Posted on August 16, 2024

There Will Not Always Be an England

Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, August 16, 2024

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For many people, the nation-state is no longer the primary identity, but international relations are still based on Westphalian norm of theoretically sovereign states. And yet, today’s political orthodoxy requires that Western states be for everyone. Anyone of any race can be American, European, Australian, or Canadian.

However, many people, even liberals or multiculturalists, are blood-and-soil nationalists for people they like. Almost everyone is a nationalist for someone. Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Chuck Schumer all want open borders for America, but are far-right nationalists for their own groups. A nation is occupied when those who control it force you to live under their tribal preferences even in “your own country.”

Working-class whites recently rioted in Britain after a Rwandan murdered three white girls. The Labour government and allied journalists seemed far less angry about the murders than about the riots or the assertion that the Rwandan was not British. (He was born in Wales, so he is as British as King Arthur). The government has arrested more than a thousand people, charged hundreds, and already sentenced some.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer harshly denounced the rioters and showed no sympathy for their concerns. There have been few articles telling us to consider “root causes,” unlike what happens when non-whites or Muslims riot. “Two-Tier Keir” took a knee for George Floyd, who died 4,000 miles away, but despises his own people.

The Labour Party entered government with a pledge to empty prisons. However, after the riots, the government has captured, tried, and convicted its enemies with remarkable speed. Many did not even riot.

Judge Francis Rafferty said that even those who just watched a riot will be refused bail. British police announced that Steven Mailen is going to jail for 26 months because was “gesticulating and shouting” at officers. Another man is going to jail because of a Facebook comment denouncing “filthy b*stards.” He says he was referring to police, but Judge John Termperley said “there was a racial element to the messaging and the posting of these emojis,” and said the case “has to be viewed in the context of the current civil unrest up and down this country.” The same judge sent a man to prison for eight weeks for posting messages with images of Asian men, along with the message, “coming to a town near you.” The same judge spared a man who downloaded “indecent child images” because he supposedly showed “remorse.”

Just a few weeks ago, gypsies in Leeds rioted after family services tried to remove children. Police retreated, fearing danger. The West Yorkshire police chief said the retreat meant “community mediation” could calm tensions. There have been arrests but no convictions, and no one is being arrested for social media posts. Can anyone imagine police negotiating with white “community leaders” in the hope of mediation?

Last fall, there were large pro-Palestine demonstrations in London. Police mostly ignored attacks on property or insults to white British, but did not ignore the “far-right.” A 67-year-old man who made “racist comments” was arrested. In 2020, Black Lives Matter demonstrators vandalized a statue of Winston Churchill and destroyed a statue of Edward Colston. Four people who toppled the statue were acquitted because they argued that the statue itself was a symbol of hate, so they were right to destroy it. The United Kingdom is like America; every time police have to kill a black man, there could be a riot.

In 2011, police killed a black named Mark Duggan, sparking five nights of riots. Then-Prince Charles called it a “cry for help.” Now-King Charles praised the response to white unrest and called Britain “a community of communities.” British police warn against “armchair thugs,” but don’t seem worried about actual intimidation by non-whites.

Douglas Carswell, who has since moved to the United States, wrote about an attack on him in 2015, when he was an MP.

Non-whites don’t have completely free rein. Ricky Jones, a Labour councilor, vowed to murder “disgusting Nazi fascists” by slitting their throats, as a crowd cheered. A white woman wearing an Amnesty International shirt (which supposedly opposes the death penalty) was especially ebullient. Mr. Jones has been arrested, charged, and released. His pre-trial hearing is not until September. Whites have already been arrested, convicted, and sentenced for online comments.

The police adopt a different tone for whites.

Only whites seem to get messages like these:

Here are non-white “community leaders.”

Britain’s state church is the Church of England, but Islam gets greater protection.

The Archbishop of Canterbury said the “far right” is un-Christian.

Claims that “misinformation” that leads to violence will be punished were not always true. Nick Lowles, head of the antifa group Hope Not Hate, claimed someone had thrown acid at a Muslim woman. The police denied it. He also praised large “anti-racist” demonstrations to protest supposed “far-right” gatherings that do no appear to have been planned in the first place. Mr. Lowles doesn’t appear to be worried.

Home Office Minister Jess Phillips, excused masked non-whites shown in a video intimidating a journalist and even miming shooting his cameraman:

Even under the previous “Conservative” government, police spied on, intimidated, and arrested citizens for what we would consider protected speech:

Take, for example, the story of a singer called Louise Distras who was arrested by police and questioned about comments she made on GB News about ‘trans-right extremists’. According to the Mail story, officers appeared at her door and proceeded to take her fingerprints and DNA. She said she had not committed any crimes and was later told no action would be taken against her.

Or the six former police officers convicted of sending offensive Boomer memes in a private WhatsApp group called ‘Old Boys Beer Meet’, private messages deemed to be too outrageous for the fragile public to see for themselves.

They were lucky to escape jail. Last year another British citizen was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison for sending offensive jokes in a WhatsApp chat with friends.

Or consider the case of police in Edinburgh turning up at the home of a parent who had complained to the school about a teacher ‘being allowed to impose her gender ideology on a classroom of little kids’.

Or the teenager prosecuted for posting the lyrics of a rap song on her Instagram, because the music in question included the N-word. The 18-year-old girl, who has Asperger’s, was given an eight-week curfew and had to wear a tag, though the conviction was later overturned.

Or how about the Conservative MP found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence and fined £600 because he told an activist to ‘Go back to Bahrain.’

Or the case of Newcastle United banning a fan for more than two seasons for tweeting that trans ideology was harmful. Perhaps that is the club’s business — after all, the Saudi Arabian-owned Premier League outfit are allowed to take a sincere stance on progressive politics — except that she was also interviewed by police.

Or the woman who was interrogated by police after photographing a sticker on a trans pride poster, after which the police logged a non-crime hate.

Or the Conservative councilor arrested for an alleged hate crime after re-tweeting a video criticizing how the police treated a Christian street preacher.

Then there was the case of the teenager arrested over saying a policewoman looked like her ‘lesbian nana’.

Then there is the question of ‘silent prayer’, with police investigating Christians praying near abortion buffer zones, including a Catholic priest. This issue is admittedly less clear-cut than people being arrested for online comments, since there is the argument that it causes potential harm to women in a vulnerable state; nevertheless, it essentially means the authorities reading people’s thoughts.

More “Conservative” action:

In the London subway:

Almost every British cultural institution pushes a message of shame:

The effort to transplant American civic narrative on race and oppression onto English history is morally and intellectually deranging . . . .

There is a regime narrative undergirding this iron fixation. You see it in the outlets for elite-approved materials at their expositions of history and its interpretations. The regime functionaries administering the British Museum, for example — arguably the single greatest museum of any kind in the world, with only Madrid’s extraordinary El Prado standing in real rivalry — make known their interpretive preferences in the capacious gift shop. There we find shelves upon shelves of books on offer detailing the evils that England has inflicted upon the world. . . . There is Barnaby Phillips with a helpful tome describing Museum holdings as “loot.” . . . The median visitor gets the message: about his country, about his ancestors, about himself. The National Maritime Museum . . . also in its shop foregrounds works by which the visitor is to understand that what he has just seen and admired is in fact deeply wrong and immoral. It is a total inversion of the scale of values and virtues to which every society across all history has adhered, and this is a regime choice.

The British had nothing to celebrate before becoming “diverse.” From Stephen Lawrence Day to Windrush commemorations, to the Church of England purging itself of “racism,” there does not seem to be even one British institution that does scorn white Britons.

Civic nationalists occasionally say foreigners should adopt “British values.” Even if those values are defined in liberal, democratic terms, Britain doesn’t have them. Free speech is dead. Its government is authoritarian. Selective prosecution has replaced the rule of law. Non-whites are allowed to do many things whites are not.

Every government – of either party – increases non-white immigration. Public opinion, Brexit, electoral victories for Conservatives who vowed to limit immigration, the rise of the Reform Party – nothing changes this. Now, Britons may not even discuss immigration. “You have no right whatsoever to say who should or should not be in this country,” a British judge lectured a protester whom he sent to prison. Is this any different from the behavior of a puppet government after foreign conquest?

Great Britain is not great and is decreasingly British. Not even a century after victory in the Second World War, were the sacrifices were worth it? Many veterans say “no.” Of course, they better be quiet about it. There may not always be an England. Is there even one now?

About Gregory Hood

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Mr. Hood is a staff writer for American Renaissance. He has been active in conservative groups in the US. You can follow him on Gab.