Author: bravo22c

Whacko of the Week (2)

Had to add an extra Whacko of the Week when I saw this. It is a joint award; to the Daily Telegraph for publishing this crap, and to Hartwig Hausdorf, the ‘expert’ in question:

Aliens ‘hijack’ Nasa’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, claims expert.

Herr Hausdorf is a graduate of the Munich Tourism Trade School. He worked in a travel agency specialising in tours to the Far East and now heads a Travel Agency. He writes books on the para-normal, (that is, fairy tales.) That is his ‘expertise.’ Bad Daily Telegraph!

White Guilt 2

It will be 55 years this December since one of my heroes, a lady, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a man. It’s 40 -odd years since the sufferers of the religion of White Guilt imported a distorted version of the Civil Rights campaign, of which she became an icon, from the United States and began the great shaming of white England as one condition of the founding of a new social equality. The other condition was, of course, the shaming of non-white England into sharing the ridiculous and totally unfounded belief that somehow the colour of their skin made them incapable of competing in society on the same level as the white majority. Frederick Douglass had it about right a century and a half ago: What did he have right?

White Guilt

On a recent post by Araminta, my attention was caught by this:

why we may have more of a problem with assimilation than younger democracies.

and this:

with goodwill and determination on both sides

These quotes raise a number of questions. What is this ‘problem with assimilation? Historically the United Kingdom, more specifically, England, has ‘assimilated’ immigrants from all sorts of cultures. When groups of people have been at need, the UK has opened its doors, if not entirely its arms, and invited them in – the last such (large) group I can think of being the Ugandan Asians chucked out by Idi Amin. That group of people ‘assimilated’ without too much trouble – yes, some of them suffered discrimination in some cases, but they sucked it up and got on with it. What is the problem with assimilation?

Whacko of the week

Step forward Mr Justice Mitting.

“satisfied that Naseer was an al-Qaeda operative who posed and still poses a serious threat to the national security of the United Kingdom and that…it is conducive to the public good that he should be deported.”

“No open assurances were given by the Pakistani authorities” and as a result they could not find there was a “sufficient safeguard against prohibited ill-treatment of any of the appellants.”

Al-Qaeda-operative-cannot-be-deported-court-rules.

So, this guy who was going to blow people up is now to be supported by taxes taken from those same people.

Where do you go when you give up?

Attitudes

If certain creatures do thy thoughts uphold,
As cant, and thy opinion label racist tripe.
Let not your quailing heart fail, but be bold.
Maintain thy right and cut deep through the hype.
To see the other’s viewpoint is a must,
But ‘others’ oft by bias chosen be,
Respect for all such others is but just.
Let mighty men, or others but decree
‘That is mere bigotry,’ on TV Sky,
The tree of tolerance is rashly felled,
And one poor women merely wonders ‘Why?’
A working woman’s viewpoint, fairly held,
Is slandered, slighted, ‘Not right-thinking she,’
Because the crone doth disagree with ME!

With humblest apologies to the great Bard,

Now have at that.

People smuggling and Illegal Immigration

The two are inextricably linked. How, pray, could it be otherwise? (I’m talking mainly about Europe here, you have a special case in SA and, to a lesser extent, in the USA, those of you from those countries.) Human trafficking is a US$ 44 billion a year business

Human trafficking is a small industry by comparison, worth under $44bn but arguably the most pernicious. According to the UN, up to 27 million people are now held in slavery, far more than at the peak of the African slave trade. The majority of the victims this time are Asian women.

Each and every illegal immigrant has entered into a conspiracy to break the law.* The people they are dealing with make their money regardless of the doom of the illegal immigrant, whether it be a sweatshop in UK, a brothel in france or a Pizza parlour, fer Pete’s sake. All of these are part of the black economy, don’t forget. No return to the country of destination, no income tax, NICs or VAT and, unless you’re a cabinet minister, employing or dealing with illegal immigrants can put you in jail – or worse; ask the family of Karen Reed.

It can be a deadly crossing. Last September a Chechen woman tried to enter Europe with her four young children from hills on the Ukrainian side of the border, just a few miles from the smuggler’s village.

Walking alone she lost her bearings in heavy rain and falling temperatures. Panicked, she left behind her three daughters, aged between 6 and 13, to search for help. Polish border guards found her and her two-year-old son wandering aimlessly. But by the time they reached the girls, all had died from hypothermia.

Reference

Whacko of the Week.

Please feel free to add your own contributions. One caveat, the Whacko must have exposed, or had exposed, his, (most likely,) or her whackiness in the MSM. One more – no politicians, shooting sitting ducks is no sporting.

Wildlife documentaries invade animal privacy rights, claims leading academic
Wildlife documentary makers are breaching the rights of animals by invading their privacy, a leading academic has claimed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7653305/Wildlife-documentaries-invade-animal-privacy-rights-claims-leading-academic.html