John Derbyshire – The Unz Review Sept 8, 2023
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is feeling the heat being generated by the tens of thousands of illegal aliens pouring into his city, causing excruciating administrative and budgetary dilemmas for the city government. It’s hard to feel much sympathy for New Yorkers. In fact it’s hard not to laugh at the fools.
They have brought these misfortunes on themselves by voting for an Open Borders party to run the federal government and for local politicians who cherish New York as a Sanctuary City with a local ordinance guaranteeing sheltered accommodation to anyone who asks for it.
"But what happens when a city that is obligated to provide shelter for everyone runs out of shelter?"https://t.co/NkGxwtvq5j
— David Cruz (@CWEBCRUZER) August 3, 2023
It is, though, interesting to speculate how a city with a high proportion of very well-educated voters—academics, intellectuals, professionals, and successful business people—how such a city gets itself into such a mess. I don’t have an answer, but I think I’ve identified some contributing factors.
Here is Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City, speaking on Wednesday evening this week to what the New York Times described as ”a town hall-style gathering in Manhattan” [In Escalation, Adams Says Migrant Crisis ‘Will Destroy New York City’ by Emma G. Fitzsimmons, September 7, 2023]. The subject was the mighty flood of illegal aliens into his city.
[Clip: And let me tell you something, New Yorkers. Never in my life have I had a problem that I could not see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this. I don’t see an ending to this.
This issue will destroy New York City, destroy New York City. We’re getting ten thousand migrants [a.k.a. illegal infiltrators] a month. One time we were just getting Venezuela; now we’re getting Ecuador, we’re getting Russian-speaking coming through Mexico, now we’re getting Western Africa. Now we’re getting people from all over the globe have made their minds up that they’re going to come through the Southern part of the border and come into New York City. And everyone is saying it’s New York City’s problem.
Every community in this city is going to be impacted. Now the twelve billion dollar deficit that we’re going to have to cut … every service in the city is going to be impacted. All of us.
So I say to you as I turn it over to you: This is some, some of the most educated, some of the most knowledgeable, probably more of my commissioners and deputy commissioners and chiefs live in this community. So as you asked me a question about migrants, tell me what role you play. How many of you organized to stop what they’re doing to us? How many of you were part of the movement to say: ”We’re seeing what this mayor is trying to do, and they’re destroying New York City.”
It’s gonna come to your neighborhoods. All of us are going to be impacted by this. I said it last year when we had fifteen thousand; I’m telling you now, with a hundred and ten thousand: The city we knew, we’re about to lose.
And we’re all in this together, all of us. Staten Island said: ”Send ’em out to Manhattan.” Manhattan is saying: ”Send ’em out to Queens.” Queens is saying: ”Send ’em out to Brooklyn.” No! It’s not the game we can play. [Entire Video, hosted on Twitter]
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I can’t resist reminding you again, as I did on August 18, that this is the mayor who, just over a year ago—August 19th 2022—announced Project Open Arms. Quote from him back then: ”Our city has been, and will always be, a city of immigrants that welcomes newcomers with open arms” [Adams Administration Announces ’Project Open Arms,’ Comprehensive Support Plan to Meet Educational Needs of Families Seeking Asylum, NYC.gov, August 19, 2022].
Last week, I railed at Mayor Adams’ stupidity and innumeracy. So … is there anything new to say?
Possibly. In that segment last week I noted that the stupidity and innumeracy is international, or at any rate transatlantic. The U.K. is well-stocked with clones of Mayor Adams.
That brought an article in the Aporia online magazine back in February, posted by Andrew Collingwood, a British writer.
Collingwood walks us through a very interesting history: the history of dramatic under-estimation by government authorities of the results—that is, the number of people coming in—the results of opening the immigration doors:
For the last three-quarters of a century, British governments have consistently underestimated the likely scale of future immigration—and to a risible degree. In 1948, amid accelerating changes to Britain’s relationship with its empire, Parliament passed the British Nationality Act, which put British subjects within the UK’s Dominions and Commonwealth on equal footing to those in the British Isles. In other words, somebody born in Kingston, Jamaica had by law as much right to live and work in Britain as somebody born in Kingston-upon-Thames.
It seems to have come as a shock to Members of Parliament that a person living in crushing third-world poverty might see value in moving to one of the richest and safest nations on earth. The Cabinet Papers, a collection of National Archive reviews of government documents, show that, rather as with the small boat crossings of the Channel, what started as a trickle soon developed into a deluge. For the five years after the passing of the Act, “immigration from colonies remained at no more than 2,000 per year. This increased in 1954 and had reached over 135,000 by 1961.” [Links in original.]
Why can’t the UK stop migration? by Andrew Collingwood, Aporia Magazine, February 16, 2023
As we shall see, ”word gets around” is one of the most powerful driving forces of migration.
Collingwood then comments on some milestones in U.K. immigration policy.
He pauses first at the year 2004, when a bunch of poor, mostly ex-Soviet countries were admitted to the European Union. Britain’s government estimated that from five to thirteen thousand people a year from these countries would move to the U.K. The actual number was seventy-two thousand a year.
Forward ten years to 2014, when Romanians and Bulgarians got migration rights. Numbers from those countries, the relevant British government committee predicted, would be at most twenty thousand a year. By 2017 the actual number was running at ninety thousand a year.
And so on. Yes, the stupidity is transatlantic, and goes back at least seventy-five years.
I can now state with confidence Derbyshire’s Law of Under-Estimation.
When, in America or Britain, some relaxation of immigration rules is proposed, the ex post increase in incoming numbers will be some large multiple of the ex ante estimates offered by the authorities.
Human nature being what it regrettably is, these repeated under-estimations are commonly attributed by observers on the patriot side of the issue to malice. Those absurd under-estimates, people say, were deliberate, meant to bamboozle us so that the demographic revolution desired by the enemy could proceed.
Certainly there was some of that. The great flood of immigrants to the U.K. during Tony Blair’s administration (1997-2007), of which Collingwood’s 2004 example was just one component, was indeed driven in part by malice. Andrew Neather, a former adviser and speech writer on Blair’s team, spilled the beans in October 2009 by telling Brits that the aim of Blair’s immigration strategy, which he had helped to devise, was to ”rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date [How Labour threw open doors to mass migration in secret plot to make a multicultural UK, by James Slack, Daily Mail, February 10,2010].
Tony Blair adviser Andrew Neather's October 2009 revelation that Blair's strategy of massive non-white immigration was to "rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date" is not a conspiracy THEORY, but an actual conspiracy. https://t.co/SmLhKlwxKF pic.twitter.com/BjfKGuTkUD
— VDARE (@vdare) September 8, 2023
Undoubtedly there are similar motives in play among our own immigration boosters.
I doubt that they fully explain Derbyshire’s Law of Under-Estimation, though. Those examples from the 1940s and 1950s cited by Andrew Collingwood long predated modern anti-white Progressivism. Sentimentality about the British Empire was more of a factor; and it was widespread, not just the province of a malicious faction.
So what does explain Derbyshire’s Law and the quandary that Mayor Eric Adams finds himself in? I have been saying ”stupidity” and ”innumeracy,” but I don’t think those nouns capture all of the problem.
Re-quote from Andrew Collingwood:
It seems to have come as a shock to Members of Parliament that a person living in crushing Third-World poverty might see value in moving to one of the richest and safest nations on earth.
There were not many Nobel Prize winners in the early-1950s British parliament (just one in the House of Commons, I think). There weren’t many dunces either, though. Members of Parliament were ordinary citizens of average IQ—probably a bit above average.
As Collingwood tells us, the problem wasn’t intelligence, it was imagination: the imagination to understand what drives a person to leave his familiar native place and go settle in a far country with different manners and language.
Just pause to reflect for a moment on this question: How likely is it that New York Mayor Eric Adams is a man of much imagination?
So no, it’s not commonplace stupidity. It’s more a partial blindness to things much outside one’s own direct experience.
What about innumeracy? That one I’ll stick firmly with. Hunter-gatherers in the Amazon rain forest are said to count thus: one, two, many. A surprising number of citizens in the developed world have not advanced much further than that.
So even if you remove agents of deliberate malice from the ranks of our immigration policy makers, you are still left with legions of Eric Adams types: people of average intelligence to whom the world beyond our shores is not all that different from the world within them, and is populated by a few thousand people here or there, some hundreds of whom might want to come live here.
All right: I’m a numbers geek; at any rate more numerate than the average. (This was written on the 28,587th day of my life. Next Tuesday is a prime number!)
And I’ve knocked around the world considerably and read a lot of imaginative fiction.
So I’m a snob; so sue me.
But I was right about “moderate” Mayor Adams; and I was right about New York State’s elected officials disgraceful silence on consequences of the Biden Rush:
As the stupidity and lawlessness mount, the silence of New York State’s leading politicians becomes ever more deafening. Governor Hochul, Senators Schumer and Gillibrand: What have they had to say or propose about the issue? Nothing, zip, zilch, rien, nichts, nada, ничево. Not a word.
Great leadership there in the Empire State. For God’s sake, who votes for these worthless seat-warmers?
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John Derbyshire [email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013
Has this writer never heard of the Kalergi Plan??
“It is, though, interesting to speculate how a city with a high proportion of very well-educated voters—academics, intellectuals, professionals, and successful business people—how such a city gets itself into such a mess. I don’t have an answer, ”
I have the answer: jews!
You can have White people or you can have wild animals, but the world chose wrong
He’s talking about educated people, most are educated idiots and useful idiots, he states that NYC took 110 thousand migrants and wails about how to deal with them? If he could only process in his mind how would Texas deal with them? And the 110K is just NYs share, then add all of the other locations blessed with these doctors, engineers, lawyers & pharmaceutical specialists, does he think TEXAS CAN COPE WHEN NY CAN’T EVEN COPE WITH A PROPORTIONATE SHARE?
We are being manipulated in order to expose the criminals that have ruled for thousands of years, let’s get this right this time.
The problem with the article is it promotes the view that immigration has “not been understood” by the “people’s representatives”. Further, that the “people’s representatives” are the architects rather than the puppets of the whole geopolitical engineering. Parliamentary systems have long been subverted.
Immigration is about low wages and high rents. This suits banksters and corporations, the string pullers of “representative democracy” through their media and academic control. We have slavery system of sorts were wage slaves of the first world – with no other source of income, the “working class” – compete with those who are able to accept lower conditions of employment. These lower conditions of employment are often availed of by official “unofficial” workers who must accept poor conditions of employment to stay under the radar of the selective immigration police.
The letting in of immigrants is like the letting in of drugs. It’s a top down operation where the occasional haul of contraband or invaders is highlighted to give the impression “something is being done about it”…
And of course the Daily Mail continually beats the drum of “we must do something about…”
When there is inequitable taxation and the private creation of money exist, the current form of globalisation will continue to persist.
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It is obvious the following is happening courtesy of our “rulers”:
1/Mass immigration, even by the ostensible laws of the land is being flouted.
2/The long term, if not also short term, health of the native population is being deliberately compromised by “vaccination”.
3/ We have been continually manipulated by the media, inclusive of false flags and hoaxes. E.g. 7/7 and the Manchester bombing
4/Industrial scale drug smuggling supported by the state has always existed…
5/ Inequitable tax and monetary systems.
6/ High energy prices from utilities that should not be under private – i.e. political and corporate revolving door ownership.
Under these conditions why should citizens be bound by any notions of any common wealth when the social contract has been long broken? TPTB regard the public as cattle and sheep. Maybe TPTB are right to believe this of most as many of us do of most, but I have observed the social contract has been broken, and I am not bound by it.
Derbyshire spent decades blaming open immigration on Ted Kennedy and the Irish. He was a persistent liar, always referring to the Jewish initiated and sponsored 1965 Hart-Cellar Immigration Act as the “Ted Kennedy Open Immigration Act”. Ted was a compliant tool of the Jews who murdered Joseph Kennedy Jr, Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy Jr. Like Biden, he was never in a position to decide on matters of national importance.
Jews have pursued, tormented, stalked, murdered and married into the Kennedy family. For just one example of how this works, President Kennedy’s widow was terrified they were going to murder her children. They got one of them and the other, Caroline wanted to live so she married a Jew and named her child John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg. He calls himself Jack and looks gay. If you’re curious to see how that turned out, his Wikipedia page has a mugshot. Goodbye red hair, blue eyes. Hello jufro, beady black eyes. What a mug. What a name, Schlossberg.
Ted was one of countless politicians and writers shilling for Jewish sponsored third-immigration. The “Biden Rush”? Stop lying, all politicians are bought and paid for whores. Masons are mere guns for hire.
Well..
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
An awful poem..written by an awful ‘jewe’…
and now suffered by an awfully shitty big city..and it’s awful and very ineffectual African American and anti white…Mayor
… it all seems somehow very appropriate for Gotham….
because of course.. as our friend the Joker sagely noted..
“you get what you fucking deserve..”.
♬ Noo Yoyk…Noo Yoyk♬
This is all nonsense…..the mass alien immigration invasion IS A DELIBERATE AND CALCULATED POLICY….the change the face of Western democracy and it is all to do with globalisation.
Who is doing it?….thats easy…the Jewish elites who control both Britain and America….most of them are crypto jews like Biden whose wife’s was JACOB….take a look a Biden junior.
So it is NOT a coincidence that the Bidens are knee deep in corruption in Ukraine.
Currently Ukrainian civilians/soldiers are dying in their droves on the battlefield….much like WW1 &2 ….for Britain.
Recall that this war could be stopped overnight.
“We are presently in the ‘Camp of the Saints’ phase of Whiteocide. After that, the ‘Planet of the Apes’ comes.” –Nico X
Interesting! That British Nationality Act just happened to come write and pass itself in the same time-frame as America’s immigration reform: not too long after America and Great Britain had won a major war for the Jews.
Jews call WWII the “Good War.”
We call WWII the “Second War To Kill White People.”
Don’t you effing love History?
Mushmouth frogface knows that all he has to do is change the laws and put the migrants on busses, or arrest those who won’t go back. But he does what his Jew masters tell him to do,
What’s left of New York when the bridges are gone are separate islands without food.
Built on four faultlines. Leave today. The homeless will be happy ..
What else is new? In the 1990s I earned a postgraduate degree from a US university. Yet my chances of actually staying in the US permanently have always been nil. Without direct relatives already living there, I never had a case. (For a while, there was some flexibility later on, for those who graduated in the 2000s, to stay a few extra months and look for a job. But certainly not in my day.)
Unlike my schoolmate’s mother, for instance, who had moved from Liberia to Washington DC, bringing her 12 kids with her; just like that. So the system never made much sense beyond exporting US domestic politics. Open Arms? Not from where I’m sitting.
Re Bulgaria, Romania, etc.: To start with, those countries were never “Soviet”. Joining the EU gave their nationals the right to move within the EU. Granted, there are some bad apples and Romani migrants etc. involved. But the rest were mostly hard-working, multilingual individuals looking for opportunity. Don’t tell me migration from Bulgaria is what has shredded the social fabric in the UK! Let’s get real.
Re NYC, in my experience, except for the very wealthy, it’s always been a hell hole of crime & grime, inhabited by some of the nastiest people on the face of the earth. “We’re going to lose our city?” How do I break this to you: That’s the GOAL, my dears. And frankly, I don’t expect any divine entity to spring to your defense. You never gave it a reason to.
@Bob Smith. You should check out Charles Guiliani’s channel Truthhertzradio on Odysee. He has mae a number of episodes on the JFK case. Jackie might not has been as innocent as we have previously thought. She was probably in on it and might ´very well have been a yid herself. And the Oswald they shot might have been a body double.
https://odysee.com/@truthhertzradio:b
Check out the simian prognathic jaw on the asshole. Yeah, right, he’s upset because he has to share his ration of gibs with the other animals in the jungle.
The best example of catastrophic ‘climate change ‘ is the world wide talmudic smog.
NY capitalists have masses of empty office space !
@Simon Smith
And lest we forget…Dunblane and Hungerford’s mass shootings which heralded Satans ambassador Blair’s arrival on the political stage mopping up the last remnants of the private gun-club firearms ownership in the UK ? A deranged mason aka Hamilton was given permission to own his own gun stash a situation that seems somewhat ‘memory-holed’ it has to be said ?
All that’s going on now is the Blame Game – passing the explosive parcel of political management.
From time immemorial, every newly installed leader gets blinded by psychopathic ego:
“It’s gonna be different this time because I AM THE ONE doing it.”
WRONG Dude. Never has been and never will be.
Immigration has been going all over the planet forever. In terms of physics – osmosis.
Without fail, most of the new immigrants are the ones most supportive of restrictive immigration laws – “Come in and close the door behind you.”
We can blame whoever we want, but never forget the final episode of “The Prisoner” (Patrick McGoohan 1967).
It’s us.
We
Here’s the latest from the Jewish elite which rules New Zealand ,(theyre in the process of changing the country’s name to “Aotearoa”.
How do they change NZs identity?….its a long process but primarily via the media.Christianity is downplayed by the jewish media and that includes programmes made in the USA…..by Jews of course.
The newsreaders etc ARE ALL CRYPTO JEWS or minorities very often with Jewish ancestry.
AND then there is immigration from the third world.(somehow NZ now has an unqualified Nigerian (Absanya or something like that).He is one of those cage fighter types When he returns to Nigeria he is a Nigerian and seems to switch between Christianity and Muslim routinely.
Recently “Indian immigrants” have been found in overcrowded houses….like in Britain with Blair.
The government is now providing them with money every week….like in Britain….all presented sympathetically by the jews in the media and the Greens trash…the leader of whom is a crypto jew.(who is one of the biggest claimants for expenses in parliament….yeah the would be right!!.)
Right now Ardern and her cronies should be taking extra security precautions….because just one opportunity will see her “removed”….thats why her mentor Bliar gets round the clock protection from Britains police state.
Jewish advertising propaganda…right now a jewish owned chewing gum manufacturer is promoting lesbianism by showing two dykes smooching in a car.And another jewish owned company making clothes stain remover has a couple of homosexual dads raising children just like Elton John and his jewish husband in Nice,France.(John essentially bought his children from somewhere….once the degenerate croaks the truth about this freak will come our….a drug fueled fiend,like Boy George.
Don’t buy either product or ANY products from these companies.
So NZ continues to be flooded with unqualified immigrants….NOTE there is always a lag between their arrival and an increase in crime.
The election is coming up…..FOOLS think this will change things….it will not…..except more scams to Rob NZ taxpayers of their money…just money will end up in a different place.
The conman at the head of the “Act party appears to be a crypto jew….his wealth has increased greatly since arriving in parliament….but not anywhere near the grand theft and larceny of the Clintons/Pelosi and Biden is working on it…..DISGUSTING TRASH THEY ARE.
Simon Smith–“low wages”, when it is a very old genocide plan: the Jews think we are Amalek, and people like Schneerson have big influence
Adding to what Lerch says–if a Black is looking to the left, the brain points out to the right, and the jaw points down and leftwards–you know why? He is more of a quadruped than we are; he has the head-angle that is needed when you are walking on all fours. It is the same story at the hips