- Even the craziest immigration systems dreamed up by European officials have not yet come up with something like America's "diversity visa" lottery, by which someone named "Sword of Islam" is promptly let into the country -- only then to mow people down in a New York bicycle lane.
- Nearly 56,000 foreign nationals have disappeared from the radar of the British authorities after being told that they were required to leave the country.
- Instead of looking warm and big-hearted, you begin to look as if you were just unforgivably lax with the security of your own citizens. So an entire political class has been.
"It is only eight weeks since an 18-year old Iraqi-born man walked onto the London Underground and left a bomb on the District line.
Fortunately for the rush-hour commuters and school children on that train, the detonating device went off without managing to set off the bomb itself.
Had the device worked, the many passengers who suffered life-changing burns would instead have been among many other people taken away in body bags.
Ahmed Hassan came to the UK illegally in 2015 and was subsequently provided with foster care by the British government.
He has now been charged, and is awaiting trial, for causing an explosion and attempted murder."
"...Although a person's name may be nothing more than an inauspicious start -- its owner, after all, did not choose it -- even the craziest immigration systems dreamed up by European officials have not yet come up with something like America's "diversity visa" lottery, by which someone pronounces themselves to be called "Sword of Islam" [terrorist Sayfullo Saipov] and is promptly let into the country -- only then to mow people down in a New York bicycle lane.
But we are all suffering from variants of the same mania..."
Fortunately for the rush-hour commuters and school children on that train, the detonating device went off without managing to set off the bomb itself.
Had the device worked, the many passengers who suffered life-changing burns would instead have been among many other people taken away in body bags.
Ahmed Hassan came to the UK illegally in 2015 and was subsequently provided with foster care by the British government.
He has now been charged, and is awaiting trial, for causing an explosion and attempted murder."
London police outside Parsons Green Underground station, following the terrorist bombing there on September 15, 2017. (Image source: Edwardx/Wikimedia Commons)
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But we are all suffering from variants of the same mania..."
