Who is fit to tour Australia?

22 Nov 08
News Weekly

Communist China's chief political enforcer, who also stands accused of being its pre-eminent exterminator, has been touring Australia.

The little-known Zhou Yongkang has taken the unusual but ominous step of visiting Australia unannounced on what was in all likelihood a fact-finding trip directly linked to his repressive policing duties.

The highly unusual visit sparked protests and questions about why someone with such a murderous record was permitted to enter Australia.

The West Australian

Victorian Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu has called for the federal government to reject the visa application of British white supremacist leader Nick Griffin ...

Mr Baillieu said he had written to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Immigration Minister Chris Evans calling on them to reject any application by Mr Griffin to come to Australia.

“Mr Griffin openly seeks to undermine cultural, religious and racial harmony,” Mr Baillieu said.

The Rudd Government must refuse entry to convicted racist
The Hon Dr Sharman Stone MP
Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

The Federal Opposition is urgently calling on the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Evans, to refuse any further visa application from British national, Nick Griffin.

Mr Griffin is well known for his deeply racist views and public statements that amount to religious and racial vilification.

He was convicted of inciting racial hatred in Britain in 1998, and soon after was refused entry into Australia by the then Coalition Government.

“It seems however, that the Rudd Government has refused Mr Griffin’s electronic visa application, but the Immigration Department has now invited him to submit a formal application in writing.

Dr Sharman Stone, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship has stated that: “Given his past criminal conviction, and the fact that Mr Griffin has been sponsored by the Australian Protectionist Party to visit Australia on a lecture tour promoting his racist views, he should quite simply and categorically be denied entry into the country.”

“Mr Griffin’s views are abhorrent and totally unacceptable in a tolerant and peace loving society like ours. “ Dr Stone said.

“Minister Evans must act swiftly and decisively, making it clear that no Australian government will ever welcome or tolerate people like Mr Griffin.”

“Mr Griffin is not wanted in Australia and I call on Minister Evans to instruct his department that he will not approve of any visa application from him, no matter what its format, or form,” Dr Stone said.

Have Baillieu and Stone condemned China's "Heinrich Himmler" who, rather than seeking to "undermine ... harmony", allegedly already has a body count on his resume? Not likely.

So why not? How does the high moral ground of tolerance morph into kissing the posterior of murderers? Economic interests? Blind spot for third worlders who just need some time to see the light? Who knows.

But perhaps the message we get from this inconsistency is that, behind the gleaming smiles of the new moral order of tolerance, lurks a morality of convenience that will run away when put to the test. A moral order lacking in a definable identity and the social cohesion necessary to defend "a tolerant and peace loving society like ours". A moral order still vacuously defined only in terms of what it isn't (Nazi), so that it is unable to defend itself.

Lawrence Auster

... there's yet a further parallel between Germany and America in the thinking of liberals and leftists that makes them want to destroy both of those countries. As Otto Frank put it at the end of the World War II (in which his entire family had been murdered), what was wrong with Nazism was its "intolerance." But, as I've written previously, if mere "intolerance," rather than dehumanizing murderous brutality, is what defines the ultimate evil at the core of Nazism, then "intolerance" is a terrible threat to humanity and must be eliminated everywhere. Intolerance, unlike Nazism, exists in all countries. Wherever there is a distinct national identity, for example, there is implicitly a lack of tolerance for other national identities in the same territory. Therefore America, which has a strong national identity, is as threatening to the human good as German national identity, and therefore the American nation has to be eliminated along with the German one.

H/T: Eye on Immigration