> Edit: And I don't like the 'well you must be racist if you think this' comments here.

You've raised the issue in a well-reasoned manner which largely avoids being gratuitous. Your discomfort at saying this suggests that you would otherwise prefer to view the Roma as decent people, and there is little to make one doubt you'd be happy to afford them the rights and dignities which all of mankind deserve.

Others here have presented the case in far nastier ways and their comments have gotten the predictable flag / kill treatment.