THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

EUROPEAN THIRD PARTIES WIN A HISTORIC VICTORY | 2002-06-08

This is the only place you will see news of one of history's great political victories. Every country in Europe is now moving to tighten down on immigration. Every country in Europe is using one excuse.

They are all saying that they are not tightening immigration for their countries' benefit. All European leaders are saying they are doing this to stop the growth of right wing anti-immigration parties.

What you will never read anywhere else is what this means in plain English

It means that the third parties have a won a victory that they were created to win. If Le Pen's National Front or the other parties had done like American conservatives and voted with libertarian rightists who want open borders, the flow of third worlders in Europe would have kept expanding.

It is only the first step, but it is a REAL first step that is taking place in Europe.

Here we didn't even get to step one. Our votes go to conservatives no matter what they do in the real world. So we get no action on immigration.

What's the point of "conservative" victories if your country becomes third world? Our "conservative" President Bush is avoiding any real decisions by creating a new department. But leftist European governments are tightening their borders because of voters who were not afraid of being branded Evil Racists.

If you don't demand better, you don't get better.

Period.