October 04, 2011

racism and the religious balance

In pointing out that interracial relations are edgy because too many of one race coming into an area upsets the existing religious balance, Poppy is stating the bleeding obvious – but it is always denigrated as racism.

"The first newcomers in our neighborhood were Catholics from Lebanon and Korea and we welcomed them,” says Poppy. “And then came the Vietnamese – and we welcomed them – and all was harmonious until the second generation when we realized we had become minority second class citizens in our own town because we were Protestants.”

"And then, in the early nineties,” says Poppy, ‘a trickle of Muslims arrived during the Middle East conflict and although they are still a minority group in relation to the Catholic population, they now completely dominate everyone else in their demands.”

“Our antagonism has nothing to do with the color of the immigrants skins,” says Poppy. “Instead, it has everything to do with religion.”

“Our community was predominantly Protestant sixty years ago,” says Poppy. “Now it is predominantly Catholic, and within sixty years it will be predominantly Muslim.”

“Protestantism is a North European religion, separate and distinct from South European Roman Catholicism – for very good historical reasons,” says Poppy, “and Islam doesn’t belong here at all.”

“I believe that the rapid social disintegration and interracial tension we are experiencing is directly related to global wars designed to shift the religious balance at home (with immigrants) and abroad (with conversion).”

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    May 10, 2010

    immigration and cultural marxism

    Nanette, a 23-year-old student, maintains that the massive immigration shifts in population and the offshoring of jobs and free trade agreements that took off astronomically after the fall of Soviet Russia are no coincidence - it's cultural Marxism.

    "While there are many countries on Earth that remain exclusively and proudly black, brown or yellow, there is no longer any country on Earth that is exclusively and proudly white," says Nanette. "Rather than following Japan's style of refusing residency and citizenship to people who are not Japanese in looks, language and culture, we are being pressured to embrace all races by the multi-cultural Marixists."

    "The point I'm trying to make is that everyone is so concerned about losing their jobs in the juggernaut of globalization that they miss what is really going on," says Nanette. "We are losing our national, cultural, religious and racial identity - and our borders."

    "Australia and the African colonies remained the only western nations that clung tenaciously to white cultural values in the post-WWII world," says Nanette. "Australia maintained its White Australia Policy prohibiting colored migrants until it was pressured to capitulate to multi-culturalism in the mid-1960s but the apartheid regime of South Africa held out defiantly against pressure and economic sanctions for decades longer."

    "When South Africa capitulated, hoards of white South Africans - like the white Rhodesians before them - returned to their mother countries or migrated to America, Canada or Australia where they discovered, to their dismay, that being white had no more value there than it did where they escaped from." laughs Nanette. "But at least they saved themselves from the terrible retribution that is said to befall all white people in South Africa when Nelson Mandela dies."

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    Let’s follow Japan on immigration

    Dorcas believes that if a nation is to survive, citizenship should be granted only to indigenous peoples who have an historical stake in maintaining social and cultural cohesion, like the Japanese system.

    "The trouble with us," says Dorcas, "is that like the Romans we gave away citizenship to people in foreign lands too freely and easily and in doing so we are now swamped and soon to be sunk by voracious immigrants."

    "When all roads lead to Rome -- or London, Paris or New York -- what else can you expect but hoards of foreigners clutching citizenship application papers wanting to be where the action is?" asks Dorcas.

    "At first it must have been novel for the indigenous Romans to have strange looking and speaking people making Rome their new home -- new cuisine, fashion, ideas and cheap labor must have been a good thing -- but over time, when more and more immigrants arrived, the indigenous Romans eventually became a minority in their own homeland."

    "When in Rome, do as the Romans do, was not a maxim that the immigrants followed then or now," says Dorcas. "Immigrants, by their very nature, consciously or otherwise, steadfastly continue their old ways in new lands.”

    "And let's not forget, too, that the immigrants brought their religions with them -- the most dangerous being Christianity," says Dorcas. "These days, we forget that the Romans had a state religion of their own that they had more or less adapted from Greek culture. At first they were tolerant of foreign religions, but the Christians were so militant about their religion being the only true religion that the Romans were forced to crack down hard on them."

    "Throwing the Christians to the lions was a horrible thing for the Romans to do," sighs Dorcas, "but taken into the context of the times it is not more atrocious than some of the things we have done to each other in modern times."

    "The Japanese immigration system is sensible and one that all nations should follow."

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    May 04, 2010

    immigration ruins tourism

    Cherry visited the UK to see the sights and to meet the people and was horrified at the consequences of the deliberately divisive policies of the new multicultural elites, believing that if the UK wants to remain the numero uno tourist destination then it had better clean up its image and help its indigenous population regain its dignity.

    “From the airport to the hotels to the restaurants, all over the UK, just about all the people who served me were immigrants,” sighs Cherry, “and while you expect this sort of thing in immigrant countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA you don’t expect it in old emigrant countries like the UK.”

    “I came to England to see English people – not Africans, Asians and Eastern Europeans – and with all due respect to these fine people they are, in effect, being exploited as cheap immigrant labor by their employers – much like Mexican immigrants are exploited, with the big difference being that the orchards of southern California aren’t ancient tourist attractions.”

    “From what I gather, the rot set in for the working class with the de-industrialization policies of the Thatcher era -- privatizations, anti-union legislation, the selling off of public housing and a very long period of massive unemployment – and when Blair's new Labour party came to power on the back of the dispossessed he double crossed them and left them to rot, preferring to champion instead the cause of hard working (read cheap) immigrants and their masters.”

    “That they even talk about themselves as indigenous people is frightening, but when they have been marginalized onto reservations called council estates you get to understand that this is exactly what they are and the object of the new multicultural ruling class is to replace them with immigrants,” says Cherry. “It’s like ethnic cleansing and maybe it takes an outsider like me to see exactly what is going on.”

    "I once thought that all of the BBC comedies about England’s non-working class were spoofs until I visited the country and realized that Vikki Pollard types do indeed hang out at every corner of every sink estate," says Cherry, "and I learnt that England’s chav class is something new -- the consequence of the deliberately divisive policies of the new multicultural elites – and with restoration of their rights they will once again be the proud people who put the great into Britain."

    “Sure I went to see the sights of England, but what makes a place memorable to me – and I think all tourists – is the people you meet along the way,” says Cherry, “and if England wants to remain the numero uno tourist destination then it had better clean up its image and help its indigenous population regain its dignity.”

    “It’s only when you get away from the major tourist attractions in England that you get to meet the indigenous English people,” says Cherry, “and the plight of their lower classes is deplorable. They’ve lost their traditional jobs, they can’t compete with immigrants for the new service jobs, they’ve become welfare dependant social pariahs simmering with visceral anger at the condescending, arrogant and patronizing middle-class that labeled them chavs.”

    “That they even talk about themselves as indigenous people is frightening, but when they have been marginalized onto reservations called council estates you get to understand that this is exactly what they are and the object of the new multicultural ruling class is to replace them with immigrants,” says Cherry. “It’s like ethnic cleansing and maybe it takes an outsider like me to see exactly what is going on.”

    “From what I gather, the rot set in for the working class with the de-industrialization policies of the Thatcher era -- privatizations, anti-union legislation, the selling off of public housing and a very long period of massive unemployment – and when Blair's new Labour party came to power on the back of the dispossessed he double crossed them and left them to rot, preferring to champion instead the cause of hard working (read cheap) immigrants.”

    “Immigration was thus used as a means to bypass social justice -- it was easier for the new Labour multicultural elite to bring in more immigrants than to eradicate the class system,” says Cherry, “and immigrants also serve their masters well by not only providing them with cheap labor to fake economic success but also by acting as political scapegoats for their incompetence.”

    “Those that could escape from the working class and climb the ladder of social mobility did so years ago, when it was possible to do so,“ says Cherry, “and those that couldn’t are now breeding children with no hope whatsoever of bettering themselves because the new multicultural elite – most of whom came from the old working class – despise the class they came from, calling them pram-faced, stupid, lazy, drunken, violent, work-shy, immoral and racist.”

    “In the last ten years the numbers coming into England are the highest ever, and the problems immigrants bring are particularly bad in the north where the very identity of what remains of the local people is being eradicated --Bradford, for instance, is like Kosovo but ten times worse because it’s not just a new religion being transplanted but a new racial group and culture as well.”

    “But multiculturalism is not as big a problem with the working class as is the huge disparity between the classes, getting wider every day,“ says Cherry. “Everything the working class enjoyed – pubs, clubs, smoking and football – has been gentrified, banned or closed down, and when they turn on the television they constantly see themselves being parodied and ridiculed.”

    “Political correctness prevents the media from alienating or making fun of immigrants, but the British working class is, disgustingly, a widely acceptable target of hate and ridicule for the new multicultural elites.”

    “While the upwardly mobile middle classes are reaping the rewards of massive immigration with their cheap maids, nannies, plumbers and builders – some working for less than the minimum wage and living ten to a room – the working class are stuck on welfare benefits in a system which penalizes them if they do find work and is designed, it seems, to keep them forever as an unemployed underclass of whipping boys and girls. ”

    “In addition to competing with new immigrants, the working class are also stymied by positive action -- resources and opportunities being directed by the multicultural elites towards the ethnic minorities they champion – and further insulted by constant pressure from the PC Brigade that they must understand and be tolerant of other cultures even when these cultures are anathema to British culture.”

    “No wonder the proud working class of the old industrial, unionized communities that once forged steel, built ships, mined coal and worked at the mills and all manner of factories (now off-shored) morphed into an anti-social, aggressive class of chavs.”

    “Bearing in mind England’s history – the beheading of kings, revolution, Guy Fawkes and Oliver Cromwell – I gained the distinct impression while I was there that they are living in similarly incendiary times and with a major recession on the horizon maybe the chavs will have the ideal opportunity to get their grievances redressed.”


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    April 27, 2010

    ANZAC, forging a national identity

    Marrielle is a Brit currently living in Australia who has become embroiled in that nation's search for a national identity in the face of massive immigration changes and issues that pose a risk to national stability and security. That Australia would choose a WWI defeat involving Australian and New Zealand volunteers at Gallipoli in Turkey upon which to forge a national identity - the ANZAC spirit - amazes her and most everybody else.

    "Everyone I speak to here (not so much in NZ) talks about ANZAC Day's remarkable transformation over the past 25 years from a veteran's event to a jingoistic national identity event and they cannot understand it," says Marrielle. "I tell them it’s very likely to be a deliberate ploy by the republican movement to galvanize immigrants into believing Australians are special and separate and distinct from everybody else on earth (but particularly the British)."

    "ANZAC Day should have ceased to exist when the last of the original ANZACs died - just like Trafalgar Day or Spanish Armada Day commemorations ceased over time," says Marrielle. "So, to understand why the public holiday wasn’t scrapped (as was the old Empire Day) and suddenly became more important than any other public holiday in Australia's national calendar – promoting bigger and bigger crowds at dawn services around Australia (and particularly at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli) each year – you need to examine the conditions that led to the formation of ANZAC Day in the first place (Australia's post-WW1 thirst for regional power and global recognition) and the conditions that are necessary for a republic to be formed (breaking all ties with Mother England and becoming a global power)."

    "In order to forge the separate and distinct national identity the republicans deem necessary for the success of their cause there has been a deliberate shift in immigration policy over the past 25 years from being predominantly British to being predominantly Asian," says Marrielle. "There has also been an equally dramatic shift in Australia's economic and political ties (away from Europe, towards Asia and America), and with these shifts has been a deliberate mythologizing of the ANZAC spirit and the demonizing of everything British."

    "The ANZAC spirit – courage, endurance and humor in the face of crushing adversity is a human trait, not something peculiarly Australian," says Marrielle. "Gallipoli was a human disaster, not just an Australian disaster, and incompetence in wartime is not something peculiarly British - Australians had their incompetents too."

    "So, it's disingenuous for the Australian government to indoctrinate school kids with the ANZAC spirit as a national identity and to fund war commemoration in all forms - services, monuments, films, TV shows, books, songs, etc – particularly as funds supporting the welfare of vets is woefully inadequate," says Marrielle. "Also, it's disingenuous to give the impression that Australians went to war to fight for freedoms (when freedoms had already been won long ago by peaceful means) and to promote the myth that the ANZACs were bronzed 'Australians' when in actual fact many were British born and were voluntarily fighting at Gallipoli for Empire (not Australia) and for higher wages and adventure (not heroism)."

    "Empire Day has long gone and Remembrance Day, Nov 11th, already exists to honor the sacrifices of Australians and others in wars," adds Marrielle, "but is not a public holiday and it has been deliberately eclipsed by ANZAC Day in order to separate Australia's military sacrifices from that of others.”

    “Australia Day represents nationhood, not independence, and ANZAC day, it appears, has now taken on the mantle of the war of independence Australia never had from Britain," says Marrielle. "Seen in this light ANZAC day must necessarily be preserved and revered by the republicans' as the most important day in Australia's calendar because when they finally achieve their dream, the Queen's Birthday holiday will go, and because of its commemoration of Captain Cook's arrival in Australia (and the subsequent decimation of the indigenous population) Australia Day has to go, too, along with the Union Jack in the corner of the Australian flag."

    "As a Brit I am saddened that Australia needs to deny its heritage and demonize everything British in order to forge its national identity," says Marrielle, "and after speaking to a lot of immigrants here, from all corners of the world, the ploy may in fact backfire on the republicans."

    "What the republicans fail to understand is that many immigrants chose Australia as their new home because of its British heritage, traditions and ties and cannot relate to the ANZAC spirit because it is related to war, not peace, and happened so long ago that it is totally irrelevant in today's world."

    “I think republicanism should come from the people, not be imposed on them by ambitious politicians wanting to play on the world stage, and the same goes for national identity," says Marrielle. "And while it may take a very long time for a multicultural immigrant country like Australia to forge its own national identity, I don’t particularly think it is necessary in order for a republic to be successful.”

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    March 23, 2010

    migrant entitlement delusion

    The attitude of our more recent 'educated' migrants never ceases to amaze Xanthe – child of poor migrants – because they expect as a god-given right the sort of recognition, opportunity, wealth and lifestyle that their class may once have commanded at home (but no longer command due to increasing population, education and breaking down of class barriers – which is why they were forced to migrate); and they fail to respect the universal expectation conferred upon all migrants – shape up or ship out!

    "Instead of being grateful to be accepted as a new resident, and working hard at integrating into an established culture and earning their stripes – as earlier immigrants like my parents did," says Xanthe, "we now have 'entitlement' migrants who not only demand everything on a platter, but also want to change our culture to reflect their minority presence."

    "For instance, a recently arrived young immigrant lady with dramatic pretensions was on the radio the other day complaining about our monocultural image and demanding more diversity in our television shows, sports teams and tourism campaigns," sighs Xanthe. "I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at her outrageous proposal that the global image of our country would be better represented by replacing a lot of white faces with those of her particular skin color."

    "She based her claim on a perception that almost every ethnicity in the world can be found in our big cities," says Xanthe. "That being the case, in her view, these people reflect the nation better than the established white inhabitants do.”

    "Hello? Apart from airports and ghetto suburbs, the diversity she raved on about just doesn't exist in mainstream western nations – the last time I looked at census data, whites were still the majority.

    “Any big city anywhere in the world is teeming with foreign tourists, students, migrants and illegals," says Xanthe, "but western nations, on the whole, still reflect the blood, sweat and tears of hundreds if not thousands of years of white habitation, and having discovered the truth of this fact after she migrated it is sour grapes for her to complain about it and want to change things."

    "Sure, we reflect a fair bit of diversity in our culinary tastes as well as in our media," says Xanthe, "but media depiction of minorities is often tokenism, not to be taken too seriously because if taken too far it is divisive rather than inclusive."

    "I believe migrants are fed, and swallow, a lot of political hype about western nations being truly multicultural.," says Xanthe, "and while I sympathize with this woman if she emigrated on the basis of a pack of lies, I believe her energy would be better directed at cautioning her country men and women not to make the same mistake she did.”

    "Nobody voted for multiculturalism here, and despite all the weasel words that the politicians and other government departments spew forth, you only have to look at their hierarchies to see who’s on top and who’s at the bottom - who barks the orders, and who stands behind the post office counters."

    "Migrants are increasingly being brought in to do the jobs that white natives don’t want
    to do, and if you’ve migrated in expectation of being given a job commensurate with your qualifications then it’s natural, I suppose, to feel you’re being discriminated against on account of your skin color when the only work you can get is in a menial occupation."

    “What this woman fails to see if that there are highly skilled white people also trained at our nation's elite schools, who can't find suitable work either," says Xanthe, "and while not having a white face may be a drawback, especially in a media job where what you look like counts, skin color is rarely an issue and to cry ‘racism’ in order to gain preference in the employment market is an entitlement delusion of epic proportions.”

    "If I migrated to, say, India or Africa, went to an elite Indian or African drama school and expected my white face to be projected as the face of India or Africa then I'd be rightly considered delusional," laughs Xanthe. "If I then stamped my foot and demanded to be fast-tracked in my career because I was white in a predominantly non white community, then my delusion would be called, quite rightly, a racist entitlement delusion."

    “For centuries western nations have provided a haven for refugees and migrants who have successfully integrated into our society, and if our newest migrants - educated here or overseas - cannot appreciate their good fortune and learn to integrate then the reason for this could very well be an inflated perception of their intrinsic value.”

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    February 18, 2010

    corporations destroying racial harmony

    Leona works for a global corporation that is using the tactic of divide and rule to entrench its power, privilege and wealth at the expense of racial harmony within the workplace, and she tries hard to educate fellow workers of all races to understand who the real enemy is and how to survive in their jobs by united action.

    “Right now, we're facing a recession and instead of cutting its profits my employer is laying off staff and instead of promoting interracial harmony it’s encouraging us by subtle means to vilify a certain racial group and blame immigrants for unemployment, overcrowding and lack of affordable housing when the real villains are the government and its corporate mates who profit from cheap migrant labor.”

    “While we – the ruled and workers of all colors, religions, financial status and cultures – are busy fighting and blaming each other for whatever ails us the ruling class is raking in the money and quietly passing more and more laws designed to expand its power and rob us of what remains of our wealth, freedom and job security.”

    “Immigrants, racial tension and the existence of a growing unemployed welfare class are just symptoms of the same disease – elitism or classism,” explains Leona, “and we have far more in common with these demonized people than we do with the real villains who are ripping us off, lying to us and stirring up trouble in the classes below them in order to deflect attention from themselves and prevent united action against them.”


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    May 26, 2009

    the wealthy Chinese exodus

    Pippen visited China prior to the Beijing Games and left with vivid memories of its culture and people, and believes that there IS going to be a massive exodus of wealthy Chinese immigrants heading our way in the coming years.

    "We had been warned about air pollution in Beijing and believe me it was worse than we expected," says Pippen. "I realize that our cities at home cleaned up when industries off-shored to China, but it strikes me as a terrible bargain for China. No wonder so many wealthy Chinese are emigrating”

    “People here are dropping dead like flies from respiratory diseases,” says Pippen. “It's not smoking that's killing them; it's industrial and vehicular air pollution."

    "Today, China has the world’s fastest growing economy and four times the population of the US," says Pippen. "Per capita consumption rates in China are about 11 times below ours, but once they rise to our level -- as they will do soon -- most economists and environmentalists predict catastrophic consequences (least of which is going to be expanding girths) and that's no laughing matter."

    “But it is not just the catastrophic consequences of China’s fast growing economy and population that will spearhead this exodus,” says Pippen. “It is a belief, held by the Party and its wealthy supporters, that their people were the first migrants -- migrating throughout the Americas and the regions along the Pacific Rim, becoming the Indian tribes in the Americas and the East Asian ethnic groups in the South Pacific – and consequently that all land once settled by ethnic Chinese rightly belongs to China.”

    “Are wealthy Chinese buying up land near you?”

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    January 02, 2009

    Stop Israeli Immigration!

    Deslea believes that dispossessing millions of Palestinians in order to create the state of Isreal as a homeland for Europe's displaced Jews in 1947 was an act of insanity -- as is continued immigration of ethnic European Jews to Israel -- because it is leading to genocide in Gaza.

    "The original Jews are ethnically similar to Palestinians," says Deslea. “Abraham came from present day Iraq, the Romans dispersed them 2,000 years ago and no modern day European following the Jewish faith has any right of ownership to ancient Arab land."

    "After WWII, when evidence of atrocities against European Jews became known, everyone was sympathetic but no nation wanted to take them in, but creating the state of Israel as a homeland for them in 1947 solved one problem, but created another that festers on today in the Israeli-Palestinian wars."

    "The future looks bleak for Palestinians because Israel exists by virtue of the might, power and money of the USA (notable for exterminating the Native American Indian tribes and stealing their land) -- and the Palestinians themselves are seen as dispossessed pariahs in the eyes of the Arab world."

    "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict may indeed be about religion but fundamentally it’s about turf, power and money."

    "At risk of offending both Palestinians and Israelis, and with deep regret that so many innocent Palestinian children have been killed," says Deslea, "I want to point out some similarities between the Gaza-Israel conflict and the war against smokers, and I ask smokers everywhere to support Palestinian rights and freedoms because bullying and grossly unfair restrictions are what conflicts everywhere are all about."

    "Neither war has much to do with the popular reasons put forward for them," explains Deslea. "The Gaza-Israel war may indeed be about religion -- and the war against smokers may indeed be about health -- but we all know what it is really about."

    "The Jews were a minority religious group of people who had been treated as pariahs and exterminated like rats in their German and Polish homelands," explains Deslea. "After WWII, when evidence of atrocities against the Jews became known, everyone was sympathetic but no nation wanted to take them in so it was agreed to create the state of Israel as a homeland for them."

    "Unfortunately, the creation of Israel in 1947 had the result of dispossessing millions of Palestinians," sighs Deslea. "Solve one problem, create another, how insane!"

    "I don't remember exactly when the smoking wars began -- sometime in the 1970s or 80s," says Deslea, "but if you equate the majority of smokers at the time with the Palestinians, and the minority of non-smokers at the time with the Jews, you get the picture."

    "A small group of people previously downtrodden now had the upper hand, and not being contented with their new improved status now desired to expand their territory, power and wealth at the expense of the majority."

    "To do this, the Israelis blithely used the methods that their former Nazi countrymen in Europe had used against them for the ultimate solution -- genocide."

    "These methods have been used since time immemorial by all sorts of people to gain whatever it is they want."

    "The first step is organization, where special units or militias are trained and armed if necessary to promote the cause, infiltrating all levels of government, the media and especially educational institutions where impressionable young minds can be molded to fight for the cause."

    "The second step is classification, dividing people into us and them - Muslim/Jew, smoker/nonsmoker, fat/thin, rich/poor, etc."

    "The third step is symbolization, forcing symbols upon members of pariah groups -- famously the Star of David used by the Nazis, but what about ID cards and the grotesque symbols on cigarette packs?"

    "The fourth step is dehumanization, where one group denies the humanity and the rights of the other group -- freedom fighters become despised terrorists or racists or anti-Semites and their property and funds are confiscated; and smokers become filthy, dirty lung diseased morons whose medical rights are denied."

    "The fifth step is polarization where hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda and human rights groups are silenced -- think of George Bush saying you're either with us or against us; the lies about WMD in Iraq; and how the world sat by, stunned into cowardly silence, while Iraq was illegally invaded and turned into another killing field."

    "The sixth step is preparation of victims for genocide, where victims are identified and separated from mainstream society, isolated in ghettos like Gaza, because of their ethnic, religious or lifestyle identity. (Note how many official forms, job applications, medical histories, insurance forms etc now require your identification as a smoker -- and how many smokers are migrating to smoking ghettos, particularly in Spain and Greece, or are being forced into hiding in their own homes)."

    "The final step is extermination where killing takes place with mainstream approval because victims are no longer seen as being fully human."

    "I'm sure many Israelis see what their government is doing to the Palestinians for what it is -- as many Germans and Poles saw what the Nazis were doing to the Jews for what it was -- but in both cases the situation had escalated to the point of no return where anybody with any conscience feels helpless to do anything about it."

    "The time to stop victimization, brutality and genocide from happening is not when it has happened," sighs Deslea. "We should have learnt enough from history to be able to nip these things in the bud at their very first step of organization where any minority group with a divisive cause to promote infiltrates the establishment."

    "Personally, I believe dispossessing millions of Palestinians in order to create the state of Israel as a homeland for Europe's displaced Jews in 1947 was an act of insanity, as is the continuing immigration of European Jews to Israel," says Deslea. "The original Jews were Arabs; Abraham came from present day Iraq; the Romans dispersed the Jews 2,000 years ago; and no modern day ethnic European of the Jewish faith has any genetic right of ownership to ancient Arab land."

    "Because the Israelis are a minority group, it should be easier for the Palestinians to exterminate them than for the Israelis to exterminate the Palestinians, but because Israel exists by virtue of the might, power and wealth of the USA (notable for exterminating the native American Indian tribes and stealing their land) -- and the Palestinians are dispossessed pariahs in the eyes of the Arab world -- the future looks bleak for Gaza."

    "All they can do now is throw stones and fire off rockets in emasculated anger," sighs Deslea, "which is sort of like how the marginalized Jews behaved 65 years ago in their European ghettoes. For every Nazi that the ghetto Jews killed, hundreds of Jews were killed in retaliation. Why can’t the Israelis see themselves as being no better than bullying Nazis?"

    "What Gaza needs -- and what oppressed people everywhere need, including smokers -- is people of conscience all over the world to make their voices heard, to stop feeling helpless and to stop turning a cowardly blind eye to what the fanatics among us are doing."

    "Yes, I may be offending both Palestinians and Israelis by likening the Gaza-Israel war with the war against smokers," admits Deslea. "No bombs are dropping, no children are dying, but if the anti-smoking fanatics restrict any more of my freedoms I will most certainly fight back with whatever means I have and be prepared to die in a massive retaliatory bombing in the process."

    "So, because the rights and freedoms of Palestinians are being trampled on, smokers definitely have common ground with them."

    "Israelis, remove your walls, barbed wire and checkpoints; lift the blockade of Gaza; respect the rights of Palestinians; and unite with them to create a new society based on diversity and acceptance," says Deslea, "and, nonsmokers, think very hard before you demand more of our turf!”

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    April 20, 2008

    communist immigrants

    In Desiree's upmarket gated community the unthinkable has happened. Her new neighbors are immigrants raised in China under Mao's regime and while they've obviously overcome their dear leader's preaching in relation to austerity they still have hangups about smoking and treat her residence as if it were an opium den and its smoking occupants like white trash.

    "They turn up their little noses in undisguised disgust when they see my husband or I smoking," says Desiree, "and while I don't want to single them out on racial grounds, I need to point out that our other neighbors don't smoke, and don't like it, but treat us with the utmost respect as we do them whatever habits or beliefs they have that we don't like."

    "In the wider community, of course, there are rabid anti-smoking idiots," says Desiree, "but I just didn't expect this sort of blatant intolerance to hit close to home. We're hard hitting civil libertarians around here, not conforming communists."

    "As I understand it, within three years of Mao coming to power in 1949 he successfully solved China's massive problem of opium addiction by shooting the dealers and any addicts who refused to quit their habit," says Desiree. "That former opium addicts then took up smoking tobacco -- turning China into the world’s largest tobacco producer and consumer -- was not exactly an accident because Mao had a thing about opium, not tobacco."

    "I guess my neighbors remember those days and see all smokers as former opium addicts," sighs Desiree. "And if more and more Mao-raised Chinese immigrants are coming into our country to escape China's tobacco fuelled economy then the anti-smoking idiots in the wider community are going to welcome their intolerant attitudes with glee."

    "You see, just like Mao had a thing about opium, not tobacco, our current leaders have a thing about tobacco, not alcohol, and it's no accident either that drinking has increased under their regimes," says Desiree. "I'm not just making the point about people being placed in a position where they simply replace one drug with another -- meaning that their problem with addiction is never addressed -- I also want to point out the dictatorial and arbitrary nature of enforced social changes like the anti-smoking campaign."

    "Mao could very well have turned the Chinese into a coffee rather than a tea drinking nation," says Desiree. "That he actually liked drinking tea, and preferred it to coffee, was the sole criterion upon which the tea industry in China was spared annihilation."

    "The opium industry had a checkered history in China, wars were fought over it and it had western links, particularly with the capitalistic British, and this is what Mao hated about it," says Desiree. "He wasn't interested in promoting the health benefits of giving up opium smoking, he just wanted to obliterate all traces of a western capitalistic trade upon which so many of his people were dependent."

    "Also, by shooting the opium dealers and any addicts who refused to quit their habit Mao didn't have to resort to the sort of tactics that the current anti-smoking campaigners use," laughs Desiree. "No doubt there was a negative campaign against opium smokers being decadent capitalist scum worthy of social scorn and humiliation -- just as there now is about smokers -- but there was obviously no need in his regime for a proliferation of new industries and organizations catering for the needs of people wanting to quit their habit."

    "With their lives on the line, and their supply cut, opium addicts gave up their stuff cold turkey without opium replacement patches and counselling -- and took up smoking tobacco," says Desiree, "and while I am most certainly not advocating that any government should repeat Mao's solution for any addiction, I am most definitely demonstrating that the current proliferation of new industries and organizations catering for the needs of people wanting to quit cigarette smoking are SCAMS and that most smokers who quit do so cold turkey by replacing one drug with another -- usually alcohol."

    "As in Mao's time, the problem of addiction remains unaddressed," explains Desiree. "What makes us addicted -- if not to opiates, then to tobacco, alcohol, food, sex, gambling, fringe religions or whatever?"

    "Personally, I believe that addiction is perfectly normal on the spectrum of normality," says Desiree. "It makes sense to me that people should maximize whatever makes them feel good. Chocolate makes me feel good, but eating too much gives me a headache and makes me vomit so I stick to whatever makes me feel good without bad consequences -- and that's smoking. If that makes me an addict, then that's okay with me, but I guess my Mao-raised neighbors would prefer that I stick to chocolate."

    "I most certainly do not believe that addiction is a crime requiring punishment," says Desiree, "and I also find it difficult to believe that addiction is a disease-- brain wiring gone wrong or whatever --and needs a new industry and a new government department to be built around it."

    "And I find it particularly disingenuous that alcohol addiction -- alcoholism -- is put on a pedestal above all other addictions and given a special, almost holy status," says Desiree. "Because alcohol is the drug of choice of most of our current politicians -- and some of them would have the liquor industry to thank for their positions -- it is understandable (not applaudable) that they would want to make it everyone's drug of choice -- on tap 24/7 -- but to separate the worst aspects of alcoholism from the worst aspects of other addictions and make out that alcohol is somehow more acceptable is crazy."

    "All addictions, if taken to extremes, have nasty consequences," says Desiree. "Come to think of it, doing anything to extreme -- even drinking too much water -- can kill you."

    "I don't believe Mao deliberately promoted tobacco smoking by banning opium in the same manner that our current masters are blatantly promoting alcohol over smoking -- but maybe he did," says Desiree. "Anyway, already in China the effects of the opium embargo are taking shape in the enormous growth of other drug addictions which, in good communist fashion, are receiving an appropriate draconian solution -- brain surgery to remove the pleasure centre."

    "Okay, heroin addiction eradicated, too bad that your ability to derive pleasure from anything else has also been removed."

    "In promoting addiction as a disease this is exactly the path that our government is leading us to, aided and abetted by Mao-raised immigrants" says Desiree. "Is this what we want?"

    "Most addicts -- of whatever substance -- are 100% functional, leading mainstream lives, performing delicate operations in hospitals, debating points of law in courts and governments, and delivering the mail," says Desiree. "To put it bluntly, we are all addicts. Some of us are better at handling our addictions and their health consequences than others, some of us have easily concealed addictions and some of us have addictions -- like smoking -- that aren't easily concealed and, as such, annoy others."

    "So, guess who gets to decide when an addiction is so horrible that its addicts deserve a hate campaign, a lobotomy or the firing squad?" asks Desiree. "The addicts of other substances, that's who!"

    "I've always been amused by the righteous drunks and coke heads who sit in judgement of others on medical boards, legal courts and government benches," says Desiree. "It reminds me of Mao himself who, unbeknown to the millions who practised the austerity he preached in his little Red Book, was stimulating his pleasure centre to the max in every conceivable way, 24/7."

    "Bearing in mind that my Mao-raised neighbors most certainly didn't earn their fabulous wealth toiling in the rice paddies -- and are likely to have a myriad of strange addictions," adds Desiree, "the next time they turn their little noses up at me or my husband for smoking, I might overcome my dislike of snooping and ask them some very prying questions about their past life in communist China."

    Desiree's story first appeared as mao's addiction solution

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    January 20, 2008

    engineered demographics

    What happened to the native Britons, the native Americans and the native Australians – and most other indigenous populations – is now happening to Poppy, and she is particularly angry because her displacement has been engineered with the collusion of her elected government.

    "We are fleeing to the hills or being pushed into compounds," says Poppy, “but it's not a conquering force of uninvited people that's causing this demographic change and our ultimate displacement.”

    "It’s our government – or more correctly the world government – that is engineering this demographic change by inviting massive migrations.”

    “Every time the world government interferes in local turf wars,” says Poppy, “rather than allowing one protagonist to conquer the other and assimilate with it – as has happened throughout history – it ‘solves’ the problem by moving displaced people to another land.”

    “Our land.”

    "How else did we get immigrants from Africa, Lebanon, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq?"

    “If it doesn’t interfere in an existing conflict then the world government is also very good at starting one,” says Poppy. “Think of the creation of Israel by a massive migration of Jews from Europe.”

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  • demographic engineering

  • religiously motivated wars

  • the curse of the katholikos ethos

  • katholikos is Greek for global

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    November 03, 2007

    the sabines and the roman immigrants

    2,450 years ago the human family in the known world was experiencing a golden age. In Athens, the glorious Parthenon was being built on the Acropolis; the reformation of Israel led by the Jewish scribes Nehemiah and Ezra was taking place; the Sabines, like other neighboring indigenous tribes, were being absorbed into the superior immigrant Roman culture; and one of the Sabine families -- the Attus Clausus -- later evolved into one of Rome's elite families, the Roman Gens Claudian.

    Rome, of course, was founded by colonists from Greece and the Middle East, and there was little ethnic division between the three centers of learning -- Athens, Rome and Jerusalem. The Italian Peninsula, 2,450 years ago, was the New World for the Greeks and the people of the Middle East, and the successful colonization of Rome was, essentially, a success for Greece in the same way as the successful colonization of America later became a success for England.

    In Rome, the territory between the Tiber and Anio was constantly pressured by the indigenous Sabine tribes. Unlike the American Indians, the Sabines were likely to have had fair complexions and hair similar to the ferocious Northern Celtic tribes who had yet to make an impact on history. Naturally, the indigenous tribes of the Italian Peninsula resented their lands being colonized by foreigners and their women being abducted, and fighting broke out.

    After a major victory for Rome in 449 BC the Sabines -- like other neighboring Italian tribes -- were absorbed into Roman culture in the same way that all indigenous populations are eventually absorbed (or annihilated) by superior invading colonists, at all times in history.

    In fact, one of the Sabine tribes was so zealously allied with Rome that it sought and gained permission to move its entire population onto Roman territory and become Roman in all respects. Among these new Romans was the Attus Clausus family -- later the Roman Gens Claudian family -- which became one of Rome's elite families, producing emperors and statesmen.

    Back in those days they didn't have any rules forbidding 'foreigners' becoming emperors and in 445 BC, the Romans even gave plebeians the right to marry patricians. Considering that a king of England, Edward VIII, was forced to abdicate his throne in 1936 over a marriage with a commoner, the Romans were far more enlightened 2,450 years ago.

    Also, just like all colonies rebel against their mother countries at all times in history, the Greek colonies were forever fighting for trading rights, if not outright independence, from the home country.

    Corinth and one of its colonies, Corfu, got into a dispute in which Athens intervened and soon after, Corinth and Athens argued over control of Potidaea

    Athens sieged Potidaea and issued a series of economic decrees known as the Megarian Decrees that placed economic sanctions on the Megarian people. We are still placing economic sanctions on nations we don't get along with, so nothing has changed!

    Athens was accused by the Peloponnesian allies (sort of like a Greek United Nations) of violating the Thirty Years Peace and Sparta -- the main rival of Athens -- formally declared war on Athens in 431 BC.

    The Peloponnesian War would last 27 years, and it all started over a Corinthian colony that had nothing to do with either Athens or Sparta. So much for allies and treaties -- they get nations into all sorts of trouble. An old treaty with Poland, for instance, forced Great Britain to declare war on Germany in 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland.

    In stark contrast to today, Israel was a peaceful nation 2,450 years ago. In 444 BC, the reformation of Israel was led by the Jewish scribes Nehemiah and Ezra and Ezra was particularly instrumental in instituting synagogue and prayer services. He canonized the Torah by reading it publicly to the Great Assembly that he set up in Jerusalem

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    November 02, 2007

    desperate iraqi refugees

    Ashley's grandparents escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s and the stories they tell her about the terrible effects of war on civil populations have made her a champion of refugees everywhere. She is appalled by the way Iraqi refugees were treated by Australia in 2001, and now Greece is doing the same thing in 2007 -- turning away boat people to sink or starve on deserted islands.

    "As soon as George W. Bush came to power the movement of refugees out of the Middle East became obvious to everyone," says Ashley. "People in those countries knew his focus was going to be his daddy's unfinished business in Iraq and they were getting out as fast as they could by whatever means they could."

    "The most spectacular of these refugee movements occurred in September 2001 when a sinking boatload of Middle Eastern refugees heading for a save haven in Australia was rescued by the Norwegian container ship, the Tampa."

    "The Australian authorities requested the captain of the Tampa to return the refugees to their port of origin, Indonesia, but instead he headed for Australian territory because the refugees were agitated and did not want to go back."

    "A stand-off for a considerable length of time occurred while Australian, Norwegian and Indonesian authorities passed the buck, during which distraught refugees, some sick, some pregnant, some very old, some very young, were trapped in the scorching heat on the deck of the Tampa."

    "The Australian authorities claimed that the refugees were queue jumpers -- illegals who forced their way into a country ahead of those who waited for official processing of their claim for refugee status -- and eventually the refugees were offloaded at Nauru, a tiny Pacific island, where they were processed by United Nations officials and then either farmed out to whatever country would take them or returned to the misery of the country from which they had fled."

    "A short while later, another sinking boatload of Middle Eastern refugees heading for save haven in Australia was not so lucky," sighs Ashley. "Every person on board, an estimated 350 people, lost their lives."

    "The whole scene was reminiscent of my grandparents' story," says Ashley. "Thousands of people tried to flee Germany in the early 1930s when Hitler came to power, but they were refused entry by country after country because they they did not enter with official permits."

    "As a result of the world's indifference to refugees, millions of people were exterminated in Europe, mostly Jews but also people who were considered undesirable by the Nazis -- gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people and political dissenters."

    "In Australia, not even the demise of the second boatload of refugees, softened the black hearts." says Ashley. "On the contrary, the feeling at the time was that their watery end was their own fault."

    "Apart from the simple fact that everybody in Australia who is not aboriginal is either a boat person themselves -- or a plane person, illegal or otherwise -- or descended from such a person or, worse, a convicted felon," says Ashley, "the lack of compassion for the Middle Eastern refugees was shocking."

    "It was difficult to comprehend that the self-proclaimed 'lucky country' could treat refugees so badly," says Ashley. "Only a year before, in 2000, Australia had hosted the Olympic Games in Sydney and the world was applauding the warm hearted Australians."

    "It's difficult to imagine how the black hearted people responsible for this so-called War on Terror crime go to sleep soundly at night," sighs Ashley. "How can they look at a future full of splendid opportunities for their children when they have effectively diminished their own humanity by treating the Middle Eastern refugees so inhumanely?"

    "And now Greece is going the same thing!" sighs Ashley. "Is there something about holding the Olympic Games that makes nations heartless?"


    Ashley's story first apppeared as boat people and is reprinted with permission.

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    September 03, 2007

    suspect immigration medicals

    Jalenka was a 16 year old orphan when she was accepted as a refugee immigrant but her joy at a chance for a new life was soured by the cold-blooded medical check she was forced to endure.

    "No man had ever seen much of my face - let alone a part of my body," says Jalenka, "so imagine how terrified I was when I was required to strip to my panties for a medical examination conducted by a young male doctor."

    "I appreciate now that women in my new country accept being treated like lumps of flesh by male doctors - and do not flinch at being regularly subjected to all sorts of invasive procedures whether they are necessary or not," says Jalenka, "but it was all very new and very frightening for me - and it still is."

    "In my old country a man is a man and no white coat makes him less of a man."

    "There was no nurse - male or female - present at the medical examination," explains Jalenka. "It was just the young male doctor and myself."

    "I could not believe that my new country was so insensitive to the feelings of a young girl."

    "Would it have been too much trouble to have hired female doctors to examine female refugees?"

    "I felt like a sheep - an animal without human feelings."

    "The young doctor did not speak my language and I did not speak much English - but no words were necessary. He was just there to give me a physical examination, but he could not have missed how terrified I was."

    "I was shaking like a leaf the whole time."

    "I did not look at him - I turned my head away in shame."

    "All I wore was a pair of panties - but he even wanted to see what was under the only piece of clothing I wore," says Jalenka.

    "He lifted the elastic of my panties when I was lying down."

    "Was it part of the medical examination to check whether I had public hair? Or was he looking to check that I was indeed a woman and not a man?"

    "I started to weep at this point of the examination and I think the silly young doctor thought I was becoming sexually aroused."

    "I was terrified that he was going to take my panties off in order to inspect my private parts - and maybe to stick something inside of me," sighs Jalenka, "but luckily for me he did not."

    "I think I would have jumped up off the examination table and run away - rescinding my opportunity for a new life in a new country - had this happened to me."

    "It was fit and proper that I needed to be medically examined for tuberculosis and other terrible diseases," says Jalenka, "but I do not believe that I needed to be humiliated in the way I was."

    "X-rays and blood tests could have determined everything the government needed to know about my medical condition."

    "I am left wondering whether I was accepted as an immigrant not because I was a refugee in need of a new home - but because I was a nubile young woman checked out and given the thumbs up by a male."

    (Jalenka's story first appeared as medical check scares young refugee and is reprinted with permission.)

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    August 16, 2007

    time to return to ireland?


    Regan and her husband left Northern Ireland in December 1992 to get away from the ‘troubles’ only to face the same ‘troubles’ in London – as well as new ‘troubles’ with Islamic immigrants – and expects a massive migration back to Ireland if things worsen in England.

    “We left Northern Ireland because we were fed up with it all and wanted a better life for our children," says Regan. "We moved first to London and would you believe that we fell foul of the IRA terrorists, aka freedom fighters, there, too!"

    "When we arrived at the airport we were waiting for a bus into town and noticed an unaccompanied suitcase in a corner," says Regan. "Knowing that it could very well have been a bomb, we ran back into the airport, notified the authorities and wasted money catching a taxi so that we could get out of the area quick smart!"

    "A week later, we had settled down into our new home and my husband was happy in his new job, the kids loved London, and our new neighbors were quiet and minded their own business and all was well," says Regan "Then, in the middle of the night, I think it was on Christmas Eve, the telephone rang."

    "Since only our families knew our new telephone number I immediately thought the worst – my father had died, or something like that," sighs Regan, "and when an Irish male voice came on the line when I picked up the telephone and said 'hello' my heart sank."

    "I didn't recognize the voice and when the guy said something about 'the deed being done' I wondered what on earth he was talking about," says Regan. "And then he asked to speak to Paddy and it dawned on me then that he had called a wrong number -- or the people who had the telephone number before us had not told him they had disconnected."

    "The caller apologized for waking me and the next morning I heard about a bomb going off in Oxford Street," says Regan. "The coincidence was uncanny and my husband and I mooted whether or not to tell the police but decided against it because -- well, we'd left Northern Ireland to get away from this sort of stuff, and being Irish ourselves we might have been seen as suspects and gone onto some data base."

    "Anyway, at the rate London is becoming Londonistan it won't be long before the emigration trail will be reversed – we'll all be begging Ireland to take us back in!" laughs Regan. "But it's no laughing matter, really. Our government has let us down badly."

    “We have enough trouble with the Catholics and the Protestants at each other’s throats without adding the Moslems to the mix.”

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    August 11, 2007

    foreign doctors and female patients

    Arleen believes that increased immigration levels are responsible for increased interracial tensions, and it is on the personal level – in her dealings with medical professionals – that racial tension has become a matter of life and death fears.

    "Undoubtedly, the majority of immigrant doctors are good people and good physicians," says Arlene, "and yet we have been shocked by the actions of the doctors involved in the London and Glasgow terrorist events and women, particularly, have good grounds for feeling uncomfortable being treated by a man whose culture forbids such intimacy."

    "Why would an immigrant doctor want to save your life when your country is responsible for killing so many of his people or when his holy book orders the killing of infidels?" asks Arlene. "Oh sure, all doctors are supposed to subscribe to the Hippocratic Oath but first and foremost they are human beings and whatever their culture or religion you never know what's going on in their heads and what diabolical agenda they may have."

    "Thousands of hapless patients die or are maimed each week by the negligent or murderous actions of ordinary home-grown doctors," says Arlene. "Has everyone forgotten Dr Harold Shipman, the granny murderer, and Dr Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death at Auschwitz, and the 15 German physicians and scientists who were convicted at the Nuremberg Medical Trial?"

    "When it comes to your life, you cannot be as cavalier about it as you are about your plumbing pipes," says Arleen, “and I really do fear for my life being treated by foreign doctors.”

    "So, by all means bring in more immigrant plumbers and tradesmen," says Arlene, "but please limit the number of foreign students in our medical schools and tell foreign doctors wanting to work here that they should stay and look after their own people who, I believe, are still dying from diseases the West wiped out decades ago."

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    July 21, 2007

    immigrant plumbers and doctors

    Like many of us, Arleen has noticed that two professions – plumbing and doctoring – have become almost monopolized by immigrants these days, and while she is happy to have her pipes fixed by an immigrant plumber she is not too happy about having her body examined by an immigrant doctor, especially after terrorist immigrant doctors went on a rampage in London and Glasgow.

    "Because we've all come from somewhere else -- if not in this generation then generations ago -- I am certainly not opposed to immigration," says Arleen, "but I do become concerned when certain nationalities monopolize professions, making it impossible for home grown kids to get a look in."

    "In the case of plumbing, I think the Eastern European immigrants filled a void in the market because our kids didn't want to become plumbers," says Arleen. "They've all got much higher aspirations these days, and don't want to get their hands dirty, right?"

    "In the case of medicine, if there is a void it is because our immigration levels have increased to extraordinary levels,” says Arleen. “Also, when you see a home-grown doctor you don't know if he is going to be another Harold Shipman or Josef Mengele, but chances are pretty good that he won't be.”

    "Can you say the same about an immigrant doctor?"

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    January 09, 2007

    the colonies and their motherlands

    Initially, the colonists attempted to transplant the culture of their motherlands to the new world colonies, but different conditions ultimately gave way to new lifestyles.

    One of the major differences in the colonies was related to racial issues that the motherlands never had to contend with at home.

    Initially, the colonists had to deal with problems related to indigenous populations - in which brutality was the norm; but later, when gold and other precious minerals were found in the new word, the colonists had to deal with invasions of prospectors from foreign nations, particularly the Chinese - in which toleration was the norm.

    During the early colonization period, the so-called inferior indigenous populations were either killed, enslaved or subjugated; and later on, when moral indignation took place in the motherlands, a system of indentured servitude replaced slavery.

    All of the early American colonies were founded upon slavery - most of the slaves being shipped from Africa for this purpose; but the later Australian colonies were remarkable in that they were founded as penal settlements. England transported its felons - its poverty stricken bread stealers as well as its brutal murderers - to Australia as punishment. Providing that the convicts survived the horrendous and long voyage south, the punishment of transportation from dirty, gloomy London to clean, sunny Botany Bay was actually a reward!

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    what's the difference between european and american immigration?

    Long before the discovery of the new worlds from 1492 onwards Europe had ceased to be a geographical area of immigration by forcible invasion or otherwise; but the American colonies were founded to take surplus populations and the new nation actively encouraged new settlers.

    Naturally, there had always been a great deal of movement between populations within the European nation states, but the threat of invasion from a non-white civilization was negligible at the start of the 15th century.

    The last time England had been invaded, for instance, was by the Normans in 1066 - hardly an earth shattering experience because they were close neighbors with common ideals; and the same goes for the migration of the Huguenots, the French Protestants, after the 1685 Edict of Nantes revoked their protection, and the Russian Jews after the pogroms of 1881. The French Huguenots and the Russian Jews were foreign, but they were white and as such they blended with the existing population.

    It is true that there always had been a threat from the Ottoman Turks, but their incursions were restricted to the eastern boundaries of Europe and north-western Europe had been essentially safe for thousands of years. (That the EU is now in the process of admitting Moslem Turkey into its fold is an amazing turn of events!)

    As most Europeans had never seen a black person before in their lives, it was a shock for them to suddenly cope with the arrival of wave after wave of non-European immigrants with legitimate citizenship rights granted as a result of post-WWII colonial independence.

    America did not face this sort of problem because it had always had a black population and it has always been an immigrant nation. More importantly, because of its geographical location and strict immigration policy it had almost total control over who arrived on its shores, and absolute control over who was granted citizenship.

    Americans - of whom the most prominent racial group has always been German, followed by Irish, then African-American and English - may complain about the problem of Mexicans illegally crossing the border between the two countries, but this would be like ancient Celts complaining about ancient Britons invading their territory and vice versa. It's a neighbor's dispute, not a clash of civilizations such as that being experienced in Europe with illegal migrants arriving from distant lands. When settlement in America approaches the age of settlement in Europe, Mexican migration will not be considered a problem at all.

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    where did the postwar colonial immigrants come from?

    As a result of the decolonizing of India, Jamaica and Hong Kong, Great Britain absorbed a large population of Indians, West Indians and Chinese.

    From the decolonizing of Algeria and Vietnam, France absorbed a large population of North Africans and Vietnamese.

    From the decolonizing of the East Indies, Holland absorbed a large population of Indonesians.

    Australia and New Zealand absorbed a large population of Pacific Islanders as a result of obtaining protectorate over the Pacific Islands that were once part of the British Empire.

    All of this was the direct legacy of colonization, and it led to western nations dropping the whole notion of white superiority, or the white man's burden, in favor of multi-cultural policies.

    The immigration of colonial populations was fast followed by hoards of immigrants from other cultures seeking refuge in the new liberal multi-racial and multi-cultural western nations.

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