Back in November, the State Department warned that “mass migration poses an existential threat to western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies.” In February, in his address to the Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio expanded on that theme. After the Berlin Wall fell, Rubio noted, many in the West thought “the end of history” had finally arrived. Utopia was nigh. Western nations opened their borders, forsook spending on defense in order to bolster the welfare state and “outsourced” their national sovereignty. This was, Rubio warned, to ignore both human nature as well as the lessons of “over 5,000 years of recorded human history. And it has cost us dearly.” He continued:
[W]e opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people. We made these mistakes together, and now, together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward, to rebuild.
That is the goal: a new western unity shaped by a frank acknowledgment of past folly.
Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old university student in Southampton, England, was murdered by Vickrum Singh Digwa, a British Sikh, last December. Nowak encountered Digwa after leaving a pub. An altercation ensued. Digwa stabbed Nowak five times. He then filmed Nowak, taunting him as he bled. When the police arrived, they took Digwa’s side: he had falsely accused Nowak of uttering something “racist.” Nowak told the police nine times that he had been stabbed. “I don’t think you have, mate,” said one officer. “I can’t breathe,” Nowak moaned. The police handcuffed him. They dragged him across the road and read him his rights. Then he died.
