Meanwhile in Belfast Ireland

[Valerie]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... um-seeker/


I really feel sorry for the Irish citizens it’s horrible to wonder if your head might get cut off!
They have had enough of open borders for good reason.

[temporal1]

Cardinal Sarah tried to warn:

2019 / CERC / “As a bishop, it is my duty to warn the West”
The Vatican cardinal discusses his hard-hitting new book in this exclusive interview with La Nef.
https://catholiceducation.org/en/religi ... -west.html

7 years ago
Dr Taylor Marshall / Cardinal Sarah Breaks His Silence (Dr Taylor Marshall #237) / 1+hour

Cardinal Sarah breaks his silence and speaks about Pope Francis's policy of promoting mass immigration as “this new form of slavery that is mass migration." He also states, “God never intended these fractures."

Taylor and Tim discuss the brilliance of Cardinal Sarah, his origins from French Guinea,
and his missionary and orthodox theology.

If only C.Sarah were pope.
That would have been something to witness.

[JohnL]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... um-seeker/

I really feel sorry for the Irish citizens it’s horrible to wonder if your head might get cut off!
They have had enough of open borders for good reason.

There’s migration going on inside our country too. Folks trying to get away from crime and high taxes and high prices are moving out to the rural areas. But the more that move into a place tends to raise taxes because more people using the roads means a county has to repair roads more frequently. If they bring their children the schools get overcrowded so taxes have to be raised again to build more schools and hire more faculty and supplies. Then developers come and crowd in more housing and stores and bring in more roads that have to be maintained. Then developers run for county commissioners and city councils to keep inviting more development and line their own pockets. If folks complain about the higher taxes and crowding those same developers sitting in the local govt chairs will say it’s too late and it can’t be stopped. It’s a never ending cycle.

[Valerie]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... um-seeker/

I really feel sorry for the Irish citizens it’s horrible to wonder if your head might get cut off!
They have had enough of open borders for good reason.

There’s migration going on inside our country too. Folks trying to get away from crime and high taxes and high prices are moving out to the rural areas. But the more that move into a place tends to raise taxes because more people using the roads means a county has to repair roads more frequently. If they bring their children the schools get overcrowded so taxes have to be raised again to build more schools and hire more faculty and supplies. Then developers come and crowd in more housing and stores and bring in more roads that have to be maintained. Then developers run for county commissioners and city councils to keep inviting more development and line their own pockets. If folks complain about the higher taxes and crowding those same developers sitting in the local govt chairs will say it’s too late and it can’t be stopped. It’s a never ending cycle.

I understand your frustration & points, it is a topic all on its own. Maybe start one?

Was obvious to me in this situation in Ireland, where the one guy almost got his head, cut off from a Sudan migrant, and another guy was horribly killed with a knife is that people need to wake up and understand the agenda of radical Islam this is not going to go away. Yes I realize there are peaceful Muslims that apart from the fact that Islam believes this is their time and their prophetic history that they are to spread and take over the world and converted to Islam. This is not gonna go well with countries that don’t understand the ideology of this religion, which clearly the leader in Ireland does not at least the one that was speaking yesterday. At the same time last year, there was one that spoke to president Trump that does get it. It’s just how do you get this changed. In our country, we had to elect a president who was able to see the problem of open borders and do something about it immediately when he was able to that’s what needs to happen in Ireland before more people are killed.

[JohnH]

There’s migration going on inside our country too. Folks trying to get away from crime and high taxes and high prices are moving out to the rural areas. But the more that move into a place tends to raise taxes because more people using the roads means a county has to repair roads more frequently.

That doesn't make sense. TN has a fuel tax which is the primary source of road funding - so the more people drive, the more fuel tax is raised. In NC, most roads are state-maintained (much like Virginia's) and are paid directly from the state budget. (Perhaps Bootstrap can comment a bit more on the NC road funding system, but my understanding it is quite robust.)

Rural areas are also often not crime-free. The most "crime free" places are generally suburbs where wealthy people live.

If they bring their children the schools get overcrowded so taxes have to be raised again to build more schools and hire more faculty and supplies.

That doesn't make sense either. Public schools are basically self funding in both states: a large amount of their funding comes from the state and federal government, which is based on the number of pupils, so more students means more funding. Likewise, if more people live in an area and build/live in houses, then obviously they are paying more local property taxes as well.

Then developers come and crowd in more housing and stores and bring in more roads that have to be maintained. Then developers run for county commissioners and city councils to keep inviting more development and line their own pockets. If folks complain about the higher taxes and crowding those same developers sitting in the local govt chairs will say it’s too late and it can’t be stopped. It’s a never ending cycle.

There are many places to live in TN, and in places like Kentucky and Ohio too, that have very little economic development. Instead, there are shrinking schools that eventually close, it becomes difficult to maintain local roads (in Ohio we have a lot more township level maintained roads), and stores close, and then you have to drive to another city to do things like shopping or go to the doctor. Maybe a "holler" in such a place would suit you better.

[temporal1]

BBC NEWS / Twelve police officers injured and water cannon fired after second night of NI riots / 15min


From what i’ve read, not just recently, various European countries have been closing borders and deporting (illegals?) .. for some time. Even with the internet, the general U.S. isn’t well informed about ANY other countries, including close neighbors, Canada and Mexico.

[JohnH]

t1,

Generally speaking, referendums on "more immigration" and "more refugees" usually result in them being voted down.

In the UK, for example, the voters chose to leave the EU. They then voted out Labour (sort of like the Democratic Party), who was the more pro-immigration party, and voted in the Conservatives (aka the "Tories", sort of like the Republican Party).

The Conservatives then proceeded to increase immigration to even higher levels than Labour did, and despite being in power for over a decade, they just kept on cranking up even more skilled immigration, unskilled immigration, admitting asylum seekers, admitting refugees, hosting asylum seekers in expensive accommodations during a housing crisis when existing citizens are having trouble paying for housing, and so forth.

Eventually voters were fed up and voted out the Conservatives and Labour got back in power, who has actually reduced immigration levels a bit and beefed up enforcement. The voters are still upset, and recently there was a sweep at the devolved level for the Reform Party since they ran on a more anti-immigration platform.

The simple reality is that the average voter doesn't seem to want immigration, and often votes against it, but once in power, political parties seem to like huge amounts of immigration. The Republican Party did a similar thing in the 2000s.

The populace as at the brink about this, culminating in this "incident" in Belfast when an asylum seeker from Sudan decided to attack someone on the street, gouge out his eyes, and attempt to behead him. It would seem that there need to be more safeguards around asylum seeking; someone who wants to gouge out people's eyes and behead them is the kind of thing that normal people need asylum from, not the other way around.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Having just spent some time in Europe, over the years, the Migrants have been a disaster. You never encountered beggars in Germany until the migrants came. In the UK, they inhabit the perimeter of major train stations, and sometimes it is difficult to get in. Angelia Merkle THOUGHT it would be a solution to the chronic labor shortage that Germany has had. Instead, it was a disaster.

[temporal1]

Having just spent some time in Europe, over the years, the Migrants have been a disaster. You never encountered beggars in Germany until the migrants came. In the UK, they inhabit the perimeter of major train stations, and sometimes it is difficult to get in. Angelia Merkle THOUGHT it would be a solution to the chronic labor shortage that Germany has had. Instead, it was a disaster.

[temporal1]

Before 2007, after college, before marrying, our daughter spent a few years TESL, in Greece, then Spain, then Japan.
i’ve urged her to be grateful for the timing. Her experiences could not be duplicated today.

Even then, in 2005, she happened to be in London, possibly interviewing? .. she would remember details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_20 ... n_bombings