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A peek into our future?This story from Brazil’s slums should serve as a reminder to us. This is what will become of our cities if we, as a people, do nothing. Bitter Divide over Plan to Wall in Rio’s Slums Daniel Howden, Independent (London), June 23
State legislators recently approved the construction of the 7ft-high walls along a number of main roads, citing frequent shootouts that have killed people in passing cars. But critics say that the project is a form of economic segregation. Rio, famed for its beaches and the hedonistic carnival, has one of the biggest wealth gaps in the world and soaring crime levels, aggravated by poverty. There are more than 600 slums, known as favelas, and about a million people live in them. Death rates through violence are among the highest in the world and more than 1,200 people have been killed in the first three months of this year. Fighting between two gangs in the Vidigal slum over the weekend forced the police to close roads near Ipanema beach. Last month, a gun battle between police and drug traffickers in the Mare slum, which lasted several hours, caused chaos as frightened motorists abandoned their vehicles or reversed away. Luiz Paulo Conde, the deputy state governor, caused controversy last year by suggesting that the slums be surrounded by 10-foot-high walls. His proposal, with its uncomfortable echoes of Israel’s West Bank “separation” barrier, has since gained a number of powerful supporters. But this week the immediate prospect of a favela barrier was delayed after Rosinha Matheus, the state governor, exercised her veto and stopped the project, saying the barriers “would be a form of discrimination of good citizens who make up the infinite majority of these communities”. A majority of state legislators support the barrier and the plan is unlikely to disappear. Paulo Melo, the head of the assembly’s justice commission, said the barrier would not distancefavelas but would “prevent acts of banditry”. Police have so far opposed the construction of slum walls, saying that they will not prevent attacks on motorists stranded in Rio’s lengthy traffic jams. They are instead talking up Brazil’s new rapid deployment anti-crime force as a solution to violent crime. The hand-picked unit of 2,740 officers, many from outside Rio, faces the doubly difficult task of reining in crime and restoring public faith in a force disgraced by entrenched corruption. Already 600 officers have begun urban guerrilla war training in one of Rio’s hillside slums. Rights groups have also voiced concern over the number of killings by police, which reached record levels last year with at least 1,000 deaths. The administration of President Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva was shocked into action after one of the bloodiest incidents made international headlines in March—29 people were shot dead in one slum in a conflict over protection money. A number of police were found to be among the shooters. Posted by Phil Peterson on Sunday, June 26, 2005 at 03:03 AM in Race realism Comments:3
Posted by John S Bolton on June 26, 2005, 05:23 AM | # Sorosian preachers of openness value have got civilization opened up to savagery in increasing degree; but the facts of the above kind keep showing the high quarantine value of walls and barriers against the aggression of the savages. 4
Posted by jonjayray on June 26, 2005, 08:51 AM | # The Brazilian situation is more an outcome of socialism than anything else 5
Posted by Phil on June 26, 2005, 09:05 AM | # The Brazilian situation is more an outcome of socialism than anything else. This reminds me of a quote from the War Nerd:
Socialism is not the cause, John. The cause is racial diversity. Socialism is the outcome of that. In any nation where such enormous differences in cognitive ability exist between the races, socialism is always just one election away. The poor will vote themselves socialism once they have the opportunity. The same thing has started happening in California and will probably get worse with time. 6
Posted by Geoff M. Beck on June 26, 2005, 10:57 AM | # Mongrelism, disorder, ethnic strife, squalor… this is where our elites are leading us. Now, considering, the honor and respect due to our heritage and ancestors when I say that the entire political elite needs decapitation, considering the trends shaped by them such action is indeed justified. 7
Posted by Stuka on June 26, 2005, 11:01 AM | # If multiracialism & multiculturalism are such blessings, why isn’t Brazil in better shape? 8
Posted by Geoff Beck on June 26, 2005, 11:34 AM | # > The Brazilian situation is more an outcome of socialism than anything else Is it socialism or IQ? 9
Posted by Phil on June 26, 2005, 11:41 AM | # The Brazilian situation is more an outcome of socialism than anything else. Even if Brazil was “Capitalist”, I think Id pick socialist Sweden or Denmark over “Capitalist” Brazil any day. 10
Posted by Kubilai on June 26, 2005, 01:10 PM | # The Brazilian situation is more an outcome of socialism than anything else - John I’m really getting tired of this garbage. Just having words pop out of your mouth without ANY evidence to back it up is just plain stupid or mendacious, John. We’re past this point of argumenation, John. Even some of the most retarded Liberals have been forced to accept certain realities despite their valiant efforts to look the other way and come up with the most absurd reasons to societal problems…which THEY have created. 11
Posted by jonjayray on June 26, 2005, 09:09 PM | # 90% of black Americans have jobs under US capitalism. 90% of Brazilian blacks would have jobs if there were effective Brazilian capitalism too. It is the economic system that differs, not the race. Braziliuan and American blacks came from the same place in the same way 12
Posted by Phil on June 27, 2005, 03:19 AM | # John, Blacks are 12 percent of the US population, Whites more than 70 percent. In Brazil, whites are less than 20 percent, the rest is black, mulatto and Indian admixed. Big difference. 13
Posted by jonjayray on June 27, 2005, 04:41 AM | # Capitalism works anywhere. It even worked in Africa when Africa was under the control of a handful of British whites. There are plenty enough of whites in Brazil to make capitalism work but they are unfortunately typical Latin Fascists. Bolivar and the Church have a lot to answer for 14
Posted by Steve Edwards on June 27, 2005, 06:15 AM | # “There are plenty enough of whites in Brazil to make capitalism work but they are unfortunately typical Latin Fascists. Bolivar and the Church have a lot to answer for” Yet John is the number one supporter of importing Latin Fascists and Bolivarians, or at least he is the main force for obfuscation on this and related issues that might stop America descending into lawlessness. John, what you describe there is not capitalism, but colonialism. If you wish to turn America into a colonial-style society typified by minority rule and majority servitude, you should at least be prepared to accept the logical consequences flowing from this. Really John, I’d expect a higher standard of indymedia than this. 15
Posted by Phil on June 27, 2005, 01:45 PM | # There are plenty enough of whites in Brazil to make capitalism work but they are unfortunately typical Latin Fascists. Not with the perpetually poor brown masses also having the vote! When we were running African colonies, we did not give the Natives universal adult franchise. Once the low IQ majority gets the vote, the game’s up. 16
Posted by seelow heights on June 28, 2005, 02:14 AM | # 90% of black Americans have jobs under US capitalism. Next entry: The Boer genocide Previous entry: Brilliant new Aussie flag! |
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