On Apr 23, 5:24=A0pm, "BretLudwig" <bratziru...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Enoch Powell: the Great Lie survives
>
> By Simon Heffer
>
> >>"Sunday is the 40th anniversary of perhaps the most significant speech
>
> made in British politics since the Second World War: Enoch Powell's
> "Rivers of Blood" speech.
>
> It is also, therefore, near to the 40th anniversary of one of the
greatest=
> lies in British politics since the Second World War: that this
remarkably
> accurate prediction of the dangers of enforced multiculturalism has
> "prevented" a rational debate on immigration, since anyone who seeks to
> engage in it will be branded as a "racist".
> advertisement
>
> It would be a comfort if this position were merely ignorant. It isn't.
> Powell is used by the Left - and that includes many people in the
> Conservative Party - as a cynical excuse to conceal their own failures
in
> imposing proper immigration controls and maintaining social cohesion.
>
> They start by saying Powell was a racist, which is also a deliberate
lie.
> They then say that anyone who mentions immigration will now be tarred
with=
> that brush, which must therefore be a lie as well. This is convenient
for
> those who have betrayed the people of this country by imposing an
> immigrant community so large upon it that it struggles to integrate -
and,=
> indeed, who have betrayed many of those immigrants too. Yet it won't
wash.=
>
> Long before Powell made his speech - which ought to be issued to every
> home in the land, since I rarely hear it quoted anything other than
> completely inaccurately - there was a code of silence about immigration.
> Long before we knew the term "political correctness", it was viewed as
> simply impolite to raise the subject.
>
> Powell re****ted in his speech what he found to be the alarmingly strong
> views some of his constituents in Wolverhampton had about mass
> immigration, the way it was affecting their lives and the strain it was
> putting on local public services. He said he knew there would be "a
chorus=
> of execration" that he could say such things. But he asked a more
im****tan=
t
> question as an MP whose electors bring him a deeply unsettling problem:
by=
> what right, instead, would he have remained silent?
>
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> Powell had served in India in the 1940s. He fell in love with the
country,=
> its cultures and its peoples so profoundly that he wished to spend the
res=
t
> of his life there. He learned to speak two Indian languages fluently.
This=
> does not stop point-scoring spud-thick politicians accusing him of
racism,=
> bigotry and other vices. A few months ago it did not stop the poseur who
> leads the Tory party sacking one of his parliamentary candidates for
> saying that Powell was right. Soon, Dave will be booting out people who
> say the Pope is Catholic.
>
> Many of our immigrants have assimilated over the past 40 years. Equally,
> many have chosen not to. Four of them murdered 52 innocent people on
> London's public trans****t network nearly three years ago. Others,
> according to the police and the security services, are busily engaged in
> trying to repeat the incident. So far they have been thwarted: but for
how=
> long?
>
> This is all the legacy of those who refused to take Powell seriously; of
> militant Leftists who mischievously cry "racism" to avoid any sensible
> debate on immigration; of well-heeled politicians who saw no harm in
> driving millions of poor immigrants into ghettos, with a perfect
disregard=
> for their welfare and for that of the people already living in those
> places; and of ministers in this very Government who for years saw no
> reason to enforce immigration controls at all, in the interests of
> deliberately destroying our national identity.
>
> Powell was the greatest Conservative thinker in political life in living
> memory. He foresaw what were then unimaginable tensions caused by
forcibly=
> altering the character of a country. We should remember him tomorrow
with
> enhanced respect. For he was right."<<
>
>
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A great speaker, well-read, loyal to his country in his own way and
one of the three saints in my late Father-in-law blesed trinity. Ian
Smith, Enoch and Lester Piggott. One Friday night, speaking of the
Midlands BBC evening local news, he said, "Every face you see there is
black!"
I did a survey over the next five shows and F-I-L was wrong there,
too!
To know a person, look at those who admire him.
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