Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Sorry
Our favoured side in Syria has apologised for having beheaded a man whom it thought was a Shi'ite.
To be fair, if you knew anything, then you would know that Straw and Blunkett both have far more valiant records of attrition against the EU than the people who have lately accrued to UKIP.
Even a hard-hearted isolationist like me had to feel a stirring of pity for the Tamils who mobbed Cameron on his recent visit to that hell-hole.
The left-wing idealist notion of idealistic interventions in other people's countries born in the Boer War and World War One (as so brilliantly documented in Murray Rothbard's "Betrayal of the American Right") has taken hold to such a degree, that it has created in all suffering peoples, an expectation that we must intervene to help them, and an angry resentment whenever and wherever we fail to meet those expectations.
We've opened a Pandora's Box now and cannot easily close it.
For all that the plight of the Tamils is terrible (like that of the Iraqi Kurds under Saddam and the Palestinians under Israel) if we respect national sovereignty and Small Government, then there is little that foreign states can do about it.
What would once have been expected of non-state actors (Christian charities, Amnesty International and the like) is now expected of states who, unlike charities and NGO's, are supposed to put their own citizens first and respect national borders.
It's hard to see how this can ever end-since there is no shortage of suffering and oppressed peoples around the world.
Oops.
ReplyDeleteDavid Blunkett and Jack Straw are increasingly impressive in reflecting their constitutents concerns on mass immigration.
ReplyDeleteBoth of them should, of course, quit and join UKIP.
Notice it's only ever ex-Ministers who are not in a position to do anything about it, who actually reflect the people's concerns.
What a shambolic state our democracy is in.
No wonder Peter Hitchens urges those young enough to emigrate.
Now I know that you are a spoof.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, if you knew anything, then you would know that Straw and Blunkett both have far more valiant records of attrition against the EU than the people who have lately accrued to UKIP.
Oops up side your head, Daniel. Oops up side your head.
ReplyDeleteEven a hard-hearted isolationist like me had to feel a stirring of pity for the Tamils who mobbed Cameron on his recent visit to that hell-hole.
ReplyDeleteThe left-wing idealist notion of idealistic interventions in other people's countries born in the Boer War and World War One (as so brilliantly documented in Murray Rothbard's "Betrayal of the American Right") has taken hold to such a degree, that it has created in all suffering peoples, an expectation that we must intervene to help them, and an angry resentment whenever and wherever we fail to meet those expectations.
We've opened a Pandora's Box now and cannot easily close it.
For all that the plight of the Tamils is terrible (like that of the Iraqi Kurds under Saddam and the Palestinians under Israel) if we respect national sovereignty and Small Government, then there is little that foreign states can do about it.
What would once have been expected of non-state actors (Christian charities, Amnesty International and the like) is now expected of states who, unlike charities and NGO's, are supposed to put their own citizens first and respect national borders.
It's hard to see how this can ever end-since there is no shortage of suffering and oppressed peoples around the world.