On April 20, 1968 British Conservative party member Enoch Powell made the fieriest of
speeches against mass immigration. The media titled it the “Rivers of blood” speech. He had
then warned of immigrants swamping Britain and marginalising its original population.
Mind you, it wasn’t even a great deal of “illegal” migrants he talked about. He
started with the line: “The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide
against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which
are deeply rooted in human nature”. For two decades now Britain is coming to
grip with reality and paying the price of failing to heed Powell’s warning. Rivers
of blood haven’t flown in Britain but they certainly have in India, especially
in Assam this month.
Lately, some in India have been talking about illegal migrants and how
to deal with them. The problems India is facing on account of illegal migrants
are outcomes of seeds sown and nurtured by the left-liberal-votebank mafia and
their sympathisers in the “communist” media. Many also make the
terrible mistake of tagging a predominantly communist Indian media as “liberal”.
Typically, it’s the bimbos in this very media who tend to make absurdly loose
statements about illegal migrants in the wake of the Assam communal violence;
the Bodo-Muslim riots. Cleverly, the
media and the Congress won’t even call them Illegal Bangladeshis but Bengali-Muslims.
Many may be aware, many not but Margaret
Thatcher, the Iron Lady, campaigned in 1979 to bring in immigration
reforms. Till the early 80s Indians
visiting UK didn’t need Visas. We could go to any port of entry in UK and
get an entry permit. Same applied for Britons visiting India. All that changed
in 1984 when Thatcher introduced Visas for even short visits to UK. Till then,
many Indians went on a visit to UK, got married or contracted a marriage and
got settlement rights. All that changed when Thatcher introduced the British Citizenship Act in 1981. New
rules meant that your ‘Visitor visa’ for UK couldn’t be converted to a residential
permit. Also, UK now has a Border
Control Agency, US has a Homeland
Security along with Border &
Customs Protection agency. All these were measures to check illegal
immigration and other illegal activities at their borders. However, the eminent
Social Genius (SG) in our media will
tout some liberal nonsense without the slightest thought or reflection on what
changes have been brought about by many democracies to curb illegal immigration. She is like that famous MissTeen SouthCarolina who explained why Americans weren’t good at reading maps. Doesn’t
ring a bell? Never mind! We will get to that soon. Our eminent SG likes to cook
‘2 Minute Noodles’ with the most
serious of problems with absurd comments.
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Don’t look at me! I didn’t think of that 2-minute noodles thing. I’m
not that original. This is none other than Barkha Dutt admitting with unusual
candour that media folks tend to cook 2-minute judgements. I like the honesty
in that tweet. The only problem is that these cooks don’t seem to show any
intention of learning. If you read articles by Barkha Dutt, Sagarika Ghose or
Rajdeep Sardesai you will hardly find much research, no depth, no painstaking
digging for facts. Lately, you will only find such serious work in the Social
Media. Take this article on Right To Education by @ssudhirkumar
or this one on Kingfisher by @TheKaipullai. Both have depth, filled
with details and meticulously compiled. And these are just two of them. There
are hundreds of such writers who aren’t regular journalists or media celebs.
These aren’t 2-minute noodles! But the media celebs have found something even
better to cook their 2-minute journalism with – Twitter!
Again, I’m not the one saying it but just rephrasing the eminent SG: “When it comes to understanding and judging
Twitter, Rajdeep Sardesai is “Numero Uno”! And true to his enormous
reputation Rajdeep concludes, after being nagged by tweets over Assam, that he
will now see Twitter as just ‘amusement’.
Yeah! He wants to get back to some ‘real
work’ like concocting some amusement like ‘TheGreatestIndian’! I guess Mr. Yogendra Yadav must be on vacation
or else Rajdeep could have conducted another national poll to reach the same
conclusion: ‘Twitter is amusement’ and then conducted a panel discussion on the
amusing topic. Alas, we missed some amusement ourselves! But only for a while!
For before too long his deputy, Sagarika Ghose (SG), the eminent Social Genius
backs up Rajdeep’s conclusion with some mind-numbing and amusing tweets.
Damn! I was almost starting to forget what I started with: Illegal Immigration. But I trust SG to
bring my focus back with her tweets. So in the midst of all the violence and
discussions on illegal immigration SG quotes someone and concludes migration
from the rest of the country that has led to ‘ethnic multiplicity’. So now all
the ethnic migrants in Mumbai should shut up and live to together. Raj
Thackeray should learn from SG. Oh wait! She wasn’t talking about Mumbai but
Assam is it? It’s always such a thrill to misunderstand SG! After Jerusalem, Assam,
particularly Bodoland, has to be the best ‘promised land’ around the country.
Not surprisingly migrants from places like Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Gujarat and
other states have been rushing to Assam for many years. Then these people learn
Assamese or Bengali, convert to Muslims or Christians or to Bodo Tribals and create
havoc in the area. We would have heard
such reasoning and answers from many past Miss India winners. And yet this nation
of 1.2 billion (minus 1) can’t see it as clearly as SG does. And here’s a
warning for those who rant about illegal immigration (I’m already heeding..):
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Stupid USA! They should have shut their borders in the 18th
century itself. For a country that was built by immigrants they should have
listened to SG long back. The tough measures that USA frequently takes against
illegal immigrants, especially in their southern border with Mexico and with
their legal framework have to be researched by some social media writer. Such silly tasks are not for our 2-minute
cooks you see. And even Rajdeep will find it amusing that SG says ‘whites attacking browns’ without
mentioning what kind of attack that is. Well, let’s just assume its racist more
out of colour and ancestry rather than stupid illegal immigration. What SG
forgot to tell you though is that India, Bangladesh, Pakistan are all ‘whole
wheat bread’. They are all brown! There may be some differences in physical
features but comparing an illegal immigrant or migrant issue to a racist
issue is what an absolute moron can manage, without any assistance. I am no
expert to firmly conclude the Assam tragedy is only of illegal immigration. But
SG, given her 10 years of journalistic work in the Bodoland area, can most certainly conclude it’s not.
So you see, it’s quite hard to understand or interpret the amusing
tweets of SG. Maybe we need expert comedians like Raju Shrivastava, Johny
Lever or that guy (Pehchan Kaun)
to really understand the genius of SG. I say that because late night comedian, Jimmy Kimmel, a few years ago, did a
splendid job of interpreting a Miss Teen
USA contestant’s answer to the question: “A 5th of Americans can’t locate USA on the map, why is that?”
(Do watch the video of 3.53 mins):
So you get it now, don’t you? The similarity between MissTeenUSA
and Sagarika Ghose when it comes to offering solutions to issues is striking. Isn’t it? Fortunately MissTeenUSA is not grappling with some nuclear-bomb issue. I can't say the same for our Social Genius! But hey, they are both still very young and
will learn as they go.
On a serious note, illegal migrants from Bangladesh have been a problem
for decades. And yes, as I said in the beginning they find support in our
Vote-bank mafia who will sacrifice national interests to remain in power. The
communist media too will do all they can to support this mafia. Assam may have
a strong contingent of these illegals but they aren’t all permanent residents
of Assam alone. They are in Bengal too. Many have melted into smaller towns in
India. Many have melted into the vast ghettos of Mumbai and other suburbs.
I quote from the post: ‘MakeMumbai a separate state’ (And also recommend you read it if you haven’t
already) - (Rediff): “In
terms of illegal immigrants in Mumbai, Bangladeshis alone account for between
3.5 lakhs according to a minister and 16.0 lakhs according to Kirit Somaya, a
former MP. What would you say about a
government that can’t even get its numbers right on such matters? This is in no
way to suggest that any of this population is involved in crimes but the
possibilities that some may be cannot be discounted. But it sure is a matter of
serious concern”.
Illegal immigration from Bangladesh and also Pakistan is a truly serious
problem. When have you even heard the current govt talk about any population
control measures? It is not just a social problem but a serious national threat
as well. The threat of ‘Rivers of blood’ is far more pertinent for India than
Britain. The tragedy, apart from the terrible votebank mafia, is that bimbos
from the media seem to think this is a simple “Miss India” contest question and answer it that way.
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