Who should bear the blame for the destruction of one man and his family? Abbas, surely, but not only him.Yes, Aditya, only him. Who else?
After all, when he first arrived from Turkey, he was the archetypal good boy …Wait, what?
Things changed when he was introduced to what the industry calls fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBT), and what nearly everyone else refers to as the "crack cocaine of gambling".Ah. I see now, he’s just a poor innocent unable to cope with First World temptations, is he?
In my talk with Abbas, his son Yusuf has been translating some of the trickier bits. At the end, I ask how the 14-year-old feels about what his father has said. Sat next to his bear of a dad, he looks very small. "How do I explain? Sad and angry. All that money is my family's future gone. My parents divorced, and why? Because of a machine."Well, we can’t have little Yusufs everywhere upset, can we?
So prevent Third World immigration now!
Do it for the children…
You know, Julia, something has struck me reading the news about the problems faced by immigrants from majority Islamic countries.
ReplyDeleteThe Somali girls unused to alcohol, so they violently engage in racist attacks on white girls. The Pakistani taxi drivers and fast food merchants unused to western sexual mores who drug and rape young girls. The Pakistani and Bangladeshi poltiticisns used to taking over party branches who rig votes and engage in voting fraud. The Turks who can't resist corrosive gambling.
The problem seems to be them being where they can't resist temptation. The solution is simple. Stay where you are.
Spot on!
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