Robert Henderson
The recent discovery of 39 would be migrant bodies in a shipping container in Grays Essex has produced behaviour from mainstream politicians, mediafolk and those representing immigrants such as charities and lawyers, which should be seen as astonishing . Sadly, that is not the case for political correctness now how such a grip on the subject of immigration that reason goes out of the window.
The dead , all from Vietnam, have been routinely and wrongly described as victims. That word implies that they were people who were simply unfortunate. This will not do. They must have been aware of the risks they were taking simply because of the nature of the escapade they were joining . Moreover, because of the widespread publicity, particularly on the Internet, given to the dangers of being smuggled illegally into a foreign country it is unlikely in this digital age that they would have been unaware of dangers such as dying in inappropriate vehicles. Hence, rather than being victims these people were willing risk takers who in this instance lost out to the risk.
The other striking aspect of the story was the fact that the dead had paid substantial sums of money up front to the traffickers. In the reports on the story one family said they had paid £30,000 upfront -there is no suggestion in the media coverage that this was a deal where the person to be smuggled repaid the debt gradually once in the UK. This was not someone coming from wretched economic circumstances. Presumably the other migrants would have also paid substantial sums.
But even if any of the 39 dead had come from circumstances of dire poverty their illegal attempt to come to the UK that would be no excuse for breaking the law because no country can or should willingly accept people simply because they are poor for if they do there is no end to the numbers who will come.
The other glaring point about the attempt to enter illegally is the distance from which the dead have come. It is not simply that they had come hallway across the word live in the UK. What is striking is the fact that once they reached Europe there were several dozen first world countries in which they could have applied for asylum before reaching the UK . The fact that the UK was their chosen destination makes it unlikely these were people fleeing persecution.
The false sense of entitlement
There has grown up amongst Western politicians a habit of saying that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, are understandably coming to the West for a better life. That now often shifts to the politician saying or implying that the immigrant is doing something admirable in trying to get to the west, a sentiment frequently accompanied by a claim that immigrants have added so much to the countries they have settled in .
Unsurprisingly, the multiculturalists in the West mimic the mainstream politicians and many go further and say or imply that immigration from the Third and Second Worlds to the West is a human right. All of this places additional pressure on the mainstream politicians until they start to soften greatly on immigration. From that arises the populist backlash we are now seeing throughout the developed world.
The reality is that social heterogeneity in a society always produces friction where there are different groups in the society which are differentiated by race and/or ethnicity. Conversely, homogeneity is much less likely to produce social friction.
The long march through the institutions
Why do mainstream politicians almost all sing from the same song sheet when it comes to immigration and its consequences? The West has fallen prey to the long march through the institutions. This brilliant political idea was given shape and prominence in the 1960s t by a German student activist Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke was a Marxist but one who was unorthodox. He was influenced by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramschi who developed the idea of cultural hegemony
Dutschke ‘s idea was simple but brilliant. He advocated that the Left should capture positions of power and perhaps even more impotent influence, for example our schools, universities, media and government departments.
So successful has this strategy been that Western societies have been not only seriously altered through mass immigration but the suppression of free expression. Not just about immigration and its effects but what is now called political correctness which revolves around any attempt at discriminating based on race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation all of which requires an internationalist cast of mind because the non-discrimination rule operates on the basis that all human are to be treated equally.
The idea that humans may not be allowed to discriminate is a literal nonsense because humans like all organisms have to continually discriminate . It is called making choices.
The rational British response to the 39 dead
The rational British response towards the 39 dead should be alarm that so many were trying enter the UK illegally in a single container and what that suggests for illegal immigration by such a route.
The numbers could be very substantial. Suppose 500 immigrants a day arrive by that route, That would be 162,000 a year. Of course the figure could much higher because the amount of freight entering the UK is colossal.
The democratic deficit
Since 1945 internationalist minded Western political elites have permitted indeed encouraged overtly or tacitly huge numbers of immigrants from the Second and Third Worlds to come to the West. This has been done without any meaningful consultation about mass immigration with the native populations of those countries.
Rather, resentment of such immigration has been ever more ruthlessly repressed by Western political elites who have made any serious challenge to the internationalist fantasy a crime which may be punished on a spectrum from the loss of a job to criminal prosecution and imprisonment.
Does anyone honestly believe that in the case of the UK a referendum on immigration at any time since 1945 would have returned a majority for mass immigration?
Mass immigration should be seen for what it is, namely, invasion and settlement . Those who have permitted, indeed often overtly encouraged, mass immigration are guilty of the most profound treason for what could be more damaging to a society than allowing huge numbers of those who make no bones about wanting to keep their own ways at best and are actively hostile to the cultural norms of the society in which they settle?
Western politicians and all those who have supported them – public servants, the created the enclaves of the unassimilatable have produced an entirely predictable result, namely, fractured societies which have lost a shared cultural identity.
Living In A Madhouse 