The Mad Hatters immigration party

 

Subject: The Mad Hatters immigration party

Do peoples human rights out bid the right of a nation to say no when it comes to entry into a country. We seem to be getting closer to saying so.

With emancipatory  democracy the rights awarded to people have grown hugely, acts of Parliament have set in law the structure of how we expect society to function, what people can expect of the nation they live in and what the nation then expects of them.

Societies are organic they change as the components which make up the society change but these changes are sometimes questioned by the majority who have to be convinced that the changes are for the good of the nation as a whole. Unfortunately the people who are most effected by the change are often not consulted at all.

It's a difficult balancing act.  Wholesale changes are sometimes demanded by the newly arrived person seeking nationality and by the family they are seeking to join whilst at the same time they demand parts of their old nationality such as customs and religious observance be bolted on with equal rights to the tradition existing one which has been in place for hundreds of years. Added to this has been the so called observance of human rights of individuals across the the globe which in fact is an illusion since human rights are a western fiction and inappropriate in many countries with patriarchal tradition

Where human rights do apply they soon become a focus for disadvantaged minorities to pressure society into accepting further typically non human rights practices such as the overt control of Muslim women by their husband which, under normal circumstances would be inappropriate in this society.

The sight of boats bobbing up and down, inflatables full to the gunwale with mostly young men claiming asylum here in the Uk, fleeing persecution, apparently from Europe. On what is currently a placid stretch of water, English Channel we see them as some foreign  armada the forerunners of a larger threat to our way of life but unlike in Raleigh's time, our hands are tied by innumerable human rights treaties and swarms of human rights lawyers only too ready to put us in our place if we question the viability of what is ostensibly, an invasion.

When the Romans or the Vikings arrived they did so by force, when the French and the Dutch imposed their ruling family on us they did so by force but in this strange world we live in we are unable to use force, even the lightest touch, to force them back to France.

I suppose Alice would also make heavy weather of our importance to do anything to refuse entry to someone who has thrown their passport away and has become stateless. One can see how these laws were envisaged to meet the needs of someone who is genuinely stateless but as is always the case the law of good intentions is soon exploited.

The claim is that if I perceive a threat within my own country then I have the right to up sticks and seek residence in another country, as a human right, which pushes the concept of national boundaries, national law and immigration, into a Wonderland where the Mad Hatter would feel quite at home.