November 11, 2008... The challenge of immigration.

The impact of immigration on national identify and the displacement of employment has always been problematic. Over time, and via the process of integration, the issue of identity usually--except for a minority of deliberately troublesome cases which persist in a policy of jus sanguinis--mends itself, with ethnic origin being a matter of historical interest within the family, And, as the opportunities for employment expand beyond what was the norm for a given period in time, the issue of displaced employment tends to disappear. All things being equal.

Whilst these 'over time' processes have never been without problems, contemporary attempts to make the transition less difficult have created a new phenomenon which, because it is backed by the breadth and depth of state intervention, is rapidly becoming a threat to security across the EU, at domestic and foreign levels.

This amounts to the ability of immigrants to invoke domestic and international legislation to force a government into pandering to the demands of immigrants, or face international censure: financial, political, social, and/or terrorist acts, in order to make the government capitulate to their demands, at everyone else's expense financially and/or by way of a persistent assault on the civil liberties which are the bedrock of western culture.

Like the chicken and the egg conundrum, this phenomenon is not limited to immigrants, of course, but immigrants backed by foreign governments allied to agent provocateurs, domestic and foreign, make free use of well-intended legislation, to deliberately imperil everyone else's quality of life, their own included.

For example: The sizeable Kurdish population in Germany persists in marginalising itself into ghetto-like communities. Is intimidated by and/or cooperates with PKK radicals in order to raise tens of millions of €uros to fund the enemies of Turkey--an ally of Germany. And support the call for the murder of Bundestag ministers if the German security authorities attempt to eradicate this behaviour. The same applies to Islamists from the middle east and Eurasia.

Less of a threat to life and limb--or so it would superficially appear--are demands that the German government must take immigrants as a special case and plough massive resources into integration policies which favour their special circumstances, to the extent that Germany must provide the means for the establishment of little Kurdistan, Little Turkey, Little Afghanistan, Little Somalia, etc., within Germany's borders, replete with all the cultural norms of the home country, but without impinging on the ability to call on all the social and economic services available to Germans, and force Germans to make the effort to inegrate. This is akin to digging one's own grave, for want of a better metaphor, but the degree of truth is irrefutable to any reasonable voter, who has a vote worth counting so long as they agree to this 'by fiat' implementation of democracy.

In general, and although it is not totally clear cut, the strength of the United States was that immigrants to the United States chose to become Americans, even though they may also consider themselves to be Irish-American, for example, and a few supported the so-called Republican struggle. Similarly, immigrants to Germany must primarilly choose to become Germans and cooperate fully in that which is good for Germany, so that their future well being, in Germany, is more likely. Learn German, for instance.

If this is intolerable for immigrants, they must not be encouraged to remain in Germany, but must be repatriated at their own expense, and their Hunman Rights' lawyers can go with them.