Muammar Al Khadafi

Well, well, well, the poor old darlings at the Guardian are really running out of ways to sell us on the benefits of immigrants or to tell us that we should jump through hoops to accommodate the enrichers every desire.

Todays lesson piece is from Roman times, telling us how the Roman empire was destroyed because of their failure to provide adequate facilities and integration for 100,000 Goth refugees.

Guardian Story

It's a curious story, one isn't quite sure what the message contained within is meant to be.

Is it that if we don't accommodate floods of refugees that they'll turn on us and destroy us?

Is it that, if we do accommodate them, but fail to give them everything, they'll turn on us and destroy us?

Perhaps it simply that we should be more understanding if they decide to pillage our lands if we aren't forthcoming enough in providing for their every need.

A thinly veiled threat that we'd best embrace these floods of people or else?

One can't help but feeling that, whatever was intended, the authors entire argument is a self defeating one, telling us all the reasons why we should not let masses of immigrants into a nation, nor allow them to form their own huge and semi autonomous enclaves.

Read for yourself if you've a bored ten minutes. The overwhelming lesson seems to be that things would have been better for the Romans if they had stopped the Goths at the River Danube.

Perhaps there is something we could learn there after all.