An executive officer is appointed to execute the laws; it is therefore illegitimate for him to pretend to speak for the people of his country. Accordingly presidents, chancellors, prime ministers and other executive officers should avoid making foreign policy speeches except those that parrot the resolutions of their national legislatures, their constitution, the American Declaration of Independence, or the foreign policy resolutions of the people made by referendum.
An example of what not to do
U.S. presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have each made foreign policy speeches ‘calling for’ Turkey to be admitted to the European Union. There are several reasons why this is inappropriate from the point of a country such as England (which is part of the EU):
The United States has no business telling the English how to order their affairs
If the English were stifling freedom of speech, executing people without trial, or otherwise breaching fundamental human rights, then the United States, on behalf of humanity, would be entitled to admonish them and even intervene militarily. However this is not the case; the English are a free people. The United States is being intrusive and insulting by sounding off about how a free people should arrange their own affairs.
Americans do not wish to tell Europeans how to order their affairs
Americans are a polite and civil people. The average American would not ‘call for’ an overweight neighbor to go on a diet, or ‘call for’ their neighbor to allow heroin addicts and drunks to live in his house. If a referendum were held which asked Americans, “Should we call for the English to let the Turks migrate unrestricted into their country,” without even examining the merits of the issue, Americans would resoundingly vote “No.” They would recognize it is none of their business. Napoleonic France, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia ordered weaker nations about, but the American people have never had that propensity. After World War II, when they had a monopoly on the nuclear bomb—and could easily have subjugated the entire world—they instead poured their hard-earned money into the Marshall Plan to help the countries of Western Europe maintain their independence.
One wedding and forty-five funerals
When large numbers of uncivilized people migrate to a civilized country, they do not assimilate; instead they corrupt the civilized country. The Turks are such an uncivilized people. Although they have made great progress in the last hundred years or so, they still are long behind the English in their ascent from savagery. Consider the following news article taken from London’s Sunday Times:
Forty-five people were killed in an attack on a wedding party in southeast Turkey on Monday night, in what is believed to be the bloody outcome of a clan feud. Masked gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenades opened fire on wedding guests as they gathered in the town square of Bilge, a small village on the Syrian border, after the ceremony.
They went on to storm several houses continuing to shoot, witnesses said. Most of the victims were women and children and included an entire family, the youngest of whom was three years old. Two teenage girls survived by hiding under the bodies of their friends. The fate of the bride, the daughter of a local muhtar, or village chief, and her groom was unknown. Her father, Cemil Celebi, was among the wounded and an Islamic cleric who was presiding over the marriage died in hospital.
One survivor, a 19-year-old woman, told Turkey’s NTV the assailants ordered people to huddle in one room and opened fire … . While the reasons for the massacre remain unclear, villagers told Turkish television there had been a bloody feud in the town in recent years. Local media said the families of both the bride and the groom included members of the Village Guard, a heavily armed, state-backed militia set up in 1985 to protect villages from attacks by Kurdish separatist guerrillas and help fight the PKK.
There are around 70,000 village guards throughout Turkey’s southeast. Their right to carry arms, to inform on suspected separatist activities and to kill in the name of the state has made them a force within the region, while critics say they use their status to settle family scores and take land. Turkey has struggled over how to trim the guard force without releasing masses of trained fighters onto the streets of the southeast, where unemployment in some areas reaches 50 percent. (May 5, 2009.)
These are the people that presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama want the English to open their borders to. Is this a reasonable ‘call’? Will the English be well-served by having their culture melded with the Turkish? Are these two peoples culturally at the same level? Would we be unsurprised to see the following appear in tomorrow’s newspaper?
Forty-five people were killed in an attack on a wedding party in Southeast England on Monday night, in what is believed to be the bloody outcome of a parish feud. Masked gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenades opened fire on wedding guests as they gathered in the town square of Hartfield, a small village on the East Sussex border, after the ceremony.
They went on to storm several houses continuing to shoot, witnesses said. Most of the victims were women and children and included an entire family, the youngest of whom was three years old. Two teenage girls survived by hiding under the bodies of their friends. The fate of the bride, the daughter of a local alderman, and her groom was unknown. Her father, Neville Woodville, was among the wounded and a Methodist vicar who was presiding over the marriage died in hospital.
One survivor, a 19-year-old woman, told the BBC the assailants ordered people to huddle in one room and opened fire … . While the reasons for the massacre remain unclear, villagers told British television there had been a bloody feud in the town in recent years. Local media said the families of both the bride and the groom included members of the Village Guard, a heavily armed, state-backed militia set up in 1985 to protect villages from attacks by Cornish separatist guerrillas.
There are around 70,000 village guards throughout England’s southeast. Their right to carry arms, to inform on suspected separatist activities and to kill in the name of the Queen has made them a force within the region, while critics say they use their status to settle family scores and take land. England has struggled over how to trim the guard force without releasing masses of trained fighters onto the streets of the southeast, where unemployment in some areas reaches 50 percent.
The English are not telling the Americans to abolish the Mexican border
How would Americans feel if the British prime minister and other European leaders began to ‘call for’ the abolition of the U.S.-Mexican border? Each night on the news they see the decapitated bodies of policemen, soldiers, and their families, who have been ambushed and murdered by drug lords in Mexico who are able to run riot because their officials accept bribes and bows to intimidation. It would be an insulting affront to the people of the United States to tell them who to let into their country, such effrontery being only aggravated by the nature of the suggestion.
