1/ Public swimming pool in Switzerland near the French border bans all foreigners except holiday-makers and those with work visas. Staff and customers are delighted, many locals are returning to the baths after avoiding them. City council member Lionel Maître,
2/ who obviously came loaded for bear, vigorously defends the ban. Local residents financed the construction of this pool and deserve to use it undisturbed. Young males from nearby French "problem neighborhoods" were making welt.de/politik/auslan…
3/ constant trouble, groping and whistling at girls, assaulting staff, getting into fights, and swimming in their underwear. Maitre makes no apologies for the policy, and makes a crucial point: The reason the French louts are crossing the border is that most of the
4/ pools on the French side of the border have closed. Maitre says that the French decided to close their pools because of the same problems his town is having. The authorities there saw no alternative to just closing down the pools, for fear they would be
5/ charged with "discrimination" if the actually focused on the real problem. In other words, ordinary law-abiding citizens are robbed of a freedom or privilege because their political leaders let in too many of the wrong type of immigrants who don't care about the rules.
6/ Maitre defends the policy against critiques, noting that most of them come from left-wing people or groups, whom he is apparently prepared to simply ignore. Maitre is not going to deprive the people he governs of a pleasant pastime
7/ because a bunch of uncouth, shiftless louts are ruining it. Germany's solution to uncouth, shiftless louts is to pretend they don't exist and then, when forced to acknowledge their existence, hope to civilize -- I'm sorry, I mean sensitize -- them with a bunch of
8/ socio-pedagogical gobbledygook. Pruntrut's approach is to keep them out of the pool so decent folks can enjoy themselves in peace and privacy. Millions of Germans secretly wish their politicians had that much courage and pragmatism.
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