When it comes to matters of life and death and personal security the world’s peoples choose their nation state. The COVID crisis has brought this home to all – except the arrogant globalist-corporate elitists who seek to “reset” the world in that very mould which has economically destroyed and alienated us all.
26 years ago I coined the term Nationism to describe the democratic sovereignty and therefore self government of free people who nevertheless reject chauvinism and nationalism (as they do its blood brother Supranationalism). Nationism is based on the peaceful interaction of free trading, democratic, enterprise-capitalist nation states with strong borders but open to fair commerce with all peaceful nation states. The enemies of Nationism are supranational powers, multinational corporations, corporatist and far left imperialism and the mass migrations which bring cheap labour for corporate and State profit.
These ideas are explored on this website’s home page under “About Freenations” and in the posts http://freenations.net/nationism-not-nationalism/ and http://freenations.net/markets-make-mass-migrations-unnecessary/
THE BITTER COST OF MASS MIGRATIONS
But perhaps the most moving and convincing argument for Nationism is to see how people in a crisis react when they are not at home in their own nation state and cannot freely go there.
When I lectured at the University of Mainz and I was preparing to come home for Christmas I recall watching sad Yugoslavs at the railway station saying goodbye to those of their family who could afford to go home while they could not.
A far more tragic case has arisen where a Polish patient (one of more than a million East Europeans who migrated for work) – whose name could not be revealed by order of the British courts – was hospitalised in Britain. Doctors had decided to allow him to die and, according to his family, to remove some of his organs because he had declared himself a potential donor.
His family and the Polish government requested that he be repatriated to his native country, where he could be treated with dignity. The Polish bishops had declared that they would cover all the costs. But the British courts decided that he should die in the United Kingdom. There are no more deep seated desires at the end of one’s life than to return home – to the nation which gave you birth and gave you an identity (rather than a global number!). But this man and doubtless much of his family had been uprooted by economic forces (and EU free movement politics) to a foreign land.
As the above mentioned articles show there are of course fundamental alternatives to this brutal world view of the globalist elitists. When capital and goods and services can freely move then it spares individuals, families and whole peoples from becoming the nomads of the 21st century. But that is not what the corporatist EU or the world governing pretensions of the globalist cabal want. People and their aspirations are messy and of no consequence – so they must be moulded into phalanxes of workers and put at the bidding of supranational business. They cannot be allowed to stay at home and grow slowly and organically into a better life, attracting foreign investment and working for the land of their birth while preserving their language, culture and national history.
Yonko Grozev, one of George Soros’ former employees became a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, which on Appeal abandoned this Pole to his death in Britain. The ruthless corporatist George Soros and Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum never speak of individuals and their families and nations. They seek power and profit, even when, as in Soros’s case, he says the totalitarian Chinese Communist State must replace America as the world’s dominant power.
THE COVID CRISIS – GOING HOME
Since COVID struck, the UK population has fallen as EU citizens went home and immigrants from the EU stopped coming. Professor Jonathan Portes estimates the British population could have shrunk by 1.3m.
Early in the crisis the Italian Airline Alitalia said the four daily flights between Rome and London were “quite empty”. But on the return leg to Rome, its aircraft were “almost full” of Italian citizens who wanted to fly back to Italy. (Those people travelling to Italy had to fill in a declaration to say that their journey was essential!)
Such is the pull of the nation state. In a crisis the Italians in Britain knew where they wanted to be!
In Italy itself the care homes suffered a similar movement as East European nurses who worked the very long hours most Italians would not work suddenly left the country as the threat of border closures loomed. As a result, old people in need of care and disabled people, some without relatives, were left helpless and those care homes (as elsewhere) became centres of COVID infection.
Another Pole in Britain called Radek was walking by the sea as a relief from family problems and their effective imprisonment in the UK when he was arrested, handcuffed and strip-searched at the local police station.
“On top of that came personal family problems which we faced in the last months. They include the very serious illness of my wife’s brother and death of close relatives. We were not even able to say goodbye or go and attend the funeral in Poland.”
Only after 3 hours was he released and in a clear admission of the pointlessness of this fascist treatment he was released without charge.
Even within Britain it was evident that those who lived and worked in London (and were wealthy enough) took the first opportunity to move to their houses in the country. As with EU citizens living outside their own country many Londoners will take the long term decision to move and not return to where they felt trapped.
It is because the corporatist supranational elites and their centralised superstates fear this return to the world of nation states and democracy, to a world of national currencies and little migration that they speak of the “Great Re-set”. The will of free peoples and families with a love of their national homes and sovereign parliaments cannot be allowed to pull down the anti-democratic world of the globalist elitists. For that world was so carefully, secretly and ruthlessly established over decades.
But their edifice is crumbling and the people sense a change. Nationism will rise again.
