In a truly humane world, Chris Berg would have ... an identity

Chris Berg, In a truly globalised world, immigration must be free

Goods move easily. Money moves easily. That’s all great.

But the situation for people is very different. People don’t move around the world easily at all ...

All the same principles which make free trade a win-win apply to free movement of people - large scale immigration allows people to work where they can be most productive, further facilitating the economic specialisation that has boosted global prosperity.

The development economist Lant Pritchett describes our world as “everything-but-labour globalisation”.

In his 2006 book, Let Their People Come: Breaking the Policy Deadlock on International Labor Mobility, Pritchett cites a study which found the economic benefits of free movement of people would be spectacular.

Eliminating the planet’s remaining trade barriers would increase global GDP by around $US100 billion.

Eliminating immigration barriers, by comparison, would as much as double world income: that is, increase global GDP by $US60 trillion.

This added wealth would be shared, but the overwhelming beneficiaries would be people who now live in poor countries...

Development activists who have spent their careers obsessing over the difference between free and “fair” trade have missed the point entirely.

Any effective strategy to eliminate world poverty will have to focus on immigration.

File under: reckless and dangerous man without identity; guard your children and think-tanks carefully against such brain-dead and emotion-neutered open-border freaks; these empathy extremists will destroy us with their narrow minded and freakified view of human nature which steamrolls the human desire for homogeneity on the road to an alien and hostile borderless dystopia.

SBS: Propaganda Nation - The Revised History of Us

The diversity propaganda goes into overdrive on the SBS documentary Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us. The previews mock white people as stupid and racist. And, to the sounds of dramatic music, the program revises history to new heights of absurdity. So grab a bucket, but don't fill it with popcorn, because you'll need it for something else:

Modern Australia is an immigration nation, but a hundred years ago this wasn't the plan. The Commonwealth of Australia was built on a paradox.

"The paradox was they were going to realise a utopia, but they were going to do it through excluding the vast majority of humanity".

From 1901 this meant tough restrictions on immigration: The White Australia Policy.

"We would be an exclusively white community. There would be no-one in Australia other than members of the white race. This was the objective."

The consequences were devastating. "Had my sister and my brother been allowed to come to Bendigo, they wouldn't have died. They died because of a policy".

Ironically, the utopian dream not only torn families apart, it also threatened Australia's economic future, and may even have turned an ally into an enemy...

This is the secret history of us. How modern, multicultural Australia was forged against the odds.

The story of how Australia became the immigration nation we live in today is a story that starts at Federation. It's a sunny Autumn day in May 1901 and half a million people cheer the future king of England, the Duke of York, as he makes his way to the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

"You've got all this pageant and pomp and ceremony of dukes and the military and people waving streamers and grand arches. Here we all are at the beginning of something incredible".

It is here that Australia's first federal parliament will be opened. The nations founders are about to be sworn in before a packed crowd of 12,000 dignitaries. But this is not simply a ceremony. Led by Australia's first Prime Minister Edmund Barton the architects of this brand new nation are designing a country unlike any other.

"Australia would learn from the mistakes of other countries and create a society that was just so much better than the societies of Europe, England, United States".

The foundations are already strong, in some states women have the vote and workers are protected by legislation guaranteeing fair pay and conditions. But Australia's leaders want to build on this and create a working man's paradise. Quite simply, the most progressive and democratic society the world has ever seen.

"They see themselves as creating a brave new commonwealth in which equality will rule and in which they'll be at the forefront of democratic, social, industrial advance."

"This whole federal apparatus is going to protect the social laboratory that Australia was, to create a kind of utopia."

But the dream also masks a deeply held fear. The founders of the nation feel threatened. Ironically, this means the bold and noble plan is designed to safeguard democracy, equality and freedom for one race.

This program is so absurd and mocking that I'm speechless. It is pure propaganda lies for the diversity ideology. To say that a homogeneous country is a utopian dream "unlike any other" is a ridiculous lie. Homogeneity is a historical norm. There is nothing "secret" about it. Diversity is the ahistorical utopian against-all-odds fantasy. And as if Japan was offended by our White Australia Policy. Utter nonsense.

Here is a preview of episode 1, or watch here for a larger view.

Here's just a couple of quotes to show the absurdity of their propaganda...

Pat Buchanan, The Return of Ethnic Nationalism

... peace came to the Old Continent only after the triumph of ethnonationalism, after the peoples of Europe had sorted themselves out and each achieved its own home.

Professor Jonathan Haidt, What Can Liberals Learn From Conservatives?

... liberals desperately need to read some conservative theory to understand that a world of freedom, mobility and diversity is a recipe for a world of chaos, anomie and social disillusion.

File under: those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Enlightened liberal Australia is ... all out of options

That's right. After years of struggling against oppression, tyranny and the confines of groupthink, we are finally free! Modern, liberal, progressive, secular, rational, democratic and diverse Australia has finally arrived at the pinnacle of free thought! Yes, we are ... all out of options.

Paul Kelly, Ideologue-at-large, All out of options on boatpeople

THERE is no easy answer to questions on immigration and refugee policy.

THE inevitable furore over the Christmas Island deaths should not obscure the sad truth about boatpeople arrivals in Australia: there are no fresh ideas about how to stop the smugglers and boat traffic.

The Gillard government struggles on two critical areas of people policy, refugees and immigrants. Its border security is shot by external forces that deliver more boatpeople arrivals in dangerous ventures and its effort to ditch "a big Australia" for a "sustainable Australia" looks increasingly dubious.

This week Population Minister Tony Burke formally buried the farcical notion that Australia needs a population target. He reasoned that such targets could never work, a long-known truth of Australian policy we evidently need to relearn each generation.

That's par for the course in the braindead and emotion-neutered land of ideology where you can't value protecting what's left of Australia's homogeneity, national security, personal safety, environment, or carrying capacity. Nope, those values were signed away in some transnational-progressive convention we must have signed up for. Nothing we can do, our hands brains are tied, the boats and immigrants must come.

File under: deaf to emotion, blind to reason, the ideology of non-discrimination is all out of options - the pinnacle of free thought, enlightenment and morality. Here, watch the paralysis of progressivism in action ...

Immigrants for open borders: Tanveer Ahmed, etc

Tanveer Ahmed on Dick Smith's Population Puzzle documentary:

... on the documentary, my own feelings was that it sort of felt like a piece of nostalgic nationalism ... I mean, eminent as Dick Smith is, I mean this is the man who gave us Helicopter Jelly and Australian made Tim Tams and it sort of came in with that sort of theme and it was almost like he was sort of retreating from a world that had transformed and was trying to hide from it. That's the impression I got from the documentary. You know, even though we're trying to talk of global solutions, from the documentary I wasn't sure that there was a world beyond Australia and you sort of...

Now, more fundamentally, recent - I think the mobility of people, capital, ideas, is a central plank in human progress and some of the things we're talking about today is almost an idea to try and wall us off from that, to an extent. Now, that may make us wealthy. It may make a whole manner of things. In the past I remember even two or three decades ago, Australia had this reputation around the world of being sort of wealthy but something of a stagnant backwater and the debate I'm hearing here, I think risks placing us back into that sort of reputation...

Well, for one, I'm very pleased that my father here was able to migrate to Australia. I think it gave me a host of other opportunities. You see Bangladesh. This is a country where almost a third of the GDP is from remittance payments. So my father sustains the health and education of an entire extended family and we're talking tens of people: 30, 40 people, and in today's world it's not a simple - there'll be a set of people that will decide to migrate. Some of them will return back. Some of them will go back more skilled, with extra skills. Some people will go back and forth. Now, a point I'll make, one of the key successes - say in India, their IT industry, the city of Bangalore - much of that depended on this to and fro between Silicon Valley in San Francisco and Bangalore. They weren't just living in India, nor did they just migrate to the US and it was fundamental to their development and the whole world is better for it. So there's a lot of complexity in this and I think, increasingly, people don't live just in one country...

Suvendrini Perera on Dick Smith:

It seemed to me that the real elephant in the film and perhaps in this room is consumption because we talk about population but we don't talk about the need for us in the rich world to reduce consumption and I didn't hear that in the film, as well... I mean the quarter acre block, for example, that you talk about, is that really a sustainable way to think about living ...

Pino Migliorino, We need to stand up for multiculturalism:

Multiculturalism is a global phenomenon, perhaps this is why it is not popular in the current election debates, which have been focused (in the words of the Nobel prize winning Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore) within the "narrow, domestic walls" of Australian politics.

None of these people identify with Anglo Australians. They identify with their brothers and sisters back home and are intent on reshaping Australia to benefit their own people. They want open-borders to destroy the dominant Anglo demographic. They have no respect for Anglo Australians who wish to preserve their environment and racial/cultural homogeneity. They mock our culture, and smear us with charges of xenophobia and backwardness. They talk of progress, inevitability, and lifting up the third-world, but they are alien and hostile to our way of life. They are destructive nation wreckers. They hide behind the "moral" ideology of diversity and globalisation, but they are as ethnocentric and self-serving as anybody else.

Voting against immigration

Parties Against Population Growth ...

Stable Population Party

Stop Population Growth Now

Parties Against Diversity Growth ...

One Nation

Australian Protectionist Party

Australia First Party

Parties Against Muslim Immigration ...

Christian Democratic Party

More voting details at The Independent Australian

Also Below The Line for checking where your Senate preferences go, or creating your own preferences.

Hamish MacDonald: man without identity

Hamish MacDonald, open borders prostrator, SMH:

... the election campaign has come at an unfortunate time, causing the Prime Minister to drop out of the annual gathering of leaders of the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum...

You wonder why Julia Gillard cannot take the prime ministerial jet across to Port Vila even for a day to show commitment. It might make her think, too, about the delusion she is fostering of an unchanging Australia with a white picket fence around it, keeping the region and its peoples outside.

I think we should build a white picket fence around Hamish MacDonald, and exhibit him in a museum labelled "Man Without Identity". The children can point and gasp in horror: "Mummy, how can a man have no identity?".