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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
“…we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be…we shall never surrender…”
– Winston Churchill, June 4, 1940
“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses,…could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated….the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength,…could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it.”
– George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
“…on the eve of a Second World War the idea of a 20th century ‘free-born Englishman’ was a potent one….But that was 80 years ago ….While Italy and the Netherlands have had serious anti-lockdown disturbances, the British public have accepted it with remarkably little in the way of complaint….Sure, this is the home of Magna Carta….but John Locke’s ideas were much more influential in the United States than in his home country….The British are, in fact, quite conformist and placid.”
– Ed West, UnHerd, February 19, 2021
“It is not that the Englishman can’t feel – it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form.”
– E. M. Forster, Abinger Harvest (1936)
When Europeans visit America, almost all of them make the same observation: Americans are extremely friendly. Some Europeans, as I have learned from watching many podcasts on the subject, are downright shocked at just how friendly we are: pedestrians on the sidewalk going out of their way to give directions to foreigners who are obviously lost, waiters and cashiers offering tourist tips and getting into genuinely intimate personal conversations. The fact about Americans is that we like liking people, and we tend to wear our feelings on our sleeves.
Brits have a somewhat different reputation. Traditionally, they’ve been known for being exceedingly polite. This sounds as if it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of being friendly, but it’s actually something quite different. They’re polite, but in a rather withdrawn way. They tend not to be very open at all about their feelings. And one aspect of their politeness is, all too often, a deference, a complacency, a timidity – a powerful inclination to make a pot of tea rather than to make a fuss. About anything.
For example, Brexit was supposed to lead to a radical reduction in Islamic immigration. It didn’t. Au contraire. Over and over, politicians promised to bring down the immigration figures drastically – and then quickly and shamelessly broke their promises. Did the Brits complain? Not much. Yes, many of them voted in the recent elections for the newly established Reform Party, which vows to take the issue seriously, unlike the Tories and Labour.
But Reform managed only to get five seats, out of 650, in the House of Commons. At this late date, why on earth can’t Reform do as well as, say, Wilders in the Netherlands, or the Sweden Democrats, or France’s National Rally? Why are so many of today’s Brits so reluctant to act, and vote, in their own best interests? In the year 2024, is the average Brit more timid than the average Dutchman or Frenchman or Swede to cast his ballot for a party that the media and political establishment has declared out of bounds?
To be sure, plenty of Brits showed up for the recent anti-Hamas demonstrations in Britain, which were civilized and orderly and which followed months of vicious and ugly pro-Hamas protests. But the British authorities, which had systematically treated the obstreperous Muslims and their allies with kid gloves, have come down hard on the decent, law-abiding Brits who dared, finally, to step out onto the streets and have their voices heard.
These anti-Hamas demos were, of course, very un-British. The French, as everyone knows, will take to the streets at the drop of a chapeau. Pretty much any issue will do. We’re talking, after all, about a country that used to have a revolution every fifteen minutes. These are people famous not for their friendliness or politeness but for their sneering, patronizing, and often quite remarkable obnoxiousness.
The Brits are the opposite. Historically, when a Brit got so fiercely worked up about some heated political issue that he felt his head was about to explode, he’d rush to his desk, dip his pen in his inkwell, and do that extraordinarily dramatic thing: he’d write a politely worded letter to the Times. Yes, the Brits did stand up alone against Hitler. But that was a long time ago. And it took the courage and eloquence of a Churchill to get them to do so. Today, there’s no Churchill on the horizon, and if he did show up, he’d never be able to get anywhere near the corridors of power.
And yes, Brits will turn out in massive numbers for a royal wedding or funeral or soccer match; but it takes a great deal of outrage indeed for huge numbers of ordinary Brits to take part in an angry march on behalf of anything.
Well, now they’ve done so. But was it far too little, far too late? Was it the beginning of a real reaction to decades of being ignored and abused and condescended to, or a momentary deviation from form? Let’s not forget that for years, even as the leaders of terrorist groups were permitted to live in Britain undisturbed (yes, really), and brutal thugs with rap sheets as long as your arm have been given slaps on the wrist, ordinary Brits who have dared to say anything remotely critical of Islam on social media have risked visits from the police – and even arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment.
I write this, by the way, on the same day that Radio Genoa posted a video on X captioned “The German police have had enough” and showing German cops punching pro-Hamas protesters – women included – who’ve gotten up in their faces. Among other things, the next few months and years, I suspect, will increasingly bring out the cultural disparities among the Western European countries that may well make the difference between relatively quick and easy Islamization and – well, something a bit messier.
But back to the relatively new British practice of arresting decent citizens for telling the truth about Islam. Until recently, the British class system has played a big role in this phenomenon. Higher-class types, people with Oxbridge accents, have tended to be exempt from abusive treatment by the authorities when they expressed opinions at odds with establishment orthodoxy, whether on Islam or anything else. My test example has always been my friend Douglas Murray, an Oxford graduate who has long been able to get away with saying precisely the same things that have repeatedly landed the working-class Luton lad Tommy Robinson in the hoosegow.
No more. Now Labour is in charge, and all bets are off. On August 8, Alastair Campbell, a former press secretary for the Labour Party who now describes himself as a journalist, publicly called for Murray to be investigated by the police. Why? Because Murray had given an interview in which he lamented that he had been correct, in his 2017 book The Strange Death of Europe, in predicting that British Muslims would eventually resort to arson, vandalism, and other forms of violence as part of their Koran-dictated obligation to bring the non-Muslim world under the thumb of Islam.
This wasn’t the first time Campbell took on Douglas Murray. Two years ago, both men appeared on TV as guests of Piers Morgan. On the program, Campbell described then prime minister Boris Johnson as “fundamentally not serious” and “probably a narcissist with sociopathic tendencies” and said that his cabinet was packed “with pretty second-rate people.”
When Douglas started to challenge Campbell’s amateur psychoanalysis of Johnson, Campbell interrupted him, angrily asserting: “Listen, I can say what I want!” When Morgan suggested that Campbell let Murray have his say, Campbell shot back:
“If you’re going to bring me on to talk with these right-wing nonentities who are part of the problem in this country anyway, people like Murray and The Spectator, where Johnson was spawned, they are part of the problem – they created this beast!”
After a few more snotty sentences in the same vein, Campbell stormed off the show. Now, think what you will of Boris Johnson, but to refer to Douglas Murray, of all people, as a “nonentity” – especially if you yourself are a former PR hack and Tony Blair lackey who is notorious for his slippery way with the truth and who was, let’s not forget, part of the very government that deliberately initiated the mass immigration of Muslims into Britain – is beyond ludicrous. Especially since October 8, Murray has proven himself to be not only one of the most erudite political and social commentators alive, but also one of the bravest and most principled.
Campbell’s behavior on Piers Morgan’s show demonstrated something essential about the Labour mentality: these are people who, like Justin Trudeau’s crew in Canada as well as the more “progressive” Democrats in the U.S., view their political adversaries not just as opponents but as enemies – and for whom the way of addressing their differences of opinion is not to thrash them out in public but to dismiss those opponents as beneath contempt, to refuse to engage them in civilized discussion, and, if at all possible, to put them behind bars.
Even under the Tories, as Murray himself pointed out in an August 17 interview, the government responded to terrorist acts – the 2017 London Bridge attack and the 2021 murder of Sir David Amess – not by pondering the dangers of jihad but by using these events as excuses to crack down even further on the online criticism of Islam. Because as far as the politicians and police and others in power were concerned, the last thing you wanted to do, in the wake of jihadist killings, was to address them aggressively and thereby antagonize British Muslims. No, the best move was to silence ordinary Brits who recognized these transgressions as what they were – steps on the way to utter social and political submission to the religion of peace.
Now that Campbell’s party is in power, the urge to crush anti-jihadist voices has intensified. One recent report stated that the British government actually plans to release from prison some 5000 criminals, many of them violent felons, to open up cell space for good citizens who have dared to speak up about immigrant crime. And pillars of civilization like Douglas Murray, I fear, are no longer safe.
There have, incidentally, also been serious calls by high-level Labourites for the arrest of Nigel Farage, who during a two-decade career in the European Parliament led the fight for Brexit and who was recently elected to the House of Commons. For many years, Farage carefully avoided criticizing Islam directly; that has changed of late. As in the U.S., those in Britain who are targeting the likes of Murray and Farage are in the habit of bandying about inane terms like “far-right,” “conspiracy theory,” and “misinformation.”
No, Murray and Farage haven’t been arrested yet. But give it time. (As it happens, Murray relocated a couple of years ago to the U.S., but he spends a lot of time in the U.K., providing the British police with plenty of occasions to take him into custody.) As the Brits say, it’s early days. Sir Keir Starmer, the new Labour prime minister, a man with the dark soul of a totalitarian tyrant, is just getting started. Starmer, wrote Brendan O’Neill in Spiked Online on August 10, is “likely to drag us back to the Dark Ages,” to “cover Britain with the black cloud of medieval censorship.”“This regime is looking for an excuse to crush you beneath its boot,” declared Connor Tomlinson of the Lotus Eaters podcast on August 15. I see no reason to dissent from either of these judgments. Which raises the question: how will the traditionally meek and mild Brits react when Starmer amps up the tyranny?
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” — Bertrand Russell
Polite people can be full of doubts too. Politeness isn’t always the wise thing to be, especially when you’re dealing with Muslim savages.
The Founders were fanatics for freedom and liberty, that’s not a bad thing to be. The Founders were certain of themselves; certain, proud, and fanatical about their freedom and liberty. The American Revolution wasn’t polite.
“Don’t be so sure—nobody can be certain of anything.” Bertrand Russell’s gibberish to the contrary notwithstanding, that pronouncement includes itself; therefore, one cannot be sure that one cannot be sure of anything. The pronouncement means that no knowledge of any kind is possible to man, i.e., that man is not conscious. Furthermore, if one tried to accept that catch phrase, one would find that its second part contradicts its first: if nobody can be certain of anything, then everybody can be certain of everything he pleases—since it cannot be refuted, and he can claim he is not certain he is certain (which is the purpose of that notion).” – Ayn Rand
*I don’t recognize any such absurdity as service to my country. I recognize a moral responsibility to my freedom and liberty and the freedom and liberty of those I love.* — THX 1138
Since we already know you have zero sense of loyalty to anything but your own selfish desires, I can only say you aren’t fit to talk about anything regarding our revolution. You are a blowhard and a traitor.
We certainly would not have seen you on the frontlines of those fighting for freedom.
“Marxism and modern totalitarianism come from religion.”
If you knew anything about religion you would never have made such a moronic statement. And apparently, you don’t know the definition of “totalitarianism” which means Leontard Peebrain .doesn’t either.
After all of the time you have regurgitated nonsense from Rand or her cling-ons, you are still floundering around in a tar pit of nonsense.
Hey, what happened to your brief enlightenment? You know. That brief period when you claimed to have been shown the light of Christianity?
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the British rural poor would riot at the drop of a hat. It wasm’t only thr poor. Does anyone know about the Old Price Riots, at the Covemt Garden ttheater?
Maybe how the average Brit reacts to tyranny depends on what emotions
the oppression is roiling up. Enraged by the stabbing deaths of three of
their little children which they attributed to illegal migration – they angrily
joined together in protest. Most likely if they react in anxiety or depression
or even fear to threats and intimidation from the authorities or the Muslims –
they will just succumb to it. In order for them and their loved ones to be
safe and stay alive and survive.
The Muslims don’t want you to have dogs or eat in public during Ramadan?
They want women to excessively cover themselves and to close down all
the pubs? The government wants you to respect things like this and keep
your mouth shut and your head down or face punishment? Might be better
to go along to get along. Better than suffering the consequences.
This is the deliberate diluting of the White race and White Western society.
Letting the brown and black people of the world illegally overrun England
and America and the rest of Europe and then pitting them against the
Whites is testament to that. One only has to experience a daily pounding
of TV commercials in which White presence is minimized to realize that
corporate-Globalist international collusion envisions such a future. The
pressure for Whites to marry and have mixed race children further
subsuming their race will be staggering – even more so than it already
exists, at least in the United States, today.
Annie got it right …
America and Britain are in deep trouble.
The woke left democrat and Labor parties, and depraved psychopathic murderous berserk freedom crushing Islam are joining forces. against bona fide patriotic US and British citizens.
Civil war is unavoidable if the Islamic scourge on humanity for 1400 years is to be crushed.
Ill just add nobody really minded brown or other skin tones when it wasn’t Muslims, Hindus Hispanics and people from Korea Japan, etc joined Western societies enthusiastically and without needing to kill or rape. Its not about color, its that one group has a conquest and hate mentality.
The problem is with top down imposition of globalisation.
I can tell you that locally people are talking about what Stalinarmer is doing. And if strangers are saying something to me as I walk my dogs, they are saying it everywhere.
I saw some graffiti in North Wales last week that simply said “FREE SPEECH”
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous” — Winston Churchill
(sorry of posting this quote so often, but Winnie also famously said… “If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.”)
“Starmer, wrote Brendan O’Neill in Spiked Online on August 10, is “likely to drag us back to the Dark Ages,” to “cover Britain with the black cloud of medieval censorship.”
Marxism and modern totalitarianism come from religion.
“Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice….
I believe that the medievals understood much better than the moderns on what basis to build a totalitarian society that would last and not collapse in less than a century. They did it and the people in the rising religious movement today know that full well. They’re the ones who have millions, upon millions, upon millions, of followers and a real insight into the fact that economics is not the crucial factor, but philosophy and culture are…. Religion has been the root of [totalitarianism] from the beginning, it has ruled in disguised forms, and still is, and now the disguise had to be stripped off… What socialism is doing is really helping religion, the bigger the statism, the more people grow accustomed to government rule over everything, the more people are ready for religionists to take over the lead from the more secular side… The socialists are building the basis for totalitarianism but only the religionists are going to cash in on it and take over.” – Leonard Peikoff
Your obsession with “Marxism and modern totalitarianism coming from religion” has been a desperate theme running theme in your futile attempt to denigrate religion. Posting the same tired Puk-off screed as well.
So has it worked? Is Religion being abandoned? In favor of what? The Democrat version of marxism/islamism. Great. Jew hatred dripping off every delegate at the DNC convention.
In other words it looks like the Democrats are embracing totalitarianism and Hamas.
So well done, Moron. If these clowns win in November you can take credit for the “Road to Serfdom” coming true.
I have always known that you are a closet Leftist, no matter how much Objectivist gibbersh you vomit up.
“Marxism and modern totalitarianism come from religion.”
If you knew anything about religion you would never have made such a moronic statement. And apparently, you don’t know the definition of “totalitarianism” which means Leontard Peebrain .doesn’t either.
After all of the time you have regurgitated nonsense from Rand or her cling-ons, you are still floundering around in a tar pit of nonsense.
Hey, what happened to your brief enlightenment? You know. That brief period when you claimed to have been shown the light of Christianity?
Well said sir. He’s been pushing that Lenny Puk-off garbage for a couple of years now. His sad reality is he generally has nothing original to say. He simply copies and pastes the writings of others, and then pats himself on the back.
The British are doomed.. when they wake up it will be too late.
Americans are well-armed. When we wake up we will use as much violence as is necessary to win.
I hope you are right that America will wake up and recognize that the enemy is depraved psychopathic murderous berserk violent blackmailing freedom crushing Islam.
Unfortunately, America’s mindset and demographics have changed for the worst over the past 30 years.
America is now susceptible to the Islamic scourge on humanity.
America’s elite ruling political class and oligarchic ” leaders” have created this mess.
They should pay for it.
The disorganized, untrained, physically unfit public won’t be able to stand up to a modern military. Sure, some members of the military will defect, but that would just put off the final blow against freedom. More than likely, the puny weapons we have, as the food chain collapses. will be used against each other as I attempt to take your family’s food and shelter for the benefit of mine,
Wow! E=what a negative view of Americans and humanity. I don’t want to be anywhere near you when things get worse. I’m here and willing to help whoever I can and as much as `i can.
Our armed citizenry include many, if not most of, the vets of our pre-woke military. They would hate having to do it but…..they would face off against Thoroughly Modern Millie’s woke military if they, as citizens, were pushed to the wall.
… and many of them have improvisational skillz for modifying their weapons.
… and a few of them will have skillz with 3D printer technology.
I am hoping the brits did not turn in those WWII Enfield rifles at the conclusion of the war. I like to think there a lot hidden away behind walls in homes along with some .303 ammo.
The Enfield MK3 and the No. 4 were the rifles that held civilization together before the war. It would be a shame to lose that legacy.
For a preview of what’s to come read Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack.
Is it too late to purge Britain and America of depraved Moo–Slums and Islam ?
The West is throwing in with berserk psychopathic freedom crushing Islam because Islamic scum like the Saudi and Qatar and United Arab Emirates and other ” Royal” Islamic families are financing the takeover.
The West should have maintained control and ownership of the world oil and energy markets instead of turning it over the the depraved psychopathic murderous berserk freedom crushing blackmailing violent Islamic scum ” Royal ” families.
Like Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, everybody wants a piece of the Islamic Oil wealth.
So the Western elite ruling class oligarchs will sell out and make deals with the depraved Islamic enemy.
Kushner got three billion dollars for his Affinity Partners investment company from the Saudi and Qatar and UAE ” Royal” families.
This really really stinks.. Trump should disown his son-in law Kushner.
Where do I sign up for my share of the loot ?
I don’t believe in climate change – but I do believe in green alternatives to Arab oil, provided that they aren’t more trouble than they are worth (eg I think that at the present time a horse and cart or pedal power are probably more sensible than EVs, pending significant improvements in the latter). And the great thing is that the green agenda is as sacrosanct as Islam and LGBTQ+, so I can undermine Arab oil as much as I like, with impunity, if I’m doing it by encouraging people to go off-grid.
The House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into a $2 billion investment by the Saudi government into a firm formed by Jared Kushner after he left the White House last year.
Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., wrote in a letter to Kushner that her committee is looking into the investment by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, which is controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, into Kushner’s firm Affinity.
The probe will focus on whether Kushner’s personal financial interests improperly influenced U.S. foreign policy while he served in the White House under his father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, Maloney wrote in the letter.
“Your support for Saudi interests was unwavering, even as Congress and the rest of the world closely scrutinized the country’s human rights abuses in Yemen, the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi assassins tied to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Saudi Arabia’s crackdown on political dissidents at home,” Maloney wrote.
Kushner created his investment firm the day after Trump left the White House in January 2021 and the Saudi government gave it the $2 billion six months later.
“The Committee is concerned by your decision to solicit billions of dollars from the Saudi government immediately following your significant involvement in shaping U.S.-Saudi relations,” Maloney said, adding that Kushner’s close relationship with the crown prince as well as his pro-Saudi positions during the Trump administration and the Saudi government’s funding “create the appearance of a quid pro quo for your foreign policy work during the Trump Administration.”
Maloney said she wants Kushner and his firm to produce documents, including records and personal communications, by June 16, 2024.
It’s called End Times.
Orwell was correct after all
“Yes, the Brits did stand up alone against Hitler. But that was a long time ago. And it took the courage and eloquence of a Churchill to get them to do so. ”
Don’t treat this as an exception, it is the same mentality. They stood up to Hitler because buckling down, stiff upper lip, and toddle along were the necessary thing to do. They were enduring the hardship just as they endured the hardship of these monsters taking over their cities.
This is what the British are very good at, and it can be an admirable trait. Endeavor to persevere. Like all things, the most important bit is to know when to stop. When to stop enduring and start fighting back. I think the Left and especially the muslims have understood this character trait as a weakness and exploited it. They understood that to the British, perseverance and politeness is a virtue.
They fought back against Hitler because there really was no choice — Hitler had gone back on his word and the British were not going to go back on theirs. So far, the muslims have presented themselves as a “religion of peace” that is not trying to conquer. Once European citizens realize that this is a conquest I think the real fight will begin, including the British. The last to realize and accept this though will be the European ruling class.
King Charles III is just a Puppet for the UN/CFR/Soros Globalists they pull his strings and he Dances for them
USA…. we have GUNS and in Britain they don’t. BIG difference.. Guns are quite simply PEOPLE POWER in a free country.