Thread: To put it into perspective

This is a little different, but I found it to be quite enlightening, and confusing at the same time. Are we playing musical countries here? I want to know why not just here, but in England as well, they are offering a form of amnesty to illegals.


http://www.charlotte.com/409/v-print/story/254993.html

British citizens flee, replaced by immigrants
CAL THOMAS
"There'll Always Be an England"
-- popular World War II song

Perhaps there will not always be an England. An exodus unprecedented in modern times, coupled with a record influx of foreigners, is threatening to erode the character of the land of William Shakespeare and overpowering monarchs, a land that served as the cradle for much of American thought, law and culture.

The figures, making headlines in London newspapers, tell only part of the story. Between June 2005 and June 2006 nearly 200,000 British citizens chose to leave the country for a new life elsewhere. During the same period, at least 574,000 immigrants came to Britain. This number does not include the people who broke the law to get there.

Britain's Office of National Statistics reports that middle-class Britons are beginning to move out of towns in southern England that have become home to large numbers of immigrants, thereby altering the character of neighborhoods that have remained unchanged for generations.

They fear lawlessness

Britons give many reasons for leaving, but their stories share one commonality: life in Britain has become unbearable for them. They fear lawlessness and the threat of more terrorism from a growing Muslim population and the loss of a sense of Britishness, exacerbated by the growing refusal of public schools to teach the history and culture of the nation to the next generation. What it means to be British has been watered down in a plague of political correctness that has swept the country faster than hoof-and-mouth disease. Officials say they do not wish to "offend" others.Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers are about to be granted "amnesty" to stay in Britain. The government's approach is similar to that pursued by President Bush, who failed to win congressional approval for his amnesty plan. In Britain it appears likely to succeed. Migrants will be granted immediate access to many benefits, including top priority for council housing. Taxpayers will foot the bill.

The Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, called the policy a "stealth amnesty." Again, in a comment reminiscent of the debate in America, Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said: "This is yet another example of the Alice in Wonderland world of human rights. If you break British law for long enough, you acquire rights not penalties."

British media have carried stories about an Italian immigrant who murdered a schoolteacher and was sentenced to life in prison. He is about to be released after serving just 12 years. The government wants to deport him to Italy, but a combination of British human rights legislation and European Union law are making it impossible to do so. This does not bode well for deporting Islamic terrorists who call for the overthrow of the government and incite young people to acts of violence.

Assimilation not encouraged

Abraham Lincoln said no nation can exist half slave and half free. Neither can a nation be sustained if it allows conditions that result in mass emigration, while importing huge numbers of foreigners who come from backgrounds that do not practice assimilation or tolerance of other beliefs. When one factors in the high number of abortions (one in five pregnancies are aborted in England and Wales), the high birth rates of immigrants (15 times those of white Britons), it doesn't take a population expert to predict that the days of the England we have known may be numbered.

The problem for Britain and the United States isn't just the change in demographics. It is the reluctance of both countries to inculcate the beliefs, history and, yes, religious ideals, which made our nations so successful that others wanted to come and be a part of them. The difference between many of the current immigrants and those of the past is that the previous ones wanted to become fully American or fully British. The current ones, in too many cases, would destroy what makes our countries unique. And the "leaders" of Britain and America refuse to stop it.

The greater tragedy is that the people of Britain have little say in any of this, so they are taking the road of last resort. They are leaving.

Cal

Thomas

Geez! When are the leaders going to get a clue?
A lot of Americans are thinking of leaving also. I haven't given up on our country tho.

Take a good, long look my friends, at what has happened to our British cousins. The problems they are having now (and which are growing worse by the day) are the same problems we will have if flow of illegal immigrants is allowed to continue unchecked; and Britain's dismal-looking future awaits America as well, if the open borders crowd ever get their way.

The reason a lot of British citizens are leaving is because the well-to-do baby boomers are moving to cheaper retirement homes in other countries. Whatever other cuases there may be this is one of the biggest and is probably reaching its peak right now with baby boomers reaching 62 y/o.

I have seen lots of mags and websites, especially for Britishers, urging them to buy bargain priced property in sunnier locations. The opening of Eastern Europe has also accelerated this trend. And some of them are moving to other Commonwealth nations around the Globe. But not many to South Africa.