-We begin today’s rattle with an interesting story about an Indian-or Muslim, depending upon PR needs of the open borders squad-athlete who was ushered into this country by our very own Senator Chuck Schumer. Unfortunately, this gifted sportsman is also a sex offender. Perhaps this isn’t quite as bad as having an alien interning for your office who is also a registered sex offender, but it does make you question the collective wisdom of our Democratic friends in Congress. Maybe we shouldn’t be taking their advice, vis-a-vis, controversial immigration decisions made by the Executive branch.

-In a reminder that there are actually rational people living in The People’s Republic of Vermont, the voters of Rutland have just turned out their incumbent mayor, Chris Louras, after he attempted to deluge their town with Muslim refugees from Syria and Iraq. While ignoring the public’s deep discontent with our government’s refugee resettlement programs-when not imputing racism and bigotry to Americans who express reservations about these schemes-is the norm, even the alternative weekly was forced to concede the enormous political consequences of this decision.

-For those of you who were wondering whatever happened to the thousands of unaccompanied minors who were allowed to enter into this country, wonder no more. According to an in-depth backgrounder from the Center for Immigration Studies, our government has absolutely no clue what it’s doing. While over 80 percent of their sponsors are illegal aliens, 44 percent of the UACs in question were ordered deported. Have the vast majority of these children been deported? Of course not, silly!

-You may ask yourself, “Why is this important?” It’s a good question. After all, it’s not as if these individuals will bring brutal Central American inter-gang warfare to the placidity of our nation’s suburbs, right? Well, I have some bad news for you on that score. It turns out that Latin American gangs, including MS-13, one of the most prolific and ruthless criminal networks in the Western Hemisphere, has actually established a pretty firm beachhead in our own backyard. Naturally, almost all of these gangbangers are criminal aliens. In an ironic twist, the moniker of the man who made an abortive attempt to unify the Mara Salvatrucha within the United States is, you guessed it, Dreamer.

-For those of you who think Europe’s approach to immigration is any less self-defeating and preposterous than the United States, I give you France. A nation where municipal authorities in Calais are attempting to prevent thousands of migrants from recreating the notorious refugee camp known as The Jungle. The biggest proponents of turning The Camp of the Saints into reality are, of course, other Europeans who believe Western civilization is uniquely evil. The ostensible plight of migrants from the third world is simply a cudgel with which the Gramscian left-with the help of corporate bean counters-can beat native Europeans into submission.

-After all, what are a few dozen, or a few hundred, honor killings in the grand scheme of things? Is the systemic dehumanization and murder of girls in nations which were responsible for the idea of religious toleration and freedom of conscience too high a price to pay for erecting the beautiful mosaic? When bad whites are saying intemperate, obnoxious things about people who are off-white, doesn’t that negate their entire philosophical worldview?  Even if that perspective is confirmed multiple times every single day?

-Everyone knows that the real reason millions of Muslims across the world support ISIS, Al Qaeda, and similar jihadist networks is because there isn’t enough inclusion in Hollywood casting decisions. See, the real villain isn’t Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It’s those bastards who refused to green light an all-Muslim reboot of Star Trek!

-The cognitive dissonance at work in the mind of an an open borders leftist must be overpowering. They want to live in a high-trust, quasi-collectivist techno-utopia-along the lines of something created by Gene Roddenberry-yet simultaneously support policies which make this already far-fetched goal virtually impossible. The mentality of a social justice warrior in high dudgeon can be found in this VICE piece, which laments the role homeless shelters have been playing in the deportation of migrants. The traditional liberal concern for the working class and the poor is discarded when it conflicts with the categorical imperative, i.e. preserving diversity. The spiritual hollowness and intellectual vapidity of this type of leftist ‘thinking’ was brilliantly and caustically skewered by George Orwell nearly a century ago. It’s good to know that some things haven’t changed all that much.

-I’d like to leave you on a good note, so here’s some refreshing news to come out of Austria. 8 Iraqi men have been convicted of the gang rape of a tourist. Unlike the Middle Eastern cab driver in Halifax who was, to all intents and purposes, high-fived by a Nova Scotia judge for raping an unconscious passenger, these rapists were actually given (relatively) stiff prison sentences. What’s more, we’ve discovered that these horrific incidents actually constitute an anomaly within the Islamic immigrant community.

Migrants and refugees from other countries expressed concern that the crime will make Austrians hostile toward all newcomers.

“Eight people raping a woman — that’s honor-less! Such a thing doesn’t exist in our religion,” Burhan Akbas, a migrant from Turkey, said.

“When such people come here and screw up like that, then everybody will think that Chechens, Afghans, all refugees from war areas are all the same,” Mansur Salamou, an asylum-seeker from Chechnya, said. “But it’s not like that. For example, the majority of us — we also cause problems, commit crimes. But no rape! Only criminal assaults and robberies.”

See, Europeans?! You only have to worry about being assaulted and robbed by the millions of North African and Middle Eastern refugees and migrants making their way towards Europe. What a relief.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead, 

Who never to himself has said,

This is my own, my native land!

-Sir Walter Scott

Unfortunately for the rest of us, these men-or women, in the case of Angela Merkel-are the ones effectively controlling Western civilization, or what remains of it at any rate. From Scotland to Sweden, which is now the rape capital of the West, the people entrusted with protecting the borders of their nations view the very concept of national sovereignty with derision. Although the political class deserves the lion’s share of the blame for this state of affairs, we can’t exonerate government bankrolled religious profiteering and cultural conditioning.

On the bright side, there is a growing awareness among the public at large that this is not working. What’s more, the people in Europe, North America, and Australia are increasingly willing to voice their dissent from the multicultural, open borders consensus that’s dominated the politics of their countries for the past half-century. Even though the current crop of patriotic candidates might not succeed, they’ve laid the groundwork for future resistance to the dangerous, multi-decade experiment which has led the West to the brink of disaster. And for that, they deserve our gratitude.

That there has been another gruesome public murder, whose details have been broadcast across the globe, is no longer a novelty, unfortunately. The fact that it was being exploited within hours by the usual cast of characters, who want to shape this horrific event into a narrative of intolerant, anti-European, anti-multicultural bigoted Britain is not surprising either. As Brendan O’Neill has pointed out in Spiked Online, the people who want to strangle what remains of British democracy have exploited this ghastly tragedy for all it’s worth-as anyone watching the BBC yesterday afternoon can attest to-and will probably only grow bolder in their Le Bonesque social manipulation in the remaining week before the official Brexit vote.

I would like to think that, like the Wellstone memorial, they are overplaying their hand. However, I have a deeply cynical, almost Menckenesque view of human nature, so I don’t put too much stock in that hopeful scenario. For those of you who’d like to understand why the arguments of Remain are patently absurd, I’d suggest viewing some of Sargon of Akkad’s fantastic videos on this subject. It’s also worth checking out Godfrey Bloom’s discussion of the barbaric Jo Cox killing and Brexit on Mises Weekend.  For those, like Labour politician Veronica Oakeshott, who believe that disdain for MPs imperils democracy, I have a few questions. What exactly is your conception of that term? Does it mean equality of rights and privileges? If it does, then why do MPs such as yourself deserve to be immune from criticism, as opposed to anti-EU, anti-mass migration politicians such as MEP Nigel Farage? 

The fact that we have to debate  people willing to exploit their deceased colleague for political gain-while her body is still warm-is vulgar, but that we have to defend our right as free men and woman to speak truthfully and without censoring ourselves is absolutely infuriating. It’s something for those of you in the UK to consider  as you approach a momentous collective decision which will shape your future.

Update: Ex Cathedra.

The obliviousness of Europe’s rulers, encapsulated in one tweet.  And the anti-European ruling class is still baffled by the popularity of Alternative for Germany. For a fascinating look at class and immigration-as well as how globalization has reshaped European politics-read Christopher Caldwell’s great essay in The Weekly Standard. Loathe though I am to recommend anything from TWS, Caldwell, once again, nails it.

As it turns out, even noble, quasi-talented British celebrities aren’t immune from the impact of the invasion sweeping over Europe. Just ask Jude Law.