Happy Easter to some of you and Happy Passover to others, and if I am missing any other festival observance forgive me.
Our subject today is the security strike by the forces of law and order that in the last couple of days swooped on a suspected terrorist cell of about a dozen people of whom 11 are in the UK on student visas.
The Pakistani government accused the UK today of not doing enough to check the 10,000 holders of such visas prior to their being able to travel.
I have some direct knowledge of the nature and scope of this dangerous and long-term immigration fiddle. Some years back I was Director of a department of a London University. There is tremendous pressure on all universities to meet student recruitment and retention target numbers. Their entire budgets are based on hitting these numbers and they will do whatever they can to meet them.
It was annual student recruitment time for the university and as usual the computer science department was a rich source of overseas students. As part of my job I was checking some of the documentation of the applicants as they went through the clearing process before entry to the university. I noticed that a very large number of these students had apparently already graduated a university in Delhi with identical degrees. This smelt fishy to me and I telephoned India to check a few sets of documents at random. It transpired that the university they had supposedly attended simply did not exist.
I told my university of this finding and they dealt with the offending applicants. I thought that my institution would automatically check all such applications. I was wrong.
It transpired that several hundred more overseas Asian students did gain entrance to our computer science department. About 400 of these student visa holders arrived on the first day of the course for signing up and induction. The next day about 225 of them vanished without trace and have never been seen since. No one knows where these people are, or what they’re doing in this country.
I was telephoned by a journalist for the Guardian newspaper who asked whether I thought it was possible that any students, such as these or others who did attend our university could be terrorists in waiting. I replied that I would be astonished if they were not. I still believe this to be the case.
Certain sections of the university admissions service remain ridiculously lax in its vigilance regarding overseas student applications and the reasons include the misguided and inappropriate application of the human rights ethos. Regulations and liberal attitudes of our educational institutions in favor of people who should not be here in the first place and who regard such rights as a validation of their view of our Western democracy; that it is both decadent and stupid. We need to wake up before it is too late.
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Dear Tony: No blame...for years it has been widely known that numerous, maybe hundreds of immigrants come across the US southern border through tunnels along with the bales of weed,coca and brown tar heroin...If you view a segment of Fahrenheit 911 you'll see a small unattended billboard that announces you have enterred Canada and please sign in...I suppose it works that way in reverse also...So if terrorists ever wanted to enter a counry, well you can catch my drift... You might like to view www.madcowmorningnews.com a website by investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker, who documents the Hilliard Aviation School, in Venice, Florida where Mohammed Atta andcohorts trained as pilots and were known to partake in frequent illegal drug use...and he even had an American girlfriend....now that wasn't the image of the devout Muslim extremist that the MSM portrayed the hijackers on 9/11 was it...Glad to know that you spotted the irregularity and reported the scofflaws...by the by my maternal grandfather arrived in England on an onion freighter in the early 1900's...as the street walker says in PRETTY WOMAN: "Welcome to Hollywood, what's your dream?everyone has a dream.." Leaving India by hook or by crook must be every Indian boy or girls dream...haven't seen SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE yet buythe look on those kids faces @ the Oscars was priceless...humanity will find a way...by hook or by crook....always loved visiting your Dad in his favorite restaurant on Wardeur Street in Soho...my aunties had a larngerrie (?) shop on the next street over...it was a different time then and folks survived the Blitz..Americans really don't have much except Pearl Harbour and the WTC towers...theiare overwhelmed by the massive spanish immigration here....but as the economy keeps windingdown..those folks are headed backtotheir homelands....only the criminal might remain after a time...but we had Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy Siegel,,,HA!!!!
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