George Rebane
[This is the updated transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 24 October 2018.]
A recently updated dictionary defines ‘migration’ as the “movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions.” And not by accident, this sounds like something all good-hearted people should encourage and support. Today we are suddenly presented with the prospect of over 5,000 Central Americans having mysteriously been massed and marshalled to march north illegally through three countries with the objective of overtly overwhelming our southern border controls, and illegally forcing their way into the United States to become wards of the American taxpayer.
Through the west’s leftwing media, the social justice of such movements is now firmly planted and non-negotiable in the minds of millions living in what many describe as SH countries. So, if your country becomes intolerable through one of a number of ways, that range from a broken economy through a mega-corrupt government to a ‘mad-max’ social order, you now have an internationally recognized ‘right’ to emigrate by any extra-legal means available to another country, one that is yet unsullied by what you and yours have allowed to come to pass in your native land.
From where did all this come about? How are 5,000 people spontaneously assembled, then marched over a thousand miles through difficult and dangerous country, carrying no food or means of shelter, then to be presented in a timely manner at our border to create a massive media event just prior to our mid-term election, an event that conveniently allows our self-styled ‘pro-immigrant’ – aka pro-illegal alien – party to solidify the votes of our lightly-read light thinkers? (more here)
These kinds of migrations bear no resemblance to the Great Migration of WW2 in which tens of millions of Europeans fled before the onslaught of Stalin’s Red Army as it conquered the countries of eastern Europe and half of Germany. These migrants were true refugees whose lands had been taken and in which, if they remained, they would be class enemies, to be imprisoned or worse. To escape, they packed whatever they could and filled the roads and trains heading west toward territory under the control of the western allies.
This migration of millions started during the war in 1944, and continued until 1948 when Stalin finally brought down the Iron Curtain. Historians and demographers consider this to have been the largest movement of people in human history. Full disclosure – along with my parents, I was part of that migration and subsequent internment in refugee camps until we were invited to emigrate and become Americans.
Here we are not talking about refugees from countries which have been invaded by other nation-states. Today we focus on migrants from lands that remain sovereign with their culture and borders intact. Lands that, for a number of reasons, the migrants consider unsuitable. So today their encouraged solution is to pick up some belongings, and simply set out for a more suitable country. They do this knowing that upon arrival they will create a socio-political crisis that will be resolved by welcoming political parties and NGOs that have shaped trans-rational public emotions to let them exercise the newly-minted and now inalienable human right of illegal entry with subsequent nurture and resettlement.
History records that only autocracy can keep peace within a multi-cultural population. More precisely, no un-assimilated, multi-cultural population has co-existed in peace, except during times when their shared economy allowed each to grow and prosper. Otherwise, in such lands the government gun has been the effective instrument to establish and maintain an impoverished calm. Such factors should be part of a reasoned national debate as we work toward immigration reform. Today’s agenda-driven herding of 5,000 Hondurans to our border, on the eve of our extremely divisive election, does nothing to heal the widening rift that has already polarized us.
My name is Rebane, and I also expand on this and related themes on Rebane’s Ruminations where the transcript of this commentary is posted with relevant links, and where such issues are debated extensively. However, my views are not necessarily shared by KVMR. Thank you for listening.
[28oct18 update] It seems that I have again been taken to task by our leftwing readers. The two cases I’d like to cover here once more confirm that progressives demonstrate a profound deficit in their knowledge of history and that everyday logic continues to elude them, especially when they are focused on getting across their latest ad hominem. I am specifically referring to the discussion this commentary elicited in the below comment stream and on RL Crabb’s blog (here) where yours truly is characterized as the head pig (“Big Gee”) in an Orwell’s Animal Farm setting.
One of my perpetual sins with Mr Crabb is my belief that voters who vote on given issues should be at least minimally informed on what they are voting (here). If they don’t know anything about the issue, then they should skip over that item on the ballot instead of casting their vote on the basis of the last soundbite that sticks in their mind. Over the years, I have cited a reasonable basis for that belief. However, as most readers on both sides of this notion would agree, knowing what you’re voting on is not a requirement for the Left’s constituencies, and it never has been. Moreover, anyone who even deigns to suggest such a thing is immediately tagged as an ‘intellectual elitist’ whose real purpose is to suppress the vote and therefore limit democracy in favor of the privileged. Instead of educating yourself and then making up your own mind, the Left has always been a proponent of class voting – if you belong to this or that (usually aggrieved) class, then this is your correct vote on the matter, period. Jefferson’s ‘A nation ignorant and free …’ has been relegated to the dustbin of their history.
Mr Steven Frisch, of our local leftwing illuminati and resident history expert, questions why the Rebanes did not flee from Hitler’s Wehrmacht into the arms of Stalin’s Red Army in 1941, and instead waited until 1944 to escape to Germany from the advancing Red Army. Anyone even remotely familiar with WW2’s European contending ideologies, frontline dynamics, and population movements would not ask such a profoundly ignorant question. How and why the Rebanes, along with millions of other east Europeans (‘The Great Migration’) migrated as they did has been extensively covered in these posts, and especially in the relevant ‘My Story’ category of RR. The simple answer for the new reader is that Uncle Joe wanted to kill people like the Rebanes, and Hitler wanted them in German labor battalions repairing German cities from Allied bombings. The latter meant life and the possibility of surviving the war in the hands of the Allies. But these are nuances that totally escape even the most learned of liberal minds.
As an example, ‘M’, an anonymous leftwinger who is one of our regulars and also a reliable representative of progressive thought on matters covered herein, was not able to parse the above commentary where I voiced how current citizens of shithole countries today have a relatively easy choice on whether to migrate to a developed country that still maintains civil norms, or stay home and work (fight?) to improve their homeland. Emoting, “Big Gee thinks it soooo simple to be a refugee escaping from a corrupt and violent government/country and walk a couple of thousand miles.” was the best that Mr M could do. In such conversations the people M represents cannot understand the difference between 1) how simple the decision to migrate may be, and 2) how simple the migration itself would be – their minds are not prepared to handle such nuances. The response is invariably a conversation ending ad hominem in which they proudly declare their deficit. Given the evidence of his knowledge base and debating skills, to his credit M has correctly chosen anonymity.
Finally, no progressive who promotes open borders and uncontrolled immigration has even touched the main point of my commentary – specifically, a new and carefully inculcated mentality among the poor and oppressed living in shithole countries around the world. Such people today readily migrate “… knowing that upon arrival they will create a socio-political crisis that will be resolved by welcoming political parties and NGOs that have shaped trans-rational public emotions to let them exercise the newly-minted and now inalienable human right of illegal entry with subsequent nurture and resettlement.”
However, no one wants to talk about how such illegal cross-border migrations and subsequent welcoming requirements have suddenly become the newest of human rights. Moreover, what is the impact on the targeted nations when such ‘rights’ become politically mandated selectively or throughout the international community? These are questions worthy of consideration by those who will have to pay for and suffer the consequences of such mass migrations as we witness in the EU today. The Left’s response to all this is another round of intense name-calling. And with them we are encouraged to find common ground? Where?
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