Hello all! Finally decided to register

Hello all,

I'm Bart, I'm from Belgium and I'm 29 years old.
I've been following ATS for more then a year now, browsing trough all sorts of topics on a daily base.
I hadn't registered yet because almost all topics I read is already full of people who do alot of research on the topic subject so I actually don't have any questions after reading trough it. Now, I finally decided to register on the forums because of the events in Paris and I want to respond and discuss the topic since I see alot of paranoïa and missinformation about it.

I'll still mostly just read but I will reply to stuff when I totally disagree with people.

Hello and welcoe to ya. Enjoy your stay. a reply to: Uberus

Hi Bart,

Welcome to ATS.

Because you do live in the area impacted, I would very much like to hear your opinion or an synopsis of your views on the situation.

What are your thoughts on the gunmen originating from Belgium?

a reply to: Uberus

.. I want to respond and discuss the topic since I see a lot of paranoïa and misinformation about it.

Lots of that going around.

Welcome to the site.

Hello. Yes, please tell us what is going on over there-from you view.

Thank you for joining!

Welcome. Let's get to the important things first.
The bar is to the left and open 24 hrs..... everything else is [ waves hand in vague direction ] over there.

Well to be honest I am not surprised at all that Brussels is the origin of a lot of Jihadist. I was born there and now I live 15 km from there.
I went to school in Brussels between my 3-16 years old.
Since then, I hate going to Brussels, it's a dangerous place. there are places in Brussels that are relatively safe since people bunch up there to not feel estranged. I've had my fair share of issues with 'new Belgians' as they are called. They are Moroccans, Turks, Algerians, Albanians, etc.. But they have been here for 3 generations, so they all have a Belgian passport. You feel like a stranger in your own country. They group together while us Belgians mostly keep to ourselves and we are outnumbered. If you have a problem with one of them, they surround you, they are never alone. Even if they don't know one another, they will still help each other in kicking your ass, no matter what exactly happened.
If you walk through Brussels as a white person on your own, chances are very slim that you will be left alone. If you walk through Molenbeek on your own, chances are ZERO. Cops don't really interfere with stuff that happens there because if they arrest someone, there's riots and they get attacked. This is not communicated in the news because it would give Brussels a bad name.. But I know cops that work there and they all say the same thing it is way worse then what is told in the news.
This has started a looooong time ago, the socialist party was in the government for 40 years but the people who voted for them were those 'new Belgians' so what did they do? They left them alone, because they were the people voting for them. They had to support their voters, so they just let them do whatever they wanted, as long as they kept voting for them.
They even gave one of those terrorist brothers(from the Paris attacks) a job as regulator(the guy who decides if people should get a Belgian passport) That makes my blood boil.
We have neglected the issues for way too long and I fear it is too late. Those people, they don't have education (while in Belgium EVERYONE can go to school for free) they don't have jobs (because they didn't go to school and they rather hang around in the streets smoking hasj) so when they get to an age that reality hits them, they see no future and when that moment happens they don't need a lot of persuasion to join IS to get some of that virgin goodness..

I might sound like a bitter man, but in all honesty. I don't know a single person in my family, friends,whatever that hasn't had problems in Brussels. Those people have been here for over 40 years, they should've integrated by now, except they haven't. They have made Brussels their own. They form their own ghettos, they buy houses in good neighborhoods and pester the people that live there until they leave and then they buy more houses until the entire neighborhood turned into a ghetto..

Hello and welcome to ATS, see you around.

Much love!

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originally posted by: Uberus
Hello all,

I'm Bart, I'm from # and I'm 29 years old.

Ugh. You said "#". That's a bypass of the screening software, isn't it? Revolting word.

originally posted by: Bedlam

originally posted by: Uberus
Hello all,

I'm Bart, I'm from # and I'm 29 years old.

Ugh. You said "#". That's a bypass of the screening software, isn't it? Revolting word.

What?

a reply to: Uberus

The "B" word.

a reply to: Uberus

From one Uber to another...

Welcome to the show!