The Emerald Isle - Can the IRA save it
They could not even leave Ireland alone. Was that enchanted Island really a
threat to the Globalists. Surely now North and South could unite to at least
stop the tide that is now engulfing them? I am not Irish, I am not Catholic
but if I could stop the downfall of the Emerald Isle I would do so.
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COMMENTARY By KEVIN MYERS
Irish Independent, Dublin Wednesday, 5 September 2007
The problem isn't racism, it's
the tidal wave of immigrants
By KEVIN MYERS Irish Independent, Dublin Wednesday, 5
September 2007
All right, you know about the Government's latest move to
outlaw beggars? Do you really think it's really about beggars? It isn't.
It's about immigrant- beggars, who now throng our
streets.
We could, of course, deal with the substantive matter, that of
immigration itself, but instead we prefer to deal with its symptoms ? and in
the usual cowardly way in which we address anything which is a little
difficult or embarrassing.
Now look: I'm not a complete fool. People don't turn columnists
to read the same stuff, day after day after day. Yet that's what I've been
doing, endlessly writing on this same subject.
Immigration is now not merely the
dominant feature of Irish life, it is the greatest threat to the existence of
the Irish nation as a coherent, and cohesive whole.
No country has ever accepted, never mind
assimilated, the volumes of foreigners now present in this state. We
have some 400,000 legal immigrants; but everyone knows that the army of
illegals, especially Africans and Chinese, is vast, and probably tops
200,000. In all, Ireland has received at least 600,000 immigrants, most of
them within the past five years. It could be many more. No one has the least
idea.
In the US, such immigration would translate into an inward
population movement of 45 million. In the UK, the figure would be nine
million. Needless to say, neither state would be so idiotic or feckless as
allow such vast numbers to enter.
Only Ireland would be so idiotic and so morally lethargic as to
allow such massive inward population movements.
And of course, we haven't got the resources to cope with the
consequences of such an influx. But worse than our lack of resources, is our
lack of courage in confronting the issue.
We do not have policies, but inept evasiveness: and perhaps
worst of all, we have a posturing gallery of home-grown
jackanapes ready to shriek "racism" wherever and whenever they see
that things are not going quite the way that immigrants want.
Thus, on any discussion on RTE, especially from its newsroom,
immigrants are never held responsible for choosing to come here. Instead, we
hear endless complaints that Irish institutions had not prepared themselves
properly for their arrival.
On the News at One on Monday, African after African in
Balbriggan complained there were no places for their children in the existing
local schools.
Not once was the question posed: what was the real reason for
the Africans not having places in schools? Answer: they'd only just come
here.
Instead, Africans who were just off the
boat were allowed to accuse us of racism for not having school places
awaiting their children.
There's also the Paddy- factor in all this. It's impossible for
any outsider to understand that this state is almost pathologically incapable
of planning anything.
This is the land of the Red Cow Roundabout and motorways
without service stations, rest stops or toilets. So how could we be expected
seven years ago to have planned school-building projects in north county
Dublin for Africans as yet unborn?
If blaming ourselves for our failure to plan for Africa's
educational needs were not fatuous enough, some poor spokeswoman from the
Catholic archdiocese of Dublin had to defend the Catholic Church against an
RTE journalist's accusations of bigotry.
Naturally, in this unprincipled liberal Ireland, for the
Catholic Church to insist that Catholic schools have a primary duty to
educate Catholics is nowadays both racist and
sectarian.
But of course, no one on RTE would ever dream of proposing that
Islamic madrasahs should take in Jewish, Catholic or Hindu pupils: in the new
Ireland, the only people who are expected to bend their own rules are the
Irish Catholic majority.
Accompanying this presumption is the pious and all-prevalent
dogma that immigrants will on arrival abandon ancient loyalties, and will
promptly don a Hibernian mantle: hence the brainless cliche, wittered
endlessly by journalists and politicians alike, "the
New Irish".
Sorry. This is conceited gibberish. Why would a Pole surrender
something which the Polish people have fought for a thousand years to retain?
Why the presumption that an Asian Muslim who
lives in Ireland is in any way Irish?
My mother lived most of her life in England, but never for a
second thought of herself as English.
The media should be asking the big question,
'Why are we still admitting hundreds of thousands of
immigrants?'
Instead, we are obsessing with the relatively trivial question
of: Are the Irish people, who after all have admitted vast armies of
strangers to their national home, racist?
This is self-hatred at its most pathetic, and its most
self-defeating. Whether Irish people are "racist" is irrelevant. We have
created a society whose apparent cohesiveness is totally dependent on
immigration-fuelled economic growth. That growth must one day come to an end.
Then what, in Darndale, Coolock, or even Balbriggan?
When establishment journalists are
allowed to write this sort of thing in a national newspaper, you know there
is a real problem. What's of even greater significance is the fact
that what this commentator is talking about can be heard
in every house, bar and shop in the Irish Republic. Interesting times
lie ahead!
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"I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do
everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can
do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do."
- Edward Everett Hale