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[1] Posted by Gavin Staples 07-06-2003, 12:17 PM |
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Chief Rabbi: Britain is 'besieged'
By Elizabeth Day (Filed: 06/07/2003) The Chief Rabbi has warned that Britain is being "besieged" by asylum seekers and has advocated regional refugee camps outside Britain in an attempt to deal with the problem. In an interview with The Telegraph Dr Jonathan Sacks, the spiritual leader of 280,000 British Jews, said that new policies were needed. Dr Sacks himself admitted that were it not for Britain's willingness to accept Jewish refugees in the past, "almost no Jew in Britain would be alive today". Nonetheless, the Chief Rabbi said that the changing face of Britain and the growing number of worldwide refugees needed a new approach. "Asylum cannot be granted to all those who seek it," he said. "As the philosopher Michael Walzer puts it, affluent and free countries are, like elite universities, besieged by applicants and cannot admit them all. "The pressure of sheer numbers of asylum seekers in the 21st century will force the West to develop new policies - possibly by establishing regional protection zones under the auspices of the United Nations." The introduction of regional protection zones for people seeking asylum in the UK was proposed by David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, in February. Under the initiative, asylum seekers arriving in Dover would be screened and fingerprinted before removal to a UN-run protection area close to their home country, where their application would be processed. The Chief Rabbi's comments were met with concern by leading members of the Jewish community, many of whom are children or grandchildren of refugees from Nazi Germany. Rabbi Tony Bayfield, the chief executive of the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, said that turning away asylum seekers went against the Jewish principle of taking "the homeless into your home", as commanded by the prophet Isaiah. Jan Shaw, Amnesty International's UK refugee affairs programme director, added that regional protection zones "are likely to involve arbitrary detention and so may be in breach of international law". But Sir Sigmund Sternberg, a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the president of the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, said: "I applaud the Chief Rabbi for speaking out. You cannot separate politics from religion." Source: Daily Telegraph. Comment: This is the only practical way of dealing with this type of problem. -- ************************************************** ************************** ************************************************** * Gavin Staples. current news topics, weather forecasts and news comments updated regularly www.gavinstaples.com Currently writing book titled: Contemporary Societies East and West. The introduction of this is on my homepage. Nou aru taka wa tsume wo kakusu. The hawk with talent hides its talons (The person who knows most, often says the least)~ Japanese Proverb. All outgoing emails are checked for viruses by Norton Internet Securities 2003, which is a top specification antivirus protection. ************************************************** ************************** ************************************************** ** |
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[2] Posted by smicker 07-06-2003, 02:17 PM |
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 16:17:09 +0100, "Gavin Staples"
<gstaples@clara.co.uk> wrote: >Chief Rabbi: Britain is 'besieged' He escaped by way of a clever device http://www.smicker.co.uk tells it as it is. smicker |
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[3] Posted by Berend de Boer 07-06-2003, 07:05 PM |
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delphipa> One has to wonder what factors led to this situation (I delphipa> am sure there are many) but one I would like to draw on delphipa> is the fact that the UK is heavily overpopulated. Ha, the UK overpopulated? It's just empty countryside mostly. That most of the brits want to live near the Thames, is perhaps a problem, but the population outside that spot consists mainly of people painted on hills. -- Regards, Berend. (-: |
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[4] Posted by infidel 07-06-2003, 07:50 PM |
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"Berend de Boer" <berend@xsol.com> wrote in message news:uk7avs44c.fsf_-_@xsol.com... > > delphipa> One has to wonder what factors led to this situation (I > delphipa> am sure there are many) but one I would like to draw on > delphipa> is the fact that the UK is heavily overpopulated. > > Ha, the UK overpopulated? It's just empty countryside mostly. That > most of the brits want to live near the Thames, is perhaps a problem, > but the population outside that spot consists mainly of people painted on > hills. > Surely there has to be someone there? Who else would make the "crop circles"?! (;>D FA I. |
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[5] Posted by Gregory Shearman 07-06-2003, 07:54 PM |
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 16:17:09 +0100, Gavin Staples wrote:
>Chief Rabbi: Britain is 'besieged' > >By Elizabeth Day >(Filed: 06/07/2003) > > >The Chief Rabbi has warned that Britain is being "besieged" by asylum >seekers and has advocated regional refugee camps outside Britain in an >attempt to deal with the problem. > [...] > >Comment: > This is the only practical way of dealing with this type >of problem. Hmmm.. so the Rabbi says: "Now that all the jews are safe, let's lock the fucking doors..." How charitable of him. Perhaps we'll remember when the next holocaust against the jews happens. -- Regards, Gregory. "Ding-a-Ding Dang, My Dang-a-Long Ling Long." |
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[6] Posted by Steve Glynn 07-06-2003, 08:29 PM |
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"Gavin Staples" <gstaples@clara.co.uk> wrote in message news:1057504391.39287.0@demeter.uk.clara.net... > Chief Rabbi: Britain is 'besieged' > > By Elizabeth Day > (Filed: 06/07/2003) > > > The Chief Rabbi has warned that Britain is being "besieged" by asylum > seekers and has advocated regional refugee camps outside Britain in an > attempt to deal with the problem. > <snip> It's all a cunning plot to confuse the coterie of far-right posters to UK Politics Misc who loathe Jews and asylum seekers in equal measure. I've been waiting for their comments on this matter, but I can only assume they're still recovering from the shock of opening the Telegraph and discovering they're in full agreement with the Chief Rabbi about something. More seriously, I'm worried about how these places are supposed to work. Whether they're only for people applying for asylum in the UK or the idea is that they should be a pan-EU initiative, there're going to be considerable practical difficulties. At least in the UK, applying for asylum is can be a pretty protracted process unless the applicant is from somewhere considered a 'safe country', in which case the application gets turned round and almost invariably refused in a few weeks. This is partly because applications do take time to investigate -- if someone turns up from Zimbabwe he's quite possibly telling the truth when he says he's in fear of his life from Mugabe's thugs, but deciding if he actually does have a well-founded fear of persecution at their hands is another matter -- and partly because the Asylum section of the Home Office is, quite simply, an administrative disgrace. Trying to conduct the investigations at long distance is just going to complicate things even more. You've also got the problems of providing applicants with competent legal advice (I don't know how many people have seen the forms an applicant has to complete -- I have, and I wouldn't like to fill one out without professional advice) and what you do with people who se application is unsuccessful but who you can't deport. As an example of this category, Iraqis are a pretty good example. While Saddam was in power, it was obviously pretty difficult for an applicant to prove he qualified for asylum -- writing to Saddam and asking him if his secret police had, in fact, tortured Mr Ali or murdered one of his family wouldn't get anyone very far -- but we couldn't really deport him back to Iraq, partly because there weren't (still aren't) any flights there from the UK and partly because even if we weren't convinced he'd been persecuted before he left Iraq it was a racing certainty he would be if he were sent back there. Even now we won't deport to most of Iraq because the situation's so unstable and we don't want to add to the US/UK interim administration's problems. Come to think of it, I don't think we're yet deporting to Afghanistan, because the UNHCR are finding it difficult enough to cope with the needs of the existing population, and the last thing they want at the moment is to be landed with loads of returning refugees. There's the horrible possibility of people being stuck in these regional refugee camps for years on end in an administrative limbo. While it's not quite the same thing, since people in Displaced Persons' Camps at the end of WW2 knew that eventually they'd be resettled somewhere, apparently those people who were unfortunate enough to be kept hanging around in DP camps for two or three years with their lives on hold were pretty fed-up by the end of the process. Steve |
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[7] Posted by The Enlightenment 07-06-2003, 09:06 PM |
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"Gavin Staples" <gstaples@clara.co.uk> wrote in message news:1057504391.39287.0@demeter.uk.clara.net... > Chief Rabbi: Britain is 'besieged' > > By Elizabeth Day > (Filed: 06/07/2003) > > > The Chief Rabbi has warned that Britain is being "besieged" by asylum > seekers and has advocated regional refugee camps outside Britain in an > attempt to deal with the problem. > > In an interview with The Telegraph Dr Jonathan Sacks, the spiritual leader > of 280,000 British Jews, said that new policies were needed. > There is a compensation in this. The massive influx of "asylum seekers" who if not actually sham dubiously qualify for the privileged of asylum is in no small part due to the pressure of the many ethnocentric lobby groups of the Jewish community amongst us. It is also a product of the talent of the Jewish community for producing a prolific number of secular Jewish radical leftists whose talent is to deconstruct and vilify western civilization in eloquent ways. To undermine faith in our history and morality. They can be intellectuals, directors, script writers producer, novelists, anthropologists, historians. The result is the use of "diversity", "multiculturalism", "tollerance". various moral posturings and the usual Marxist ideas to undermine western ethnic cohesion in order to both seem less distinct and allow greater influence to themselves. There is a survey of these ideas in this article but most will recognise them intuitively having only buttoned their lips due to political correectness. This isn't a feature of all Jews, we can alsways find exceptions or well hidden double standards; just so many that it is having an powerful ethnocidal effect on us. http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/Preface.htm There is no doubt that Europeans and British are suffering. The pressures in regards to employment, housing costs, public infrastructure costs are such that the birth rate is plummeting and vast revenue streams are now diverted to managing the needs of the immigrants and asylum seekers. Statistically their crime rate is also very high although the state puts in a great effort not to make available such figures. Now that the insanity of 'diversity', 'multiculturalism, 'asylum', 'immigration' is going too far even many Jews are seeing the harm and are feeling fear (good I say) they have they are reacting in various ways. Some have joined the BNP and groups like amren where they have been enthusiastically accpeted even while others continue along the same path: peddling more diversity even harder, siding even more one sidely against European whites. There is a compensation in this. The Muslims that make up much of the immigrants have a thousand year history of a beautifully developed anti-Semitism well hidden behind double standards but also honed to a high pitch by the affairs in the middle east and US jewish power. The Jews will suffer consequences for this and if there is such a thing as deservedness for a people then they would suffer deservedly so. My only hope is that they do not escape the mess, as they did in Sth Africa and many times befor but suffer it with us. I hope it doesn't get to it but I think it will. |
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[8] Posted by delphipa 07-06-2003, 09:13 PM |
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> It's all a cunning plot to confuse the coterie of far-right posters to UK
> Politics Misc who loathe Jews and asylum seekers in equal measure. Actually, I think its a great move. Your average white Christian would be branded racist for making such claims. Now the lefties are probably working themselves into a frenzy trying not to offend either ethnic group. > I've been waiting for their comments on this matter, but I can only assume > they're still recovering from the shock of opening the Telegraph and > discovering they're in full agreement with the Chief Rabbi about something. > More seriously, I'm worried about how these places are supposed to work. > Whether they're only for people applying for asylum in the UK or the idea is > that they should be a pan-EU initiative, there're going to be considerable > practical difficulties. At least in the UK, applying for asylum is can be > a pretty protracted process unless the applicant is from somewhere > considered a 'safe country', in which case the application gets turned round > and almost invariably refused in a few weeks. This is partly because Considering the rules on applying for asylum in the nearest safe haven, anyone not from Iceland, France, Norway, Ireland etc.., or arriving by direct flight should be turned away. Their goal is not to seek asylum, if they were, they would follow the rules set out by the UN. Instead they make a beeline to the UK where the government will hand them everything they need. > Trying to conduct the investigations at long distance is just going to > complicate things even more. You've also got the problems of providing > applicants with competent legal advice (I don't know how many people have > seen the forms an applicant has to complete -- I have, and I wouldn't like > to fill one out without professional advice) and what you do with people who > se application is unsuccessful but who you can't deport. I guess the phrase beggars can't be choosers comes into play. > As an example of this category, Iraqis are a pretty good example. While > Saddam was in power, it was obviously pretty difficult for an applicant to > prove he qualified for asylum -- writing to Saddam and asking him if his > secret police had, in fact, tortured Mr Ali or murdered one of his family > wouldn't get anyone very far -- but we couldn't really deport him back to > Iraq, partly because there weren't (still aren't) any flights there from the > UK and partly because even if we weren't convinced he'd been persecuted > before he left Iraq it was a racing certainty he would be if he were sent > back there. Interestingly enough, in the US, there are a ton of Iraqis chomping at the bit to go back to Iraq, however, the US goverment won't let them yet. In the UK, its all about deporting them, not about them leaving to go back to their homeland. Again, highlights the fact that they are not seeking asylum per se, but a cushy life at the hands of the taxpayer. > Even now we won't deport to most of Iraq because the situation's so unstable > and we don't want to add to the US/UK interim administration's problems. > Come to think of it, I don't think we're yet deporting to Afghanistan, > because the UNHCR are finding it difficult enough to cope with the needs of > the existing population, and the last thing they want at the moment is to be > landed with loads of returning refugees. Again, for genuine asylum seekers, deportation shouldn't be an issue once the coast is clear. > There's the horrible possibility of people being stuck in these regional > refugee camps for years on end in an administrative limbo. While it's not > quite the same thing, since people in Displaced Persons' Camps at the end of > WW2 knew that eventually they'd be resettled somewhere, apparently those > people who were unfortunate enough to be kept hanging around in DP camps for > two or three years with their lives on hold were pretty fed-up by the end of > the process. Given that their alternative is death, I don't think they would have too much to complain about, unless again, they are disappointed (like a certain Latvian family) that they didn't get a mansion and untold wealth every month. |
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[9] Posted by Roger Dewhurst 07-07-2003, 01:04 AM |
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"infidel" <someone@somewhere.con> wrote in message news:Ow1Oa.3502$oN.158034@newsfeeds.bigpond.com... > > "Berend de Boer" <berend@xsol.com> wrote in message > news:uk7avs44c.fsf_-_@xsol.com... > > > > delphipa> One has to wonder what factors led to this situation (I > > delphipa> am sure there are many) but one I would like to draw on > > delphipa> is the fact that the UK is heavily overpopulated. > > > > Ha, the UK overpopulated? It's just empty countryside mostly. That > > most of the brits want to live near the Thames, is perhaps a problem, > > but the population outside that spot consists mainly of people painted on > > hills. People are not as thick on the ground as in Holland but there are still far too many for comfort. New Zealand, with 4 million, is just about overpopulated. R |
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[10] Posted by smicker 07-07-2003, 01:47 AM |
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On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:05:23 +1200, Berend de Boer <berend@xsol.com>
wrote: The complete answer http://www.smicker.co.uk smicker |
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