6 million “likes.” There has been nothing remotely like this in France before: Evidently the case touched a very raw nerve. Some of the Facebook messages of support of Turk have been startling in their vehemence. “He should be given the Légion d’honneur,” writes one supporter. “One parasite less,” observes another. “No justice for them, just a bullet in the head. Sick of being bothered by little s—.” Also: “It’s deplorable that we should have to kill these scum ourselves.” “The only thing I reproach the jeweler with is that he didn’t get the other,” wrote another of Mr. Turk’s supporters. [..]
In other words, leniency is not necessarily generous and kind, nor is severity necessarily primitive and vicious. But the left in France characterizes those in favor of greater severity as virtually fascist; it is quite unable to see that its own policy brings about the very exasperation so manifest in the messages on Facebook. President François Hollande said that he understood the anger of people like Mr. Turk, but that there must be justice and nothing but justice. Quite right: But was it just that Asli was at liberty to commit the armed robbery that ended in his death? Wall Street Journal
Der er en fare for et retssamfund der hedder selvtægt, som man godt kan kalde drabet i Nice. Det har man lyst til at minde retsvæsen og politikere om når man ser at den tredobbelte voldtægtsmand fra Gullestrup, Ahmed Mohammed ikke udvises. Han voldtog blandt andet en tiårig pige oralt og vaginalt. Man kan ikke være sikker på, at Ahmed Mohammed skal være glad over at forblive i Danmark.
Selvtægtsdrab er ikke ualmindelige i Sverige. De fleste forekommer selvfølgelig mellem allerede kriminelle, men de begås også af almindelige borgere, der ikke længere føler ,at retsvæsnet yder dem retfærdighed. Det mest oplagte tilfælde er drabet på Jennifer Anderssons morder på hans første udgang fra fængslet. Han blev skudt ned foran en restaurant, morderen er aldrig fundet. I dag ser vi endnu et sandsynligt eksempel, stykmordet på Holger Aldal. Jeg henstiller til de ansvarlige, I leger med ilden, tving os ikke derud hvor Sverige befinder sig, det er livsfarligt, og det er ikke kun for de forbrydere, der mister livet.
DF stormer forbi Socialdemokraterne
Måling: Socialdemokraterne er nu knap tre procentpoint efter Dansk Folkeparti. S-ordfører tror på comeback. JP Klik f. større grafik.








