The cause of the month in Australia is refugees. The left are pulling no punches in their latest campaign. Over 300 activists have descended on the private home of the immigration minister, Amanda Vanstone, in Adelaide, and there have been violent protests outside the Baxter detention facility in the north of South Australia.

Which makes me wonder if any of these left-wing protesters are aware of what happened in Paris earlier this month. The left there organised a large protest by high school students against education reforms. But things didn’t go according to plan.

The student protest turned violent ... when up to 1000 young immigrants showed up, some with clubs, to beat up and rob the protesters. One young Tunisian immigrant admitted “I didn’t go for the protest but to take cell phones and hit people. There were little groups running, agitating the crowd. And in the middle of these clowns, little Frenchies looking like victims” (see here and here for some very interesting reports).

The racist contempt the “casseurs” showed for the French student protesters, and their willingness to violently disrupt a left-wing protest, might be something for the Australian left to consider as they agitate on behalf of illegal immigrants.

The Village of the Year competition is a celebration of English middle-class rural life, a world of civility, kindnesses freely given,  roses around the door and perfectly trimmed privet.  But even this harmless throwback to 1930’s England is not insulated from the winds of the culture wars.

... In 2005 outsiders of a different kind are influencing the decision-making process.

As entry forms drop through letter boxes, parishes around Britain have reacted with anger and indignation after discovering that the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has added its own set of questions.

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The great Bussorah, a man who has never kept his Wicked Thoughts from his friends, has a new blog up and running.

Strange Justice draws together plainly unjust and contrary instances of the law in action.  The current page features mystifying cases from America, Australia and Britain, all for real.  They won’t give you much faith in due process.  But they are all worth knowing about.

Do go visit.

You, oh lucky reader, are a liberal academic … and ambitious.  Just like Professor Carl Parsons, in fact.  (Yes, yes – I know that in reality you are almost as reactionary and shamelessly bigoted as me.  But just pretend, ok?)

You feel you have it in you to become an official “education expert”.  And why not? Educational spending is going through the roof with New Labour.  The Project can’t be managed without academics to do the intellectual heavy lifting.  You just need to find yourself the right specialism, something that no one else has snaffled yet.

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IRA/Sinn Fein is in trouble.  Its supporters in America have finally understood that the Peace Process was not a peace process in quite the sense they thought it was.

In his 1995 book, Rebel Hearts, journalist Kevin Toolis explained …

Since the late eighties the IRA has been involved in a complex political process to align the Dublin Government and their electoral rivals, the SDLP, in a pan-nationalist front to negotiate a British withdrawal. By politically dissolving the border so that the mass of nationalists in Ireland can be consolidated into one powerful negotiating bloc, Republicans hope to reorder the political stalemate that has marooned them as a minority within the Catholic minority inside the boundaries of a hostile Protestant majority-dominated state.

The aim of the current republican leadership’s pan-nationalist strategy is to achieve a ‘historic handshake’ with the Crown, like that between South African President De Klerk and Nelson Mandela before his release from prison in 1989 which indicated an intention to negotiate political change The ANC did not overthrow the apartheid regime overnight or map out an exact plan for the transfer of authority but from that moment on power flowed steadily De Klerk to the future President Mandela. Similarly in Ireland power would at first trickle, then flow from the Crown into nationalist Ireland until the balance of power was so weighted in the nationalist/republican’s favour that a section of the Unionist community would break away and strike a political deal with the ancient enemy.

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OK, this “comment” is too long for our previous thread.  So I’ve put it up as a new post:-

I cling to the belief, like Ben, that we are not separated by much.  If I set aside all the petty stuff like your belief that evolution has been stopped by liberalism I find just two (admittedly substantial) points of difference between us.  In order to avoid the debate running off into the sand I think it would be profitable to restrict ourselves to those.

First difference ... the rush to judgement.

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Canadians, who no doubt wildly celebrate perhaps the most powerful and successful Jewish advocacy group west of Jaffa, have been apprised that “an upsurge in attacks against the Canadian Jewish community” is due to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.

So that’s it, then.  No more films about Christ and Christianity by Christians.  Can’t have that.  Nope, it’s back to tinsel town for the admittedly revisionist but kosher opinion, the one that doesn’t turn us all into violent automatons and gas chamber operatives.

Now, deep breath and repeat after me.  “The B’nai Brith’s wishes are my wishes, and the B’nai Brith’s fears are my fears too.  The B’nai Brith’s wishes are my wishes, and the B’nai Brith’s fears are my fears too.  The B’nai ...”

The current British news page at bbc.co.uk carries eight murder stories at various stages of development:-

Cannibal gets life for killings
Jury hears final Wragg arguments
Man charged over street axe death
Shootings jury considers verdict
Elderly woman ‘killed by burglar
Teenager guilty over cap killing
Killer drink-drive officer jailed
Car ‘breakthrough’ in Milly case

Of the five cases in which the perpetrator or perpetrators are known three have black defendants.  Bear in mind how often we are assured that blacks represent no more than 2% of British society.

It is a subject upon which I blogged last December.  It is a subject upon which I shall blog in the future.  So long as an African population is living amongst us there will be a thumping increase in our violent crime and murder statistics.  Victims as yet still breathing the keen March air will be taken in the name of multiculturalism or economic growth or global hegemony or Jewish security …

Our political masters are not race realists.  But they know very well the racial identities of our most serious criminals.  They simply will not put together the two halves of the equation:  Does that African population benefit us more than it costs us in life, treasure and peace of mind?  And if it doesn’t what should we do about it?