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Recent events in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Sicily and the island of Lampedusa have shown that
the tidal wave of illegal immigrants from the Third World forcing their way onto European soil, is close enough
to Jean Raspail's prediction to show that life is unfortunately imitating art.
Written by Jean Raspail in the early 1970's, this work of fiction has over the last decade increasingly
become a frightening portent of the future for Western Europe and Britain.
In the book Raspail wrote of a time in the near future where the starving masses of the Third World
simply decided to invade Europe by whatever means they had to hand.
In the 'Camp of the Saints' the first wave came from India where over 1 million impoverished Indians
took over a fleet of old ships of all types and began a voyage towards southern Europe,
this was called the 'Last Chance Armada'.
He also identified the speed in which liberal and Leftist organisations and the news media would
champion the flotilla of the poor on its way to the West with no regard for the likely consequences
when they eventually made landfall on the southern coast of France.
Jean Raspail failed to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of China as a world
economic power.
In his novel the starving millions of Chinese mass along the old Soviet border and start walking into
the USSR in tens of thousands, swamping their defences with unarmed human waves.
In reality the USSR collapsed and was then ripped apart as different ethnic and religious minorities
carved out new territories, leaving a legacy of racial, ethnic and religious conflicts dotted across the
old Soviet Empire.
However, he correctly predicted the fashion for international trans-racial adoption by wealthy
celebrities like Madonna or Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.