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Posted September 5, 2001
Immigration
[Regarding the column of August 27, "Are They Really the Stupid Party?" – by "Emmanuel Goldstein":]
...I have this site bookmarked, but disagree with the libertarian platform on immigration and some other issues. However, I am 100% in solidarity with you on antiwar issues. Today I read a piece by Emmanuel Goldstein which I feel departed from your respectability. I understand [that] Mr. Goldstein is Jewish, but he should be informed that the British National Party [BNP] is not "fascist" or "jackboots" because they ... speak out against foreign immigration and for White Brits. Every nation seems to have a homeland, and the view that European White nations should be mutli-racialized and de-culturized, while everyone else has a place on earth to call home is anti-White in my view. This is simply a point of view and does not mean one "hates" or is "fascist."
The word "fascist" is bantered about with reckless abandon and it's only use today is to the silence political opponents of global homogeny. I do not agree with this idea of flooding nations with cheap labor at the expense of the culture and values a society has evolved. It is legitimate to oppose cheap labor immigration because it hurts the native poor. I have experienced this driving down of wages because of Third World immigration and had to move because of it. Perhaps the libertarian view only reflects [the viewpoint] of a certain class of people.
Goldstein's assertion that BNP party leader Nick Griffin's dad is an "infiltrator" is laughable, considering he has been a Tory activist for 53 years, well before Nick was a sparkle in his eyes. Iain Duncan-Smith showed us just how spineless and controlled he is by bouncing Griffin Sr. from the party and promising to root out dissidents in the party. Now he wants to be pro-gay to appease the liberals. This spineless behavior shows me the Tories are not worth preserving and that they will continue to lean to the left as long as the media decides their agenda. They are the European Republicans and should be denounced for the spineless wimps they are.
"Emmanuel Goldstein" replies:
Surely this is not the same BNP led by Nick Griffin who said "Britain does not have the tradition of intellectual fascism, which is such an important factor in many other countries. While I do have a number of proposals to help rectify this deficiency, the truth is that this is a handicap which we can never overcome completely."
What, pray tell, was he trying to rectify if he does not regard himself as a fascist?
The
"Backtalk" editor replies:
"K" appears to believe that Antiwar.com advocates a "platform" of libertarian beliefs, but this is not the case. As our "credo" states, Antiwar.com is engaged in single-issue politics, the issue being military interventionism. Columnists can and do differ on other issues, such as immigration.
Willful Blindness
[Sascha
Matuszak] clearly sees a United States – both in the media and the
government, as well as on an individual basis – that I don't see,
or that I interpret far differently. He sees a U.S. attempting to
provoke China and contain it, yet the obvious facts and behavior speak
volumes that just the opposite is true.
Sascha needs to face facts. China will burgeon economically on its
own, but it is in for a rough ride and possibly crippling social and
economic problems not all that far into the future. It will not supplant
the US, nor will it equal the might of the United States. It will
join up with Japan and the EU as economic superpowers which in turn
try to compete with the United States. There will be no war between
China and the US, no war over Taiwan, no new Cold War, no Hot Peace.
And because Sascha cannot seem to see that what he so likes about
China can be found also in the United States, and what he so detests
about the United States can also be found in China, perhaps he would
be happier staying where his willful blindness makes him most happy.
Sascha Matuszak replies:
Brother, we must be seeing different facts.
I clearly see a Rumsfeld-initiated revamped military presence in the Pacific, alliances "in blood" with Australia, the Philippines, Japan and South Korea, spy plane flights 60 miles off China's coast, arms sales to Taiwan and comments like "strategic competitor" as a little provocative. I even took out the NMD due to recent news!
What I was trying to figure out in my latest story ["China's Expansionism," August 28] was what exactly the US is afraid of. This is going further on my hypothesis that the US is provocative...
It can't be the military might of a country too chicken to invade a little island a few miles off its coast ... it can't be the "Red Scare" as China is about as socialist as Maggie Thatcher. So what could it be? I figure it's economics, because China can produce a lot, sell it for cheap and they have a knack for business.
So show me some "obvious facts" of China provoking the US – because I haven't seen them or interpreted them in what I have seen. Could be my willful blindness...
Anyhow, I am glad you read my articles. That makes three of us now.
Yugoslavia
I just want to thank you for your site and for giving us a better view of what is going on in the former Yugoslavia. [Justin Raimondo's] knowledge seems to be boundless. The same goes for Srdja Trifkovic and Nebojsa Malic.
My husband and I lived in Yugoslavia thirty years ago when we were married there. He was a student of Theology at the time. Never were we happier than when we lived there – no money, one room with no running water or bathroom.
Another Carpet
[Regarding "The Mysterious Death of Ian Collins," by Sam Koritz, August 30:]
I am shocked to see that the US military could lie. I guess after killing so many innocents that lying is par for the course. (The mass graves in Panama are just being revealed.)
You'll never run out of material. When you uncover the dirt under the carpet, under the dirt you'll find another carpet.
~ Mr. R. Sullivan