tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post116077581747243305..comments2024-03-29T05:13:18.992+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: "You see it every day, this surrender"Labanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-18714328378385232162007-05-05T12:55:00.000+00:002007-05-05T12:55:00.000+00:00Mass migration is a problem if the new immigrants ...Mass migration is a problem if the new immigrants are not willing to assilate. I came from South Africa to Israel. The latter is an immigrant success story while the former has an annual murder rate of around 20,000 - for the past ten years. I kid you not. <BR/><BR/>Why? SA's open border policy which - according to a friend of mine who is the State Prosecutor for Violent Crime - has let in hundreds of violent, out of work, revolutionary soldiers from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. <BR/><BR/>Seems they are the ones carrying out the majority of the violent crimes. Hard to catch as they employ military tactics and slip over the borders at will.<BR/><BR/>I say, "Yes" to border control and a tight immigration policy. It's not about Islam. It's about protecting those you love, it's about standing up for who and what you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1161114857110509772006-10-17T19:54:00.000+00:002006-10-17T19:54:00.000+00:00I read Satanic Verses fifteen or so years ago, but...I read <I>Satanic Verses</I> fifteen or so years ago, but I remember liking it. "A book for those who shoot up in dark rooms"? Not hardly. It's no <I>Naked Lunch</I>. <BR/><BR/>From what I've read of his stuff, Rushdie's not afraid of entertaining anybody. He's not the greatest writer ever, but he is, at least, a real writer, not an academic fraud like John Barth or Don DeLillo.Gordon Freecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10779983208898166853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1160908562603509602006-10-15T10:36:00.000+00:002006-10-15T10:36:00.000+00:00I think Rushdie's public reconsideration of opinio...I think Rushdie's public reconsideration of opinion is laudable, actually. It takes a real man to admit when he is wrong. Very few people in the public light ever do.James G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00511308680162784112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1160904076133529382006-10-15T09:21:00.000+00:002006-10-15T09:21:00.000+00:00Hey, all we need is Julian Barnes on-side and we'l...Hey, all we need is Julian Barnes on-side and we'll have the full set. So glad these "leaders" have finally caught up with the Clapham omnibus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1160837342964347442006-10-14T14:49:00.000+00:002006-10-14T14:49:00.000+00:00I want £20 from those cretins who burned Satanic V...I want £20 from those cretins who burned Satanic Verses in Bradford in January 1989. I would not have bought the thing otherwise and it was awful...........really awful..........I thought Rushdie was ill..........he must have won some prize like the Booker or The Orange Prize because it was a book for those who shoot up in dark rooms.............I still think Douglas Hurd, erstwhile Home Secretary should have publicly hanged the idiots who burned books - would have saved so much trouble.........but i guess Hurd just wants to be Woy JenkinsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com