The Immigration Song: Funny but All Too True

Written by Paul Fromm

Monday, 13 August 2012 04:52

*The Immigration Song: Funny but All Too True* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olmQXDpqmmg&feature=em-share_video_user

 

France declares war on illegal migrants: Riot police smash camps and hundreds rounded

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 12 August 2012 02:53

*France declares war on illegal migrants: Riot police smash camps and hundreds rounded up for deportation as Socialists take on Gypsies * By Peter Allen PUBLISHED: 16:00, 9 August 2012 | UPDATED: 08:27, 10 August 2012 French police were yesterday breaking up Gypsy camps and deporting illegal immigrants found in them. Dozens of officers in riot gear descended on a settlement near Lille shortly after dawn to oversee the evacuation of some 200 Roma living in mobile homes. One hundred people were evicted from a site in Lyon, with similar round-ups happening in other major cities including Marseille. Caravans and huts were destroyed in the Belleville area of central Paris on Wednesday, making another 100 people homeless. ‘Many of those evicted will be flown home to Romania,’ said an interior ministry source, who insisted the deportations were aimed at ridding France of ‘illegal’ communities. Greece has also begun a crackdown on immigrants, with Athens claiming the country faced an ‘invasion’. The policy being pursued by France’s socialist government was formulated by former conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy, who was frequently accused of pandering to the far right. His government linked Roma camps with crime, suggesting that many of the thieves and muggers operating in big cities were homeless Romanians. Many expected the more liberal socialists to show a more relaxed attitude toward immigrants, especially those from European Union member states. But Manuel Valls, the new interior minister, said the camps were a ‘challenge’ to ‘people living together’. He insisted the police would uphold all court orders aimed at dismantling them. Neighbours of the camps often complained about noise and anti-social behaviour, as well as serious crimes, said Mr Valls. Humanitarian organisations have also linked the camps to ill health, including serious diseases such as tuberculosis. Mr Valls said everything would be done to ensure that vulnerable people, and particularly ‘children and pregnant women’, were rehoused as quickly as possible. Mr Sarkozy started a purge on Romas in the summer of 2010, pointing to the fact that up to 15,000 were living in camps across France. Mr Sarkozy even proposed that police travel to Romania to fight trafficking and other crimes committed there by Roma. In turn, Roma groups accused Mr Sarkozy of ‘ethnic cleansing’, pointing to the fact that gipsies had been targeted by the Nazis during the Second World War. They said that the purge was all part of a generally racist strategy adopted by Mr Sarkozy against all foreign groups, including some six million Muslims living in France. Romania has been a full member of the European Union since 2007, and its citizens can enter France without a visa. But they must get residency permits if they want to settle long term and work. Britain, like France, has transitional controls on Romanians seeking to settle in the UK. Until next year only those Romanian migrants who have a job or can support themselves are allowed to stay in Britain. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186067/As-Greece-declares-war-migrants-France-smashes-gipsy-camps-making-hundreds-homeless.html#ixzz2389zaicP

 

Time To Protest: Another Case of Out-of-Control Bureaucracy Spying on Canadians

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 12 August 2012 02:53

Time To Protest: Another Case of Out-of-Control Bureaucracy Spying on Canadians August 11, 2012****** ** ** Graham Fraser has decided that he wants to finish his term with a blast (before he’s kicked off his well-paid position next October) and spend whatever money he can lay his hands on. So, as per his usual style, he’s going to unleash his army of spies on eight airports across the country.**** ** ** Lorne Gunter on Charles Adler’s show, SunTV, decided to use the opportunity to talk about the bilingualism fiasco being launched by our Language Commissar at the cost of $90,000. Graham Fraser must have a very generous budget to be able to be so free with our hard-earned tax dollars. Here’s the link to that fabulous show:**** ** ** http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/1780459813001**** ** ** After listening to Lorne Gunter and Brigette Pellerin, maybe you’ll be angry enough to write to the esteemed Language Commissar at the following address:**** ** ** *Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages Head Office 344 Slater Street, 3rd Floor Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T8* * * *Tel: 1-800-880-1990 or 613-996-6368* *Fax: 613-993-5082* *Email: *[email protected]**** *Email: [email protected] or *[email protected]**** ------------------------------ ** ** *While you’re at it, also send a note to PM Harper, Min. James Harper and your own MP in the Conservative government that you will NO longer be sending them any more money if the Office of the Official Languages Commissioner is not cut back drastically!!! * ** ** ------------------------------ ** ** http://www.edmontonsun.com/2012/08/09/bilingualism-cops-what-a-waste**** ** ** Bilingualism cops: What a waste! **** ** ** BY LORNE GUNTER**** QMI AGENCY**** AUGUST 10, 2012**** Edmonton Sun**** ** ** ** ** Graham Fraser is sending spies to eight Canadian airports.**** ** ** Fraser is the Official Languages Commissioner. And he is not sending agents to thwart an al Qaeda plot or crack down on international drug smugglers. He's sending undercover bureaucrats to Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver to ensure airport bookstores have enough French titles on their shelves and TV screens in departure lounges and that baggage carousels are tuned equally to French and English channels.**** ** ** Seriously. We are recovering from one of the worst recessions in 80 years. Unemployment isn't as high as it is in the United States, but it's still too high. And yet the official languages commissioner thinks spending tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to check to see whether airport greeters use both French and English is a worthwhile expenditure.**** ** ** The real farce here is that bilingualism has been an expensive failure — a very expensive failure. Nearly 45 years after Pierre Trudeau's government imposed the Official Languages Act on the country there aren't many more fluently bilingual Canadians than there were in 1969.**** ** ** According to a study by Vancouver's Fraser Institute released this past January, Ottawa spends $1.5 billion a year ensuring federal government offices, federal courts and federally regulated industries such as airlines, banks and telecoms are sufficiently bilingual. The provinces spend nearly another $1 billion despite the fact that only two provinces — New Brunswick and Quebec — have unilingual minorities that make up more than 1% of their populations.**** ** ** When bilingualism became the law of the land, nearly all fluently bilingual Canadians lived in a thin ribbon of land known as the "bilingual belt" – a strip that began in Ottawa, followed the St. Lawrence through Montreal and Quebec City and ended in northern New Brunswick.**** ** ** Most still do.**** ** ** Official bilingualism may have succeeded in getting more federal services provided in both French and English, but it has not moved the needle more than a few notches in making individual Canadians bilingual. Thirty-five percent of Canadians speak two languages, but only about 17% speak both French and English. The other 18% speak either French or English and a non-official language, such as Mandarin or Punjabi.**** ** ** And the claim by 17% of Canadians that they are fluent in French and English is widely believed to be inflated since language skills are self-reported on the census. No one comes to your home to test your competence. Statistics Canada merely takes your word for it.**** ** ** To illustrate how little personal bilingualism has penetrated ordinary Canadian society, consider that in Ontario 97% of workers claim to use English nearly all the time at work. That is down from 98% when the Official Languages Act was passed and that includes the tens of thousands of federal workers in the nation's capital whose jobs demand two-language proficiency.**** ** ** Even in Manitoba, which has the largest francophone population outside the bilingual belt, 97% of workers claim to use English almost exclusively in their daily lives.**** ** ** The biggest change in the past 40 years has been in Quebec, where the percentage of employees using English "most often" at work has dropped from nearly one-quarter to just over 17%. But even those numbers mask the fact that nearly a quarter of Quebec workers admit to using English "regularly" — basically unchanged from the heady days of the late 1960s.**** ** ** Clinging to the notion that bilingualism is a valuable common goal is an expensive parlour game. It is one of those national-identity myths our cultural and political elites have convinced themselves is vital to our survival.**** ** ** Mr. Fraser, keep your spies at home and save working Canadians the cost of your "investigation."**** ** ** ------------------------------ ** ** Lowell Green spent most of his two-hour show yesterday talking about the failure of the Official Languages Act, which after over 40 years and many billions of dollars, has not increased bilingualism in any substantial amount but has totally failed in its primary function of creating a more united country. The initial reason for this policy was to make French-speaking Quebecers feel more at home right across the country but we have seen that this has not happened. Many callers to Lowell’s show referred to the fact that this policy has done more to create animosity between the two language groups than anything else. In Quebec, the Separatists are just as determined as ever to push for more autonomy, more power, as well as more financial “compensation” from English-speaking Canada, while showing them how much they resent & hate the English-speakers for having dominated them a long, long time ago.**** ** ** To listen to Lowell talk to the callers on his show, link to: : http://devel.autopod.ca/chum/43/podcasts/ and download the show dated August 10, 2012.**** ** ** ------------------------------ ** ** On Sunday at 10:40 am, Beth Trudeau will be on the air!!! Here’s her message:**** ** ** Hi all,**** ** ** I will be on SUN NEWS at 10:40 AM on Sunday, live, talking about how Official Languages Commissar Graham Fraser doesn't get enough complaints to sustain his job so he has to waste MORE of our tax dollars hiring spies to report on any FRENCH problems at airports. He refuses to meet with Canadians for Language Fairness, who represent the VICTIMS of forced bilingualism.**** ** ** Make sure to tune in...just for 5 minutes, though, then back to Sunnyside Nick's show on CFRA.**** ** ** Cheers!**** ** ** Beth Trudeau**** Official Spokesperson for Canadians for Language Fairness**** Embrun, Ontario**** ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** **SEE YOU AT THE BBQ THIS AFTERNOON. FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SIGNED UP BUT STILL WANT TO COME, CALL HOWARD AT 613-347-7775** ** ** ** **