The great nations of the Anglosphere seem determined to merge themselves out of existence.

Mass immigration is making the U.S. a part of Latin America, while an emerging North American Union would combine Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Across the Pond, Britain surrenders her sovereignty to the European Union. Not to be outdone, Down Under, the Australian Prime Minister appears to want to merge Australia with Asia.

An article in the Herald Sun entitled Unified Currency Chance with Asian Union, Says Expert [Jane Metlikovec, June 05, 2008] reports that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has “announced his plan to create a broad Asia-Pacific Community by 2020.”

A certain Prof. Tim Lindsey of Melbourne University thinks that’s a great idea:

“We are living in the “Asia century,” he said.”Australia is uniquely positioned as the only Western society in Asia and we have never capitalised on that, despite most of our commodities going to Asia.”

So what about Australia’s Western identity and Anglo-Celtic heritage? Apparently, that can be easily disregarded:

(Lindsey) said Australia was still suffering from a “colonial hangover” by setting ourselves apart from Asia. “This perception of ourselves as a European nation has to change,” he said.

PM Rudd has chosen a point man to advance the project:

“Mr Rudd has appointed former foreign affairs secretary and one-time ambassador to Indonesia Richard Woolcott as Australia’s envoy to sell the idea.”

There is some political opposition:

Opposition MPs are divided about Mr Rudd’s plan, which he put forward during a speech to the Asia Society Australasia Centre last night, just days before he heads off on a week-long visit to Japan and Indonesia.

Opposition’s foreign affairs spokesman Andrew Robb says the plan is presumptuous.”His (Kevin Rudd) first job is not to be making pronouncements about grand architecture for the region, telling China, Indonesia and Japan and India how they will be organised as a region by Australia in the next 20 years,” Mr Robb told ABC Radio.

Nevertheless, Robb’s opposition seems more a question of practicality than a concern for Australia’s cultural identity:

“Once (Rudd) has demonstrated a capacity to build and maintain and grow strong bilateral relationships with all these countries (and) repair the damage he has already done with some of these countries, then we can… maybe influence the broader architecture that shapes the region.”

How about the argument that Australia’s cultural identity is non-Asian? Is that a legitimate argument nowadays?

Dennis Kucinich’s 35 Articles of Impeachment don’t mention immigration once. Neither does the “rationales for impeachment” section of the Wikipedia article on the subject.

There have been suggestions that Bush could be impeached over one issue where we definitely prove he’s guilty–Dana Rohrabacher suggested that he might move to impeach if Ramos or Compean were killed in prison, and Tom Tancredo and Pat Buchanan have both suggested impeaching him on those grounds. But Kucinich apparently isn’t interested in that.

The storm of denunciation and the vast expenditures on affirmative action that followed former Harvard president Larry Summers‘ suggestion that one reason there aren’t many female professors of, say, mechanical engineering in the Ivy League is because not all that many females want to be professors of mechanical engineering contrasts strikingly with the mostly uncontroversial lack of female representation at the highest levels of a job that many women really, really would like to have: fashion designer.

Yves Saint Laurent, who died last week, was among the first (but hardly the last) designers to be public about being homosexual. He became famous at age 21 in 1957 when his boss, the top French designer of the era, Christian Dior, another homosexual, dropped dead. The responsibilities of the House of Dior were divided up among four employees, three women and young Yves. But when the next show proved a success, he, not the three women, became the national hero who had saved French fashion.

So, why is there so much outrage over lack of female representation among math, physics, and engineering professors but not among dress designers? Money is the most obvious reason. Harvard has a $35 billion endowment and a world famous brand name largely immune to deterioration. So, when a desperate Larry Summers asked feminist educrat Drew Gilpin Faust to come up with ways to placate his critics, she returned with a $50 million wish list, which he quickly signed off on. But, that wasn’t enough, and Larry was eventually shown the door, to be replaced by … Ms. Gilpin Faust!

The value of the Harvard brand is basically immune to this kind of corruption, so the leeches have their sights set on Harvard.

In contrast, fashion businesses are much more ephemeral, so they are difficult for designated victim groups to exploit. It probably wouldn’t be hard to prove in court that there’s an old boys network of gay men who discriminate in favor of each other in the fashion business, but getting any money or quotas out of them would be much harder than with Harvard, since they can just dissolve their businesses and start new ones.

The other major difference is leadership. The feminists who demand more engineering professorships for women are typically led by hard-charging lesbians, like the late UC Santa Cruz chancellor Denice Denton, who stood up to “speak truth to power” to poor old Larry. These include some pretty psychologically intense people (not long after, Denton leapt from the 42nd floor of the luxury apartment building where her lesbian lover lived on the $192k salary Denton had arranged for her). Although they share many traits with men, they don’t empathize with men well. The dominant traits in a Denton-type lesbian academic is ambition and resentment of anybody competing with her in clawing her way to the top, which manifests itself in anger toward men.

In contrast, the women who would like to design pretty dresses for a living tend to be much more feminine. They empathize and sympathize too much with the gay men who are blocking their rise.

Jorge Bustamante, the UN Rapporteur who was supposed to be visiting Virginia in support of illegal immigration, has canceled his visit, reason unknown, according to the Washington Post:

Wednesday, June 11, 2008; Page B02

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY

U.N. Official Delays Immigrant-Related Visit

A United Nations human rights official has postponed a planned visit to inspect the treatment of immigrant workers in Prince William County, according to the activist group Mexicans Without Borders. The group had welcomed the outside scrutiny, saying the county’s illegal-immigration policies have “created a climate where suspicion and terror thrive.”

Jorge A. Bustamante, a U.N. special rapporteur for human rights of migrants, called off a visit planned for yesterday and today. In a letter to Mexicans Without Borders, Bustamante cited “something unexpected of extreme gravity” that was “totally outside of my control” as a reason and did not indicate when he would reschedule the trip.

Opponents of illegal immigrants in the county had planned to protest Bustamante’s trip, during which he intended to meet with county officials as well as immigrant residents.

– Nick Miroff

Just a reminder–when the UN was set up in 1945, it was hoped that it would prevent one country from invading another, not assist in doing so.

VDARE.com mainstay Brenda Walker recently wrote:

Among the most insufferable do-gooders are those in the healthcare profession, who believe their high social status enables them to redesignate their extreme liberal views as medical ethics.

That’s an apt characterization of these compassion mavens, who exercise their compassion as long as it’s on society’s dime. But occasionally, there are also honorable exceptions that prove Walker’s rule.

Thus, consider the testimony offered at an April hearing of the Florida House’s Committee on State Affairs by Carol Plato, Director of Corporate Business Services at the Martin [County] Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, FL. A video of Plato’s testimony was recently placed online at the Immigration Watchdog web site.

(The Naples Daily News covered the hearing, including a bit of Carol Plato’s testimony [Immigration debate heats up in the House by Michael Peltier, April 8, 2008], but the video linked above is much more striking. In the newspaper article, Plato’s full name is given as “Carol Plato Nicosia.“)

In her information-packed three minutes, Plato did not mince words. Watch as she recounts her hospital’s experiences: The case of the $1.5-million Guatemalan illegal alien (since departed, but with a quarter-million dollars in legal fees as a chaser), the $1.5-million-and-counting Mexican illegal alien, and the six illegal aliens, initially admitted as emergency cases, who now return every three days for renal dialysis.

But Plato isn’t the type who wants credit for her and her hospital’s compassion while sticking the rest of us with the freight. Nope. In mentioning the Florida Hospital Association’s (FHA) estimate that their members incurred $100 million in uncompensated care for illegal aliens during 2007, Plato notes, “That affects all of us.”

(See here for a 2003 FHA report on this subject. The 2002 costs were “only” $40 million. Because the report is about “uninsured non-citizens,” it presumably includes both uninsured legal immigrants and illegal aliens in its figures.)

It seems to me what’s most significant here is that a medical professional has placed this set of potent facts on the public record and in a formal venue. Know folks who work in health care administration? Be sure they see this video! It might encourage other public displays of spine.

Prince William County, Virginia enacted a law to deal with illegal immigration. Good for them.
Be warned though, Prince William County, that you’re about to have a visitor. According to a report by Jim Brown in One News Now, “U.N. to Investigate U.S. for Human Rights Violations”:

A United Nations official intends to visit a Northern Virginia county this week to investigate its tough crackdown on illegal immigration.

So who is this United Nations official ? It’s none other than Mexican Jorge Bustamante. Bustamante was influential in Mexico’s changing its nationality law, with the express purpose of meddling in U.S. immigration law. (More on Mexican nationality/citizenship here). More recently, Bustamante has called for a Republican defeat in the 2008 election.
In other words, Bustamante is a major Mexican meddler who would have already been tossed out of the country by a government that defended American sovereignty (as opposed, you know, to ours). And now Bustamante, with the authority of the United Nations, is going to inspect Prince William County like some kind of colonial governor.

The UN’s special investigator on migrants’ rights, Jorge Bustamante, plans to tour the cities of Manassas and Woodbridge to determine whether law enforcement measures in Prince William County violate the human rights of illegal aliens. Proponents of illegal immigration have been critical of the county’s law requiring police officers to check the residency status of all local crime suspects.

But the chairman of the county board of supervisors knows what’s really going on here:

Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, says Bustamante is seeking to embarrass the county and the U.S. “The United Nations has consistently turned a blind eye to regimes across the world that are not only engaged in human rights abuses but in genocide and actual killing of migrants and immigrants all across the globe,” Stewart explains. “But here, what they’ve decided to do is spend some of their time beating up on the United States and localities here – Prince William County, in particular – for simply enforcing the law. And, frankly, I find that repugnant,” he argues.

Stewart believes the UN is infuriated by the county’s crackdown on illegal immigration because it is one of the most stringent and successful in the country. He notes that the crime rate, along with the English as a Second Language student population at the schools, has dropped. Stewart also notes that the waiting lines in the hospital emergency rooms are shorter, and the crackdown has improved the county’s overall quality of life.

“And that’s due to our crackdown on illegal immigration. They don’t like that. They are hoping, of course, that other localities don’t follow suit and use Prince William County as an example because it has been successful,” Stewart contends.The success, Stewart believes, is because large numbers of illegal aliens are leaving.

Kudos to Stewart for sticking to his guns. And I hope he has a chance to personally say the same to arrogant Mexican meddler Jorge Bustamante when he comes calling.