marfacowboy
8/4/2012, 10:32 AM
Related to a recent discussion on immigration...here's an interesting approach (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/world/europe/russian-to-use-cossacks-to-repel-muslim-migrants.html?smid=pl-share).
Not sure there's much left of the Cossacks. The Communists pretty much destroyed them. But then again, there's nothing like a race war to bring stability to a region.
Russian Governor Signs Up Cossacks to Police Migrants
By ELLEN BARRY
MOSCOW — The governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, which will host the Winter Olympics in 2014, has enlisted the area’s Cossacks as an auxiliary police force, urging them to prevent darker-skinned Muslims from the North Caucasus from moving there.
The governor, Aleksandr Tkachev, in a speech to law enforcement officers on Thursday, announced that as of September, 1,000 Cossacks would be paid from the budget to maintain public order. In the speech, he said the Cossacks — whose paramilitary forces served the czars — could take measures beyond what the police were allowed.
“What you can’t do, the Cossacks can,” he told the officers in the speech, which was widely circulated on the Internet on Friday. “We have no other way — we shall stamp it out, instill order; we shall demand paperwork and enforce migration policies.”
http://images.smh.com.au/2012/08/04/3528421/art-353-cossack-300x0.jpg
Not sure there's much left of the Cossacks. The Communists pretty much destroyed them. But then again, there's nothing like a race war to bring stability to a region.
Russian Governor Signs Up Cossacks to Police Migrants
By ELLEN BARRY
MOSCOW — The governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, which will host the Winter Olympics in 2014, has enlisted the area’s Cossacks as an auxiliary police force, urging them to prevent darker-skinned Muslims from the North Caucasus from moving there.
The governor, Aleksandr Tkachev, in a speech to law enforcement officers on Thursday, announced that as of September, 1,000 Cossacks would be paid from the budget to maintain public order. In the speech, he said the Cossacks — whose paramilitary forces served the czars — could take measures beyond what the police were allowed.
“What you can’t do, the Cossacks can,” he told the officers in the speech, which was widely circulated on the Internet on Friday. “We have no other way — we shall stamp it out, instill order; we shall demand paperwork and enforce migration policies.”
http://images.smh.com.au/2012/08/04/3528421/art-353-cossack-300x0.jpg