UN Corruption Starts From Ground Up---Parking Level

The Financial Times has a politically incorrect squib on its World Page [which I tried to find online above, but failed---another case of BBC-type redaction?] concerning a study by two Universities with impeccable rad credentials: UCal Berkeley and Columbia NYC.

A study over five years of UN parking violators was looking to find facts and figures about corruption---with the wild surmise that UN diplomats might be able to escape their homelands' cultural and legal corruption in a big, civilized atmosphere such as the Big Apple.

Alas, twas not to be! The super-corrupt Arab and Muslim countries dominated the list of scofflaws, including Kuwait which showed no thanks for being liberated back in 1991 from the tender mercies of Saddam Hussain. Egypt, Albania, Pakistan, Sudan and Chad are some other Arab or Muslim countries on the top ten.

Kofi Annan's homeland Ghana did not make the top of the charts---surprise!---but neighboring Nigeria was given honorable mention as a corruption semi-finalist in the usually PC FT. Nigeria spurred the study's authors to note:

"...suggesting they bring the social norms or corruption culture of their home country with them to New York City."

Duh....! And what about the multiculturalist argument that allowing "massive" [i.e. illegal] migrations contributes to the level of "vibrant" culture of the host country? Here I defer to biodiversity expert Steve Sailer, whose definition of "vibrant" comes in a movie review for American Conservative Magazine:

Young Magdalena lives in Los Angeles's Echo Park, which the press gingerly describes as "vibrant." That euphemism means shopkeepers, fearful of local gangs, lower the metal bars over their store windows at 6pm, leaving the commercial streets desolate after dark.

Don't forget the triple locks and barred windows as our own horde of "vibrant" immigrants come piling over the border in the Southwest while cringing do-gooders [Cardinal Mahoney?] insist that these uninviteds enrich rather than impoverish indigenous American citizens.

The others in the top ten were Mozambique, Angola [the Portuguese gene at work: surprised Brazil didn't make it], Bulgaria, and Senegal.

Some chronic parking violators did pay their fines: Bahrain, Oman, Malaysia, Turkey.

Some had few violations and a perfect record for paying fines: The Scandanavian countries and Canada.

Maybe cliches are cliches because they are true.

After 2002, New York Police acquired the right to tow the offending vehicles, and deduct unpaid fines from US aid to the offenders' home countries. Offenses went way down, but the same pattern of chronic endemic corrupt practices in the home country migrating to civilized urban NYC persisted.

And these "diplomats" are entrusted to oversee problems in the Middle East?