World Police

Wherever we go, whoever we meet, we always have political discussions. Sometimes strangers that are sitting around us jump into the discussion and sometimes the discussions get pretty heated. Yesterday I met a real idiot outside the Hilton Hotel, I admit that I have prejudices about American army people, and the man I met yesterday didn't make my thought about them better!

He had been in the US army for 20 years, 8 of them in Germany, and therefor he knew EVERYTHING about Europe. "In Europe it is like this bla bla", I replied; no it's not, it might be like that in Germany but Germany and Europe is not the same thing. "No", he said, "it IS like this in Europe, I know what". It's not that easy to have a discussion with that kind of person... and it got worse.

His opinion was that Europe is getting destroyed by Africans and Muslims, and that Europeans are too weak and too afraid of being called racists. I did my best to keep cool. He started to talk about the Muslims in Malmo, and I told him calmly that the problems we have in Malmo has nothing to do with the Muslim thing, but with the fact that the gaps in our society is getting bigger, and because of the lack of social security, because of low income versus high income and so on. But he just nodded his head and talked to me like I was an idiot, and said that it is because they are Muslims... Hm... exactly WHERE in the Holy Koran does it say that youngsters should go out and put cars on fire? Can anyone tell me that? He continued by saying something about an article he had read about the police in Sweden, and Nessica argued against him by telling him that she has studied in the police academy for one year and probably knows a tiny tiny bit more about the Swedish police than him. Then he called us cock suckers, and that was the end of the discussion. Go US Army, you are really promoting yourself in a good way!

XX, Elin