The migrant influx from Syria and north Africa into Europe has been overwhelming for some countries in the EU yet their governments stand by their decisions to allow increasing numbers into their lands. They say it is the right thing to do, that migrants and the skills they bring in are good for their economy.. they come up with a host of reasons why their decision to let them in are good ones.
Let me tell you a story. I always wanted to be a Freemason. I don't know why, I think because I read a story book when I was a teenager and thought there was some kind of power in being involved.. because I'd heard that masons have to help each other and in the back of my mind perhaps I saw it as a means to wealth.. anyway, going back to around 1995 I owned a small business in Newbury, Berkshire with glass fronted premises on the high street.
Every morning an elderly man would pass by my window, tap the glass and mouth 'good morning' as I sat at my desk. This evolved in me actually looking forward to him appearing and sometimes, if I had time I would go to the door and have a brief chat. His name - God Bless him, was Bill McGill. He was 88 years old, lived by himself on the local housing estate and walked up to the 'village' every day to 'keep fit' and buy his lunch. On many occasions I invited him into my office for a sit down and we would chat some more - just about the weather and inconsequential things for just a few minutes each time.. Then one day, he asked me if I 'believed in God'. 'Yes', I said... and so followed my introduction, most unexpectedly, to Freemasonry. Bill nominated me, his fellow lodge members seconded me and after taking the oaths and learning the various passages, I was inducted into the lodge.
I quickly learned that masonry is more about helping others than yourself. We raised money for charities and supported those who were recently bereaved or in need of company etc. There was nothing 'dark and mysterious' about masonry and to an extent I was disappointed not to be 'a special one'. I enjoyed it though, it was special because it was so pompous and 'secret' even though there really were no secrets.. it was like a fancy wrapped package but with a house brick inside.
Anyway, it was special to me. I had another friend Dave, who I had told about my being a mason and he badgered me over a period of a year to nominate him into my lodge. I finally agreed. A part of me (and this is the key to my story), felt very strong and powerful that I had the power and capability to determine whether I granted Dave access into my exclusive club or not. I was thinking 'Ha, thanks to me and my power, you can become a mason - or not!'. I felt superior. That is probably the most accurate/honest way I describe my feelings.. a bit like a Roman emperor deciding whether the defeated gladiator lives or dies, a thumb turned this way or that being the decider...
And so Dave became a mason.
At first, he was very grateful to me for getting him in. He would say things like 'If it wasn't wasn't for me...' and 'Thanks to you'...
But then after a while, all that stopped, he got to know all the other lodge members and gained confidence and I realised he wasn't deferring to me any more. He was a mason in his own right and I was reduced to thinking 'If it wasn't for me...'
I realised my 'power' had diminished. I was no longer superior but merely equal at best, Dave actually voted against me on a couple of lodge issues and I felt rather let down. He was also spending more time at the lodge than I could afford to do with my work commitments thus becoming more influential than I, when debating causes and issues within the lodge.
To make matters worse, he didn't even consult me - his best friend - before nominating his two sons and another friend to the lodge and it wasn't long before he and his family and friend made up a significant part of the lodge who between them, were very powerful and able to dictate on almost any issue that arose.
I finally realised then, that I had lost the 'power' I once held, I had given it to Dave, who used it to swell his numbers and gain even more power, to the point that I was diminished, lacking any power or superiority to influence lodge decisions, my view point over-ridden by Dave, his sons and friend. Changes happened within the lodge that I, and several others didn't like so we resigned and left.
This is very honest if badly written account of what happened. My lodge was Charles Nichols, based at Sindlesham, Wokingham.
But what happened to me, at such a low level of importance, is happening across Europe on a vast scale. Do we expect these millions of migrants to 'be grateful' for the rest of their lives, humble to the good will and favour we've shown towards them.
Should we expect them to convert to our western cultures, to forget their strict religious beliefs, to integrate with different faiths and ways of life?
NO. We shouldn't expect this of them and NO, they won't integrate with us. Their women will give birth to children in Europe - who will legally be European - but anything but European in culture and belief. A generation of non-European Europeans will colour and change forever our way of life, our freedoms and our culture and in their numbers, we will lose our identities, our 'power' and our right to decide our own policies and culture.
We have already passed the point of no return, there is no going back. There is just a troubled, conflicted path ahead where two opposing cultures will clash and fight.
Recent events in Cologne, where Arab/N African men assaulted western women is just the mereset start of what is to come. We bring men into our western societies with no understanding of our way of life, of the freedoms our women enjoy and of the behaviour expected of men toward women here - and expect them to treat our women as anything other than 'fair game'.
And we haven't helped ourselves.. in cases, our western society has gone to far in normalising attitudes to sex, gender, homosexuality (to pick on a subject matter), to the point that anyone with a different view is demonised as racist or homophobic etc..
In finishing, remember my story. It compares exactly with what is happening. If we don't want to lose our culture (power), we have to think very carefully and act very decisively now, before we find our culture - and our western countries have been taken from us, powered and governed by Islam.. because if we carry on doing nothing, my 20 year old son - and most definitely his children, will be singing to a different, more intolerant tune in the two decades to come.
