Comments on: Update II: Bangalore On The River Brent (Demographics? Diddlysquat!) https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Van Wijk https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/comment-page-1/#comment-8017 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:06:44 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16637#comment-8017 But don’t knock Bangalore or Guangzhou, I might need to emigrate there the way things are heading in Obamastan!

Spoken like a true patriot. When things get too hot, flee!

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By: Van Wijk https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/comment-page-1/#comment-8016 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:04:51 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16637#comment-8016 No one, certainly not I, objects to legal immigration…

I do. Emphatically. And I’m not the only one.

Re: Update – I knew a Chinese Englishman who was more Thatcher than Thatcher – NEVER mention the IRA near him! – and an Indian conservative country-club Republican snob who was upset when his dark-skinned daughter dated a half-black student (where did SHE get HER dark complexion?).

Oh yeah? Well my neighbor Keeshawn is smart enough to be a brain surgeon. My minority anecdote beats yours paper-rock-scissors. Get over yourself.

Of course, the immigration problem doesn’t end with your seemingly conservative “Chinese Englishman” (had to laugh at that one). If he suffers an unfortunate ethnic insult from a random drunk, will he remain conservative? Will his children be as conservative as he? And their children? And their children? The British people shouldn’t be expected to roll the dice on such a matter.

Some immigrants adopt the ways of their new country, speak English and become culturally Western.

But most do not and never will, and that is grounds to exclude all of them if it is in the best interests of the nation’s people. Sorry, but this isn’t a parlor game. The number of people you describe in your anecdotal evidence are minute by any extrapolation, so implying that the immigration argument should hinge on them is wildly irresponsible. No nation is morally obligated to allow any immigration, and the fact that white liberals are the ultimate cause of this mess doesn’t make 3rd-world interlopers our allies.

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By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/comment-page-1/#comment-8004 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:57:48 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16637#comment-8004 “The other article discussed how a Muslim cab driver threw two, alternate lifestyle individuals out of his cab for hugging in his cab.” Robert Glisson

If the cab was private property I see no problem except the cabby should probably have advertised his right to eject for behavior he found offensive.

Some folks need to get back into the closet. I try to keep my sins private, why can’t they?

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By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/comment-page-1/#comment-8003 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:48:36 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16637#comment-8003 With the Federal Reserve counterfeiting, marginal tax rates above 50% (FICA, Fed, State), what professionals have the energy to have many children? Other than Mormons, Orthodox Jews, and uber-Catholics, most Western-oriented EDUCATED people frown on having large families.

The result is John Danforth’s Detroit (my sympathies) with 2Pack-Leroy, Pedro, and Abdul propagating dozens of kids, supported by the Welfare State, marginally employable, sucked into the criminal / underground economy, indulged by Demoplican Republicrats seeking votes, and alienated from the global market economy.

American demographic trends are far better than in Ghettoized Europistan – ask Ilana, Diana, or Geert. But don’t knock Bangalore or Guangzhou, I might need to emigrate there the way things are heading in Obamastan!

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By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/comment-page-1/#comment-7999 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:57:47 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16637#comment-7999 “America’s “special relationship” with Saudi Arabia resulted in “fast track visas” for pilot trainees who flew planes into the Twin Towers on 9/11; and I wonder whether it’s also possible that deference to the source of our oil results in increased Muslim immigration from throughout the Ummah, as well.” Barbara Grant

Bingo!

“Follow the money trail.”

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By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/comment-page-1/#comment-7998 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:54:53 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16637#comment-7998 “A clean, peaceful community comes at a price in liberty.” Robert Glisson

It is precisely liberty that leads to clean and peaceful. If we are unclean and unpeaceful it is because the decent people have been muzzled, chained and forced via the power of law in regard to:

1. how their children are educated.
2. who they can hire and fire.
3. what they can say (“hate” speech laws).
4. how they spend their money in that much of it is taxed/looted away by inflation away for the benefit of the ninny, nanny, welfare/warfare state.

Question: Does liberty favor good or evil? Conversely, does tyranny favor good or evil?

Get a clue people.

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By: Caelan https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/comment-page-1/#comment-7996 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:32:42 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16637#comment-7996 Myron Pauli: I knew a Chinese Englishman who was more Thatcher than Thatcher – NEVER mention the IRA near him!

The Chinese population in England is small. If they were over 25% of England due to continuing immigration they would develop a strong collective ethnic identity within England that would be in constant political conflict with the English majority. An immigrant is far more likely to adapt the the outward expressions of his host population if there are few of his own kind to mix with.

Northern Ireland is an example of a place where the size of the minority matters. In most areas that are over 90% either Protestant or Catholic the minority population has no choice but to work, shop, go to clubs, and often intermarry with the majority. That majority feels secure enough to respect the rights of the minority.

Even in Northern Ireland the areas where the minority is less than 10% of the population usually have good inter-community relations. The minority accepts the majority’s right to dominate the public space with its ethnic symbols whilst the majority feels secure and in turn tries to show sensitivity to the harmless minority. Areas in N Ireland that have a significant minority are all characterised by a siege mentality, voluntary apartheid, and ethnic agitators.

Myron Pauli: Remember – “NATIVE” Americans destroyed Detroit – not recent immigrants.

Must have been those WASP Mayflower descendants who did that! Get real.

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By: Barbara Grant https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/comment-page-1/#comment-7995 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:28:44 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16637#comment-7995 I’d be curious as to whether Muslim immigration into the U. S. and U. K. (with the accompanying lack of assimilation and inevitable clash of values) might be linked to our countries’ groveling before the government of Saudi Arabia, that began (for the U. S.) on May 29, 1933, when Ibn Saud granted Standard Oil of California “exclusive rights for six decades to extract oil from eastern Saudi Arabia,” (K. E. Meyer and S. B. Brysac, “Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East,” p. 227.) I ask because, on reviewing info. about the film, “Death of a Princess,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Princess it’s pretty clear that opposition to the 1980 drama came not from the usual liberal suspects, as I’d erroneously implied, but rather, from business and government leaders in the First World who feared painting the Saudis in a negative light. Loss of commerce, rather than an affront to multiculturalists or a fatwa, was the primary concern back then.

America’s “special relationship” with Saudi Arabia resulted in “fast track visas” for pilot trainees who flew planes into the Twin Towers on 9/11; and I wonder whether it’s also possible that deference to the source of our oil results in increased Muslim immigration from throughout the Ummah, as well.

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By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/comment-page-1/#comment-7994 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:22:56 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16637#comment-7994 Confession: I used to be a “Progressive” in High School. Who can be against progress? But what is progress? Liberty is the only way to prove what true progress is. Otherwise it is just theoretical.

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By: Eric Miller https://barelyablog.com/bangalore-on-the-river-brent/comment-page-1/#comment-7993 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:19:48 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=16637#comment-7993 I, too, was troubled by a couple of the initial comments here — but the VDARE article linked by Ilana left an equally bad taste. The author says that he does not support the BNP because he is “not a white nationalist,” and then picks apart Nick Griffin’s BBC performance with an unduly hostile tone, affording him only slightly more credit than did the liberal British press.

I watched the entire Question Time episode on Youtube, and never have I seen the deck so blatantly stacked against someone on a TV show. The obviousness of the BBC’s hatchet job was more offensive than anything Griffin had to say.

Of course, Griffin is far from ideal as the face of the BNP. He has too many skeletons in his closet, too many unfortunate statements on the record. But he must do until someone else comes along.

The libertarian author’s support for the UK Independence Party is understandable, but also a little ironic. Even a shared understanding of the threats posed by mass immigration and the savagery of Islam is not enough to stop native Britons from turning against one another, dividing their allegiances even as the walls close in around them.

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