LEGO: I wonder how far you go with your claim that criminality has a strong genetic component. Would, for example, Australia do well to round up all citizens descended from those sent over as convicts and send them back to the UK?

Multiculturalism: I doubt very much that the number of cultures in one country is a significant variable. What matters is how they relate to each other (and other foreign cultures); an inclusive culture of mutual tolerance works very well; marginalising and repressing minorities doesn't. Here are some examples for you. Germany: relatively uniform culture; started 2 world wars. UK: Scotland and Wales after some initial repression treated inclusively and mostly get on OK; Irish treated brutally like a poor colony, with a very different outcome. Switzerland: 3 separate language groups, and they get along just fine.

SPQR: how many examples do you want? If the government is interpreting the law harshly for some, it cannot bend the rules for others, especially not in an area where human rights lawyers are all over them. Do you have an independent source for your claims?

PhillipM

If you knew anything about Australian history (other than that put in your mind by western hating socialist academics) you would know that most convicts sent to Australia as slaves were convicted of crimes which today, would not be considered crimes at all. One convict was 11 year old Mary Wade who had been condemned to hang for stealing a dress. The severity of her sentence should give you some idea of how harmless most of the "criminals" sent to Australia were. "Serious" offenders were simply hung and genetically exterminated.

The fact remains that genetics and behaviour are linked. Here in NSW, the government has banned dog owners from owning at least two breeds of dogs, and put severe restrictions on the ownership of several more breeds. This is because these particular breeds are notorious for attacking humans. Unsurprisingly, some dog owners accuse the government of "canine racism." But if you are smart enough to agree that some breeds of dogs are dangerous, why can you not make the same connection with humans?

How cultures relate to each other, my dear Phillip, is as predictable as the law of gravity. Tolerant cultures will accept minority cultures who's cultural values are similar and who are therefore a capable of being assimilated. Even unassimilatable cultures can be tolerated, provided that their numbers are small and are not growing through immigration or birth rate differentials. But where two dissimilar cultures with diametrically opposed values inhabit the same territory and populations proportions are reaching critical mass, the result has ALWAYS been, serious social strife, high rates of criminal behaviour, race riots, demands for separatism, terrorism and civil war.

I hold this truth to be self evident.

You are a tolerant and anti racist person. If boat loads of Nazis wearing swastika armbands were landing in their tens of thousands on Australian beaches seeking "asylum", and if the suburbs in which these Nazis resided were notorious for their criminal behaviour and welfare dependency, how tolerant would you be of Nazi's?

How happy would you be of Nazi population growth in Australia?