Intergration vs multiculturalism

Dear Sir, I read your article “The Hanson debate” (.PIM Feb) at first with annoyance, then with amusement, shaking my head in pity ing wonder. Twenty years ago, this country had, as its immigration policy, the White Australia Policy. As time went on, the vast majority of “Anglo-Celtic” Australians, felt that this policy was stupid and wrong.

We believed that the colour of a person’s skin was immaterial to their suitability as a migrant.

But we believed in the integration of migrants into our community, not, as we now have, multiculturalism, which to most Australians means the Balkanisation of our community into warring tribes.

Mainstream Australians believed that this country had a great deal to offer to potential migrants who could contribute to the wealth, culture and growth of Australia.

But to achieve this end, careful screening of potential migrants was necessary, and, for the good of the Australian people, stan

dards of entry had to be applied.

These were that potential migrants must know how to speak English. Every year, this country squanders $2BO million teach ing migrants, who aspire to be citizens of this country, how to speak our language. A further $6O million is squandered, printing government pamphlets in the language of just about every country in the world.

Many more millions are poured down the drain providing interpreters for courts and every government department you can name. Australia has a bankrupt army, a bankrupt public hospital system, a lack of resources in our public schools, poor roads, a creaking public transport system, and we, the people, are understandably angry that our high taxes are being pillaged, to pro vide for migrants, who should never have been selected for migration.

Australia’s social security safety net was created to help Australia’s poor peo ple. But our social security system is being plundered by migrant groups who have never contributed a penny to its finances.

That the Australian government can bring people into my country who cannot even speak our language, have no job skills, go on unemployment benefits, free health care, and then be put on a public housing list, incenses the Australian

people.

The prime minister’s feeble response to this outrage was to propose that newly arrived migrants should wait for 12 months to be eligible for social security payments.

But even this mild reform was viciously attacked by migrant groups, who care only for the interests of their own racial groups.

It has been reported in our newspapers, that there are over 60,000 New Zealanders living in Australia on social security bene fits. Yet there are just 13 Australians living in New Zealand on social security benefits.

We do not believe in multiple mar riages, female circumcision, arranged mar riages, assassination of political oppo nents. The danger is that as increasing numbers of migrants, whose cultural val ues are abhorrent to Australians, pour into

our country and set up ethnic ghettos in our cities, these alien communities will demand special laws appropriate to their alien cultures.

This has already begun to happen.

Local people who live in migrant areas are finding that they can not take their children to their local council swimming pools on days reserved as “Muslim womens’ swim

ming days”.

Recently, Australian naval forces were involved in the war against Iraq when that country invaded Kuwait. The attitude of Australia’s Arab community was a sad indictment of Australia’s immigration fias co. Casual Arab acquaintances of mine were pro-Saddam Hussein and anti- American.

Ethnic crime in this country is spiralling out of control. Your own magazine has an article in it, “The lost boys” (Feb), which states that there are not many islanders in Washington, but there are a lot of them in jail. A similar situation exists in Australia.

The scale of violent crime reported in

the media attributed to suspects of “Pacific Islander appearance” is so high, that the various ethnic lobby groups tried to sup press the descriptions of suspects pub lished by the media.

The ‘Vietnamese ghetto’ of Cabramatta is the crime capital of Australia. It has the highest car theft rate, the highest murder rate, the highest drug overdose rate (50 dead in the past two years), and the only place in the land where an Australian politician has been assassinated. It now boasts 14 video cameras in the main shop ping centre to prevent the selling of heroin.

Fourteen-year-old Vietnamese children are caught time and again selling heroin to Australian youth. They have no fear of our legal system, which to their culture is ridiculously lenient. The main political parties are now too frightened of the grow ing political clout of the ethnic lobbies to stand up for the rights of their own people.

Another less-than-delightful manifesta tion of our immigration policy is growing inter-race hatred with its accompanying appalling violence. Bombs have exploded at the Turkish embassy and others have exploded outside Yugoslav travel agencies in the middle of Sydney’s shopping centre where Australian pedestrians were killed or seriously wounded.

I hope that I have cast some light on the reasons why Pauline Hanson has gained such wide popular support amongst

Australians. Australia’s immigration poli

cy has lurched from one stupid extreme, that of total racism, to the other stupid extreme, one of multiculturalism, and we are reaping the consequences of this stupid policy. There is a law that governs the peaceful co-existence between the races.

That is, that a racially and culturally homo geneous society will welcome people from another race or culture provided that the culture of the original inhabitants is pre dominant.

But where a minority population exists, whose population increase, either through birth rate, or immigration, exceeds that of the original inhabitants, especially if the values or customs of the minority are con trary to the others’, you have the basis for extreme racism and, ultimately, civil war.

If my previous statement is incorrect, could you offer a different explanation, for what went wrong in Lebanon, Cyprus, Fiji, Brixton, Los Angeles, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Uganda, Armenia, Kurdistan,

Chechnya, Czechoslovakia, Sudan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Kashmir, Palestine, Congo, Nigeria, Biafra, Punjab and Malaya?

I believe that the truth of my assertion, is self evident and absolute. I fear that Australia’s immigration policy, is going to lead my country into bloodshed and tur moil. I do not want my country ending up with a legal system like the United States’, where the race of the jury is the deciding factor in whether the accused is guilty or innocent.

John Kayes,

NSW, Australia