[samantha jones]

Without getting into a long story, most of the homeless, gypsys here in Roma are from the E.U., particuarly Romania, for some reason, and from Africa. There is a whole underground system of begging..and women steal babies, rent babies, and drug them to obtain symptathy and get more money. I've seen 2 year old children who look, in their drugged, sleeping state, as if they are breast feeding. That's way too old to breast feed and done for cash only. If the women don't make enough money for the day, when they go back to their camp, they are beaten and-or raped. It's a sad cycle.

The new PM of Italy is a hard ass right wing guy, who coincidently or not, happens to love Pres. Bush and is probably in bed with him. Bertolosconi is cleaning up Roma.

So the kids are learning hatred and intolerance from their parents, probably, but the Roman culture and Bertolosconi are anti-immigrant.

Unless of course, you are American...then you're ok. Then again, we're not the ones begging on the streets. Just trying to survive the high Euro. Wow....I get to live for another few months without calling in my uncles from NYC!

Off my soap box now.