People occasionally object to Peter Brimelow [2], an “immigrant himself” [3]doing the patriotic immigration restrictionist activism [4]that native Americans won’t do. Several of our unhappy readers have suggested that he go “back to England.”(See here [5], here [6], and here [7].) A similar suggestion was made by A. M. Rosenthal in the pages of the New York Times. [8]
But Peter gets that for being patriotic.
British journalist Piers Morgan has been attacking American gun rights, and as Washington Watcher reports [9]today, has inspired actual calls for his deportation. The difference is that Brimelow is recognized even by his opponents [10] as being incredibly charming, but Piers Morgan is so hateful that the British don’t want him back.
On Twitter from England, Mark Wallace tweeted [11]
- 30,000 yanks have signed a petition to deport Piers Morgan. We urgently need one saying "you can keep him".
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson [12] says
- Americans [13]. It took us 40 years to get rid of Piers Morgan. Please don't send him back.
- Americans [14]. Was the second amendment not introduced to protect you from the tyranny of the British? Piers Morgan in other words.
Comedian Frankie Boyle [15]:
- Nobody in Britain wants Piers Morgan to be deported. We'd much rather he was strangled in his bed by Santa.
Mark Steyn is on Rush Limbaugh as I write, being funny about “foreigners with weird accents”—he went to the same school as Enoch Powell [16] did in Birmingham, England [17], and his speech reflects that. Steyn is a legal resident, with a green card in his pocket, like Piers Morgan. [18] As a right-winger, however, Steyn is more likely to be asked to leave by Obama administration.
But Peter Brimelow can't be asked to leave, he's an American citizen, who took the Oath of Allegiance [19]and meant it. (Even is he hadn't meant it [20], he still couldn't be deported—the Supreme Court said so.) The point of people referring to Brimelow as an "immigrant himself" [21] is that immigrants are expected to be pro-immigration, no matter how bad it is for America.
Brimelow and Steyn don't believe that, but a lot of immigrants do, which is something to think about before making more of them citizens.