{"id":211,"date":"2015-09-08T02:19:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T02:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2015-09-08T02:19:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T02:19:19","slug":"cutting-through-the-refugee-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Cutting through the “Refugee” Hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cutting through the “Refugee” Hysteria<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

During the past week the media has omitted mention of pertinent factors quite deliberately.\u00a0\u00a0Communist China showed off its military to remember the end of the Japanese war effort.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The media left one to assume that these Chinese had defeated\u00a0Japan.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0USA defeated\u00a0Japan\u00a0and Chiang Kai-Shek\u2019s Nationalist Army was the most successful opponent of the Japanese within\u00a0China.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The communists under Chairman Mao were scarcely more than a rabble.\u00a0\u00a0They had more impact on civilians than Japanese.\u00a0\u00a0Memory of these facts gained little attention.<\/p>\n

So it is also with the recent migration issues in\u00a0Europe.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The contextual factors that matter in shaping pubic opinion have not been outlined by the media although they are well known.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The reason for this deliberate silence, awaiting signs of the politically correct stance to take, informs the following notes.<\/p>\n

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  1. Who is a refugee and who is an economic migrant?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The acquirement of privileges\u00a0\u00a0depends upon an answer to this question.\u00a0\u00a0Commonsense answers and not media and German usage should apply.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A person becomes a refugee at the very first place at which he or she finds shelter and protection when fleeing from a situation that threatens this person\u2019s life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Even if his sojourn is brief.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Should this refugee seek to leave this shelter he abandons the status of a refugee.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He moves from the status of a refugee to that of other migrants, perhaps an economic migrant (in the 17C there were religious emigrants from\u00a0England).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Once safety is first reached a refugee can make a decision that now he is safe there are other options available for future life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In this he is utterly no different from a migrant escaping a famine or simply trying to achieve a more rewarding existence.\u00a0\u00a0Thus Syrians who choose to leave Lebanon, Turkey or Jordan, where they have refuge, and travel to Europe by so doing acquire the status of economic migrants.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The media and\u00a0Germany\u00a0choose to overlooks this critical semantic.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They decide who is a refugee by identifying his place of origin.\u00a0\u00a0They ignore whether he started his journey to\u00a0Europe\u00a0from a place of safety outside his place or country of origin.<\/li>\n
  2. Let us confront the reality that the Islamic faith of any migrant imposes a burden for any European country.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0France\u00a0has notably failed to assimilate Muslims.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Admitting more Muslim migrants will compound this difficulty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is true in\u00a0Britainand elsewhere.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Eighty per cent of Muslims in the\u00a0UK\u00a0have attested in a poll that being a citizen of the\u00a0UK\u00a0is subordinate in importance to their religion.\u00a0\u00a0Disloyalty and security issues arise.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Non Muslim migrants avoid this problem.<\/li>\n
  3. The\u00a0UK\u00a0and the\u00a0Netherlands\u00a0like to see themselves as multicultural societies.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With the present ethnic mixture comes considerable integration.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sadly this will become a passing reality in the\u00a0UK\u00a0that is now a host to 8 million people not born in the country.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Globally, since the 1960s academics have recorded situations where people from different backgrounds move towards parity in numbers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The almost invariable consequence is tension, conflict, and broken heads.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is now happening in\u00a0Ulster\u00a0where the Catholics are outbreeding the Protestants.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thus in-migration just builds problems of civil cohesion.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The invasion of\u00a0Europe\u00a0that is now occurring lowers civic unity and encourages the perseverance of extremist nationalist politics.<\/li>\n
  4. Many in-migrants, perhaps most, from\u00a0Syria\u00a0have been involved on all sides of the civil war.\u00a0\u00a0Many have been combatants.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They want to avoid documentation until they have disguised their identities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One day some will be prosecuted for war crimes in\u00a0Syria\u00a0because of poor documentation and identity checks due to the excitement over this issue generated by the encouragement of the immigration of undocumented Syrians to\u00a0Germany.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. The politicians who talk about the past movement of people within\u00a0Europe\u00a0as a reason why the first wave of the new invasion should be accommodated have got it wrong.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If we\u2019ve done it once why cannot it be done again?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      These politicians have overlooked the fact that these shifts in population involved people who derived from mainly Christian backgrounds and accepted the subordination of religion to the affairs of states.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The migrants, in other words, were cousins.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What of the Jews?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They do not proselytize.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They accommodate themselves to their hosts.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Many rapidly drift away from Judaism.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is quite a contrast to the insular Muslim who tenaciously cling to their belief and ways of ordering their lives.<\/p>\n

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      1. There has been mention that the interwar exodus from German lands was an undocumented tide.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0USA\u00a0and Canada\u00a0rarely admitted immigrants who at the point of entry did not possess valid documents.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0These must be issued by Embassies in\u00a0Europe.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The overwhelming number of the 600,00 inter-war in-migrants to the\u00a0UK\u00a0bore documents of entitlement to entry issued by British Embassies in\u00a0Europe.<\/li>\n
      2. Queen\u00a0 Angela Merkel\u00a0 2 or 3 weekends ago declared that\u00a0Germany\u00a0at the time had 400,000 would be recent migrants.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0She declared that Syrians, even without documentation, would be preferred because they were refugees.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Her spokesman let it be known that each Syrian would receive a monthly subsistence allowance of 365 Euros, free housing and medical attention.\u00a0\u00a0Now the number has risen to 800,000.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It will require 10 bn euro a year to look after them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And think what this will do to unemployment figures.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In such a way the invasion was encouraged and became a German Problem in August 2015.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Now the Germans are frightened and seek to deflect responsibility.\u00a0\u00a0With the aid of\u00a0France\u00a0and\u00a0Brussels\u00a0they are desperate to declare this is now an European Problem.<\/li>\n
      3. The Pope in\u00a0Rome\u00a0believes that man is born with a quiver full of rights.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The victors of war in the 1940s shared this belief that has informed the heart of refugee policies ever since.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But recorded history show that rights are man made and situational.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hence the different degrees, statuses and fortunes of men.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A reality that has been pushed aside since the 1940s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This limited and provisional view of the rights of man is the only one that I relevant to this present Century.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Authoritarian regimes are many.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By reason of their nature they encourage dissidence.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In turn this creates refugees.\u00a0\u00a0For every democratic regime there is a matching authoritarian government.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hence the numbers of potential dissidents and refugees might amount to 30 to 40 percent of global population.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is beyond the resources of the democratic regimes to provide havens for all these possible dissidents.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Just think of the size of possible dissidence in modern\u00a0China.\u00a0\u00a0The application of the 1940s beliefs and outlook about refugees cannot cope with the sheer scale of authoritarian regimes.\u00a0\u00a0The United Nations and the European Union should close their institutions devoted to 1940s refugee missions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They are not entitled to judge the varying responses to refugee pressures by democratic nations who interpret the world through the eyes of their elector citizens.<\/li>\n
      4. Finally, let us remember 17C\u00a0England.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the parishes the fear contained in this nursery rhyme summed up the migration debate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        \u201cHark Hark the dogs do bark<\/p>\n

        The beggars are coming to town<\/p>\n

        Some in rags and some in jags<\/p>\n

        And one in velvet gown\u201d<\/p>\n

        (A jag was a slit in a gown.)<\/p>\n

        In 1601, an Act for the Relief of the Poor was succeeded in 1662 by an Act of Settlement.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Our first national policy for the poor was contained in these Acts.\u00a0\u00a0Each parish became responsible for its own poor. A poor person had to have a\u00a0\u00a0\u201csettlement\u201d in a particular parish in order to be entitled to remain within its boundary.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When a person was unemployed, after 40 days in a parish, he would be chucked out unless he could prove that he was born in the parish.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then these unemployed beggars would migrate to parishes where they might be treated more leniently.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Beggars banded together and menaced parishes.\u00a0\u00a0Such parishes demanded better protection, improvement in the pooling of responsibility across parishes (how modern!).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is what the 1662 Act bestowed upon them. —\u00a0P. Dilaveri<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Cutting through the “Refugee” Hysteria During the past week the media has omitted mention of pertinent factors quite deliberately.\u00a0\u00a0Communist China showed off its military to remember the end of the Japanese war effort.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The media left one to assume that these Chinese had defeated\u00a0Japan.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0USA defeated\u00a0Japan\u00a0and Chiang Kai-Shek\u2019s Nationalist Army was the most successful opponent of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}