Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/30/2018

The number of “grooming” incidents in the UK involving under-age victims rose by more than 800% in the past year. The youngest grooming target was reportedly two years old.

In other news, the Turkish foreign minister called on the European Union to criminalize Islamophobia.

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The Yearning for and the Right to a Homeland

The Yearning for and the Right to a Homeland

About the Author

Rev. Prof. Wolfgang Ockenfels OP was born in Bad Honnef am Rhein in 1947. Having entered the Dominican Order in 1967, he studied Philosophy and Theology and was ordained in 1973. From 1974 to 1978 he read Social Ethics and Economics in Freiburg, Switzerland. His doctoral thesis was on the theme of Unions and the State. In 1984 he completed his habilitation in the field of Christian Social Doctrine at the University of Augsburg on the subject of faith and politics. Since 1985 Prof. Ockenfels has been a (full) professor for Christian Social Science in the theological faculty in Trier. He has published a very long list of monographs, articles and contributions. Since 1985 he has been Chief Editor of Die Neue Ordnung, a Christian journal founded in 1946 by opponents of National Socialism.

The original source appeared as an editorial in Die Neue Ordnung, April Nr. 2/2018

by Wolfgang Ockenfels
April 2018

Translation by Rembrandt Clancy

Strange, how quickly a conservative topic such as longing for one’s “homeland” is coming to light on the agendas of the day; and how busily, yet sluggishly official governmental action wears itself against this theme and threatens to burst into flame. That is no accident, for the homeland question has become politically central and contentious ever since alternative parties and identity movements have taken up the issue, indeed, across Europe and worldwide and with increasing success. The local power-elites, the cosmo-politicians who enthuse in all directions, rightly experience this as a threat, for it imperils them with the loss of power in their homelands. Well, why shouldn’t it, after all? In a democracy and a market economy competition has always been experienced as a danger to the prevailing monopoly on power. It is precisely for this reason that these liberal-democratic structures were invented, so that a violence-free, peaceful transition of power can occur at all.

According to Karl R. Popper, to whom Catholic social thinking was rather remote, the advantage of democracy consists not in constantly confirming the supposed good in politics, but in minimising the experiential evil and voting it out of office. Therein lies the crux of democracy. From this critical perspective, conservative Catholics especially find a political homeland in democracy, which is obligated not only to the formal principle of majority rule, but especially to natural human rights.[1] When these, for instance, are approved [freigegeben] for an arbitrary [willkürlich] power-political interpretation; that is, when a “human right” to kill unborn life or life unworthy” of human life [“lebensunwerten” Menschenlebens][2] is claimed in accordance with the temper of the times and enforced across Europe, the hour for democratic resistance has struck. Here vigilant Christians need not first wait for the official approval of their spiritual leaders.

Combining democratic criteria with an emotional or patriotic idea of a homeland, or even with a “right to a homeland”, may represent to the tradition-forsaken C-Parties [CDU/CSU][3] a lunatic distortion. But what will one not do for the sake of holding on to political power? The success of another makes for envy and greed, and so it is not surprising if, in the competition for political power, those who have held it until now cut a thick slice off of the successful opponent. The latter, of course, are supposed to have “instrumentalised” the traditional concept of homeland, whilst the former prepare to “occupy” the venerable idea in a new way and use “social construction” to fill it with content, an age-old semantic strategy, which did not fall into disrepute for the first time through nominalistic hermeneutics[4] and the terminological fraud of the sixty-eighters.

Let us remain in the realm of reality. First there is the consequence of chaotic “globalisation” bent on pushing through its “capitalism” without consideration for cultural, religious, ecological and social losses. But even at the European level, it is becoming apparent that identity with the homeland and national responsibility can no longer be suppressed by abstract, cosmopolitan unity-slogans. On the contrary, more and more Europeans are inquiring after a socioeconomic policy which will come to their defence against an anonymous capitalist power which completely abhors restriction by the personal principle of subsidiarity.[5] However, it was precisely in this principle that the contribution of Catholic social teaching to the Constitution of Europe came to light. But since then Europe has fallen into a centralised construct which no longer inquires into its Christian origins, but merely seeks the short-term economic efficiency of a “levelling solidarity” in the interests of the communitarisation of debt and the “saving” of the euro.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/29/2018

A Syrian immigrant was convicted in a Swedish court of raping a 12-year-old girl. In his defense, the culture-enriching gentleman said that he did not know his act was illegal.

In other news, on May 5 European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will attend a celebration of Karl Marx’s 200th birthday in the latter’s hometown of Trier.

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Martin Sellner: “The Justice System is Attacking the Patriots”

Martin Sellner is the leader of Identitäre Bewegung Österreichs, the Austrian chapter of the Identitaire movement.

In the following video Mr. Sellner discusses the recent police raids on his group, which left IBÖ without computers or a bank account, and facing possible prosecution. He is appealing to his fellow countrymen for help.

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Traffic in Forged Spanish Visas in Morocco

The following report from the Spanish daily El Pais exposes false visas being issued by Spanish consulates in Morocco. Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation:

Endless Schemes of Visa Purchases in Morocco

The lack of means and controls foments a black market of documents in consulates at a price of up to 8,000 Euros

Photo caption: Moroccan citizens form a line to gain entry to the city of Melilla.

Rabat (2016 and 2018), Tetuan (2003), Tangiers (1996 and 2010) and Casablanca (2007) have been in the news due to the appearance and detention of schemes of buying illegal visas in Spanish consulates. Ever since this bureaucratic step was imposed in 1992 in order to cross the strait, the cases and irregularities have gone up periodically and with almost identical procedures. A band of local counterfeiters, more or less similar, infiltrate themselves at the entrances of Spanish consulates (which laboriously issue with long lines some 150,000 visas a year) using the services of one or various “local or Spanish functionaries” and make it easier to overcome the bureaucratic barriers for a price that ranges in recent years from €5,200 to more than €8,000. Last week the latest two detentions in Rabat were produced. After the last operation, reported in these same offices in 2014, the Foreign Ministry sent in an inspection in 2017 which resulted in proceedings (against two officials though in the preliminary stage). The volume of the falsifications and the business is incalculable.

The case of the mafias and the purchases of illegal visas in the Spanish consulates in Morocco is the most worrisome and important due to its quantity and the proximity of the country to Spain and its entry into Europe. But it is not unique. Last March, Bolivian police dismantled a similar gang that operated within the consulate of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia with similar methods. The alarm signs detected were different and the result of the operations and the internal investigations practically the same: Silence, forget, look the other way, and go back to the beginning.

One of the interventions carried out in a Spanish consulate in Morocco happened after the falsification of the visa of a young man admitted to a Belgian hospital. In Rabat, the grand scheme began to fall apart in 2014 thanks to an anonymous report from a local journalist from Nador (Morocco) , with whom embassy personnel spoke, which provided a lot of data and led to the discovery of 18 false documents. That report with the internal report was sent to the central headquarters of the Ministry in Madrid, which ordered a general inspection in 2017.

In the Office of Diplomatic Information (OID) this inspection is related to the two detentions on the part of the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) of Morocco last week revealed by the local daily, Assabah. The newspaper reported a gang made up of 13 members and four local functionaries infiltrated the services of information and investigations. One of them had dual nationality. The Ministry has opened another internal investigation, although it affirms that Morocco has not communicated the reason for the detentions. The last one, that of 2017, concluded with the dismissal of two employees who then filed a lawsuit in Madrid with the Social Court that has just been dismissed. One of them, the ex-head of services, Rosario Castillo Garcia, warned that during her time the Tangiers consulate had issued 25 false visas in a review of those issued in two weeks. Then, when discovered in Rabat, asked for a transfer to Madrid and early retirement.

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The ISLAM Party: Sharia in Belgium

The ISLAM Party (it’s an acronym; see the video below for an explanation) was formed recently in Belgium, and its candidates are standing in municipal elections. In the following report from Belgian TV, a presenter talks to a leader of the party about a fellow party member whose treatment of the fairer sex has caused controversy in the media.

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JB on The JQ

In the U.S., “race” can sometimes be difficult to define precisely, perhaps because we are less inhibited than any other country about marrying outside our tent. And we’ve been like that since John Smith was courtin’ Hiawatha — though, in reality, it was more often Jacques or Pierre than it was the English who were likely to marry among the Indians. Pardonnez – “native Americans”. See Louisiana for the embodiment of that cultural difference.

Whatev. Jordan Peterson is always worth listening to no matter what the subject, even if he often says the Nazis were far-right. I do wish some Canadian could apprise him of his mistake. Socialism is socialism is tyranny, and it’s always a Leftist scheme. The far right prefers tyrants of a different flag.

Just remember the rules about commenting, y’all. They still hold.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/28/2018

Spanish police have broken up a people-trafficking racket that was smuggling migrants into southern Spain. The smugglers charged $5,000 a head and used jet skis to carry the refugees across the Western Mediterranean from Morocco.

In other news, destitute and starving Venezuelans are pouring across the country’s borders into neighboring states, especially Colombia.

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Hungarian FM to MEP: “What Percentage of the European People Voted for You, So That You Could Lecture the Hungarian People?”

In the following video, which was recorded on April 26, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártő responds to questions after speaking to the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs about the recent general election in Hungary. For Mr. Péter Szijjártő’s earlier remarks, see this post.

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Can Islamization Be Rolled Back Without Eroding Civil Liberties?

The following essay is based on a series of comments that emerged in the thread accompanying Part 1 of El Inglés’ recent three-part essay on the Pakistanis (see also Part 2 and Part 3).

Note: In the remarks below I write as if from a European point of view. I have been specializing in European affairs for so long that I have “gone native”: when considering the issues of mass immigration and Islamization, I tend to examine the situation in Western Europe to get a sense of the way we are headed.

Things are different here in the USA — we are careening towards the same cliff as the Europeans, but we are a right good ways behind them. As a result, America may be able to avoid the catastrophic future that faces Europe. Or, if Western Europe turns it around and follows El Inglés’ advice, we’ll be able to model our responses on theirs and escape martial law or civil war or revolution or whatever nasty outcome would await us otherwise.

But Western Europe will not have the luxury of returning to the idyllic status quo of 1955-2000. My contention is that things have gone too far down the multicultural primrose path for Europeans to be spared an illiberal outcome. The niceties of civil society will evaporate, no matter what. They will either be blown away by the imposition of sharia, or at the very least they will be reduced by whatever authoritarian regime emerges to resist the sharia.

There are no other choices.

Our situation in the West is similar to that of the Hindus who eventually became Sikhs, and violently resisted the Islamic invasion. Will we develop our own version of Sikhism? Or will we simply become the European version of Persia/Afghanistan/Pakistan/Indonesia?

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A number of commenters on El Inglés’ posts objected to the idea of the draconian actions against Pakistanis that he proposed. They observed, correctly, that these things cannot be done without abrogating the civil liberties of at least some of the targets. They also noted that innocent Pakistanis — those few who do not oppress women, take little white girls as sex slaves, and engage in welfare fraud for their livelihood — would be caught up and punished along with the guilty ones. El Inglés addressed these objections in the conclusion of Part 3, but his answers evidently failed to assuage the fears of his critics.

We’ve been discussing these issues in this space for at least a dozen years. Time was short when the conversation started, and it is far shorter now. Back then we were at five minutes to twelve; today it may be five seconds to twelve.

Any solution that does not rend the civil fabric of our societies must be devised VERY quickly. Bear in mind that such a solution would first have to be raised and discussed in national legislatures. Then a majority coalition would have to somehow be cobbled together in support of it. Horses would have to be traded. Palms would have to be greased. Sausages would have to be made. Individual representatives would have to be convinced to vote in favor of something that would earn them a death fatwa from the Religion of Peace for doing so.

Just think how difficult it would be to accomplish that.

Furthermore, as soon as such a movement gained steam, it would be violently resisted by the antifas and other “anti-fascist” street thugs bankrolled by the globalists. We already know that antifas aren’t averse to a bit of ultra-violence when they bash the fash. How will they respond to real political and cultural change in Western Europe, the kind that would actually deport the “refugees” en masse?

Once the anti-fascists start killing police, for example, the rules of the game will change. The first thing the state will do at that point is to impose martial law and significantly reduce everyone’s civil liberties.

I can’t see a way out of this that preserves the customary civil society that Europeans have grown used to. It’s just too late.

Our choices are between sharia and some form of authoritarian governance by leaders of our own native ethnic groups. There are no other doors out of this room.

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The conversations below are taken from the comments section on El Inglés’ first post. They cover in greater detail the same issues I outlined above. The participants are our Swedish correspondent Svenne Tvaerskaegg, ECAW, and myself.

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Migrants in Padua: “Will Trade Sex for Food”

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from Il Giornale:

Padua red light district. Migrants sell themselves for food.

In Padua, a type of red light district has been created in which women and old people go in search of young migrants

Women in search of men in Padua: the zone between Piazza De Gasperi and the area of the train station has been transformed into a red light district where women and old people seek out young men of color.

The payment may not be in money, but rather in food.

The testimony [of witnesses]

The search starts as soon as the sun goes down. The targeted prey are young (male) immigrants, mostly Senegalese, who are in need of a meal and who barter for it with sex. “The Senegalese young men position themselves between Via Cairoli and Corso del Popolo. Luring them are women of middle age,” explains a businessman who has a business near there, in the pages of Il Gazettino.

Another witness explains: “It is true. They are approached by women and at times they are paid in food.” A circle that has transformed the migrants into boy toys. The phenomenon has been present in the zone since January. “It has been a couple of months that I have been seeing the movement. I have often noted women approaching the African young men, but sometimes also men. It goes on at all hours of the day.”

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/27/2018

Italian police arrested two North African men in connection with a series of stabbings in Milan. Among the crimes the men are suspected of committing are the murder of a Bangladeshi man during a robbery, and stabbing a female British tourist in the stomach, also in a robbery.

In other news, the murder rate in London increased by 44% in the past year.

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Against the Murdering, Thieving Hordes of Pakistanis (Part 3)

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The following essay by El Inglés is the final installment of a three-part report on the Pakistanis (previously: Part 1, Part 2). It is being posted this week to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the publication of Surrender, Genocide… or What?, which caused the ejection of Gates of Vienna from Pajamas Media ten years ago today. For more on the memorable events of 2008, see this post.

Against the Murdering, Thieving Hordes of Pakistanis

Part 3

by El Inglés

The “Pakis Out!” Plan

Though we inject touches of humour in our writing as a sanity-preservation measure, all joking to one side, to read about the sheer evil that is so deeply-ingrained in the mind of the average Pakistani male is to stare into the pit of hell. I am aware of the bitter irony that the very Pakistani women who are so often on the receiving end of Pakistani male psychopathy must be rejected tout court along with those men. But Britons concerned at the ongoing colonization and destruction of their country by Pakistanis cannot allow themselves to be held back by any residual sympathy they might feel in this regard.

Reader, my heart has grown cold to the Pakistani male, who constitutes as obvious a concentration of evil and psychopathy as can be found on the surface of this Earth. The character of any group of people resides in its menfolk far more than its womenfolk, for the simple reason that by far and away the greatest capacity for violent, predatory behaviour is to be found in those very menfolk. Thus do we conclude that the Pakistanis are a pestilential people that must be kept out of Britain at all costs.

Pakis Out! — The Details

The Pakistani population of the UK must be removed, driven out, forced out, thrown out, shown the door, expelled, even ethnically cleansed if we allow an expansive understanding of the term. We must cut the Gordian knot and expel the overwhelming bulk of the Pakistani population. Here we introduce the Pakis Out! Plan.

If one is eating an apple that turns out to have a spot of rot in it, one can eat around it. But if one bites into an apple only to discover that it is more rot than apple, one will likely throw it away. The Pakistanis are all rot, no apple. The extremely small fraction of the Pakistani population that is both decent and productive is in no way, shape, or form crucial to the future of our country, and the remainder calls into question the possibility of that future existing. Cut the Gordian Knot! Pakis Out!

We must adopt an attitude of perfect callousness towards the Pakistanis. In plain English, this means that there should be no extent at all to which our policies are predicated on their interests. Given that they attach no significance to ours, this seems entirely reasonable. The Pakistanis have done as they would be done by; they have no grounds for complaint.

There is an important point to be made here. Though we advocate the driving out of the Pakistanis, we do not suggest that literally every single Pakistani must be forced out for us to consider our goals achieved. The objective is to bring substantial coercive pressure on the Pakistanis so that they start to and continue to leave in large numbers. Assuming these efforts are successful, a point will come at which the bulk of the Pakistanis have left, and the remainder consist of those who are prepared to jettison, or who have already jettisoned, enough of their inner Pakistani that they can essentially be tolerated, on the understanding that they will be dealt with great harshness should their inner Pakistani ever manifest itself in the future. Let us suggest for the sake of the discussion, that 90% of the current Pakistani population will need to be driven out to bring this about.

Needless to say, implementing the basic Pakis Out! policy would result in some substantial amount of social disruption, the scale of which would not be easy to predict. The army and police would have to be well-prepared, and it may well prove necessary to create additional forces to help contain riots, demonstrations, and other forms of resistance, whether on the part of the Pakistanis themselves, their hard-left sympathisers, or both.

It should be borne in mind that the Pakistani population is overwhelmingly endogamous, with Pakistanis, as a rule, marrying only other Pakistanis. This means that deciding who is ‘actually’ a Pakistani and who is not is much easier than would be the case with other immigrant populations with stronger tendencies to intermarry. Either way, we hope it will become clear that the measures we advocate are not heavily reliant upon explicit definitions of who is a Pakistani and who is not.

However arrogant it may sound, we suggest that the basic outline of what needs to be done to expel the Pakistani population is herein contained, and that any action taken by any European state to expel any Muslim population will consist of a more or less draconian application of these steps. We have dubbed these steps the Pakis Out! Plan.

The Pakis Out! Plan is not a single, invariant collection of procedures for driving Pakistanis out of a country. It is, rather, an understanding that there exists a plethora of steps that could be taken to this end, that exist along a continuum from the least draconian to the most draconian, and from the least transgressive of extant norms to the most transgressive of extant norms. The implementation of a gradually tightening straitjacket of restrictions, coercion and general unpleasantness, backed up by a willingness to use the violence of the state against concerted opposition, is the Pakis Out! plan. Those readers interested in the only real alternatives are invited to peruse my other essays, ‘Surrender, Genocide… or What?’ and ‘Our Muslim Troubles’ (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five). Anyone who cares to read them will, we hope, agree that Pakis Out! is the best option available to us.

Our consideration of the details of Pakis Out! will be thematic in nature. There will be six themes in total: immigration, law enforcement, citizenship and residency, religious restrictions, the welfare state, and general malicious harassment. Each theme will feature a brief discussion of how the British state could and should tighten the screw on the child-raping Paki horde in order to drive an ever-larger fraction of it out of the country. The individual sections should not be taken as lists of things that must be done, but items on a menu that the British state can progressively select from on the basis of what seems to be working and how much success it seems to be enjoying.

The observant reader will note that we provide very few details as to the exact legislation that would need to be passed to facilitate the program we describe. There are two reasons for this. The first is that we have no legal background, and are not well-equipped to say a great deal on this front at all. The second, and more important reason, is that laws are human constructs and that a British state committed to driving out the Pakistanis will construct whatever laws it needs to bring about that end. The details of how exactly this is to be done are not of any particular interest to us.

Immigration

Pakistani immigration into the UK would essentially cease, on the basis of an understanding that the holders of Pakistani citizenship would be banned from obtaining British citizenship or residency, banned from obtaining student visas etc., banned from family reunion immigration, banned from obtaining work visas, and so on. Pakis would not be allowed into the UK except under the most restrictive conditions, and then only on a short-term basis.

Those Pakistani citizens already in the UK would be required to leave when their current visas expired, assuming they actually had valid visas, unless there were specific reasons to hunt them down and expel them prior to this happening. Ruthlessly hunting down and expelling illegal Pakistani immigrants would become a priority for border control agencies. Such people would be held in special internment camps if they proved difficult to deport, and the camps would be segregated by sex.

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Hungarian FM in the European Parliament: “We Follow the Will of the Hungarian People”

The video below shows Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártő speaking yesterday to the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs about the recent general election in Hungary.

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