{"id":183292,"date":"2015-01-04T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/04\/this-is-repulsive\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T00:59:00","slug":"this-is-repulsive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/04\/this-is-repulsive\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Repulsive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> World War, the perfidy of the Vichy government was in many ways unique unique, because it sent Jews to the death camps without the Nazis ever making such a request.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they mayor of the town (commune) of Champlan has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30670371\">proven to be a worthy heir to this horrid bit of history<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Roma baby girl has been denied a burial space by a French mayor, sparking outrage among activists.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The girl, who died on 26 December, reportedly of sudden infant death syndrome, was refused burial in Champlan, south of Paris.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The mayor said priority had to be given to taxpayers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The mayor of nearby Wissous, Richard Trinquier, described that decision as &#8220;incomprehensible&#8221; and said that he would offer a grave.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The girl&#8217;s family lived in a camp in Champlan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The mayor of Champlan, Christian Leclerc, was quoted by Le Parisien newspaper as justifying the decision by saying that his town was running out of burial space and that &#8220;priority is given to those who pay local taxes&#8221;.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is repulsive on so many levels.<\/p>\n<p>Rather unsurprisingly, the mayor is a member of the right-wing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jan\/04\/french-mayor-racism-dead-roma-baby-champlan\">Divers Droite (DVD) party<\/a>, a rather motley assortment of otherwise unaffiliated conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds rather like a French Tea Party.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I have to say that the echos of the rise of Fascism in Europe are profoundly disturbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2nd World War, the perfidy of the Vichy government was in many ways unique unique, because it sent Jews to the death camps without the Nazis ever making such a request. Well, they mayor of the town (commune) of Champlan has proven to be a worthy heir to this horrid bit of history: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,984,969,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-europe","category-evil","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}