"This is my House! Why are you Here?"
- Alistair McConnachie
- 16 hours ago
- 4 min read
A Force For Good Director, Alistair McConnachie wonders if it should be any more complicated than that! Thanks to Grok for its illustrations.
Imagine a group of people move into your house. You never wanted them in the first place. In fact, whenever you were asked (which was seldom) you always said no. But the law says you have to take them in, and here they are.
You don't want them here, so it seems unfair that it now falls upon you to try to make an argument against them being in your house.
You can choose a variety of perfectly rational reasons, with clear evidence to back them up, about why you want them to leave.
For example, economic. It is going to cost you to support them. Food, water, electricity. This is either money you don't have, or you have, but you don't want to spend on them.
Then there's the quality of your life. It starts to suffer. You're bumping into each other and falling over them all the time. You've got to wait in a queue just to get into the bathroom in the morning. This makes you late for work every day.
Simply put, the house is congested with people.
There are infrastructure capacity issues too. The kitchen and fridge is now too small, the washing machine is over-worked and keeps breaking down, the toilet keeps getting clogged.
To make matters worse, you are now getting outvoted on simple domestic issues.
There are more of them than you! So there's a democratic issue here about sheer numbers and voting rights. You are quite right to ask who gets to vote, and why are they even voting about matters relating to my house?
And with this comes concerns about your future ownership. You are worried that they might be developing an expectation that they are going to crowd you out and take over the place completely.
There are genuine concerns that you might actually lose control over your house. You could be kicked out. Ownership could pass to them!
These are all rational reasons to oppose these people in your house: economic, quality of life issues, congestion, capacity, democratic issues, ownership rights.
So you try to appeal to the rest of society!
You can stand up and try to make that rational case, backed with the obvious evidence that things are getting worse for you. You will get support from many onlookers.
Unfortunately, a powerful number will openly call you "racist" because they imagine you actually just "hate" these people because they are maybe different in some way.
This fear of being called "racist" can certainly be enough for you to bite your tongue.
After all, there are people in society who think these people in your house have some kind of "right" to be there. They side with the incomers before you because their allegiance is to various post-WW2 morally-inverted international treaties – such as the UN Refugee Convention.
That is, they think it is "moral" to put the interests of the incomer before the person who originally lives there. They will always make their arguments from that perspective, never from your perspective.
You do your best to explain your rational objections.
But then you wonder?
Reasonable arguments, backed by evidence, are all very well. But what about that instinctual feeling that you have; which is simply: "This is my house. I don't want them here! Why should it be any more complicated than that?"
Why do I have to explain the rational objections when I should just be able to say "Get Out. This place doesn't belong to you!"
And you know what, that is also a perfectly valid point.
It might have no direct basis in economics, or real concerns about quality of life, or congestion, or capacity, or democracy, or numbers, or voting rights, or genuine fears of being evicted and replaced.
It just is.
Now, you could make an argument that this is not "rational" or "fair" and is, instead, a basic and crude sense of ownership. Maybe. Maybe not.
However, it is just the natural feeling, felt by every person since the dawn of time. It is how human life has operated in one way or another since the first caveman guarded the entrance to his shelter.
It is a real feeling and a real desire, and a real expression, and it has every right to be heard, understood and acted upon. So people should not be afraid to make this point too.
"This is my house. I don't want them here. They have to leave."
We examine this matter, and propose solutions, in our classic book on the subject Protect our Country: Policies to Stop Mass Immigration available from Amazon.
For more articles on immigration see our Territorial Sovereignty: Article Index
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