Sunday 6 September 2015

Migrants or Moochers?


We hear a lot these days from sanctimonious liberals and high ecclesiastics about the EU "migrant" crisis. Pope Francis says: "countries that turn away migrants should seek God's forgiveness," and Vincent Nichols says: "We must keep at the front of our minds; these are people, human beings, families like our own." On my Twitter feed the other day I saw this: "they are human beings, made in the image of God, just like me," from a friend who is, sadly, another text book liberal. Just who do these people think they are? Because it seems to me that the very people crying out to let swarms (to quote, for the first and last time, our very own Mr Cameron) of foreigners overrun our green and pleasant land are the last who would actually do something for them. It is iniquitous and tantamount to hypocrisy. Why doesn't the pope invite ten thousand of these people to stay with him in the Apostolic Palace? I'm sure he can find room enough there since, in a shew of spurious humility, he decided not to live there. Is Vincent Nichols going to personally open the doors of his living quarters to "temporarily" shelter some of these allegedly "desperate" people? I sincerely doubt it. No, as is ever the way with liberals, they'd rather obviate the burden of responsibility in themselves and condemn others for their sullen fear and indignation at the visible prospect of their streets and neighbourhoods being turned into multicultural ghettos with no common language, culture or religion in the space of a few months and years just because we are told to have a moral responsibility to feel compassion for those fleeing tyranny and persecution; tyranny and persecution, I should say, that was created by career politicians with their senseless, reckless and utterly reprehensible interventionist foreign policies. And these ghettos are already here. There are places in London such as Woolwich and Peckham in which you'd have a hard time finding a white face, and the odd white face probably belongs to a Romanian or a Slav. And my own town Sidcup is fast going that way too. What will it be like when thousands upon thousands of these "migrants" end up here? It will be civil strife and poverty. Remember the London "riots" four years ago? That was a very multicultural affair!

Compassion is a trite word in this crisis. It's a word, much like the words "racist" and "bigoted," that is bandied about by the metropolitan elite to silence and denigrate those of us who don't like seeing African men walking about in pyjamas in our streets, as I saw only yesterday, or resent the erosion of our national identity and culture and its replacement by a pernicious void. But compassion, if it is genuine and not a fleeting sentiment, must be founded upon practicalities and immediacy. It seems to me that modern communications are so fast - with the Internet and television, and so on - that a burden is imposed on our compassion for which it was not designed by God. If you know someone, at your church or in your street, that is in distress - by sickness or grief, and so on - then obviously it is your Christian duty to feel compassion for them and undertake the works of mercy for their benefit. But that is a world apart from seeing in the news images of beached corpses and grieving parents who speak in a foreign tongue! Is it your duty to feel compassion for them? I don't think that it's possible, nor do I think that it is within Christ's ordinances to even try. I suppose that's a tangential way of saying: "charity begins at home." But using the said images as a pretext to bring about what is effectively a demographic revolution in Europe is a gross injustice to the indigenous people, and no amount of bogus compassion can excuse that.


What is worse about this cynical compassion is the gullibility and idiocy that seems to go with it. The compassion is presumably felt by those who are, understandably, distressed by the undoubtedly pre-selected images on the television. But the gullibility and idiocy lie in the assumption that these people are genuinely fleeing persecution, and can therefore legitimately be classed as "refugees" or "asylum seekers," and not simply opportunistic moochers looking for a higher standard of living. If they really were refugees, why did they not stop their journey in Turkey, which is a democratic and secular state, or go into Golan instead? Or why do those fleeing from Africa not stop in the Balkans? Why are they absolutely determined to get to Germany, Britain and France? Genuine refugees do not start fights with local police. Genuine refugees do not chant slogans in unison in the middle of Budapest. Genuine refugees do not spread themselves over train tracks, intimidate the local people and bring cities to a grinding halt. Genuine refugees are hungry, terrified and in need of succour; not forceful young men. And a refugee, like the Infant Christ Our LORD, will no doubt go back into his own country when the trouble is past. I don't think that these "desperate migrants" have any intention of going back. Instead, it will be just as we have experienced over the past sixty years of unstopped and unstoppable immigration. These people will come here, they will suck our welfare, housing and healthcare systems dry and turn Europe into the places from which they've fled. They won't bother to learn our language, they won't bother to adopt our manners and way of dress, they won't adopt our religion, they won't buy from our shops, they will have no respect for our Royal Family; they will just live in their own communities, speaking their own tongues and with our "police service" and PC culture (pun intended) they will be given a free reign to say and do exactly as they please. And we can only look on in sullen fear, afraid to raise any objection because we are seen to be without compassion, racists and bigots.


So in the name of Great Britain (or what's left of it), of old St Mary's Dowry, I declare my total and unflinching opposition to the reception of any of these migrants. It's a terrible shame that things have come to this pass. I do not delight in seeing wailing mothers and the other unpleasant (but, as I've said, pre-selected) images, but it's out of my responsibility and control. All I care about is the Church, and my family and friends, and my enemies for those of you ready to quote Scripture at me. But who knows, maybe my empathy and experience will be infinitely widened one day when, not long from now, I am forced to flee, like many a Christian Englishman, from this once homogeneous, white Christian land. Till then, I will not suffer to be called bigot just because I have the misfortune to be English and Christian in a nation that once gloried in those things.

UPDATE: It's encouraging to see exactly the same sentiments expressed here by Dr Michael Scheuer.

17 comments:

  1. "one day when, not long from now, I am forced to flee, like many a Christian Englishman, from this once homogeneous, white Christian land."

    Of course the $64 question is, where would you flee?

    ReplyDelete
  2. When St. Jorge the Brown of Buenos Aires opens the papal apartments to these pitiful "Moslem refugees" we can reconsider our position. Until then "Charity begins at Home". Moslem Arabs and Africans are incompatible with Western Christian Culture and should be expelled in mass.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. There comes a point when you have to distinguish between leftism and Christian benevolence; between Samaritarianism and being a fool; between love of our neighbour, and "the stranger," and legitimate defence of the remnants of our civilization.

      We seem to be ruled by our emotions nowadays, and ad hoc ethics. Helping several thousand of these migrants might tick the do-gooder checklist of the average champagne socialist, but what happens when they don't go back? What happens when the parents want to send their children to your local schools? What happens when they can't learn, or have no intention of learning, English? What about our already over-crowded doctors surgeries, and the unacceptable waiting times? What about the cost of living, and wages? We've already off-shored important manufacturing jobs since the 1980's to China, India and elsewhere; what about minimum wage? People don't think of the long term consequences of their actions when they hold up placards saying "migrants welcome."

      Delete
    2. How true! Here's a quote from Peter Hitchens on the very timely and pertinent blog, OldJamestownChurch.Com.

      "Actually we can’t do what we like with this country. We inherited it from our parents and grandparents and we have a duty to hand it on to our children and grandchildren, preferably improved and certainly undamaged.

      It is one of the heaviest responsibilities we will ever have. We cannot just give it away to complete strangers on an impulse because it makes us feel good about ourselves. . . .

      As William Blake rightly said: ‘He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.’. . . .

      Our advantages depend very much on our shared past, our inherited traditions, habits and memories. Newcomers can learn them, but only if they come in small enough numbers. Mass immigration means we adapt to them, when they should be adapting to us.

      So now, on the basis of an emotional spasm, dressed up as civilisation and generosity, are we going to say that we abandon this legacy and decline our obligation to pass it on, like the enfeebled, wastrel heirs of an ancient inheritance letting the great house and the estate go to ruin? . . . .

      Can we stop this transformation of all we have and are? I doubt it. To do so would involve the grim-faced determination of Australia, making it plain in every way that our doors are open only to limited numbers of people, chosen by us, enduring the righteous scorn of the supposedly enlightened.

      As we lack the survival instinct and the determination necessary, and as so many of our most influential people are set on committing a sentimental national suicide, I suspect we won’t.

      To those who condemn reasonable calls for national self-defence as bigotry, hatred and intolerance (which they are not), I make only this request: just don’t pretend you’re doing a good and generous thing, when you’re really cowardly and weak."

      Delete
    3. Correction: I said "Samaritarianism," when clearly I meant "Samaritanism." Although I'm not even sure if that's a real word.

      Delete
  3. I went to mass and no surprise heard this propaganda somehow fitted into Christ and the dead man of Naim. A hurricane of deception. I'm seeing many including most bishops and pastors subtly implying to the naive flock that this is Christian Syrians fleeing Muslim terror; when it's actually nearly entirely Muslim Sudanese, general Middle Eastern, Afghan, Indian subcontinent, etc. young men pouring in looking for jobs and benefits. The actual Christians are stuck where they are; the honest reporting on the ground the UN camps/migration system is usually run by Muslims/Muslim sympathizers.

    If Christianity is this esoteric doctrine of self-destruction it's certainly curious it never appeared as such for millennia. Were Arthur, Aetius, Charles Martel, El Cid Campeador, all vile reprobates?

    It's sickening and demoralizing.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Quite. I know they're highly unpopular to-day but I tend to view the Catholic Monarchs as true saints of the Church. I've noticed that support for untrammelled immigration to this country, and for these migrants, has come from some Roman Catholic traditionalists; people who have no love for this country. It's a very Guy Fawkes tendency.

      Delete
    2. If anything the CofE is even more gung-ho about it. The Rev. Giles Fraser published a piece in the Guardian insisting that the Bible requires us to take all comers, case closed. And if some of them blow up Fraser's own St Paul's Cathedral? No matter...

      Delete
  4. Interesting quotes here on the post You and Your Pity (6th Sept) from:
    http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.co.uk/
    The quotes are from a 1973 French apocalptic novel "The Camp of the Saints". Never read it, but the Wiki entry sounds interesting. Anyone know the book?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I'm not familiar with the novel but the excerpted quotes are spot on.

      Delete
    2. I've read "The Camp of the Saints" at least three times, and given copies of it to friends and family members. It is the most prophetic dystopian novel of the twentieth century, in my opinion. It's author is a traditionalist Roman Catholic, many of whose other novels call for a restoration of the French monarchy (which dynasty, I don't recall off the top of my head).

      Delete
  5. Our Labour MP here in Cambridge (where the housing shortage is so acute and housing costs so astronomically high, it is a disaster for working-class residents) led a big "refugees welcome" rally over the weekend. Taste some of his verbal diarrhoea:

    "Through the collective mire of disparagement from the Tories towards those refugees fleeing war and corrupt government, the people of Cambridge have once again shown their belief in a progressive solution to this crisis.

    "Call on the Government to allow us to welcome those people in Calais to our city to contribute towards the amazing diversity."

    Apparently all the different colours and genders have to do is hold hands together and everything will be so *amazing*! See: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COEj_K8WwAEV2j7.jpg:large

    ReplyDelete
  6. Hello there Patrick, text book liberal here!
    I wonder, are you familiar with the writings of Hugo Rahner, more specifically on the Devotion to the Sacred Heart?
    If so, you would be very familiar with the meaning of the theological term "Splangnezomai".
    You see, a basic tenet of the Christian faith is about having compassion for the oppressed, the unloved, those on the fringes. This is not a new teaching, this is very simply mirroring the same compassion that Christ showed to humankind in the scriptures.
    For us to show compassion towards those who are less fortunate than ourselves is in itself prayer as "expressing God, not simply addressing him" (Martin Buber), we as co-creators with God are repairing the damage of the heartlessness in the places whence they have travelled from and we join in the liberation and empowerment of our fellow human beings.
    When Christ showed Compassion to the world, it wasn't about a patronising pity, but a gutsy solidarity, Splangnezomai.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. You clearly don't understand my position. I'm not made of stone! My position is this: to turn compassion into public policy on this massive scale will be ruinous in the long term. If you do not understand the enormity of the consequences that will come of this, in social, political, religious, cultural and linguistic terms then I don't know what to say.

      I take it as axiomatic that charity begins at home. If you want to be swamped with missionary work at home (I see that you are interested in missionary work now), that's up to you. But most people don't and are quite content with living out the Christian faith in their parishes, and with their friends and neighbours.

      Delete
    2. There is no place in our world which is not mission territory.

      Delete
  7. Readers sympathetic with my view might also feel encouraged to read the thoughts of Dr Michael Scheuer on this matter:

    http://non-intervention.com/1801/u-s-nato-military-interventions-caused-europes-migrant-disaster/

    ReplyDelete
  8. Scheuer is spot on with his assessment of the Moslem invasion of Europe. George Bush began this catastrophe with his invasion of Iraq in 1990, his son completed the job as he attempted to justify his father's failed policy by murdering Saddam Hussein.

    ReplyDelete