January 11, 2008

"Give people in suburbs job preference."

In breaking news from 2005 in Sweden, we see the Swedish government tying itself in knots to deal with the problems of certain groups who refuse to integrate into Swedish society and who choose to segregate themselves in ghettoes of their own choosing:
Government discrimination investigator Masoud Kamali is calling for legislation to give those living in segregated areas precedence for jobs if they are as qualified as other applicants.[1]
And those people "living in segregated areas" (PLISAs) are . . . ?

The then Swedish Integration Minister Jens Orback had the usual solution ready at hand, namely, that Swedes should adapt to and accept PLISAs. Swedes should shoulder exclusive responsibility for problems created by someone else, in this case foreigners invited into Sweden by the grace and kindness of the Swedes:
The government must act quickly and take drastic measures to combat discrimination and the rising ethnic segregation.[2]
Drastic measures, mind you. On that all can be in agreement.

This response is redolent of Fjordman's observation about the inverse relationship between Western governments' ability to maintain public order and their desire to clamp down on discussion of the reasons for disorder — public order, say what you want; public disorder, crack down on people who notice it:
In contrast, in the European Union of today, which is not a totalitarian society, at least not yet, crime rates are booming in major cities. At the same time, authorities are stepping up censorship efforts, openly talking about media “speech codes” and aggressively slapping labels such as “racism” or “xenophobia” on anybody daring to criticize the immigration policies or pointing out the inadequate response to Muslim gang violence.

There is obviously a connection here: The less control the authorities have with Muslims, the more control they want to exercise over non-Muslims. As problems in Europe get worse, which they will, the EU will move in an increasingly repressive direction until it either becomes a true, totalitarian entity or falls apart. This strange mix of powerful censorship of public debate, yet little control over public law and order, has by some been labelled anarcho-tyranny."[3]
No news yet of the government's plans (a) to persuade the "people living in segregated areas" to abandon their medieval ways and (b) to limit the influx of more people with such backward and inhospitable ideas. Seditious and filthy behavior are immutable and more people likely to exhibit it are to be welcomed ad inf.

Lest you think me harsh for making such a charge, witness this from our source:
Children who come to Sweden from Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia can be likened to time travellers from the Middle Ages, according to a report commissioned by top education officials in Eskilstuna.[4]
If "medieval" doesn't sit right with you, how about "disgusting"? I've reported before on behavior that is just that on the part of one foreigner now living in Finland.[5] Perhaps the Finnish Integration Minister has since taken steps to censure the offending Finns who cared for the foreigner when he was ill and to require of them some salutary modification of their behavior, hitherto thought to be consistent with civilized people.

Back to 2005 Sweden and the report on medieval children:
Servat Barzangi from the Sabrini mosque was among those surprised by the report's findings.[6]
Yes. Surprised, that is, to have such an objective and accurate assessment actually found in a government report.

Admittedly I exist out on the right wing American portion of the spectrum. That is to say, I believe in freedom from arbitrary and stupid government, the rule of law, free speech, and the supremacy of European civilization. Misguided people disagree with me all the time, but it hardly seems possible that preservation of one's own heritage should be a matter of such controversy, indifference, or, as in Sweden, outright aggression from one's own government.

Some tipping point will have to be reached before it finally dawns on Americans and Europeans that it makes a big difference whose cultural, political, legal, and moral standards dominate and control their countries. There must surely come a time when they realize that some alien cultures must simply not be tolerated and their most disgusting and unacceptable components crushed or banished from polite society.

It took heroic efforts by Henry Graham's accountant in the 1971 classic, "A New Leaf (Walter Matthau and Elaine May)," to explain that he was out of money. "You see, uh, when more money goes out than comes in, eventually there's . . . well, no more money." OWTTE. If Henry didn't say, "How can I be out of money, I still have more checks?" this was the right place for that line to be born.

A fair number of bloggers and non-pixel journalists are trying hard to achieve the success of that silver screen accountant. I think those efforts are having some success. Yet, it is quite strange that there are legions of very smart Westerners are presently doing their utmost to deceive themselves and their fellow citizens that we can bet the farm on proposition that alien people allowed in to the home territories will leave behind all thoughts of killing, subjugating, or dispossessing us and will in short order abandon patently repulsive and hostile behaviors. If the shoe fits.

Bluto Blutarsky never did realize that his academic career was going nowhere. And one day, the real-life Blutarsky didn't realize that he had taken so much cocaine and heroin into his system that it was going to kill him that very day. He died not knowing he'd reached his own personal tipping point.

There's a lesson here. What say we try the option that has us wake up to the realities of our present bankrupt practices. And skip the option that involves a tawdry death from internal poisoning that extinguishes something bright and unique.

Notes
[1] "Give people in suburbs job preference". By Christine Demsteader, The Local, 9/1/05.
[2] Id.
[3] In Praise of the First and Second Amendments." By Fjordman, The Brussels Journal, 7/20/06 (links omitted).
[4] Demsteader, op. cit. (emphasis added).
[5] "How would Singapore handle this?" Intergalactic Source of Truth, 7/8/07.
[6] "Immigrant children 'like visitors from the Middle Ages'." The Local, 1/11/08.

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