The blatant hypocrisy about refugees in the West

So Manuel Valls is now saying the refugee crisis is destabilizing Europe, and that the borders need to be protected, and that we can't just take anyone who wanders across the borders.
Other Western politicians talked about the cultural effect the large influx of refugees causes, the financial burden, the need to protect the borders.

And yet, when Orban was saying (and doing) the very same thing not 6 months ago, he was a far-right politician, a racist, and a Nazi -not to mention the whole nation of Hungary along with him.

The hypocrisy is maddening. And one of the worst thing is that from a staunch anti-Fidesz voter I have became quite sympathetic to the asshole; after all, he still looks like a better alternative than his critics. If you judge someone by his enemies, Orban is actually a pretty good guy. And for this: fuck you Valls, fuck you Faymann, fuck you The Guardian, and Der Spiegel.
You had no right to make a pro-Orban thinker out of me.

Solution for America's gun problems? MORE guns!

Last year there were more mass shootings than days in the US... which kind of sucks. It's a really horrible situation, to be honest, and interestingly, a lot of the suggested solutions are absolutely, utterly idiotic. (The more sane ones are dismissed as stupid, on the other hand; it's a kind of bizarro world there.)

Let's take one argument for having more people with concealed weapons. The argument goes that if someone starts shooting, the concerned citizenry can draw their own guns, and take care of the perpetrator for good, before the SWAT and the National Guard arrives. Kind of a "Citizen Rambo" scenario.

Now, let's just think about this. A couple of years ago there was a shooting in New York: an armed person was gunned down by the police. There were several collateral victims of the shooting, and all of them were hit by bullets fired by the police. So in broad daylight, even trained professionals do shoot innocent bystanders by accident.

Now imagine the following scenario: you are watching the next Die Hard movie (title: Die Hard with a Hard-on), and you hear shots fired in the dark... obviously you pull your piece, and start shooting back - I guess aiming for the muzzle flash. So do other people, who, until that point were munching on popcorn, and slurping beverages. (In other words: they were not in the mindset for a gun battle, even if they are Navy Seals in their day job.) Who will they shoot at? You or the original shooter?

Can you imagine the carnage? Just seriously: how do you make sure the Citizen Rambos don't shoot each other? How do you make sure someone does not start shooting because he/she mistakes a sound (like a gunshot in the movie, or a backfiring engine) for an actual gunshot, and then triggers a massive free-for-all deathmatch between the moviegoers, or shoppers?

On the other hand, it'd be amusing to watch the security footage afterwards.

I guess.

Cologne and the press

There were a series of mass attacks on women during New Year's Eve; attacks which were coordinated, committed by people who "look African and Middle Eastern", and attacks which did not really get a lot of attention from the media for a long time. Even the police reported initially that all was well... The very first thing that came to my mind was the fact that the far right was actually using this as a warning cry to whip up the fear: they are coming to rape your daughters... we came to an age when closet Nazis are more dependable source of information than the mainstream media. The second thing actually reinforced this notion: it took an awful lot of time and misinformation for the facts to come out: it was not committed by Germans, or by people who have been living in Germany for decades. These attacks were prominently committed by newcomers, who were arriving as refugees.

The media outlets took up this story very slowly. The Guardian specifically was silent for five full days; even though they were really fast to comment on the Shirtgate, or on Mattelgate (the missing female figurine), and were really eager to jump to conclusions on refugee matters as well previously. But now they were taking their time. Suddenly everyone is surprised, as if this was not predicted before. Well, guess what. It has. Cairo and Sweden had experienced similar attacks (which was promptly covered up by the police); it was not really difficult to imagine something like this can happen in areas where refugees/economic migrants were present en masse. Suddenly people are surprised about the skewed sex ratio- oh, my, there's a lot of men in the crowd! Too bad, though they called everyone a Nazi who said the very same thing before; and interestingly this fact did not register for the photographers, either, who spent a year trying to pick up the odd little girl from the crowds of young men for emotional photos about the plight of the refugees.

The Guardian's rich and very excitable feminist writers are also silent; as if actual attacks of women's basic rights were not worth the effort. Even the victim-blaming from the Major of Cologne was left unmentioned... This cartoon sums up everything nicely.

But the Guardian was not silent on other matters. It was running a really long feature on the Two Tailed Dog party, in which they equated Orban with the Far Right (which he is not), and that idiot who charged a police station in France and got shot was featured prominently on the front page, too. It took five days for articles on Cologne to appear. One even called for asking for tough questions, but then avoided to do so.
One genius piece managed to have the following two quotes in the same article:

Abroad, Merkel will work for burden sharing, tougher measures to patrol Europe’s borders and seek solutions to stop the refugees at source

Already the venomous Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán is calling for tougher border controls,

Really?

It seems like the media by propagating the idea of uncontrolled migration boxed itself into a corner it cannot come out of without looking foolish or criminally negligent. And what they are doing now is just as bad.

The main problem is: this sort of behaviour completely surrenders the issue to the far right. It only gets stronger when the media does not report, lies, when the media and the police covers these things up, when you label everyone with concerns racist... you are responsible for turning away from the victims (the women who were assaulted), and you are responsible for the strengthening of the far right, and the gangs who mete out their own justice, and beat up Middle Eastern people on the street.