Immigration

[Mugwump]

And so it continues, as one of the genuinely model societies of the world for so many years continues to descend into anarchy within a few years of opening itself to mass immigration.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45181321

The “E pluribus unum” ideal may work in a world of rapidly rising economic growth like the US from 1900-1970. The evidence is overwhelming that it is not a good model for a stable, harmonious society in the low-growth West of today. How much evidence will be necessary before ordinary people cry “no more” to their ravenous, distant political and economic elites ? And when they do, given that the craven ordinary conservative parties have so long colluded in the policy, will they continue to turn to the far-right ? Or will people with strong constitutional instincts finally stand up against this desperately stupid policy before it is too late ?

On another note, yet another terror attack in London at the Houses of Parliament. Thank goodness only a few people injured badly, not life threatening. It is but a matter of time before this lovely building and many people in and around it are inevitably reduced to ruins by a truck bomb ? They only have to get organized and lucky once.

What happened to the lovely, broadly united societies we once took for granted ? Why were they annulled, and in whose interests ?

[pietillidie]

^"Descend into anarchy"? God help us. And you think the word "hysteria" is an effort to silence the truly discerning.

[Mugwump]

[Pies4shaw]

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/senator-honours-white-australia-policy-in-first-speech-and-calls-for-final-solution-on-immigration-20180814-p4zxhr.html

You get what you vote for, I suppose.

Now, here's a question - how far should parliamentary privilege extend?

[Mugwump]

Ugh. He’s entitled to his views on the WAP (at least prospectively), stupid and unnecessary though they are. But the “final solution” phrase in that context is ugly indeed. I wonder if he really used that phrase with any consciousness of its history? Most Australians brought up in the modern educational era have so little history that it is possible he wasn’t, I suppose.

Regardless, it is either a faux pas of jaw-dropping proportions or he’s really not fit to be a parliamentarian. One would want to look at his other published views to see if he was aware of that connotation. Regardless, hopefully he is defenstrated at the next election on grounds of chauvinist ignorance, if nothing else.

Edit : having now listened to it, the phrase he used was “the final solution to immigration lies in a plebiscite of all Australians”, at the end of a speech where he made some specific proposals for change to immigration policy. Dumb to use the phrase, but no one could credibly claim that he was talking about a Hitlerian “Endlosung”. Unfortunately he has just delivered the immigration zealots an own goal. No doubt they will exult in full and salute the twittermob in the stands, arms aloft as they skid toward them across the turf. Meanwhile, the real issue will churn away outside the stadium, albeit moved a few more meters further away from grown-up debate.

[swoop42]

He was driving a Ford Fiesta.

As far as terrorist efforts go it was a pretty lame one.

[Mugwump]

^ yeah, I think the bloke that accidentally set himself on fire at Glasgow Airport (and then got kicked in the balls by the locals) about 7 years ago also drove a Ford Fiesta.

Billy Connolly had a really funny skit about a poster of this bloke on fire being kicked in the balls being erected above Glasgow airport under the caption “Glasgow welcomes careful drivers”.

IS might be updating their training manuals. Or maybe when they said “hotwire a bomb”, the local youth misunderstood.

[Culprit]

Fraser Anning just stole all the Dumb Nation votes in one speech. Now Pauline will have to do a speech and go even more extreme to win those votes back.

[HAL]

All?

[swoop42]

[David]

It is tiring that this sort of stuff has become so normalised. Fancy calling for a return to race-based immigration policy, like, ten years ago. We all just shrug at it now. And the Overton Window moves ever slowly rightward.

[thesoretoothsayer]

The question needs to be asked that if Senator Anning (from the Katter Australia Party) believes all immigrants should be European Christians is he planning on deporting the Katter family (Lebanese background)? That might be a bit awkward.

[Wokko]

[stui magpie]

[Wokko]

Gotta love Bob Katter; lily pad lefties I assumed much the same thing about his words, the state of history studies in this country is truly dire and I wouldn't be surprised that someone didn't know the term.

I can't see any reason to bring it up as a dog whistle for neo-nazis; there's no more than a hundred votes in that bloc and anyone would know that it'd detract from whatever his message was.

I'd think his advisers should've picked up on it though.