The Home Office’s letter to Wilders
VFR’s general term for the politics of modern Western societies such as Great Britain is “left-liberal,” meaning, in part and approximately, an inchoate mixture of the liberalism of individual rights with the liberalism of indiscriminate openness to the unassimilable Other who will crush individual rights. If the exclusion from Britain of an elected member of the Dutch Parliament stands, that would be a definite sign that Britain has passed the threshold from a left-liberal regime to one that is simply and frankly leftist and anti-Western.
However, as debased and wicked as the current ruling powers of Britain are, I do not believe that they will want to stand naked before the world revealed as an all-out leftist regime, a regime openly at war with Western patriots who are defending Western freedom from Islamic tyranny. To maintain a color of legitimacy, Britain’s rulers must keep at least the shadow of the liberal part, the part about the protection of the individual. Therefore I expect, though of course I do not know, that the government will reverse its stunning announcement and allow Geert Wilders to enter Britain.
With those considerations in mind, here is the abyssmal and shameful letter to Wilders from the British Home Office:
Home Office
UK Border Agency
Apollo House
36 Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR93RR
Tel ;. 44 (0)870 6067766
Web www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
Mr Geert Wilders : .
For delivery via: British Embassy in The Hague Our Ref: W1121255/E08
10 February 2009
Dear Mr Wilders
The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the Secretary of State is of the view that your presence in the UK would pose a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society. The Secretary of State is satisfied that your statements about Muslims and their beliefs, as expressed in your film Fitna and elsewhere. would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK.
You are advised that should you travel to the UK and seek admission an Immigration Officer will take into account the Secretary of State’s view. If, in accordance with regulation 21 of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006, the Immigration Officer is- satisfied that your exclusion is [justified on grounds of public policy and/or public security, you will be refused admission to the UK under regulation 19. You would have a right of appeal against any refusal of admission, exercisable from outside the UK.
Yours sincerely
Irving Jones
On behalf of the Secretary of State for the Home Department
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Jacob M. writes:
What’s funny—well, not funny, but significant—is that with just a couple of minor edits we can turn the letter into the one the UK should be sending to Muslims, not Wilders:
“The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the Secretary of State is of the view that your presence in the UK would pose a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society. The Secretary of State is satisfied that your statements about infidels and their beliefs, as expressed in your book the Koran and elsewhere, would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK.”
Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 10, 2009 09:22 PM | Send