'Auslander raus!'

[kurogane]

Kurogane, just go to Europe coming summer for your holidays and enjoy.

Nothing to worry about.

I'm just fucking around man My aunt did say that Copenhagen was like a Turkish bazaar everyhwere in public last summer, but I have a sneaky feeling she would have said that if she saw more than 5 obvious non-Danes the whole trip. And our aunt does live next door to a comically large Turkish family that keeps their goats and chickens in the house, so I am sure her stories influenced things quite a bit. She is a hilarious racist, but that is simply too backwards to deserve to live in Denmark.

[Mike Oxlong]

This PZ Myers blog post reminded me of the discussion of the Dutch case.

Fast losing all confidence in the justice system

My wife and I made the mistake of getting hooked on the Netflix series, Making A Murderer, this weekend. Never watch sausage being made, and never take a look inside what the police do to make a case. It will ruin your trust in the system.

There were a couple of things that just infuriated me.

•There were two clear cases of scientific dishonesty that ought to have simply been thrown out, or never even been presented to the jury.
--->They tested a bullet for blood, and announced that it was from the victim. But the lab tech also disclosed that the negative control was contaminated! My jaw dropped at that. You don’t get to make that claim when your test was invalidated by error.
--->To disprove that the accused’s blood at the crime scene was not planted from a sample in police custody, they declared that the FBI, using a new test, had found no preservatives in the blood, therefore the sample couldn’t have been planted. Again, you can’t do that. What were the limits of detection? The best you can do is say that the test failed, and without a lot of evaluation of the samples and the procedure, you can’t state how likely their answer was.

Outrageous.

•One of the prosecutor’s tools was this horrifically detailed story of the murder, which they claim to have gotten from a confession by the accused’s nephew. But we have the recording of the “confession”, and it’s appalling. The nephew is this lost, confused, slow-witted teenager, and the police lead him through the story. He didn’t provide any of the purported details. They did.

The prosecutors didn’t exhibit a speck of shame at going on and on about knifings and stranglings and shooting and torture, with the only evidence being a fable fed to a not very bright kid. Is that a general character trait of prosecutors? I wouldn’t know.

Just to counterbalance the dismaying unprofessionalism, incompetence, and corruption of the police, though, I have to say I hope that if ever I’m accused of a crime, I want the defense attorneys, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, on my side. They, at least, seemed to be well aware of the inconsistencies and falsehoods in the prosecution’s case. I don’t know whether the prosecutors weren’t very bright or were just doing their job to paper over the failings of their arguments.

I don’t know whether it’s the charitable assumption to guess that the prosecutors just didn’t care about the truth.

It’s also a shame because the victim was murdered, and my impression is that the Manitowoc police were more interested in pinning the blame on the accused than in actually figuring out what happened.

[Samurai_Jerk]

This PZ Myers blog post reminded me of the discussion of the Dutch case.

Fast losing all confidence in the justice system

My wife and I made the mistake of getting hooked on the Netflix series, Making A Murderer, this weekend. Never watch sausage being made, and never take a look inside what the police do to make a case. It will ruin your trust in the system.

There were a couple of things that just infuriated me.

•There were two clear cases of scientific dishonesty that ought to have simply been thrown out, or never even been presented to the jury.
--->They tested a bullet for blood, and announced that it was from the victim. But the lab tech also disclosed that the negative control was contaminated! My jaw dropped at that. You don’t get to make that claim when your test was invalidated by error.
--->To disprove that the accused’s blood at the crime scene was not planted from a sample in police custody, they declared that the FBI, using a new test, had found no preservatives in the blood, therefore the sample couldn’t have been planted. Again, you can’t do that. What were the limits of detection? The best you can do is say that the test failed, and without a lot of evaluation of the samples and the procedure, you can’t state how likely their answer was.

Outrageous.

•One of the prosecutor’s tools was this horrifically detailed story of the murder, which they claim to have gotten from a confession by the accused’s nephew. But we have the recording of the “confession”, and it’s appalling. The nephew is this lost, confused, slow-witted teenager, and the police lead him through the story. He didn’t provide any of the purported details. They did.

The prosecutors didn’t exhibit a speck of shame at going on and on about knifings and stranglings and shooting and torture, with the only evidence being a fable fed to a not very bright kid. Is that a general character trait of prosecutors? I wouldn’t know.

Just to counterbalance the dismaying unprofessionalism, incompetence, and corruption of the police, though, I have to say I hope that if ever I’m accused of a crime, I want the defense attorneys, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, on my side. They, at least, seemed to be well aware of the inconsistencies and falsehoods in the prosecution’s case. I don’t know whether the prosecutors weren’t very bright or were just doing their job to paper over the failings of their arguments.

I don’t know whether it’s the charitable assumption to guess that the prosecutors just didn’t care about the truth.

It’s also a shame because the victim was murdered, and my impression is that the Manitowoc police were more interested in pinning the blame on the accused than in actually figuring out what happened.

This discussion reminded me of "Making a Murderer." I watched it last week and I definitely recommend it. The filmmakers' biases were obvious so after watching it I read some more info about the case which makes me not as sure about whether or not Avery is innocent but either way the DA and especially the cops pulled some unbelievably shady shit that should make anyone doubt the fairness of the trial. And calling his teenage nephew slow is an understatement. That kid was borderline retarded, had no idea what was going on, and was so obviously fucked over by the system.

You should at least watch for the white trash Wisconsin accents. I've always thought people were exaggerating but some of the Avery family didn't even sound like native speakers of English.

EDIT: Just remembered the first episode is available on Youtube for free and it's not region blocked.

[kurogane]

I haven't watched it, but just from looking at pictures of Avery and reading Auto Salvage I knew we were dealing with extra digits and webbed feet, not that that should entail a prison sentence unless he indulges his extra Y chromosome. OTOH, he is banged up here, and that is a pretty cool looking building, with 3 meals a day and clothing provided
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waupun_Co ... nstitution




PS I have been getting really freaked out lately at the speech patterns of trashy Americans on Youtube. We are actually getting an incipient HG Wells situation. It's not so much accent or degenerate grammar as the degraded pronunciation and lack of vocabulary: they sound like they've been doing shots of mercury or glue. A simple "Out of curiosity, what is your native language?" or "What language are they speaking there?" gets hilarious results, and not nearly enough of them are insulted or outraged at the suggestion. Indeed, even the Flobadob speaking blacks seem more articulate or at least aware. Freaky stuff down thatta way.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Here we go ...

Anti-Muslim Protest in Cologne Turns Violent as Germans Condemn Racist Rhetoric

Cologne, Germany, was again the site of violent clashes Saturday, when authorities resorted to water cannons as a means of dispersing anti-Islam protesters, who reportedly fought back with firecrackers and bottles.

Coordinated by members of the xenophobic Pegida movement — Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West — Saturday's demonstration of 1,700 people took place at Cologne's main train station; according to Deutsche Welle, "half of those attending the Pegida rally were football hooligans and right-wing extremists." Hundreds of police were dispatched to maintain order as some 1,300 counter-protesters converged on the anti-Muslim rally, where Chancellor Angela Merkel came under fire for her open-door policy on Middle Eastern refugees seeking asylum in Germany.

"Merkel has become a danger to our country," a Pegida protester reportedly told the demonstrators. "Merkel must go!"

The Dresden-based Pegida movement opposes the spread of Islam within Europe; it claims to stand against "hatemongers, regardless of which religion they belong to" and "radicalism, whether religiously or politically motivated." Yet, Merkel herself has condemned the group's racist ideology, saying they have "coldness, prejudice and hatred in their hearts." Pegida has loudly decried the influx of asylum seekers into Germany, and the attacks that swept Cologne's New Year's Eve celebrations have only added fuel to the fire.

[kurogane]

Those guys sound scary to me, but at the very least that shitsow and all this ruckus over the NYE sexual assaults might help drive the discussion and discourse back from the edge of Charity/NGO driven hysterical sympathy and into the realm of the possible and the practical, like renting Turkey and Jordan and making some decent camps for them to stay in until they can go home, and leaving Europe to those who belong there: Europeans and First World tourists.

[Coligny]

It's ok, not like if Mein Kampf was a best seller again...

[Wage Slave]

Those guys sound scary to me, but at the very least that shitsow and all this ruckus over the NYE sexual assaults might help drive the discussion and discourse back from the edge of Charity/NGO driven hysterical sympathy and into the realm of the possible and the practical, like renting Turkey and Jordan and making some decent camps for them to stay in until they can go home, and leaving Europe to those who belong there: Europeans and First World tourists.

Yep. I hated admitting it but Cameron got this one pretty much right at the time. Spend money on temporary camps, send money to maintain them but only offer residence to the most vulnerable. Small children who have lost their parents etc. And they travel normally and safely without the good offices of criminal gangs.

As for murder trials - Well yes, there are no doubt miscarriages from time to time and that should be borne in mind. However, I fail to see how a bad trial in one place invalidates a trial in another. And the facts are completely different.

It does cast doubt on the wisdom of having the death penalty though.

[wagyl]

Those guys sound scary to me, but at the very least that shitsow and all this ruckus over the NYE sexual assaults might help drive the discussion and discourse back from the edge of Charity/NGO driven hysterical sympathy and into the realm of the possible and the practical, like renting Turkey and Jordan and making some decent camps for them to stay in until they can go home, and leaving Europe to those who belong there: Europeans and First World tourists.

Yep. I hated admitting it but Cameron got this one pretty much right at the time. Spend money on temporary camps, send money to maintain them but only offer residence to the most vulnerable. Small children who have lost their parents etc. And they travel normally and safely without the good offices of criminal gangs.

That sounds too much like the Pacific Solution, conceived in error, allowed to be born in error, and growing through its tormentuous teens in error at this moment.

[kurogane]

Which part did you hate, the part about putting up camps and them in them or having to grit your teeth and admit that Little Lord Porkapig got it right? I get absolutely raked for even suggesting camps back in Canada, even though I don't much oppose the massive intake currently underway, though I insist it should be vulnerables only, like you say, and don't even blink at the idea of separating able bodied men from their families and social networks. Canada can absorb 3 times the 25,000 projected in a heartbeat; Europe has never struck me as a true immigrant society, and I think it's wrong headed to bash people that argue that. This isn't a summer camp exchange programme, and the numbers alone call for ad hoc and not always particularly attractive compromise. Plus, and I would never be stupid enough to say this in polite company, you can't put a bunch of battle hardened, shell shocked, born and bred misogynists in a candy store like Northern Europe and expect everything to be hunky dory. I would be willing to suggest that most Middle Eastern asylum seekers think they have landed in a Bacchanalian sex circus, what with all the flesh and faces on display, even though the vast majority are simply too decent and self-disciplined to actually do anything nasty.

Nice point about the risks posed by capital punishment, too. I used to oppose it because it's barbaric, but the threat of a false conviction is a far more cogent idea, in MYHOMO.

Wagyl,
I don't see it as quite the same, mostly because of the proximity of the camps to their point of origin, but it is hardly an ideal solution. What it is, though, is a good way to spearate the deserving wheat from the whining chaff. The whiney entitlement of far too many of the throngs demanding entry into Europe all summer shows this is as much about economic opportunity and handout shopping as it is about actual UNESCO treaty level eligibility and obligation. There is no treaty obligation to provide a better life; it's supposed to be about safe haven and protection. That is where the cat ladies and the pity junkies get it wrong and muddle the discussion. In MYHOMO, natch.

[Wage Slave]

Which part did you hate, the part about putting up camps and them in them or having to grit your teeth and admit that Little Lord Porkapig got it right?

Having to grant that Little Lord Porkapig was right and his critics at home and abroad wrong was the bit I hated. I think you are probably right about Europe and mass immigration and it doesn't help anyone to try and deny it.

[kurogane]

That I can totally dig. I loathe that man, though I share his love of pork in a strictly non-sexual way. As a curmudgeonly lefty I am all for Progress and Openness and whatever other inspiring retchworthy slogans we throw out there, but insisting that square pegs fit into round holes is more than simply anti-liberal, it's politically stupid, and it plays to the righties ability to manipulate base emotions for political gain, which is a bad thing. No amount of heartful pizza mind can make that not so. I am kind of looking forward to seeing how the Canadian influx works out. I have objections to the Care Bear parts of the policy, especially able bodied males being allowed in, but we could absorb 10 times that number and they would just end up Canadian, and we voted en masse for PM Care Bear and his YOLO Pants Sisterhood so it seems peevish to complain that he's doing what he promised he would. I do hope we get some wheat along with the wounded wreckage, but their children or children's children will work out fine, just as I and others did. After 10 years of Darth Darkness and his Angry White Men ruining things it's actually quite touching to watch Canada be Canadian again.

EDIT

OOOK!!!!!!!!!!! It looks like the Tat for Tit stuff has begun:

Pakistanis, Syrian attacked in Cologne amid tension over New Year’s assault

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/wor ... e28104808/

Things are starting to get a lot stinkier than the city name would suggest. That is all most unseemly.

[kagemusha]

Swedish police were criticised on Monday after admitting they failed to release information about alleged sexual assaults against women by young immigrants at a Stockholm summer music festival over the past two years.

http://www.afp.com/en/news/swedish-police-withheld-reports-sexual-assaults-music-fest

Let the sunshine in...

[wagyl]

EDIT: Just remembered the first episode is available on Youtube for free and it's not region blocked.

Fuck you again Jerk! Fuck you! You've got me hooked onto a story and I don't have access to the follow up!

While I was watching that, I thought "they are using all their material in the first episode, what will they have to say next time?" and then, Wham!!!!


I was just having a conversation with a friend back home about how crap free-to-air TV is even outside of Japan, with reality TV crud, and she said that it is really now a Golden Age of Television, except nowadays you have to pay for it. This is a prime (although not Amazon Prime) example.

[Samurai_Jerk]

EDIT: Just remembered the first episode is available on Youtube for free and it's not region blocked.

Fuck you again Jerk! Fuck you! You've got me hooked onto a story and I don't have access to the follow up!

While I was watching that, I thought "they are using all their material in the first episode, what will they have to say next time?" and then, Wham!!!!


I was just having a conversation with a friend back home about how crap free-to-air TV is even outside of Japan, with reality TV crud, and she said that it is really now a Golden Age of Television, except nowadays you have to pay for it. This is a prime (although not Amazon Prime) example.

Well, I wouldn't say it's impossible for you to watch the rest of the series.

Yes, TV is now better than movies now but not regular broadcast television.

[Mike Oxlong]

EDIT: Just remembered the first episode is available on Youtube for free and it's not region blocked.

[yewtube]

Fuck you again Jerk! Fuck you! You've got me hooked onto a story and I don't have access to the follow up!

While I was watching that, I thought "they are using all their material in the first episode, what will they have to say next time?" and then, Wham!!!!


I was just having a conversation with a friend back home about how crap free-to-air TV is even outside of Japan, with reality TV crud, and she said that it is really now a Golden Age of Television, except nowadays you have to pay for it. This is a prime (although not Amazon Prime) example.

Well, I wouldn't say it's impossible for you to watch the rest of the series.

Yes, TV is now better than movies now but not regular broadcast television.

Even network tv is a lot better than it used to be. Who imagined Hannibal on NBC? They've had to pick up their game as cable has raised the bar considerably.

[kurogane]

Allowing for differences in taste, this Golden Age of Television cheerleading just reminds me that people have lost their minds. Mad Men? Breaking Bald? Angry Fat WHite Girls farting and burping? Cookie cutter fashion/celeb magazine driven drivel in MYHOMO. I think the main reason that gets so much purchase is because the media has said it is so. To disagree is a sign that one is not In on the latest Twattering. Again, allowing for taste in TV. There's still some good stuff out there, but it's usually British or Brit-Cdn, and it can be hard to get at.

Wagyl,
Have you tried Tubeplus? They seem to have everything the kids want.

[wagyl]

Allowing for differences in taste, this Golden Age of Television cheerleading just reminds me that people have lost their minds. Mad Men? Breaking Bald? Angry Fat WHite Girls farting and burping? Cookie cutter fashion/celeb magazine driven drivel in MYHOMO. I think the main reason that gets so much purchase is because the media has said it is so. To disagree is a sign that one is not In on the latest Twattering. Again, allowing for taste in TV. There's still some good stuff out there, but it's usually British or Brit-Cdn, and it can be hard to get at.

Are you telling me that Mad Men and Breaking Bad are not good productions worthy of viewership, when the free-to-air offer two episodes of Gold Coast Cops back to back followed by a rerun of Territory Cops?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Allowing for differences in taste, this Golden Age of Television cheerleading just reminds me that people have lost their minds. Mad Men? Breaking Bald? Angry Fat WHite Girls farting and burping? Cookie cutter fashion/celeb magazine driven drivel in MYHOMO. I think the main reason that gets so much purchase is because the media has said it is so. To disagree is a sign that one is not In on the latest Twattering. Again, allowing for taste in TV. There's still some good stuff out there, but it's usually British or Brit-Cdn, and it can be hard to get at.

Are you telling me that Mad Men and Breaking Bad are not good productions worthy of viewership, when the free-to-air offer two episodes of Gold Coast Cops back to back followed by a rerun of Territory Cops?

I knew kurogane was a hipster.

[kurogane]

Are you telling me that Mad Men and Breaking Bad are not good productions worthy of viewership, when the free-to-air offer two episodes of Gold Coast Cops back to back followed by a rerun of Territory Cops?

Well, when you put it that way............... I find them both vapid angst driven Cougar Bait pablum, but I will happily acknoweldge they are well produced even though I don't really know what that means. I also find them both too convoluted to follow at leisure. I just wish I liked them. CBC still has an occasional offering of some good stuff, usually joint productions from the BBC or Irish-Anglo joint stuff. Frankly, I don't know what I want to watch anymore, but I know that stuff isn't it. As an example, I really, really enjoyed The Wire, I like Sherlock, Hell on Wheels and I have been working on trying to like Arrested Development. At the very least least the last one is good, silly, meanhearted fun.

I knew kurogane was a hipster.

Dood. I'm a born and bred Wet Coast stoner that put the groover in Vangroover before hipster was even a word. Where or when has there ever been any doubt? OTOH, am I a hipster because I don't like mainstream hits? I think I would have to dislike them because they are mainstream or popular. I don't like them because I don't like the stories, the characters, the setting, or the convolution.

Also, as further evidence one way or the other I really, really dug Dominion (based on the movie Legion), which was so beyond schlocky it was comical, and it still somehow managed to be good. Anything with the Archangel Michael slaying those who would defy God gets me every time. And I don't normally like So Bad It's Good stuff (like anything Will Farrell, the Stiller kid or the retarded Owen brother).

[Mike Oxlong]

The CBC series Intelligence ran for two seasons and was pretty good. Hunted was a BBC/Cinemax production that only ran one season, but was also very good. You may also like the British series Black Mirror.

[Coligny]

Doomwatch was cool too...
Also recommend "les brigades du Tigre" and "Les faucheurs de marguerites/le temps des As/l'adieu aux As"

[Russell]

Kristallnacht...

[Wage Slave]

The racists are predictably using this an an excuse to do all the things they are itching to do all the time. So, one very bad piece of policing leads to a much bigger policing headache. What did you say Russell about the importance of remaining rational?

[Russell]

The racists are predictably using this an an excuse to do all the things they are itching to do all the time. So, one very bad piece of policing leads to a much bigger policing headache. What did you say Russell about the importance of remaining rational?

Very much, and I was inspired in this by Bertrand Russell, who is the inspiration for my online name. He argued that fascism is the opposite of rationalism, because it appeals to the emotions of people. So, while some people associate rationalism with the cold calculating way in which people were exterminated in the Holocaust, it is actually the opposite. It was the abuse of the emotions and gut feelings of people that made this possible.

It is in times like these that real statesmen or women shine, but unfortunately there are not many of those these days, it seems.

[Tsuru]

Kristallnacht...

If this is now officially kristallnacht, what would you call it when during the riots in The Hague last year only shops and establishments with Dutch owners or paid for with public money had their windows smashed, and "ethnic" shops all miraculously escaped the same sort of vandalism? While I agree that nothing like this should be tolerated and the perpetrators deserve what's coming to them, I don't think the fascist shitheads are all exclusively on the home team for this one...



I agree that much more should be done to protect innocent civilians and their properties, but the way the political class in Germany has now turned around and has taken to blaming the police for letting things get out of hand in Cologne and elsewhere, is nothing short of despicable. It was them who squeezed the police year after year and have let them atropy to the point where most sensible people righty consider it a waste of time to report acts of theft and vandalism as they are never pursued, and at the same time let 700.000+ angry young men into the country as if it is nothing. At the very least they are being dangerously naive.

[Mike Oxlong]

Germany debates faster deportation for criminal asylum seekers
German lawmakers have met to discuss consequences following the New Year's attacks in Cologne. All parties
have called for updated sexual assault laws to protect victims better, while some called for faster deportations

In the aftermath of the New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany's parliament debated new legal measures on Wednesday which would make it easier for crime-committing asylum seekers to be deported. Some opponents cautioned against mixing the Cologne attacks with the refugee debate.

Lawmakers in Merkel's center-right Christian Democrats party (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Democrats (CSU) proposed measures which would facilitate faster deportation. CSU General Secretary Andreas called for North African countries like Morocco and Algeria to be reclassified as so-called "safe countries of origin," making deportation easier.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has endorsed these proposals.

If the proposed changes go into effect, asylum seekers would be deported for crimes like bodily harm, homicide, rape, and sexual assault - even in the event of a suspended sentence. Sentences of more than one year would significantly increase the possibility of deportation.

According to authorities, 561 police complaints - around 45 percent of them were connected to sexual violence - have been filed in the wake of the Cologne attacks, where groups of mainly North African and Arabian men surrounded, sexually assaulted and robbed women near the main train station.

"There is no justification and no excuse for sexual assaults against women, and cultural background excuses nothing. On the contrary, it is not even acceptable as an explanation," Justice Minister Heiko Maas, a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), told German lawmakers during the debates.

Better protection for women

Although the ruling and opposition parties differed when it came to deportation proposals, all parties called for stronger sexual assault laws and for better protection for victims. Moves to update the country's rape laws have been underway since last year - months before the New Year's Eve attacks.

Left party leader Katja Kipping criticized lawmakers for narrowing the sexual assault debate to just foreign perpetrators, saying: "the oppression of women is a permanent fixture in all cultures, including the West."

The Green party parliamentary group leader Katrin Goering-Eckardt also accused Justice Minister Maas of dismissing the Green's proposed sexual assault law update last year and for calling it unnecessary.

The debate and public outcry have raised tensions over the mass influx of refugees in Germany. Around 1.1 million migrants entered the country in 2015 with thousands crossing the country's southern border every day.

http://www.dw.com/en/germany-debates-fa ... a-18976417

[Samurai_Jerk]

New riot in Dutch town against refugee centre

Clashes erupted late Monday in a small Dutch town during violent protests against the planned opening of a centre for asylum seekers, Dutch media and officials said.

In a repeat of scenes seen in several Dutch towns and villages since late last year amid growing tensions over record numbers of migrants, police intervened to disperse about 1,000 people who rallied in central Heesch.

It was not immediately clear from police how many people had been arrested and whether anyone was injured.

The riot came only hours after populist far-right politician Geert Wilders called for Islamic male refugees to be kept locked up in asylum centres, saying such a move was needed to protect Dutch women after the New Year's Eve assaults in Cologne, Germany.

[kurogane]

The Danish are getting even more pigheaded!!!

Danish town makes pork mandatory in public institutions
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 685557.cms

Hysteric as it sounds, there is a precedent of acceding to heathen rebellion, which only encourages them to think they matter:

In 2013, then-Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt lashed out at some nurseries after they started serving halal-butchered meat instead of pork because Muslim children had refused to eat it.

I kind of like the psychological warfare aspect ("Welcome......and BTW, fuck your primitive beliefs and customs"), but since there were already menu alternatives available this seems so childish it would satisfy a Quebecois separatist.

[Russell]

The Danish are getting even more pigheaded!!!

Danish town makes pork mandatory in public institutions
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 685557.cms

Hysteric as it sounds, there is a precedent of acceding to heathen rebellion, which only encourages them to think they matter:

In 2013, then-Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt lashed out at some nurseries after they started serving halal-butchered meat instead of pork because Muslim children had refused to eat it.

I kind of like the psychological warfare aspect ("Welcome......and BTW, fuck your primitive beliefs and customs"), but since there were already menu alternatives available this seems so childish it would satisfy a Quebecois separatist.

Now let's only hope that Japan doesn't oblige all of its immigrants to eat whale...