People who do not have British nationality are foreigners. In France people are foreigners if they do not have French nationality.
BBC Radio 4's Today programme today referred to hundreds of young men in Calais as "illegal migrants". This bestows on them an acknowledgement of their continuing to be somewhere where they have no "right" to be.
A Frenchmen who helps them was proud to do so as, he said, France was the originator of "human rights".
What are "rights" but a semantic instrument to affect a nation's law - which may be good, bad, or indifferent. (A rare exception is the expression "Right of reply".)
Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights states "Everyone's right to life shall be protected...." It has been suggested, therefore, that soldiers who are killed in combat have had their rights violated (by their own Government).
The reason soldiers enlist is to protect their country.
Therefore there is no "human right" more important than immigration control. Which, if functioning properly, protects a country from foreign occupation without recourse to violence.
Yet when an Englishman (yours truly) complained to the European Commission of Human Rights (10 June 1977) about foreign and Commonwealth men using marriage as a means of living and working in the UK, it was not investigated - on the grounds that I had not been a victim of a decision by a public body.
Subsequently (12 May 1982), the ECHR determined in favour of three women whose husbands were not allowed to live and work in the UK. Article 12 - "Men and women of marriageable age have the right to marry and to found a family, according to the national laws governing the exercise of this right." - was cited.
Article 12 concedes the precedence of national laws.
Nevertheless, the Conservative Government that was elected in 1979 to end this concession to foreign men did not do so.
Native British men have been reduced to second-class citizens, which the spread of the English language has done nothing to ameliorate.
There's a Union Jack at the entrance to Eglise Saint-Maclou in Rouen (where Joan of Arc was burnt by the English in 1431) together with a notice in English saying "... women, men and children" have worshipped there.
That word order is contrary to normal English usage. And promotes conflict.
It is hard to believe that the Church is in favour of conflict. Nor that Jesus Christ would have used that word order. It has nothing to do with Christianity, or God, or Good.
Friday 24 July 2009
Saturday 11 July 2009
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Fifteen British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan these past ten days.(The wounded hardly get a mention.....)
Contrast this with the every (work-)day battle that goes on at the Immigration Offices in Croydon, and elsewhere.
The story so far......
The Conservatives failed to keep their 1979 election promise to end the concession whereby foreign men can live and work in the UK through marriage.
One reason they didn't is because the European Commission of Human Rights determined in favour of three women whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK.
That was 12 May 1982, when the Falklands Conflict was at its height. 255 British servicemen died (a similar number has, apparently, subsequently committed suicide).
Then as now, while British servicemen are being killed and wounded, foreign and Commonwealth men are being allowed to occupy these islands.
The reason the European Commission of Human Rights was established was to prevent a repitition of some of the atrocities of the Second World War. Therefore, the last thing it should do is enable people from outside Europe to take up permanent residence in member states.
A basic tenet behind the concept of "rights" is Equality.
But, there is no Equality between British servicemen and foreigners occupying the UK. Nor with the army - an army arraigned against native British men - of people employed on large salaries in the Equality industry.
Contrast this with the every (work-)day battle that goes on at the Immigration Offices in Croydon, and elsewhere.
The story so far......
The Conservatives failed to keep their 1979 election promise to end the concession whereby foreign men can live and work in the UK through marriage.
One reason they didn't is because the European Commission of Human Rights determined in favour of three women whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK.
That was 12 May 1982, when the Falklands Conflict was at its height. 255 British servicemen died (a similar number has, apparently, subsequently committed suicide).
Then as now, while British servicemen are being killed and wounded, foreign and Commonwealth men are being allowed to occupy these islands.
The reason the European Commission of Human Rights was established was to prevent a repitition of some of the atrocities of the Second World War. Therefore, the last thing it should do is enable people from outside Europe to take up permanent residence in member states.
A basic tenet behind the concept of "rights" is Equality.
But, there is no Equality between British servicemen and foreigners occupying the UK. Nor with the army - an army arraigned against native British men - of people employed on large salaries in the Equality industry.
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