Wow. That should be an Onion headline. The scary part is that to professional ignoramuses (ignorami?) like the wingnuts this sort of thing really is news.

Can you see Townhall.com these days? I sure couldn't from your house!

You guys just don't get it! Did you read the same article I did? Mr. Thomas just doesn't complain about people moving, that is the small story within the bigger one. He cites problems with the school system no longer teaching the history of England. Sounds very familiar to our schools.

He states, very accurately, that citizens are leaving because they "fear lawlessness and the threat of more terrorism from a growing Muslim population and the loss of a sense of Britishness, exacerbated by the growing refusal of public schools to teach the history and culture of the nation to the next generation. What it means to be British has been watered down in a plague of political correctness that has swept the country faster than hoof-and-mouth disease. Officials say they do not wish to "offend" others."

Sounds very familiar to me. If you see nothing wrong with this, you are part of the problem. Another familiar sounding statement: "Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers are about to be granted "amnesty" to stay in Britain. The government's approach is similar to that pursued by President Bush, who failed to win congressional approval for his amnesty plan. In Britain it appears likely to succeed. Migrants will be granted immediate access to many benefits, including top priority for council housing. Taxpayers will foot the bill." ... "This is yet another example of the Alice in Wonderland world of human rights. If you break British law for long enough, you acquire rights not penalties."

Ah yes! Taxpayers will foot the bill for tons of freeloaders entering the country. Yeah, this is fair. NOT.

He finishes with this: "Abraham Lincoln said no nation can exist half slave and half free. Neither can a nation be sustained if it allows conditions that result in mass emigration, while importing huge numbers of foreigners who come from backgrounds that do not practice assimilation or tolerance of other beliefs. ... The problem for Britain and the United States isn't just the change in demographics. It is the reluctance of both countries to inculcate the beliefs, history and, yes, religious ideals, which made our nations so successful that others wanted to come and be a part of them. The difference between many of the current immigrants and those of the past is that the previous ones wanted to become fully American or fully British. The current ones, in too many cases, would destroy what makes our countries unique. And the "leaders" of Britain and America refuse to stop it."

Hmmm - immigrants come from backgrounds that do not practice assimilation or tolerance of other beliefs - immigrants are not educated about the country and the government and its backgound and core pinnings or how it is run - many immigrants would destroy what makes the country unique.

We allow blatant lawlessness - nay, even encourage it because people want to "get along" and "not offend" others. If you don't see a problem with any of this then you are part of the problem. All of this in that article and all you and Karen can say is that "Migrations of people are ongoing. ... Get over it."

Wow - just - wow.

Mark,

You're right, I didn't read the article, I was banned from Townhall, remember?

Just pointing you to Aaleena's take on it.

The Townhall babies are too scared to let me read their articles.

Or something.

But generally, the anti-immigrant hysteria has been the same for the whole 40 years of my life, and the sky hasn't fallen yet.

It's just more hysterical John Birch Society nonsense. I've known immigrants all my life, free-loaders they're not, though they have always been seen as such.