We don’t know for sure whether or not One Nation leader Pauline Hanson personally spoke to US President Donald Trump during her invitation to Mar-a-Lago last month. Nor, if they did, just what they discussed.
But we can hazard a guess.
The Trump administration will collect data on crimes and human rights abuses committed by migrants to Australia as part of its global drive to combat mass migration, which it describes as “an existential threat to Western civilisation”.
Well, they’ll have their work cut out for them, that’s for sure.
The intervention into domestic politics goes beyond illegal immigration and seeks to caution Canberra that a significant intake of migrants, “particularly of a culture that’s radically different from Australia’s”, can lead to political and economic instability.
A senior State Department official said the administration had instructed its diplomats at its embassy in Canberra to “begin collecting data and reporting on migrant-related crimes and human rights abuses facilitated by people of a migration background”.
And that’s where they’ll run into their biggest hurdle: actually wrangling meaningful data on crimes committed by “people of a migration background”. As I’ve written before, unlike the US or even the UK, Australian authorities don’t collect crime data relating to the ethnicity of offenders. It’s almost like they’re trying to hide something.
Even on the limited data they do collect, for instance, we can see that, despite official denials, African migrants are staggeringly over-represented in certain violent crimes. But when it comes to their Australian-born offspring, we’re left in the dark, because they’re simply recorded as ‘Australian’. There is some suspicion that the children of overseas-born parents are inclined to be less law-abiding than their parents, but we just don’t know because authorities won’t tell us.
Just don’t believe your lyin’ eyes about all those machete attacks.
And just ignore that some 90 per cent of terror attacks and plots in Australia in the last 20 years were committed by Islamic ‘refugees’ and their children.
Meanwhile, it takes an American administration to point out the bleeding obvious that Australia’s media-political elite steadfastly refuse to admit.
The senior State Department official, who spoke on condition of not being named, said the US government was concerned a large influx of migrants could strain markets, naming Australia’s housing crisis as an example.
“Beyond that, we want to caution the Australians,” he told this masthead. “We love the Australian people … We just want to warn our friends that if you import a rapid number of individuals of any background, particularly of a culture that’s radically different from Australia’s, without any sort of mechanism for diffusing the impact ... that can lead to political unrest, that can lead to economic instability.”
Something everyone in Australia but the troughers and chatterers of the elite class can see, right before their eyes.
And to say what everyone knows but is finger-wagged against saying too loudly in public.
“The global liberal project is not enabling the flourishing of democracy,” [The senior policy adviser at the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, Samuel Samson] wrote. “Rather, it is trampling democracy, and Western heritage along with it, in the name of a decadent governing class afraid of its own people … Achieving peace in Europe and around the world requires not a rejection of our shared cultural heritage, but a renewal of it.”
That’s enough to get him arrested in the UK.
