Language Traduces Thought

Much is said about:- Democracy: The people who campaigned successfully against Mrs. Thatcher's 1979 election manifesto policy to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK clearly didn't give a fig about democracy (unless it suits them); Human Rights: "Rights" is a device that gives a law, or required law, imperative. The European Convention on Human Rights was drawn up in response to the atrocities suffered by Jews and others during the Second World War. It has been used to enable people from outside Europe to take up permanent residence inside Europe. That is surely the very opposite of what was intended. There is nothing in the Convention about immigration control, but lawyers argue that an Article "can be interpreted to mean...." The word "interpreted" is usually used to render meaning from one language to another, but in this case it is the same language! I believe my 1977 Complaint about foreign men being able to live & work in the UK through marriage, while I & other British men can't live in their countries, was exactly the kind of Complaint the European Commission of Human Rights was intended to investigate - but it didn't. The Rule of Law: This is the third pillar on which the European Union is based. Not only are people illegally in the UK not deported (about a million), but people work, with public money, specifically to prevent them being deported. In the 1970s the Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, had amnesties for illegals, and he also refrained from deporting illegals "so as not to harm community relations". The same reason was given for not investigating the death of pensioner Albert White who was killed while on a National Front march; Equality: It is clearly unequal that foreign men can live in the UK through marriage if British men cannot live in their countries through marriage, and that people in a transnational marriage (outside the EU) have the privilege of being able to live in two countries while other people cannot. It is also clearly unequal that "equality" laws entitle foreign and Commonwealth people to deprive Britons of work and promotion if they marry a British citizen or British resident; Discrimination: This word has two meanings in English. One is good - judgement. The other is bad - unfairness. There should be more discrimination, not less. More judgement would reveal that what is said to be unfair isn't really unfair. Please see this blog "Cultural and Linguistic Relativism", 24 November 2010. Don't knock discrimination. We would almost none of us be here without it; Liberal: "Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle". That graffito in London's Covent Garden sums up well those who campaigned against Mrs Thatcher's 1979 policy to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK; Prejudice: This implies pre-judging; not giving a fair hearing. My only time in court was about my not being able to live in Hong Kong (or anywhere else in Asia). The judge gave me no opportunity to state my case. He was truly prejudiced. Nothing is more important than the occupation of territory ... so he dismissed my case as "frivolous". Please see this blog "Sauce for the Gander" in 2013; Tolerance: "Arsonists hit Le Pen's party HQ and say more attacks will follow" (London Evening Standard, 13 April 2017, page 24). The Left can be peculiarly intolerant; Treatment: How the British treat each other, that is the question. Since 1965 foreigners are entitled by law to deprive Britons of work and promotion. (The Race Relations Act says "nationality".) Since 1975 women are entitled to deprive men of work and promotion. And the Sex Discrimination Act was used to enable foreign men to live and work in the UK (through marriage), even though the Act does not apply to immigration! Misogyny: This word is used to portray men who don't like feminism as anti-female, while the truth is it's just the feminists they don't like - not the same thing at all; Xenophobia: This word is used to criticise people for not liking foreigners, while the truth is those people don't dislike foreigners who stay in their own country or are visiting; Migrant: This should mean someone who legitimately expects to spend his life away from his native place. Applying it to people who may have to return to their own country gives them a legitimacy they don't deserve. It is also misleading to apply it to people who can stay permanently (e.g. EU citizens, transnational marriages) but don't intend to. British Values: Please see this blog of 7 January 2017 "Much is made of British Values - they need to be looked at". Slavery: Euripedes said in the 5th c. B.C that the only thing wrong with slavery was the word "slavery" (farmers whose crops failed sold themselves into slavery). Not much is said about:- Ramifications: Rights Require Responsibility. Enabling foreign men to live in the UK through marriage results in a surplus of young men. Which results in some men marrying when they don't really want to. Which results in untold conflict and misery.... ("The Times" had a Leader on this theme c. 1978.) 5 November 2017: Never mind Brexit or immigration, the scandal that pervades Parliament now is middle-aged male MPs being attracted to younger female staff. What is said to make this so appalling is the abuse of power. While I firmly believe that this is (partly) a result of abuse of power by those (feminists) who prevented Mrs Thatcher keeping her 1979 election manifesto promise to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK. This has resulted in at least 300,000 men living in these islands. "The Abuse of Power" was the title of a 1982 book by Patricia Hewitt, who, before becoming Tony Blair's Equality Minister, was a protagonist in the campaign to defeat Mrs. Thatcher's 1979 policy to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK. Hewitt had power. And the effect of her abuse of it is still with us today. Everywhere. Even in Parliament.