We Shall Prevail -- Address by Louis T. March

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 24 June 2011 22:31

* We Shall Prevail *Address by Louis T. March Council of Conservative Citizens June 11, 2011 It is an honor to address the Council of Conservative Citizens--a group that with the leadership of Gordon Baum, Bill Lord, A.J. Barker, Tom Dover, David Hill and others has played a leading and honorable role in the defense of our people and civilization. Think about it: not much more than half a century ago, the West dominated the globe with a military and economic hegemony that seemed invincible. But today Western Civilization is in an existential struggle, flooded with immigration from the Third World. Sadly, many Whites welcome this invasion or lack the moral fiber to resist it. But in an era when the blind self-indulgence of so many of our fellow Whites aided the forces against our civilization, *members of the Council spoke up in defense of our people. *In the face of withering criticism from the mainstream media, the Council of Conservative Citizens has stood firm. When we talk about “prevailing,” we are speaking of “victory.” To speak of victory it helps to know something of defeat as those of us who spring from the South know by heritage and tradition. Yet as wrenching as was the dashing of Southern hopes at Appomattox, and as outrageous as the bayonet-imposed “Reconstruction” regime, those defeats will have been trifles compared to our current challenge, and what will surely come if the men and women of the West fail *to *oppose it, to defeat it, to destroy it*. We* *shall ultimately prevail, because we must.* Whom do I mean by “we”? As most of us know, unlike the African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Hispanic- Americans of today’s diversity riddled America, many Whites, or European-Americans disdain the very notion of any racial identity. Some endorse Martin Luther King’s famous hope that everyone will be judged by the content of their character. If only that were the case! After all, when you fill in an application for a government job, housing loan, college scholarship or most anything else, you will find several boxes that privilege different nonwhite groups, but you will look in vain for a box to check for “character.” But there’s more to racial identity than resistance. Long before the founding of our republic, all White Americans knew they shared bonds of blood and culture that transcended borders. This set them apart from the non-Europeans. Despite wars and revolutions, Whites around the world continue to share this kinship, which has manifested itself in remarkably similar values, institutions, and societies around the globe. We form a community of descent that antedates the glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome, and the dynamic majesty of Christendom and the West by thousands of years. Nor has that greatness been a result of environmental chance, as our detractors like to claim—Western culture is the unique creation of our White race. As my late friend Sam Francis said: “the genetic endowments of the creating people” were essential to this civilization. 2 Despite our glorious heritage and the existential threat we face, Whites continue to be divided by ancient allegiances and historical rivalries, as well as an indifference to racial identity. How quickly we spring to the aid of nonwhites around the world; how slow we are to stand with our kin in Europe, Southern Africa, and elsewhere. In this era of globalism, it is imperative for us as White people to recall that blood is thicker than water. As Ben Franklin said, “We must indeed all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately.” To prevail in our existential crisis, it is all-important to seize the moral high ground. Our civilization is in a mortal struggle with enemies who will stop at nothing. Their most powerful weapon against us is the exploitation of a perverse altruism that is deeply rooted in our people’s moral sense. I use the word “perverse” advisedly, because this is an altruism that goes beyond just helping others—it actually works against our people’s interests. There are few better examples of this perverse altruism than the twisted ideals that inspired the radical abolitionist John Brown in his murderous career. Over the past century, the great White moral crusades against slavery have snowballed to include ending White colonial rule, enforcing racial equality, imposing racial integration, and enabling massive Third World immigration to the West. However, the success of these crusades has failed to satisfy the moralistic yearnings of what has become a *growing fifth* *column in the West*. In fact, this suicidal “altruism” has metastasized to a blanket condemnation of our traditions, achievements, and aspirations—as “unjust” and “immoral”—the fruits of our great accomplishments are dismissed as “White privilege.” A couple of points about the White “moral” crusade against White people: First, the blind moralism that empowers our enemies is easily exploited by unscrupulous Whites. Think of the fortunes made from the War Between the States; think of the wealth amassed by employing cheap Third World labor. Second, our White do-gooder “altruists,” in their anti-White fervor, seldom consider the possible consequences of their fanaticism. Many have died in foreign conflicts allegedly waged for “humanitarian” reasons. This same anti-White fervor also leads to a disregard for simple fairness, justice and Constitutional rights for pro-White activists. Let’s look at some anti-White and anti-Western causes which have depended on a distorted White morality for their success: --There’s the so-called “civil rights” and “racial equality” movement. Politicians, journalists, clergymen, professors, businessmen, and millions of other White people of the right, left and center support a movement that, no matter its original intent, has morphed into an unceasing campaign for non-White privilege. Yet despite the movement’s “success” most Black Americans find themselves continually bedeviled by 3 crime, illegitimacy, and myriad social and economic woes. Many avowed “conservatives,” from the late Charlton Heston to today’s Glen Beck, have proudly supported the bogus crusade for “civil rights” out of a misplaced altruism. --Parallel to that was White opposition to European colonialism—it was the cultural elite of France who lobbied for Algerian independence—throwing the Whites living there to the wolves. --Later came massive White support against White rule in Rhodesia and South Africa. A twisted so-called “morality” was motivating their efforts: thousands of Whites rallied to support black rule in Southern Africa. --These anticolonial and anti-apartheid efforts were White led anti-White altruism. Various aid programs facilitate this, from the Peace Corps to the International Monetary Fund, along with our soldiers on the front lines of the thankless struggles to feed, clothe, teach, and heal the unfortunate populations of hell-holes from Haiti to Somalia. --A tsunami of Third World immigration threatens to drown the West. Here the role of Western churches symbolizes the nexus between skewed morality and antiwhite fervor. Mainstream Christian churches, with overwhelmingly White congregations, supported the “sanctuary” movement harboring illegal aliens and support tax funded resettlement of Third World immigrants in the West. --And, of course, there are the politically correct attacks on our race and its history. The message here is that the West has been oppressive and immoral, and that the only moral course for us is White guilt and selling out our own people. All this shows that many Whites are clueless to anti-White propaganda, ill-informed about the real world, and thereby vulnerable to having their moral scruples directed against their own race. So we have a problem. It is accompanied by a paradox: not only do large numbers of Whites side with their race’s adversaries, for so called moral reasons, but they fail to notice that in doing so, Whites are behaving more morally than nonwhites. Nonwhites do not act against their group self-interest--they have no moral hang ups about group privilege. It is precisely our people’s finely tuned sense of morality that has enabled our enemies to enlist so many Whites in their campaign against the West. In no race, culture, or civilization have standards of decency, fair play, justice, and morality flourished as they have among Europeans. I’m not talking about simple interpersonal ethics—all peoples have rules of internal behavior. What I mean is a morality that strives to be universal. No other race has been as creative, indeed driven, in producing systems of thought that considered ethics, or right behavior, not from the point of personal, tribal, or national self-advantage, but rather in terms of a universal standard. For better or worse, humanism—the appreciation of human beings as such—and universalism, the quest to extend civilization in all its forms to mankind, arose in the 4 philosophy and literature of ancient Greece and the legal codes of imperial Rome. Christianity supplanted the inward-looking ethic of the Torah and the Talmud with the command to love one’s neighbor as oneself, rigorously defining “neighbor” in the teachings of Jesus Christ to include all humankind. Western Christianity in all its variants, fostered a conscience and a consciousness among its adherents that, for agonies of self-examination and introspection, have no rivals among other races. Western philosophy, from Socrates to Kant and to the present day, has no non-Western rivals in defining a universal ethic. The moral and legal standards of White societies have encompassed the culturally and racially alien to an extent unrivalled among the non- Western cultures so esteemed by diversity fanatics. And, whatever the ethical lapses of our people in their darkest periods, they have ultimately yielded to the urgings of their priests and preceptors, and above all to their own hearts. Seen in this light, the twisted altruism of Whites who despise their race, what some of them sneeringly call “Whiteness,” is a behavior that is deeply White. A few specifics: --In the sixteenth century the Spanish cleric Bartolomeo de Las Casas condemned his country’s treatment of America’s Indians. Emperor Charles V named him the first “Protector of Indian Rights”; he and his successors were able to help the Indians, thereby establishing the conditions for Latin America’s vast mestizo population, as well as for the march of “La Raza” into the White American heartland. --Consider the late 18th century trial of Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of India, for mistreating Asian Indians. While Hastings was acquitted, his ordeal fostered high standards of conduct for the British colonial service. --Remember it was White people who rushed to aid Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. How does our traditional Western morality compare with the moral standards of other races and cultures? --Could one imagine, in nineteenth century black Africa, a society dedicated to freeing White chattels? Can one imagine it today? Historically Africans have never shown much interest in freeing any slaves! --Was ever an Oriental satrap put on trial, as was Hastings, for mistreating his White subjects? --Which of the nonwhite countries has ever sent vast sums to aid White countries? --Does any of them discriminate against its own people in favor of Whites? --Which African country has so much as spoken out against the murder of White farmers in Zimbabwe and South Africa? --How many American blacks would contribute to a college scholarship fund for needy White students? Those Whites who oppose our Western culture and traditions, and disavow their own White identity, claim to be acting in the name of morality. Others suffer from a sickness of the soul that forbids identifying with their own kind out of supposedly moral or 5 humanitarian concerns. Only White people would think this way. However, such a repudiation of one’s own people is profoundly immoral. If we, the men and women of the West, are to survive, we must regain the moral high ground from those who have falsely usurped it. How can this be done? I am not a philosopher or ethicist. Nor do I come before you a prophet bearing a new moral code. Instead, I shall follow Socrates’ dictum, that virtue (and thus morality) is knowledge. Many of our fellow Whites work against their own kind not just from misplaced idealism, but out of sheer ignorance. This ignorance stems from falsehoods spread and truths suppressed by government, media and education establishments actively hostile to the White West. I’ve touched on some of the untruths behind this skewed White moral rejection of their people and their culture, including the claims: --that White people are uniquely bigoted; --that Western civilization is based on oppression; --that Western science and literature has been copied or stolen from other races; --that our prosperity is not the result of Western genius and toil, but of the exploitation of nonwhite peoples and their resources; --and perhaps the keystone to the entire mendacious arch: there are no inherent differences between peoples, and race doesn’t exist—but the White race is evil. There are so many obvious falsehoods and subsidiary lies that flow from them. Suffice it to say that the intellectual basis of anti-White ideology is rooted in lies. There are a number of ways to combat this rubbish. One is to establish the facts, to debunk the canards against the West. One example of such garbage is the bizarre Afrocentric notion, launched by a White professor, that the ancient Greeks stole— literally stole!—geometry and philosophy from Africa, leaving no copies and no memory, as a burglar smashes a car window and steals a GPS. Another way to counter the twisted morality of those who claim the West is immoral is to expose the suppression of information that doesn’t support their anti-White beliefs. Consider how the government, mass media, and educational establishments: --*distort government crime statistics*, particularly crimes by nonwhites against Whites: the scant publicity for white victims and non-White criminals, but ample coverage of “hate crimes,” when Whites are at fault; --ignore poor academic performance by nonwhites—or blames it on “racism”; --conceal the corresponding racial achievement gaps in science, technology, the professions, and business; --dwell on real and imagined faults of White leaders and censor the careers of minority heroes, such as airbrushing the plagiarism of Martin Luther King’s doctoral dissertation; 6 --and above all, consider the suppression of research and information on hereditary differences between groups and individuals. Pioneers in genetics were suppressed in Stalin’s Soviet Union; it is telling that in the “liberal” West, our enemies have to date imposed a blackout on such research that has been just as effective. The taboo on racial differences has been pervasive: think of the white sports commentators who have been fired—*for merely suggesting that Blacks are better athletes than Whites!—*and consider the ostracism of two Nobel laureates, William Shockley and James B. Watson, whose research was central to today’s information and biotech industries, for their heretical views on racial differences. What is the establishment afraid of? Certainly not those of us gathered here. Nor do they fear the possible conversion of their in-house antiwhite renegades—the kind who staff and support the SPLC, the thugs who break up our meetings, and the rest. What the anti- White activists—the soulless globalists, the moralizing White hairshirts, and the minority agitators—what they really fear is what will happen if the mass of morally intimidated middle class Whites should wake up and discover the truth. I’ve reminded you of the close relationship of morality and truth. When claims of compassion clash with those of honesty, the greatest of our minds and souls have embraced those words of the greatest moral preceptor of the West: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:32) In our struggle to prevail, exposing the immorality and injustice of the anti-Western movement is of paramount importance. The opposition is anything but moral. Behind diversity’s mask of tolerance and openness, there is a plethora of programs, from socalled “affirmative action” to nonwhite preferences in college admissions, housing, employment, and small business loans. All these programs discriminate against White Americans. This is institutionalized anti-White racism, which is pervasive throughout the West. Not only does anti-White racism prevail in education and business, we see it --in politics, where Congressional districts are apportioned to facilitate the election of nonwhites; where Southern states are monitored to insure maximum Black voter turnout; where the New Black Panther Party can intimidate White voters with the sanction of the Attorney General, who openly declared that he could not go against “his people” to defend civil rights for Whites; --where “historically” Black colleges have a legal right to discriminate as they flourish with taxpayer support; --in the reparations movement to punish Whites, their children and their children’s’ children for ills that ended 150 years ago, a movement already in force by way of discriminatory “compensation” for alleged black farmers. Already over a billion dollars has been paid to supposed black farmers for alleged “discrimination” in farm loan programs. Anyone, yes, anyone claiming to be a Black farmer was eligible--Whites need not apply; 7 --in the immigration corporate welfare racket: globalists demand cheap labor, which means Third World immigration. They peddle it to the public with “diversity is our strength” propaganda, and if you don’t like it, you’re an evil “racist.” So here we have it: the so-called “morality” of the anti-White movement is a paper tiger. But how do defenders of the West arouse our people’s moral sense in their own defense? We must simply seize the moral high ground. While I applaud the courage of people who devote great effort spreading the truth about challenges facing the West through well-reasoned intellectual arguments, that is not sufficient. To fight affirmative action and other injustices, we need more than intellectual arguments. In fact, we shouldn't have to make intellectual arguments at all. Our demands should be rooted in morality—*our *morality. Establishing the truth and justice of our cause is key to winning the moral high ground, which means everything in the West. The same moral compass that fosters White guilt is a powerful weapon when Whites realize that they have been wronged. Historically, Western peoples have been slower than others to anger at mistreatment, but when at last their tolerance is exhausted, their sense of morality and justice becomes a powerful engine of resistance. Recall the long list of grievances that preceded the American revolution, and the English revolutions of the seventeenth century, to name just a few White uprisings that were directed at established White leadership. These movements were driven not by a simple desire for redistribution of power and resources, but by demands of rights often represented as natural or God-given. Today, Whites dedicated to our racial and cultural survival find ourselves in an enviable moral position. Yes, we are on the defensive biologically as well as morally, but that arouses our instincts for self-defense. Make no mistake about it, racially conscious Whites are now defending not only our homelands but our neighborhoods. No Asian or African army has landed on our shores. But the immigration invasion that has resulted from the success of specious “moral” rationales has had its effect. The United States is now less than two thirds White. The truth is that our culture and our countries belong to us. While those cultures and countries were led by great leaders, in the West more than anywhere else it was the socalled common people--of Greece and Rome, and then of Europe and its far- flung dominions who defended and sustained them. They were the citizen-soldiers of Greece and Rome; the burghers and yeomen of Europe; and the proud, self-sufficient men and women of the soil that Thomas Jefferson saw as the bulwark of the American republic. Even unmemorialized, forgotten to our conscious, they live through biological inheritance in every part of us. If Whites surrender the West, we will abandon them and betray our people. 8 Now, there’s no denying that our peoples, through the ages, have embraced greatness. We are descended from those who blazed the trails, sailed the seas, and conquered space. Nonetheless, our European ancestors have had to defend their lands and their liberties time and time again against the teeming hordes of Asia and Africa, often suffering defeat and occupation before the final victory. Before the Athenians routed the Persians at Salamis, three hundred Spartans fought to the death at Thermopylae; before Scipio crushed Hannibal’s Levantine Carthaginians at Zama, the Roman legions suffered disaster after disaster in defense of Italy. Long before Europe began its crusades, the Saracens swarmed from Africa into Spain and as far as Tours. Before them came the Huns, Mongols and Turks. Perhaps it is no accident that in the memory of our people the greatest epics are not those of invasion and triumph but of defense against all odds. There is Thermopylae, the Alamo, Rorke’s Drift, and many others, where a comparative handful of Western soldiers held out against overwhelming odds, to victory or death. It is our individual and collective moral imperative, as Whites, to be true to our racial identity, and to the vocation that flows from it. We must awaken to our destiny. Let us herald to our Western kindred that our race has been the *least selfish *of races. The White race is the Prometheus of history, and the Atlas of humanity. For us, morality must be morale, and this can be realized through a three-step process: The first step is to Educate. I am a firm believer in the value of studying our history, learning what science has to say about the basis for our behavior, of delving into our religious and philosophical tradition, and acquiring the practical skills essential to communicating and organizing in the twenty-first century. But I counsel each of you, whether newcomers or proven veterans of our struggle: start with yourself. Thus, each of us needs to learn, that if we are to prevail as a group—as a race—it’s up to each of us, individually. You can begin by reminding yourself, that *every single one of us* counts in our struggle. Take it from our adversaries: they know that just one of us standing up and speaking out for the West can be more effective than a legion of selfhating whites. Yes, our race is on the defensive. So fortify yourself internally: stop despairing over every setback. And, as you gird yourself inwardly to guard the ramparts of the West, no longer attempt to conserve what is irretrievable, or defend that which is lost. How many of us continue to support our schools and churches long after they have become sepulchers of corruption? How many of us seek to sustain a tired political process where we’ve compromised on essentials to conserve irrelevancies? Jettison what’s lost, useless, and rotten. Strive not only to be a partisan of your race—work to make your racial loyalty the capstone of a personal ethic of honor, courage, loyalty, compassion, and the rest of our Western moral virtues. Steep yourselves in the greatest and noblest of what is the West: 9 art and philosophy and literature; the mythic and the mystical as well as history and the sciences. Strive as well to be balanced and self-controlled; an inner fire that burns warm and bright shouldn’t flare and explode, scorching ourselves as well as our friends. The second step is to inspire. To inspire, do not presume that our race’s greatest achievements will motivate a people that has been dispirited by years of defeat. It is first of all flesh and blood men and women who inspire, through their deportment, their character, and their noble deeds. Comport yourselves as have the finest men and women of our race. Now, I don’t mean that you should aim to emulate their achievements—remember that their accomplishments, for all their glory, are done. Now it is you and what you can do. Think, act, work, and live as if you are the vital link in the chain from our race’s past to its future, because you are. Thus, husband your energies, emotions and words for the vital struggle, for the long haul. When instinct and experience tells you the time is right, then speak and act with maximum economy and to maximum effect. Spare your friends and your family the racist blabber and the ethnic jokes. Be to all you meet, to the best of your ability, the embodiment of your magnificent race. Strive not to impress, but to inspire. And try your own hand at creativity—whether music, the arts, or writing. Even if you never publish or exhibit, such exercise is priceless, both as self-discipline and selfexpression. For those of us who act with boldness, persistence, and *utmost discretion*, the prospects for proselytizing have never been better in my lifetime. Above all, I assure you, if you acquit yourself as a White man or a white woman, with resolution, courage, and self-discipline, you will inspire your fellow Whites in a way that slipping them a handbill or sending them an email never could. Our paramount task *right* *now *is not to start a new political party, or to overthrow “political correctness,” or even to bring third world immigration under control, but rather to *rally our fellow Westerners to* *discover, appreciate and embrace their White identity*. This is where we start. The final step is to build. In order to prevail, we need to build, and first of all that means to organize. None of us can prevail single-handedly. We have unequal talents and capabilities, and our life situations often limit our ability to be effective. So, clearly, most of us need organization: to work with others whose abilities complement and, we hope, exceed our own. There are several—not many—worthy groups out there, certainly including the Council. But a few words of advice: be as stern with the organizations you join and support, and with their leaders, as you are with yourself. Remember, you are more than a building block in the future of our race, you’re a vital link. *Your involvement honors any worthwhile white organization*, and your energies and morale in our struggle are too valuable to be wasted in flitting from group to group. 10 Each of us who actively enlists in the mortal struggle for our race’s destiny, whatever our gifts or our limitations, assumes a warrior’s role—some of my fellow speakers know this all too well. Make no mistake: the Western countries are ruled by our adversaries, no matter what they think in private or tell one another on the golf course. By their fruits ye shall know them. The psychological burden of fighting in a cause the establishment condemns at every turn is daunting. But we can take heart because the very trends that threaten us now work in our favor. You see, more “diversity,” in the short run, at least, works to promote heightened White identity. So reverse discrimination actually offers an opportunity—*if only we will seize it*. The old way is to bemoan the election of a radical president, and then howl even louder when his wife invites to the White House a rapper who celebrates cop-killers. The new way is to communicate--spread the word about these outrages to maximum effect. This way bad news can effect good news. --Then there’s the real good news--Whites are finally beginning to wake up. A recent Harvard/Tufts survey (http://medicalxpress.com/print225368696.html) reveals that nearly half of Whites interviewed feel that Whites are more discriminated against than blacks. And more good news: this revived racial consciousness is especially evident in Europe, with the continuing success of nationalist political movements. Further, your iron-clad commitment to do whatever possible whenever possible is essential. Discover your abilities (you have more than you think), and determine how and where to apply them. Don’t sit out the battle because you can’t find the perfect application for your most outstanding talent. If nothing else, fuel the fight with financial support. A little goes a long way, and there are few more vital ways to participate. But do whatever you can—*every single one of us *is part of this struggle. Yes, it is our great, *UN*common people as a whole, whose intelligence, competence, resolve, and fairness have made us truly the wonder of the world. As we fight for justice, let us comport ourselves with genuine self- respect, not with the narrowness of bigotry but with the greatness of soul of men like Thomas Jefferson. Speaking truth to power— civilly and persuasively—is the *first *step, and the best way, to rally our people to victory against those who would reduce us to a persecuted minority. So we shall labor—with unwavering courage—for the posterity of our great Western people. The sheer justice of our cause, integrity of our intentions and spirit of determination that animates our people will slowly, eventually, surely, meet the challenges we face. Let us *always *remember this, lest we ever be tempted to doubt that the struggle before us is worthy of the Herculean task. Yes my friends, most certainly--we shall prevail. *LOUIS T. MARCH, J.D. is a native North Carolinian. He served as an aide to U.S. Senator Jesse Helms* *and later worked as a Washington lobbyist and government affairs consultant, subsequently becoming* *active in the representation of closely held companies for merger, acquisition and private placement of* *capital. He has traveled extensively, is a frequent public speaker and former radio talk show host. His* *background in government, business and philanthropic activity has provided an in-depth understanding of* *11* *public policy, the political process, and general public impact. March is author of Immigration and the End* *of Self-Government and Harvest of Lies: The Black Farmer Lawsuit Against the U.S. Department of* *Agriculture. He currently lives with his family on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.* *Mr. March can be contacted through www.repgov.org or at [email protected]*

 

Public Relations Con Job: Tories Introduce Weak Ineffective Measures to Curb Human Sm

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 24 June 2011 00:25

*Public Relations Con Job: Tories Introduce Weak Ineffective Measures to Curb Human Smugglers* ** *The new Tory majority government has re-introduced legislation to curb human smuggling. However, comments made by Immigration Minister Jason Kenneyreveal that it's all a public relations wiggle to make the public think action is taken against the illegals, in order that the public will continue to acquiesce in the government's long-term goal of replacing the European founding/settler people as fast as possible.* ** *To begin with, real immigration reform must deal with the numbers and make-up of the huge immigration intake. The government wants to keep the numbers astronomically high -- 700,000 plus annually, including short term work visas and student visas. A recent Fraser Institute report written by former Simon Fraser University economics professor emeritus and Reform Party MP Herbert Grubel demolishes the immigration policies of the past 30 years, as a costly failure. Far from adding to the economy and tax base, the poorly screened immigration onslaught, 85 per cent from the Third World, ends up costing taxpayers $25-billion a year; that is, considering the taxes they consume (medicare,welfare, public housing, etc) less the taxes they pay: "*" Of*ficial statistics indicate that recent immigrants have lower average incomes and tax payments than other Canadians, even ten years after their arrival. At the same time, these immigrants on average absorb at least the same amount of social benefits as other Canadians*. As a result, $6,000 is annually transferred to the average immigrant at the expense of Canadian taxpayers. In 2006, the value of these transfers to all of the 2.7 million immigrants who arrived between 1987 and 2004 and still live in Canada came to $16.3 billion. Taking account of the 1.5 million immigrants who arrived since 2004 *the fiscal burden comes to $25 billion in 2010*. These fiscal costs represent *a significant proportion of the $55 billion deficit of the federal government projected for the fiscal year 2011*." (*Herbert Grubel*, March 9, 2011) And this is the flood Jason Kenney wants to sweet talk Canadians into accepting through this legislative crackdown on people smuggling. ** *The Globe and Mail* *(June 14, 2011) reports: "* *A central priority for the Harper government is to keep Canadians committed to the developed world’s most open immigration policy – admitting more people, per capita, than any other developed nation – at a time when other governments are under increasing domestic pressure to close their doors.* *'We have this phenomenal situation where Canada is the only Western liberal democracy with virtually no xenophobic or anti-immigrant voices in our public discourse,' Mr. Kenney said. **Maintaining public confidence in the system, he said, depends on ensuring that queue jumpers aren’t able to abuse it."* * **The mass media demonizes criticism of immigration. When I ran against Mr. Kenney in Calgary Southeast in the recent federal election, there were no all candidates meetings and the press resolutely ignored what could have been an interesting clash of ideas. Two outlets refused to sell me space to advertise my immigration reform message. In fact, many polls show Canadians less than smitten with the prospect of being replaced. A recent Angus Reid poll "revealed that 46 per cent of Canadians believed immigration was having a negative effect on the country." (**The Walrus**, June, 2011)* ** So, just what will be proposed legislation do? According to the *Globe and Mail**, "*The bill allows the immigration minister to designate such claimants as an 'irregular arrival,' making them subject to detention for up to a year while their identity is verified and their claims processed. ... *Under the legislation, irregular-arrival claimants who do obtain refugee status would be prohibited from obtaining permanent-resident status or from sponsoring family members for five years, and could be returned to their homeland if conditions there improve.The bill also toughens penalties for human smugglers and for owners of ships who carry human cargo."* ** *Superficially, it sounds good. However, the sugar glaze hides a fresh cow patty. The Immigration Minister can declare those seeking to slither in through a people smuggling operation as "irregular arrivals" who can be detained for up to a year while their identities are checked. Under present regulations iffy invaders can be held, subject to court challenges. The legislation would appear to permit detention for up to a year. This may be a minor inconvenience to the illegals but in the end they'll be set free in Canadian society for the ponderous process that accesses their claim. All the while, they'll be feasting on welfare, medicare, dental care, government housing, legal aid, and language and employment training, all courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer. A slightly harsher restriction is that those admitted as refugees would not be eligible for landed immigrant status and the right to sponsor their village for five years. This would only delay access to those incredible privileges given to people not even yet Canadian citizens. The one provision with any merit is that those who try to force entry as "irregular arrivals" may be returned to their country of origin should conditions improve.* ** *In fact, Canada should re-think the whole "refugee" process, especially granting citizenship to self-designated "refugees" who show up and make a claim. Citizenship and costly welfare maintenance here is a most inefficient way of assisting people fleeing unfortunate conditions back home. Perhaps, a system that grants "asylum" status (with no rights of citizenship) with a review every two years would be better. When/if conditions back home improved, the asylees wold be expected to move home or move on.* *The threat to impose stiffer penalties on people smugglers and those who organize such enterprises sounds good. However, the organizers are almost always overseas and beyond the reach of our laws. Since the days of Elinor Caplan ("remember the St. Louis") the government has talked a tough line about people smugglers. Penalties introduced by Caplan could range as high as life imprisonment and a $1-million fine for people smuggling. However, to the best of our research, the stiffest penalty imposed in the 12 years since is three months -- that's less than one fifth the sentence imposed on Brad Love for writing letters critical of immigration to MPs.* *If the government is serious about people smuggling, the law should be changed to make both those who organize the operation and those who pay money to be snuck into Canada equally criminal. As a criminal enterprise, the entire shipload should be firmly denied entry into Canadian waters. If there was no hope that those who paid smugglers would be granted admission, then people smuggling would stop. Jason Kenney's legislation would not stop such smuggling but would merely add a bit of inconvenience to the smugglers and smuggled.* ** *Globe reporter John Ibbotson's language is shameless flackery for the illegals. They are referred to as "migrants," as if they were merely birds pursuing their semi-annual flight to our country. They are, in fact, people who have paid a lot of money as part of a criminal enterprise because they would not normally qualify for a visa to come to Canada, perhaps because of their criminal past or association with terrorist organizations.* [image: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney hold a news conference in Ottawa on June 16, 2011. - Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney hold a news conference in Ottawa on June 16, 2011. | THE CANADIAN PRESS] On human smuggling, Tories plan to make Canada less desirable JOHN IBBITSON OTTAWA— From Friday's Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Jun. 16, 2011 7:17PM EDT For the Conservative government, new legislation that will subject some refugee claimants to detention is about more than deterring human smuggling. It’s also about persuading both Canadians and Americans that this country’s borders are secure. The Conservative government reintroduced legislation Thursday that aims to discourage ships from arriving off Canada’s coasts crammed with migrants seeking asylum. The bill allows the immigration minister to designate such claimants as an “irregular arrival,” making them subject to detention for up to a year while their identity is verified and their claims processed. <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video/tamil-smugglers-charged-50000/article1675016/?from=2064342> Video Tamil smugglers charged $50,000 <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video/tamil-smugglers-charged-50000/article1675016/?from=2064342> <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/video/irregular-migrants-in-tories-sights/article1768043/?from=2064342> Video 'Irregular' migrants in Tories' sights <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/video/irregular-migrants-in-tories-sights/article1768043/?from=2064342> The purpose of the legislation, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said in an interview, is to make Canada less desirable as a destination for migrants who sometimes pay tens of thousands of dollars to human smugglers to travel here on unsafe vessels, such as the roughly 500 who arrived on the *Sun Sea*and *Ocean Lady* in 2009 and 2010. But it is also intended, he said, to assure the U.S. government that Canada is taking the steps necessary to control the border at a time when the two governments are negotiating new economic and security agreements. “We’re doing this for our own reasons, to maintain the integrity of our immigration and refugee systems,” Mr. Kenney said. “But there is no doubt it has the added advantage of building confidence with our American friends with respect to continental security.” Under the legislation, irregular-arrival claimants who do obtain refugee status would be prohibited from obtaining permanent-resident status or from sponsoring family members for five years, and could be returned to their homeland if conditions there improve. The bill also toughens penalties for human smugglers and for owners of ships who carry human cargo. The government introduced identical legislation last autumn, but it was blocked by opposition parties in what was then a minority government. They believe the bill would give the minister far too much arbitrary power and would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. “It sets up a two-tier refugee system,” said Don Davies, the NDP’s immigration critic. People fleeing by ship from oppressive and dangerous environments are no less legitimate refugee claimants than people seeking asylum at an airport or land crossing, he said. Gordon Maynard, a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer and former chairman of the Canadian Bar Association, said parts of the legislation may violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and would not survive a court challenge. But “bad legislation can be kept in place a long time” before the courts finally strike it down, he said. A central priority for the Harper government is to keep Canadians committed to the developed world’s most open immigration policy – admitting more people, per capita, than any other developed nation – at a time when other governments are under increasing domestic pressure to close their doors. “We have this phenomenal situation where Canada is the only Western liberal democracy with virtually no xenophobic or anti-immigrant voices in our public discourse,” Mr. Kenney said. Maintaining public confidence in the system, he said, depends on ensuring that queue jumpers aren’t able to abuse it. “In our research, we find this sentiment most acutely among immigrants to Canada, not surprisingly,” he said. Those who migrated to this country legally, he believes, are the most intolerant of those who flout the rules. This policy of retaining high levels of immigration while cracking down on alleged abusers of the system does not appear to have hurt Conservative support among immigrant voters – quite the opposite. Conservative candidates scored victories on May 2 in many urban ridings with large immigrant populations. In the months to come, the Conservatives plan to adjust the points system that determines who is eligible to come to Canada, further emphasizing an ability to find jobs in an evolving Canadian economy. Legislation will also target those who live overseas but feign residency in Canada through false addresses and the like, along with those who help make that possible.

 

Hear Paul Fromm: The Fighting Side of Me: Immigration–It’s the Make-up and the Number

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 23 June 2011 04:49

Hear Paul Fromm: The Fighting Side of Me: Immigration – It’s the Make-up and the Numbers that Count [image: Conrad Black] Conrad Black Paul Fromm discusses: - The con job that is Canada’s announced crackdown on people smugglers; - The real purpose is a public relations shuffle so that Canada can maintain the highest immigration intake per capita in the West; - The polls show Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is dreaming when he says: “‘We have this phenomenal situation where Canada is the only Western liberal democracy with virtually no xenophobic or anti-immigrant voices in our public discourse.”; - “The press and many big corporations may suppress and downplay dissent but it’s there and strong,” says Fromm. - Eccentric former press baron, author and neo-Con Lord Conrad Black may be waking up: Europe is collapsing “a process accelerated by Europeans\ dyspeptic failure to reproduce, and a culturaqlly suicidal replacement, thoughout Europe, of the unborn with often unassimilated Muslim immigrants.” http://reasonradionetwork.com/20110621/the-fighting-side-of-me-immigration-its-the-make-up-and-the-numbers-that-count