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[Gordon Brown warns against 'scaremongering' over immigration]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/31/gordon-brown-warns-scaremongering-immigration

Gordon Brown warns against 'scaremongering' over immigration


Gordon Brown said net inward migration was not out of control. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Gordon Brown tried today to raise the tone of the coming election debate over immigration, warning against scaremongering over the figures and calling for a united front against those who want to use it "to stoke community tensions".

In a speech in Spitalfields, east London, the PM insisted that net inward migration is not out of control and has been on a downward path for the past three years.

However, the impact of the speech was blunted last night when Brown was reprimanded by the UK Statistics Authority for misusing immigration figures in a Downing Street podcast last Friday.

Brown promised to cut immigration further by pledging that Britain's need to import skilled migrants will be "substantially reduced" with the door closed to thousands of care workers from outside Europe by 2012 and to skilled chefs by 2014. He disclosed that moves to tighten the rules on overseas students and to crack down on "bogus" colleges were expected to lead to 40,000 fewer students coming to study in Britain in 2010 to 2011.

Brown also acknowledged that immigration generates legitimate strong feelings across communities with anxieties over schools, hospitals and housing.

"The question is, who has the best plan to control immigration, not who can appeal to our worst instincts of nationalism and xenophobia, but who can appeal to our best instincts of a fairer Britain for all the decent hardworking families across our country," he said.

He quoted statistics showing that net inward migration – the number of people who come to live and work in Britain minus the number who leave to live abroad – has fallen from 170,000 since 2007 with "provisional" figures from the international passenger survey showing the trend continued to June last year to 147,000. "This doesn't mean immigration isn't an issue at all. " he said. "But we should not allow people to scaremonger with unsubstantiated claims about rising net inward migration today."

However, Brown was reprimanded by Sir Michael Scholar, Whitehall's statistics watchdog, for misusing these statistics in the podcast, where he conflated two series of official statistics to demonstrate net inward migration had fallen from 237,000 in 2007 to 147,000. The first figure came from the Office for National Statistics's long-term migration series and was for the 12 months to December 2007. The second was drawn from provisional figures based on the international passenger survey for the 12 months to June 2009. The statistics watchdog said the two series were not comparable as the second figure included migration to and from Northern Ireland and excluded asylum seekers.

Scholar said Brown quoted them correctly in his speech today: "We hope that in the political debate over the coming weeks all parties will be careful in their use of statistics," Scholar told him.

In his immigration speech, Brown cited recent Institute of Fiscal Studies research showing that east European migrants in Britain make a positive net contirbution and pay 5% more than their share in tax and account for a third less than their share of the costs of public services.

He said the introduction of Labour's points-based immigration system had led to a fall in specialist skilled workers coming to Britain from 99,000 in 2007 to 63,000 in 2009.

Dispelling speculation that Labour might embrace the Conservative policy of placing an annual limit on immigration, Brown launched a strong attack on the Tory plans for a cap.

He called it a pre-determined quota which would prove arbitrary, unworkable in practice and bad for business. The Conservatives have given no more detail on their cap other than saying it would lead to "tens of thousands of migrants rather than hundreds of thousands".

Brown said weekend reports that it would be set at 40,000 a year would mean that once the movements of British and EU citizens, asylum seekers and family members had been accounted for, there would only be 15,000 places left for skilled workers and overseas students. He compared this with the 90,000 professional and skilled workers currently being brought to Britain to work by companies.

The Conservatives said Brown was guilty of ignoring Labour's failure on immigration: "We want to continue to attract the brightest and the best people to the UK – but with control over the overall numbers coming in," said the shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling.

The Liberal Democrats argued that the government's shambolic management of immigration had undermined the historically liberal attitude towards migrants. A system of exit checks and making sure migrants live where they are most needed was required to restore public confidence, said Chris Huhne for the Liberal Democrats.

This story speaks for itself:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7513282/Israeli-soldiers-used-child-to-check-for-booby-traps.html

The staff sergeants in the Givati infantry brigade have been charged with acting "in breach of military norms" by forcing the child at gunpoint to open bags they believed might be rigged with explosives.

The child, identified only as "Majd R", said he feared for his life.

"I thought they would kill me. I became very scared and wet my pants," he said in an affidavit to Geneva-based children's group, Defence for Children International.

"There were two bags in front of me. I grabbed the first one as he stood one and a half metres away. I opened the bag as he pointed his weapon directly at me. I emptied the bag on the floor. It contained money and papers. I looked at him and he was laughing."

One of the defendants, who have not been identified, said in an army radio interview he felt he and his comrade were being made scapegoats in the face of international criticism of Israel's offensive, in which about 1,400 Palestinians were killed, among them 400 children.

"They were looking for someone to blame in front of the entire world," the soldier said. "Sadly it was people who really didn't do anything."

The military said that it began its investigation of the incident in June. It said the probe was unrelated to a UN fact-finding mission which was visiting the Gaza Strip at the same time.

The UN mission, headed by South African former judge Richard Goldstone, later filed a report which concluded that both the Israeli military and Palestinian militants committed war crimes during the 22-day offensive launched on December 27, 2008.

Thirteen Israelis were killed during the war, which Israel launched in response to rocket and mortar attacks from the Islamist Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

This work is the first of the Sixteen Points of Creativity- a series of sixteen articles dealing with different aspects of life, and designed to illuminate Creativity and natural law.

Point One- Truth

"We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart."  -Blaise Pascal

If man's view of reality is too far askew from fact, he is deemed insane.  Therefore, sanity can be defined as conformity to the truth- or, knowing the way the world actually is.  How do we come to such knowledge?  Why is it important to know the truth?  What distorts truth?  Such are the questions pondered by veritologists- studiers of truth.

Truth reveals to humanity where their priorities should lie.  By examining nature, Ben Klassen concluded that an individuals highest priority is to their race.  Any person who wishes can retreat to a natural setting and observe firsthand the same phenomena that led Our Founder to his conclusions.  Everywhere in nature we see innumerable species segregating themselves along the lines of species and sub-species, all the while maintaining a fierce loyalty to their own.  It is natural law that dictates that this be the case, because such an arrangement facilitates the survival of the best.  Every species is locked into a battle for limited resources and only the best and strongest will survive that fight.  This battle, with it's inevitable casualties, results in ever more highly refined gene pools.  This process drives evolution.  The counterpoint to this process is disobedience to natural law.  When any species violates the ordinances decreed from time immemorial, the swift, merciless punishment is always the same- extinction.  Therefore we see that strict loyalty to our own kind and to nature's laws is critical to our own survival, expansion, and advancement.

Throughout the course of it's evolution, White humanity has gained an edge over other species not only by being able to recognize the truth, but by being able to apply it.  Applied truth takes the form of technology, and is one of the many advantages of knowing how the world works.  Millions of creative minds have transferred billions of inventions from heart to hand, improving the lives of countless people.  The house you live in, for example, is the product of thousands of inventions:  screws, drywall, insulation, safety glass, PVC pipe, and copper wire to name only a few.  The common link between all of these inventions is that they are subject to natural law.  The safety glass in your windows was designed and tested using the laws of physics.  The copper wire was produced with the laws of electrodynamics and conductivity in mind.  The color, texture, and viscosity of the paint that shades your walls is the cumulative result of applied chemistry.  This is not to mention architecture, vehicles, appliances, leisure activities, and communications that are all made possible by the application of truth to dilemmas.  Truth enables technology and therefore improves our quality of life.

Although nature's laws and punishments are immutable and have not changed for billions of years, the tendency of a given species to recognize and obey those laws is not immutable.  The outcome of recognition or rejection is always the same:  the species that actively chooses to recognize and obey the law is blessed with abundance, prosperity, and posterity; the species that rejects, ignores, or suppresses natural law is shortly met with ruin- nature has no mercy in her judgements.  As can be observed throughout history- both ancient and recent- when our race comes together in it's own self-interest and operates according to natural law, we too are blessed.  When we follow truth, great benefits await.  As Rome conquered the known world, it reached the zenith of its power.  Augustus Caesar, who presided over the Pax Romana, ruled according to truth.  At this time, Rome was an empire which firmly grasped the natural law of survival, expansion, and advancement as summed up in the Roman philosophy "impendo vel intereo"- expand or die.  The Romans rightfully believed that if they did not spread to every corner of the earth, they would perish from it.  Rome believed in natural law and was awarded with over 200 years of peace and prosperity.

Manifest Destiny pervades early Western culture.  It is a moral, almost spiritual, belief that the American continent was predestined to be conquered and ruled over by Whites, and that this was justified by any means.  The explorers who first set foot on America's rocky shores gave no thought to who may have owned the land.  As far as they were concerned, the land they desired was theirs for the taking.  Contrary to twenty-first century morality, natural morality dictates that this was indeed the proper perspective to have.  When a species invades a new territory in order to provide food or land for it's own, the first things it does it to drive out the native population either by cunning or force.  In the American expansion, the former is exemplified in the purchase of Manhattan Island for $24; the latter is seen in the many battles fought as we expanded across that continent.  As America gained influence and power, the expansion continued.  From the Louisiana and Alaskan Purchases to the annexation of Texas, White expansion in the United States did not stop until the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  At this point, the Great Depression and the first world war caused Whites, American and European alike, to reexamine their supremacy.  White people worldwide were ashamed of what had happened, and unfortunately had only a Semitic morality to guide them.  Had they examined natural law and obeyed it's edicts, perhaps today's demographic crisis may have been avoided.  When White people expanded and advanced according to nature's outline, they were blessed with a continent on which to raise their descendants and live peacefully.  As they rejected nature and embraced the Semitic religion of Christianity, they were cursed with confusion, war, a lack of identity, and a steep decline towards extinction.  Had our ancestors followed the truth, they would have know where to place their priorities.

Truth also enables control.  As we gain more control over nature, many feel less inclined to pray to gods or demons who supposedly control everything.  Understand nature, how the world is and why it works the way it does, enables us to bend it to our will and to harness it in a way that is beneficial to us all.  Understanding the laws of nuclear physics has led to the creation of new technologies, both beneficial and harmful.  Nuclear energy has the capacity to power millions of homes, yet a nuclear bomb can destroy those same homes in an instant.  Knowing the truth about nuclear physics enabled us to create these technologies- and the danger inherent in them emphasizes the need for a pure, honest, forceful morality to guide those whose hand we place that technology in.

There are many people, some with honest intentions, others who actively seek to deceive, who claim to hold the truth.  Many times one must be initiated to know the truth, or perhaps outsiders can know "some truth" but are told that unless they believe in whatever truth is being pushed at them that they can never know the "whole truth."  There should be viewed as warning signs.  No person, group, or religion that requires belief without providing observation should be trusted.  Would you pay into a life insurance policy if there was a good chance that it wouldn't pay out when you die?  Were every Christian killed, all of their bibles burned, and all of the churches destroyed and every reference to Christianity erased from history, would any man in the future rise up with the name "Jesus Christ" on his tongue?  No.  But the laws of nature can not be silenced by virtue that they are observable.  Our Bible, holy though it is, is not indestructible.  The foundation on which it rests, however, can never be destroyed.  Truth is not found in belief, but in observation- it is discovered by the mind and embraced by the heart.

Great work, brother Cook.  Did you eat them or throw them back?

Hello everyone.  I was formerly EastCoastCreator and have decided to rejoin the forum.

I've scaled back my Internet activity a bit but I miss the fellowship of fellow Creators, so I've decided to return to the forum.  It's a great place to organize and socialize with other Creators, in accordance with point nine of Salubrious Living- "Gregarious living within the framework of our CREATIVE religion, our White society and social intercourse with our White Racial Comrades. We are social animals."  It's good to be back.