This should fit right in with that. Wow!
Toward the End of National Sovereignty
Paul Craig Roberts
Dec. 13, 2001
Tyranny is coming to Europe in the form of a new multicultural empire. Ancient
sovereign states, such as England and France, and newer ones, such as Germany
and Italy, are to cease to exist, to be folded into a European superstate. National
existence is targeted for extinction by about 2006, followed by national
consciousness.
Preparing the British for their demise as a people, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
wrote in The Independent on Nov. 22 that "in a world where states and the
interests of their citizens are so obviously interdependent, we need to rethink our
attitudes to concepts like 'independence' and 'sovereignty'."
Prime Minister Tony Blair agrees. The war against terrorism, he says, has made
national sovereignty out of date.
If you think these are weak arguments for giving up the nation-state, you have a
point. The basis for successful political life is a common language, history and
culture, which create "a people" sufficiently cohesive for democracy or self-rule to
arrive at compromises that reconcile conflicts.
When multicultural diversity replaces "a people," cohesion must be provided by
coercion.
Coercion is the response to the massive Third World immigration into European
nation-states. The erosion of "a people" by diversity has evoked tyrannical laws in
an effort to coerce an artificial commonality.
Great Britain, for example, no longer consists of its indigenous peoples: English,
Scots and Welsh. Britons are having to make room for large numbers of Africans,
Indians, Arabs and Pakistanis. Sheer numbers and victim-group status impede
assimilation, which, in turn, both impedes the immigrants' progress and fosters
resentment by diluting British culture.
The consequence of non-assimilation is racial inequality. The Labour Party has
responded by blaming "racism." On Dec. 6, the government implemented
draconian "race equality" laws. Public, private and voluntary organizations are
under statutory obligation, policed by the Commission for Racial Equality, to
produce racial equality in employment, college admissions, school performance,
disciplinary proceedings, pay, benefits, facilities – in short, a thoroughgoing quota
system.
Gurbux Singh, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, called the
legislation "a powerful lever for change." In effect, British culture has been
declared unfair, because immigrants who do not assimilate are disadvantaged.
Europe is as overrun with Third World immigrants as Britain is. Some German
Social Democrats favor immigration as a way of diluting the German population,
thereby diminishing "the worst characteristics of the nation" – in other words, as a
way of de-Germanizing Germany.
Proposals are afoot to give the same state subsidies to Islamic cultural
organizations as German ones receive.
Dilution of national cultures by immigration is the basis for the European Union. A
weakened sense of nationhood in Britain, France and Germany means no
effective opposition to bureaucratic rule by the European Commission in Brussels.
In order to criminalize national patriotism and opposition to immigration, the
European Union is pushing forward legislation that makes xenophobia and racism
crimes. Once this legislation passes, a European who, for example, criticizes
immigration as an anti-diversity measure that is wiping European civilization off the
face of the earth can be found guilty of racism and sentenced to two years in
prison.
Similarly, persons who oppose EU measures as contrary to British values or
French culture can be imprisoned for xenophobia.
Hand in hand with the criminalization of national identity goes the European arrest
warrant. Once in effect, an Englishman could be extradited to Greece and put on
trial for offenses that are not crimes in England.
No finer recipe for oppression could be devised. The oppression will be felt most
keenly by the British, for it is the liberties protected by their unique legal system
that will be lost. Oppression leads to civil war, not European unity.
The United States, of course, is on the same path. In fact, it began here with
coerced racial integration by judicial decree, a "civil rights act" that destroyed
freedom of conscience and substituted coercion for persuasion, and
unconstitutional racial quotas that destroyed equality in law.
In the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia, white governments are
responding to the postwar propaganda about "racist white hegemonic culture" by
disadvantaging the white populations and diluting the "hegemonic culture." In the
United States, the melting pot has been evicted by the slogan "Assimilation is
racism."
If the melting pot is dismissed as racist, it must also be racist to question
immigration. In the United States, only one side of the immigration debate is
permitted – the side that calls for more immigrants. In Europe, there will soon be
no debate at all.
As the United States and European governments are committed to national and
cultural suicide, what is the point of defense budgets? Shouldn't the money be
used instead for payments to make amens for having once had a hegemonic
national identity?
newsmax.com |
