Everyone's Union? Everywhere Union?
Can you seriously want to conserve all this? Pickle it in aspic? Preserve it in amber?
What are our rulers thinking of? And with?
The following is an extract from my forthcoming magnum opus: ‘Liberals: Born Free but Everywhere Feeding us to the Lions,’ Chapter Three: Guardian writers-outthought by yeast.
It's nasty. It's scary. But face it, it's not new –
Jimmy Carter's blast against Barack Obama's opponents was just, but the left too has problems with people of colour
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 16 September 2009 21.30 BST
When it comes to respect for former president Jimmy Carter's staunch and consistent anti-racist stance and his fearlessness in speaking what he considers to be the truth without fear or favour, I take a back seat to no one.
That would be this and this and this and this and this and this. Nil points Ms. Greer. But it’s early days yet.
He has stated that much of the ire aimed at President Obama's healthcare reforms, his spending plans and other initiatives is based on racism, that there is an inherent sense in
Anyone over three years old knows the
Clever Ms. Greer. She’s heard of all that near-universal adult literacy, reformed Christianity, religious toleration, scientific and engineering education, high levels of agricultural and craft skills, metalworking, (some) respect for women, plus widespread knowledge of classics and literature, and commonplace (but by no means universal) freedom of speech and movement. there’s hope yet.
… and that it remains utterly race-addicted on all sides.
Which is utterly dented by this far-Right, arch-segregationist, pillowcase-masked, jackbooted, blood-and-soil Germanic revivalist website.
BEWARE. DO NOT BROWSE TO IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WITHOUT FIRST TAKING PROTECTIVE MEASURES TO KEEP YOUR SOUL SAFE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Yes, it’s official folks.
In The Liberal to English Dictionary TM, the innocent phrase “In a Gallup poll from 2/9-11, Americans were asked the question: If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be black, would you vote for that person? 94% of Americans answered yes” actually translates as We sho’ want no niggers here, no sir.
Sooner or later, race will always step forward and take a bow. But in the matter of calling opponents to President Obama racists, Carter needs to take the advice he gave to Hillary Clinton during last year's presidential primaries and "give it up".
Good Ms. Greer: good. You can see from this is how liberals can think of themselves as being smart. From time to time they pass the Clue Thong around at Comment is Free staff parties and this was the day for the bonny Bonnie.
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you would have to have had a heart of stone not to laugh as the comment pages, the cable networks' politico-comedians, the blogosphere, the twitterati and 24-hour news feeds came alive as a result of Congressman Joe Wilson's boorish and crass outburst on the floor of the House during Obama's address last week.
For the benefit of Martians and people who only get their news from the mainstream media, Congressman Wilson said ‘Tell the truth’ and 'You lie' when President Obama was reciting one part of the list of blatant lies and distortions which was his let’s socialize healthcare speech to Congress.
He said
The man shamed his office, his state, his party and his mother, but he apologised to the president, and the president accepted. But for many, this was not enough. One prominent columnist even opined that "boy!" was the unsaid coda to the outburst.
Fox News's Glenn Beck –…
He’s the one who exposed Obama’s Green Jobs Czar as a communist and a 9/11 truther when ABC, NBC, CBS, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times,Time Magazine, Air America, PBS and CNN were investigating Sarah Palin’s hairdresser’s ex-boyfriend’s half brother for a marijuana offence in 1997 and searching for the now-notorious but mysteriously missing photo of her standing over the still-warm body of the last polar bear in Alaska.
I suppose it takes a Right-wing moonbat to make a bogey out of green jobs.
…a real-life Howard Beale, that crazed broadcaster from the 70s film classic Network – must be rubbing his hands in glee. Once again, the left has stepped in the mess and can't smell it yet.
I watched in horror during the campaign last year as the media, the left and liberals alike jumped on what they thought was surely going to be some kind of post-racial love train with Obama as train driver, conductor, ticket collector and onboard entertainment. For them, nothing was going to stop their revenge – I mean, righteousness.
To call the anti-Obama healthcare protesters in the main racists is to overlook the small but potent coalition that it is.
She clearly means that it’s wrong to accuse a large movement of the sins of a minority. She’s being right. Sensible. Correct. My brain hurts. This kind of thing isn’t supposed to happen
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Now let’s look at how the rest of the Left conflates that minority (whose existence within conservatism we shall not question here), shall we?
This is a melange of classic anti-big government,
Big government being axiomatically anti-racist. You only have to think of
…pro-small government people:
Because as evr’ schoolkid in the ‘hood knows, if the gummint just be enforcin’ the law an’ keeping the Russians out of Europe an’ Cincinatti, an’ building the roads an’ keepin’ the peace an’ makin’ da kids go to school, that be huge racism right there.
….garden variety fiscal conservativesv…
Low taxes and burning crosses go hand in hand like slow, stupid, defeated relay runners.
…the hardcore "end-of-days" Christian right,
Who are so concerned with the Jews returning to Israel and the Rapture that they have no time for colour coding the saved and the damned, but hey, everyone knows from films and stuff that American Christians are inbred, canoeist-raping, homosexual Mafia-deniers and therefore obviously racists, and who needs facts for that?
…pro-gun…
That lead, it’s a metal much more attracted to, and indeed mostly to, the hearts and the rhythms of Africa and their sufferings much more than those from the
… and anti-abortion elements,…
Because Whitey, he sure do love to see all those little picaninnies born alive, don’t he?
…staunch anti-communists….
Because disagreeing with, and wishing to prevent repeat performances of, Communist multi-million genocides is just crazy talk,
…and yes, of course, ye olde racists.
So there you have it.
The other disagreeable people above weren’t racist at all.
Greer is right and clever, and honest. Only the actual racists are racists.
Seriously.
But they've always been there. Sorry, but where's the news?
And to say, as some do, that no president has been as maligned as Barack Obama is not to have read American history very closely. I can recall, during anti-Vietnam war protests in my student days, marching behind a sign that read: "LBJ Pull Out! Like Your Daddy Should Have Done!" Andrew Jackson's wife was called a prostitute, Wilson insane.
Plus all that ‘Bush=Hitler’ and ‘Death of a President’ and ‘Reagan listened to little voices that tell him to bomb
In the 44th president's case, race is added to the usual anti-Washington, anti-administration mix. It's nasty. It's scary. It makes you angry. But this is what it is.
Right on. I’m amazed. I actually have no argument with Ms. Greer, here.
But we know this already. Even the official Left knows that it’s possible for a tiny, unrepresentative minority to have nothing to do with a fundamentally decent majority. For example, when someone says something like: ‘Women were created by Allah to be defective,’ the Left can take the side of the minority that holds that the Hadiths aren't canonical, or when someone that Kaffirs are to be subjugated, they can pick on anyone who says otherwise - irrespective of the numbers involved.
Only…
Here comes the money quote: the fly in the ointment (presumably myrrh) of what hitherto, despite my shadow fisking, was actually a comprehensive de-coupling of racism from anti-Obama conservatism by Greer.
I can indeed hear and recognise the code words being shouted out: "give our country back"; "the American people"; "defend the constitution". Add to these words like "tyranny" and "fascism", and anyone can see what President Carter means.
They all clearly translate as ‘Nigger, get out of the White House.’
"give our country back"; can’t exclusively mean ‘from overgrown Marxian statism’ - it just can’t. Conservatives plain aren’t allowed to believe what we say we believe. They have to mean what the stupid, non-Greer Left calls all conservatives as clearly distinguished from racists by her above.
"the American people"; must mean ‘only white people’. It doesn’t mean these people. This chap. Or this chap.
"defend the constitution" – that inconvenient document that followed a declaration that proclaimed that all men are created equal, and in the pursuit of which generations of Americans have moved from a slave-owning rebel republic to a superpower with a half-black President.
like "tyranny" and "fascism".
Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar, my dear Ms. Greer.
If we think that Obama is dishonest, a demagogue, and the deliberate subverter of a constitution intended to limit the growth of over mighty government, why can’t we just mean it?
But conservatives and rightwingers are not the only racists.
I think she slipped and missed out the respectable ‘some’ between ‘but’ and ‘conservatives.’ But still.
I cringed during the campaign at the drooling of male broadcasters over the candidate's physique; the "cool black guy" envy many of them subliminally expressed in their words and their writing which risked reducing Obama to some kind of fantasy. There still are those lachrymose liberals who can't stop welling up every time they see a black face in their vicinity. And there is the syndrome, whose name is even now being invented by psychologists, for those white people who feel that they can say things to black people that they would not have done before, simply because they stepped up to the plate and voted for Obama.
That’s so complicated and obscure that I don’t even want to try to figure it out.
Racism cuts both ways.
Obama's campaign slogan was "Change". We on the left need to change. Change our tired, ideologically driven responses to events. Change our moth-eaten rhetoric. Change our demands on what people of colour, women, disabled people, gays and lesbians ought to be when they attain positions of power. Change the arrogance and class bias too often buried in the language the US left uses, such as "astroturf", "cracker nation" and "faux-News" – and change too the establishment oligarchy that shapes our opinions and forms our images.
In other words, ‘The Left needs to stop being The Left.’ Good luck with that one. Really.
Above all, we must change the unspoken belief that Barack Obama is our president. However else this presidency ends up, it will be primarily the creation of the person elected to office. Before our eyes, he is building his mission, reshaping, reconfiguring, adjusting.
We have a great man in the Oval Office. With him, we are in uncharted waters. Let's help him keep the ship of state steady – and let's shut up.
Hmm, because the last thing he needs right now is a bunch of Left-wing race-baiters around him calling his critics racists, except for the particular bunch of Left-wing race-baiters he’s had around him all his adult life; some of whose pals he’s appointed to public office.
So, apart from her one paragraph of two lines reversion to type, Ms. Greer is incisive, observant, rational and right.
And that’s the problem with liberals today. It’s not that some liberals can’t see faults in themselves (or more likely their programmes and style) that don’t merely translate as ‘Not Left-wing enough.’ Some clearly can. Nick Cohen and Melanie Phillips have taken that step backwards to the hard core of classical social-liberal belief and are trying to apply that core to a world that contains things not recognized by machine liberalism: real-world Islam being distinct from Anglicanism-with-coriander-and-garlic; moral poverty as the major cause of the economic sort in industrialised countries; the scarcity of resources.
And gravity.
But when otherwise perceptive, fair and honest Left-liberals just plain can’t accept that we other people hold to what we believe in and say what we mean, then they’re always going to assume that conservatives have a terrible and unredeemable dark heart.
In misinterpreting conservatives, even the best of them voids their own – increasingly scarce – moral honesty. Lose that and they’ve really only got the folk songs to fall back on…and it’s not looking good.
Some things just don’t compute.
I just don’t see what some people in
Here’s something from the continent about some regrettable and indeed unconscionable words from Silvio Berlusconi: Right-wing politician, racist and known Italian.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's open rejection of the vision of a multi-ethnic Italy sparked sharp debate Sunday, winning praise from far-right allies and accusations of racism from the left.
Berlusconi's conservative government has won public favour…
Which is so not the point of democracy.
…by cracking down on illegal immigration,
…‘illegal’. Funny how the press always put that bit in as if there was something wrong with illegality. Rather sinister in fact; almost as if they want to criminalize some people just for being people.
…allowing the premier to go a step further as he defended Saturday a new policy to deport migrants to
"The left's idea is of a multi-ethnic
Long a country of emigrants,
Two thousand years and counting, and what have they ever done for the world?
…
Opposition lawmakers denounced the premier's comments as racist…
QED
...and told him to accept
Well if it’s inevitable, why should anyone oppose it? Death. Taxes. Galactic entropy. Global warming. Immigration. All of them irresistible forces of nature against which no amount of laws or political willpower or human ingenuity can ever prevail.
"It's not for me or Berlusconi or anyone else to decide,
Well, of course not – who appointed Berlusconi as decision-maker anyway?
…for this will be the century of multi-ethnic societies,"
And that’s been decided at the highest levels of the Councils of Inevitability, I’m sure.
centre-left leader Dario Franceschini said, accusing Berlusconi of using the topic to divert attention from his marital woes and a recession.
I knew there’d be a shady motive for a racist’s word somewhere…
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And we’re doing just peachy here in
Monsignor Mariano Crociata, secretary of the influential Italian Bishops Conference, defended multiculturalism as a "value" that already existed in
Gott mit uns.
As they say in
Even Leftist leader Piero Fassino -- who a day earlier broke ranks with party members by supporting Berlusconi's new deportation policy -- said the latest comments went too far.
"He's wrong, and seriously so," Fassino told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. "Let's just accept with honesty that
Honesty ; that’s what we need. Honesty. And if the united Left says ‘honesty,’ you know it mean ‘honesty’.
But Berlusconi's affirmation -- which made headlines in Italian newspapers and pushed his ongoing divorce drama to the inside section -- was hailed by the Northern League, a junior government ally that says unchecked immigration threatens
"This underscores a revolutionary change from the past," said the far-right party's…
…‘far-right’ – an indictment and a conviction all wrapped up in one neat package.
…Roberto Calderoli, recommending honorary party membership for Berlusconi.
Last week, an outcry erupted when a League official jokingly said some
And in the
Immigration has been high on the political agenda ever since Berlusconi took power a year ago pledging a clampdown on illegal immigrants that his government blames for a spike in crime.
"Once upon a time there were just a few of us defending Italian identity, now with the prime minister's words we are in the majority," Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa said.
I could weep but the anti-racists seem to have the measure of Signor Berlusconi’s ‘government.’
And then there’s this piece of egregious racism and non-sequiturs from
An asylum seeker who ran over a schoolgirl and left her to die has escaped deportation.
Amy Houston, 12, of Darwen, Lancashire, was trapped beneath the wheels of 31-year-old Aso Mohammed Ibrahim's car in November 2003 and died later in hospital.
Ibrahim, who ran off from the accident scene, was jailed for four months by
One wonders, given
The Iraqi Kurd was due to be deported after he was taken into the custody of the
Oh, he was afraid of deportation. That explains it: the heavy and racist hand of the
But he claims it is too dangerous to return to his homeland
Obviously, Saddam Hussein or maybe some religious militants are likely to threaten his life in advance of all the other Kurds whom they plan to kill. I’m sure the whole Left will join me in wishing for more Western troops to be deployed in northern
…and won a court appeal against being detained ahead of a final ruling on whether he can stay in
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So really he was running for his life when he left her to die. More than reasonable.
Amy's family have campaigned for his deportation since her death but Ibrahim has fought a lengthy appeals process to stay.
A
One can only wonder why. Why?
"Individuals with no right to remain in the UK will sometimes attempt to frustrate the removals process, but the public can rest assured that we will continue to work towards their removal as quickly as possible, presenting our position strongly at any appeals to ensure the appropriate outcome."
Well, it’s a complicated case and I’m sure the appeals panel will look closely at this poor, vulnerable man’s situation.
It is not clear when his latest appeal will conclude as new evidence will be reviewed.
Justice Secretary and MP for
Amy's father Paul Houston, 39, of Argyle Street, Darwen, said: "It's an insult to my daughter. How many more appeals does he get? He's just laughing at the British justice system. It is so wrong."
Obviously, in his understandable grief Mr. Houston is missing the point of what justice is and why it must protect unfortunates with close ties to
And here’s the last and in many ways the most distressing Yahoo ‘news’ piece.
A new poll has revealed widespread discontent with the number of migrants coming to
More than seven out of 10 adults want sharp cuts in immigration levels of more than 80%, it found.
Across the country only 5% of people supported current immigrant levels and 79% said they were concerned about migrant numbers.
Looks like the racist propaganda’s really got to the ignorant public: many of whom live too close to areas of richly divers immigrants to see the big picture of how it’s enriching
The MPs who commissioned the poll said the issue was being "swept under the carpet" at
I rather think that the research itself will be the BNP’s recruiting-sergeant, and so it should not be published.
Pollsters YouGov told more than 2,000 members of the public that net immigration levels - the number coming in minus the number leaving - were around 300,000 a year over the past five years. They were then asked what level it should be set at instead.
In response around 40% said they wanted numbers to be balanced, so the overall population level stayed the same.
One in six said net immigration should be cut to 50,000 a year…
…which is clearly the result of hate speech that we see in our papers and on television and the radio every day.
…and about the same proportion called for the population to be cut.
Which would be okay if we did it by not reproducing at all to reduce the population to sustainable levels.
MPs Frank Field and Nicholas Soames, chairmen of the cross party balanced migration group said: "This poll shows the public's concern about immigration is very widely felt and the demand for change very strong indeed. If mainstream parties do not tackle these issues, the extremist parties will. Silence and inaction on immigration are the recruiting sergeants for the BNP."
The poll found support from young people for drastic cuts. Among 18 to 34-year-olds more than 60% called for immigration levels to be set at 50,000 or less.
Makes you wonder what our educators are doing in those schools, when the young people come up with vile stuff like this.
A spokesman for the
…which is blatant colour prejudice and racism of the worst kind, though one wonders why low skilled workers within Europe are accepted – what mechanisms allow them to adorn these islands.
and tightening the criteria for highly skilled migrants. As a result we expect to see reductions in the numbers coming here."
I could weep.
Alright already.
Regular readers ( bless you! Seven to eight hundred different ones a month of you if I’m reading Google Analytics correctly, or half a dozen if I’m muffing the stats somehow…) may have noted a certain drift to recent posts concerning immigration and matters of race, culture and nationality.
Any machine Lefty worth his salt could condemn me as an out-and-out racist, though I don’t believe that I am. Open-minded liberals and socialists (I hang out with a few, as you’ll have gathered) might worry for me and about me, but numbers and culture matter, I think.
But I do begin to remind myself of the old National Front; at least in tone. Which is odd, because I really mean it when I say that I’m a conservative and that hatred of any particular individuals or ‘racial’ groups is not part of my ideas on this.
I don’t believe in the existence of racially-determined intelligence or strength of character: I’m an ‘it’s the culture’ man through and through. It wouldn’t’ even matter if there were some ‘scientific’ proof of a range of intellectual inferiorities or superiorities either; we’d all still owe each other respect and decency whatever our IQs; just by being fellow humans.
What worries me is a variety of effects that large-scale immigration is having on this country: particularly when you look at some of the moralities being brought in along with the immigrants’ undoubtedly wider genetic pool for our posterity.
We’ve long adapted ways to absorb and gain much wealth and comfort from small numbers of immigrants who brought skills and enterprising attitudes of mind – the Huguenots, the Jews ( in a variety of different waves), the Irish, Poles, White Russians, and so on.
But they were adopted by and were encouraged to fit in with a country (or countries) which liked itself and that was confident in its traditions and proud of them: not a land whose political class and their hangers-on believed that the whole ‘country’ thing is part of a massive scam to delude factory workers into working for low wages and women into the non-recreational form of bondage.
And they had to work; and not join the idle natives (as there were few such outside the workhouses) on the public dole.
So I have some illustrative questions for those who would call my worries racist or racially motivated, so that they and we can check our beliefs.
# If health, education and welfare spending is too low for civilized society already, then how is importing 300,000 new recipients for State funds each year going to improve matters for those already here?
# If a single plastic supermarket bag can kill a pacific turtle on the other side of the globe then what kind of carbon footprint and other pollutants will importing people in scores of thousands a month from rural, muscle-and-wind-powered parts of the world generate, as they’ll all want and get manufactured goods and use power?
# If the utterance of a single hateful word such as ‘golliwog’ can threaten the Queen’s peace and civilised discourse to such an extent that its user must no longer be allowed to broadcast, then how much more hatred and harm might be generated by these newcomers?
# If unemployment is such a bad thing(and I believe that it is), then what good does bringing in competitors for an ever-smaller number of jobs and the consequent shrinking tax base to pay their dole?
# Do numbers matter?
Which of the above things is actually good?
I’m away for the weekend to holiday with Tiny Northwester and so I will leave you with a humourous email from Angel on this very topic – Angel whose robust defence of Western civilization and her unceasing struggle to expose and humiliate the jihadists make me seem like Colin Powell in comparison; rather than the great John Enoch.
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