I am not a conservative either!
Reader comment on item: West Africa - Europe's New Border
in response to reader comment: Differences between Europe and the USA

Submitted by Octavio Johanson (Italy), Mar 30, 2006 at 01:28

Back in my country, I vote for the centre-left. I am not a conservative, and I am not right-wing. But, this isn't about Left and Right. If it was enough to vote for the Right to end the problem, then we would be out of trouble very easily.

This phenomenon of illegal immigration will only stop when the economic conditions of Europe will resemble the economic conditions of Less Developed Countries. At that point, there will be no more reasons to come here. We are going to see more of this, because current immigrants will call more people from their own countries. That will be true in Europe and in the USA. You go places where you know you will find people from your own country.

Europe is paying the price for petrol, and we are paying with open-borders. The USA are paying for NAFTA and free-trade. Now, if further immigration was stopped, integration would be so much easier. Older Immigrants would learn the language, marry local women, have children, and bring them up according to European mores. We are not even trying to do that. In Rotterdham, Holland, the local administration had to insist on the use of Dutch. The truth is that, in some parts of Europe, there are independent entities within the main country. In some French cities, you only find Islamic shops and Islamic butchers. In the case of Europe, immigration = Islam. Therefore, we are entitled to say something. The good immigrant is the one who marries a local girl, makes friends with local people etc. That's not necessary if people keep coming in.

The Danes had to ban people from importing wives from Muslim countries. In the USA, it is all about American corporations having their own interests in Mexico, and the Mexican Government encouraging people to move North. It is a bit different in Europe, but I can recognize some of the elements. It is the powerful who have been encouraging illegal immigration for 20 years. It is not the common man. Read the Economist: why do they support asylum seekers? Read the Financial Times and Le Monde (it is available in English, Sidda). Read the European edition of the Wall Street Journal. These are not ordinary people, these are the elite. These people represent big corporations and globalism.

If the common man complains about immigration, then the name-calling starts: "racist", "xenophobe", "Islamophobe", "bigot", "fascist". The big corporations want cheap labour and they want to move their activities to Less Developed Countries. Politicians want votes. Bureaucrats and law-enforcement officials don't want trouble. After seeing massive pro-immigration rallies, you wonder why the legal status of those protesters was not checked on the spot. Of course, if you say these things, then people call you a "Nehanderthal man". You are not. You are the common man, the one who will have to pay for this. Letting people come to Europe (or the USA) is not about racial tolerance. It has never been about racial tolerance. It is about power.

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