We would be truelly be burying our heads in the sand not to realise that some thing evil this way comes and, that could be race war. As you will see from below 'race' is coming more on to the agenda of European Politics and along with it the rise of 'Right Wing' Nationalism bordering and slipping over the boundaries of what is and what is not 'fascism'. The Roma are in particular being picked on in Italy and France almost as Jews were once, they are for most part of East European ethnicity as were the Jews entering Europe and Britain in the 19th Century fleeing from pogroms in Russia. Both France and Italy have pro -active policies aimed at deporting the Roma 'Back Home', I have been to Paris and seen on the walls plaques signifying where Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. That is not an history any people can be proud of or want to see reminders of in their own times, such we should remember. As Wales as a generally good relationship with Roma, many 'Welsh Roma' as Italian migrants have integrated into traditional Welsh Communities, settling down into Welsh Life. There is a difference between Roam aka Gypsies and 'Travellers' as the Roma themselves are aware of, problems there are a matter which are usually resolved by local authourities before matters are likely to get out of hand. Most immediate attention however, is the plight of the Children of Libya particularly of the besieged City of Misrata, surely now is the time Wales must open it's doors to these children same as we opened our doors to the besieged children of Euskadi during the Spanish Civil War. There are strong Muslim Communities in Wrecsam, Swansea, Cardiff and Newport who could organise such 'Sacntuary Wales', not just 'Sanctuary Swansea'. Backed by the Welsh Assembly and local Authourities these Muslim Communities could organise respite and holidays for truamatised children and the 'Orphans of War'. This should be percieved as a matter of urgent consideration, see below information:
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First they came for the Jews, then the Roma and now it's refugeees from North Africa. Both Italy and France are being faced with a Refugee Crisis and are reacting in a way that appears to be a game of 'Pass The Parcel':
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Where will this all end? Whatever, no use avoiding the issue as it is heading toward Britain and no doubt as in Europe will fan the flames of racism and fuel the rise of Fascism as in Europe. T
here is an immense refugee crisis building up with many 1000's of Tunisians, Egyptians and Libyans, seeking Assylum in the West whilst others, the sub Saharan migrant workers have no desire to return home but seek a new life with all it's benefits in the West. This is now kicking of right wing and racist reaction throughout Europe, already in Italy the Lombard League is threating central Government and France is turning back train loads of immigrants. Yes! this is going to get very messy indeed, Cameron might have British people distracted via the Royal Wedding for a month or two but it want last forever. When the people of Britain wake up, they will find the country economically in a worse mess due to an on going war without end, yes another one. As other European Countries Britain will have possibly 1000's more Assylum Seekers to care for in a situation of spiraling downward economic situation, such are the ingredients that Fascism feed on. All of which will contribute to the rise of the right wing Nationalism and Fascism in Europe, both often 'partners in crime 'so to speak.
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One as only to see documentaries on the Yesterday Channel regards Right Wing East Eurpean Nationalism during WWII to see where Nationalism can go bad. So what of Europe today, not just the Nation states but the minority micro Nations as Catalonia which because of 'Language Issues' is closer to certain 'Cymric Concerns' regards 'Culture and Language'. In the not too distant past the Meibion Glyndwr 'Arson War and later rise of groups as Cymuned and Llais Gwynedd with much talk of a 'Mewnlifiad aka 'White Flight' caused controversy and much disquiet with talk of rural Wales becoming a 'Montana'. That is as member of the now defunct Welsh Independence Party stated, rural Wales had become home to 'White Flighters', if not 'White Suvivalists' then 'Greens' as in Montana. It cannot be lost on many Welsh that Nick Griffin BNP who opposes immigrants is in fact an 'Economic Immigrant' to Wales himself.
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That was then, no one concerned about 'Cymraeg Culture' in Cymru/Wales anymore speaks in terms of 'white Flight' or 'Mewnlifiad' having had their bottems smacked and knuckles rapped by the Anglo - Welsh and English media, labeling radical 'Language' Cultural Nationalists of Gwynedd in particular, the 'Taliban?'. So, what could be on the horizon?:
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In the past the immigrant problem was such that it appeared to be a threat in main to the existing E.U. Nation States, the larger ones that is as Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Not the smaller Nations as Finland or the European 'Nation States in Waiting' as Catalonia.
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As Catalonia there are a signifigant number of European 'Micro Nations' that for centuries have felt threated by immigrants, Wales has been no different. Welsh Taffia/Cymric Crachach establishment does not like to dwell on this historical fact but our own history has had contentious Colonising issues as in the Flemish Settlements and English Borough Towns of the Middle Ages:
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Of course hostility to the above Colonists, Military and Economic immigrants would take a very violent fom as a consequence of Welsh Revolts. Later Welsh History would come to be littered with often violent racist abuse of outsiders as the Jews and Irish in Particular:
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There has been also in our history Racist abuse against the Chinese and Coloured Peopls in Cardiff also in recent times in Wrexham against Kurds and now Muslims, a Mosque was recently burnt down in Wrecsam. Indeed North East Wales appears to b an 'Racist Hot Spot' that is further complicated by the opposition by some Welsh Nationalist Groups towards English 'Immigrants':
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Food for thought and considered D&D, this year being 2011 the 100th Anniversary of Race Riots in Wales. A most appropriate time to hold a Commemorative Conference that discusses the history and issues related to all the above. Why not in Tredegar, that's one perhaps for the Bevan Foundation or otherwise in Wrecsam during Eisteddfod Week, that's one for Plaid Wrecsam to consider maybe?:
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