NIGERIAN HOSTAGE REPORTED MURDERED.

Once again, a British hostage has reportedly been murdered in foreign parts, this time in Nigeria. If the report is true, it's another example of both the brutality and barbarism practised in that country and of the naivety and idiocy of workers who happily move to such places in pursuit of high wages.

 

Those who try to tell us that the people of the 'third world' are really no different to 'us' are such morons. In the UK we do not kidnap workers, nor do we murder those whom we've kidnapped. In entirely uncivilized and uneducated parts of the world such as Nigeria such behaviour is commonplace. This is not to say that Nigerians, or any others, are all uncivilized or barbaric, but many in the third world, perhaps most, are. Their understanding of the world and their approach to life are simply less developed than is common in the more developed parts of the world.

 

In a similar vein, the workers who see employment in various foreign countries as nothing more than a means to make large amounts of untaxed money are also idiots. They fail to understand that they are exposing themselves to dangers of a sort which do not exist in the world from which they come. They have an exaggerated view of their own importance and ability to survive; they are frequently uwilling, or unable, to reconcile themselves to the realities of a new life in a very different place. The consequence is, sometimes, painful and even fatal.

 

Over the coming days we may well be assailed by stories of the shocking murder of this 'entirely innocent' Briton. While this will be nothing more than the media making money from the unfortunate man's misfortune, it will overlook all of the background to the affair. It will simply refer to terrorists behaving unspeakably and poor workers in foreign parts being targeted in a horrible way. This will do no justice to either side in the equation - it will just cloud the truth in an appalling fog of political correctness and left-wing obfuscation.

 

If a man has been murdered, it is tragic for both him and his family, but we must not ignore the circumstances, all of the circumstances, that have brought him to this point. If we do, then we will do no service to those involved to date or those who may become so involved in the future.