Impalings

In his recent book, Litter, in which he describes how the wholesale littering of Britain reflects the mental attitude of the average contemporary Briton, in a very depressing way, Theodore Dalrymple writes a quite disturbing passage which has stuck in my mind. He describes a conversation with a well-meaning, educated, middle class woman of his acquaintance in which he brought up the subject of the rubbish, filth and vomit which bespatters many of the streets of this country, to his disgust, and she replied that she couldn’t see anything wrong with it – after all, there were people who were paid to clear it up! Dalrymple (who worked for years in NHS hospitals and prisons as a psychiatrist) mentions in passing that though he has had to work with people who have strangled their best friend to death or impaled babies on park railings nevertheless he was deeply shocked by this woman’s lack of any sense of moral or aesthetic outrage at the wanton disfiguring of our streets and the mental state of complete amorality that accompanies it. This remarkable passage brings home to me two points: (a) the incredible level of degradation and brutality that has become the norm for our vast feral underclass (Dalrymple gives many other examples of appalling behaviour that is completely casual to many of its perpetrators in his many books and articles), and (b) the utter blinkeredness and lack of concern of the educated, liberal-left, ruling elite of this country to anything that doesn’t affect them personally and that doesn’t fit in with their ideological view of things. On the one hand there is ignorance, squalor, violence and hopelessness – on the other, brainwashed assumptions, material wealth, complacency and self-delusion. And in some strange way, the two feed off one another. This is the condition of modern Britain, and there is no sign whatsoever, except from a small band of dedicated but largely powerless conservative dissidents, of any attempt to change it. This year’s riots were just the tip of an iceberg of chaos and aggression produced by the completely unreal version of things being pursued by those in power in this country today, and their blindness to the fact that they have been steadily and ruthlessly dismantling everything that made it a civilised place to live in and replacing it with gimmicks, insincere ‘compassion’, control freakery and downright lies. There is only a certain point to which you can maintain a completely false and inherently contradictory approach to the world before it all falls apart. I think we are rapidly approaching that point right now, and I am not looking forward to the collapse when it comes. Meanwhile, stock-piling tinned food, getting hold of some gold, and investing in some sort of equipment for self-defence would seem a good idea.

The Riots – 2

The Riots – 2

It’s incredible to think that only the month before last for several days it seemed as though law and order had collapsed completely in large parts of urban Britain, and an air of chaos and fear gripped the nation. All over England cars, houses and shops were looted and burnt, people were attacked at random in the streets and about half a dozen were murdered in cold blood, while the police and authorities dithered about what to do. The impression you get from the media and most people in daily life today is that the majority of them have almost forgotten that the riots happened at all. This is partly due to the ludicrously short attention span of the media and the general pre-occupation of the population at large with hedonistic materialism, but it is also I think a sign of the real fear that these appalling events stirred up, and the consequent ostrich-like reaction of suppressing the memory of them in the hope that they will go away. But they won’t go away. 50 years or so of left-wing social, economic and educational policies in Britain have created a monster, and the monster is now close to being out of control. Endless liberal-left commentators have now trotted out their glib ‘analyses’ painting the events as a ‘protest’ against inequality and social injustice; their answer is more of the same idiotic policies. Running down our state education system to the point that many schools are effectively in a state of anarchy and thousands of young people leave them knowing nothing of any use at all and effectively illiterate and innumerate and unemployable, but with a very well-developed sense of their own importance; massive uncontrolled immigration, especially from Eastern Europe, which has led to overcrowding, housing shortages, immense strain on the education and health systems and above all ensured that the unskilled jobs that our own young people could be filling are taken by more motivated and better-educated foreigners; the hideous ideology of ‘multiculturalism’, which has split our society up into mutually suspicious, state-sponsered ‘communities’; so-called ‘political correctness’ and ‘diversity and equality’ policies which mean that no-one must be criticised or held to account for inefficiency or unsuitability for the job they do however ill-equipped they may be for it – not unless they are guilty or ‘racism’, ‘sexism’ or ‘homophobia’ that is; a politicised police ‘service’ who are now brainwashed into persecuting decent citizens whilst defending the ‘human rights’ of criminals, and are increasingly being used to suppress any dissent from government policies; the assault on the traditional family and normal concepts of disciplining children and the active encouragement of single-parent families and children growing up in an atmosphere of moral and sexual squalor; the endless appeasement of the masses with benefits, public sector non-jobs and lowest-common-denominator consumerism; a popular culture and music dominated by images of brainless sluts and posturing macho men spouting hatred aggression and resentment towards the world in general; urban areas dominated by gang ‘culture’ where feral children roam around terrorising adults and killing one another with knives and guns and there is an unofficial curfew for law-abiding citizens.
This is where all the ‘progressive’ policies we’ve had since the 60’s have led us, and it’s pretty grim. And the thing is, the liberal-left ruling elite who now control everything in this country still haven’t admitted it to themselves. And they never will – not until the riots reach the doors of their plush mansions, and their possessions are looted and destroyed, and they are in fear for the lives of themselves and their children. When that happens – next year, or the year after, judging from the harsh sentences passed on the minority of rioters who were actually caught this year, their reaction will be to suddenly lose all their liberal, ’pc’ instincts, call in the army (what’s left of it), and have looters shot on sight. And from then on the nice, fluffy, ‘things can only get better’ style of police state we have now become accustomed to will become considerably more brutal and open in its assertion of control. ‘Those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it’. After all – you couldn’t expect all those well-meaning, benevolent despots with degrees in sociology actually to have to pay the price for their own mistakes, could you? Their clever plan to create a vast mass of uneducated, compliant serfs to rule over may just be going a bit wrong.
And there will be a next time – and a time after that; there is not the slightest sign from the current coalition government or anyone else that runs things in The Country Formerly Known As Great Britain of any action to reverse the disastrous policies that have ruined us – quite the contrary. Therefore, next year, when the traditional rioting season comes round, especially if the weather’s hot, it will all happen again. And again. The underclass who riot are not afraid of prison; half of them have been there already, and the other half know they will end up there some time – it’s a way of life for them, and they have nothing to lose. Only when live ammunition is used and there is a policy to shoot on sight will the rioting be halted. But by then we will be living in a country that I, for one, don’t want to be an inhabitant of.

The Riots (1)

From Peter Hitchens:

‘But I am not really very sorry for the elite liberal Londoners who have suddenly discovered what millions of others have lived with for decades. The mass criminality in the big cities is merely a speeded-up and concentrated version of life on most large estates – fear, intimidation, cruelty, injustice, savagery towards the vulnerable and the  different, a cold sneer turned towards any plea for pity, the awful realisation that when you call for help from the authorities, none  will come.

Just look and see how many shops are protected with steel shutters, how many homes have bars on their windows. This is not new.

As the polluted flood (it is not a tide; it will not go back down again) of spite, greed and violence washes on to their very doorsteps, well-off and influential Left-wingers at last meet the filthy thing they have created, and which they ignored when it did not affect them personally.

No doubt they will find ways to save themselves. But they will not save the country. Because even now they will not admit that all their ideas are wrong, and that the policies of the past 50 years – the policies they love – have been a terrible mistake. I have heard them in the past few days clinging to their old excuses of non-existent ‘poverty’ and ‘exclusion’.’

Read the rest here: http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/

The ‘Islamicisation of Europe’?

In the wake of the terrible Norwegian massacre it has been appropriate to take some time before assessing the meaning of what happened. Noticeably, left-wing commentators lost no time at all in rejoicing that it was committed by a ‘right-wing extremist’ rather than an Islamist, and then immediately implying that anyone who opposes ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘political correctness’ must automatically be equivalent to the homicidal maniac Breivik.

What has hardly been said yet, but needs to be, is the real lesson to be drawn from this tragedy. That is, that the rapid transformation and ghettoisation of societies in Europe, without the consent of the majority of their people, through mass immigration and the doctrine of ‘multiculturalism’, and the resulting destruction of cultural identities that have taken centuries or millennia to form, is creating a huge and festering resentment and anger which is bound to break out into violence and disorder one way or another. In the UK we have the EDF and the BNP – in other countries there are similar organisations, who are motivated by this resentment, and the actions of Breivik illustrate an extreme form of the same mentality. He himself claimed that they were ‘necessary’ to wake Norwegians up to the way the policies of their government were altering their country and culture irrevocably, and to oppose the ‘Islamicisation of Europe’.

For obtuse, or left-wing, people, I should hasten to point out that although there is no doubt that this anger and resentment is in many ways justified by what has been going on in recent decades, this does NOT mean that the kind of murderous violence that occurred in Norway is a justified response. NOTHING could ever justify such indiscriminate murder, and the fact it happened in Norway, one of the most stable and tolerant countries in Europe, made it doubly shocking. But this is part of the point. When small, culturally homogeneous societies like Norway find themselves transformed almost overnight by the large scale arrival of people from completely different cultures who are encouraged not to integrate, the results are going to be extremely noticeable and highly unwelcome to the majority of the population. The same sort of thing has happened in Holland, and a very strong and hostile reaction is happening there, now with official sanction. Cultures are not things that can be changed and manipulated at will, like sociological theories – they are organic growths that develop over long periods of time, and they profoundly affect peoples’ sense of themselves. If you interfere with them without the consent of the people they belong to, in the end you will provoke anger and violence. If the discredited ideology of so-called ‘multiculturalism’ is not reversed rapidly all over Europe, as it is now being done in Holland,  the result can only be further conflict and violence, possibly ending in a form of civil war in some societies.

The biggest ‘elephant in the room’ in all this,  that so few amongst the chattering classes are yet brave enough to mention, is that the main beneficiary of ‘multiculturalism’ currently is the extreme, militant conservative form of Islam which is rapidly growing in Europe, based on the ‘Wah’habi’ tradition and funded in its proselytism by the Saudis and others. In every report of the Norwegian massacre, Breivik’s claim of opposing ‘the Islamicisation of Europe’ is put in inverted commas, referred to as ‘the so-called Islamicisation’ or just called ‘anti-Muslim’. And yet, a few days after the event, just one article in the UK Daily Express (29th July 2011) reported the institution of a ‘shariah controlled zone’ in Leyton, in East London, with bearded Islamic men of a threatening appearance posting stickers all over the area stating that ‘Islamic laws are in force’, stating that they are going to enforce this with street patrols, and that they are ‘laying down the seeds for an Islamic emirate’. The response of the police is that they are going to ‘investigate who put up the posters’ (as if they didn’t know!) This is just one example – there are in fact some 85 ‘shariah courts’ operating in the UK today, and many areas of the country are already effectively Islamic enclaves, and the Muslim population, increasingly under the influence of this hideous version of Islam, is the fastest growing in the UK. This is a worrying fact, as no honest person could deny that such a version of Islam is incompatible with liberty and democracy. Yet despite the demise of New Labour, who instituted the whole nightmare of mass immigration and ‘multicultural’ apartheid, there is no sign whatsoever that the authorities are going to do anything about the situation – indeed, in many areas controlled by left-wing council, they continue to encourage this kind of cultural and religious separatism and aggressive assault on British values.

My point in all this is that the ‘Islamicisation of Europe’ is a real, and dangerous, process, that is happening around us as we speak, driven by men who openly admit that is what they are aiming at. Liberal-leftists ‘in denial’ wish to ignore this, and after the events in Norway, will renew their efforts to tar anyone who brings up this issue with the same brush as Breivik. But the fact that these issues were referred to by a murderous psychopath does not make them any less real, and if we do not rapidly address them, and halt the wholesale dismantling of the democratic, liberal (in the proper sense) and fundamentally Christian-based values of Europe, the result can only be more hate, anger, resentment and violence. Any number of inverted commas will not change this.

Pots and Kettles?

I make no apology for quoting Peter Hitchens’ blog at length again:

‘Since we are to have a Judicial Inquiry into the wicked Press, shouldn’t we also have one into wicked politicians? Journalists can be nasty, and newspapers beastly, but their misdeeds are as nothing set beside those of governments.
Governments also hack into phones, poke their noses into our personal affairs and misuse the information they obtain. Governments break up families in secret and hold increasing numbers of trials in secret, too. Governments sell information about us to outsiders.The state records our emails, spies on our rubbish bins and uses airport X-ray machines to peer sneakily at our naked bodies. It knows what we earn and where we live and monitors our medical records. It takes an increasingly creepy interest in what we think and say.
No doubt politicians claim that these actions are justified. But who is to know, especially in a country with a weakened Press? However, these are minor crimes when set beside the other things governments do. Newspapers don’t bomb Belgrade or Baghdad or Tripoli, or invade Afghanistan and then forget why they did it.

Newspapers don’t waterboard people, or bundle them off to clandestine prisons.

Newspapers don’t release hundreds of convicted terrorists on to the streets nor thousands of convicted ordinary criminals either. Newspapers don’t open our frontiers to hundreds of thousands of unchecked migrants.’

The current orgy of moral self-righteousness amongst politicians and ‘celebrities’ about the News of the World scandal stinks. Murdoch and his empire are repellent, but so are those who until lately cosied up to him, only to turn all ‘squeaky clean’ when it suits them to appear so. Corrupt politicians who are destroying liberty. lying and cheating and feathering their own nests are hardly in a position to criticise. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! The sad result will be government interference with the freedom of the press and one more nail in the coffin of democracy.

No real change, then?

It’s ironic and so indicative that bi Laden was found, not cowering in a cave somewhere, but living in luxury in a fortified mansion in the middle of Pakistan, not far from the capital. It confirms what everyone pretty well knew already – the complicity of the Pakistani government with extremism, and the fact that millions of Pakistani and other Muslims regarded bin Laden as a saint and hero. Pakistan has become the epicentre of militant conservative Islam, and the most worrying thing is that outside Pakistan itself, Britain almost certainly has the highest concentration of such people, owing to our insane immigration policies. Talk about ‘watching a nation heap up its own funeral pyre’! Until we get a government with some backbone who will put a stop to the rise of extremism in the UK, things will only get worse, and ghettoisation, separatism and mutual hostility between Muslims and the rest will grow. And there is no sign whatsoever of our government growing a backbone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13263270

This is the kind of thing that really makes me despair about what is left of British culture. When I was growing up, and indeed, and until quite recently, the BBC had a reputation for high quality and being run by genuinely cultured, intelligent people who cared about intellectual and creative integrity. It was one of the great influences on my whole education. Now it appears to have been completely taken over by shallow, half-educated, ‘celebrity’-obsessed thirty-somethings whose only instinct is for cheap sensation and the dumbing-down of everything, and whose idea of being really ‘cutting-edge’ is to introduce – wait for it – swearing - into Wuthering Heights.

Pathetic is the only word to describe this. But sadly it is so very typical of our cultural ‘elite’ today. Except of course they would never call themselves ‘an elite’, as elitism is so ‘wrong’.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12815633