Law and Order: no closer to a resolution

By Richard North - August 8, 2024

I did suggest yesterday that predictions of as many as 30 “immigration centres” targeted by the dreaded “Faaah Right” protesters today might have been an exaggeration.

By today though, a hyperventilating Mail had escalated this to 38 locations selected for “anti-immigration” protests, with a blood-curdling headline having Britain “on a knife-edge” with 6,000 riot police mobilised.

Other, even more excitable journals such as the Independent built this into an even larger figure, telling us that the police were braced for more than 100 protests across the country, with as many as 30 counter-protests expected.

All this, apparently, was based on a single, anonymous post on the Telgram social media platform, which was treated as a “credible source”, despite the absence of corroboration and the lack of any intelligence on the ground.

Virtually the entire media collective bought into this source, and many thousands imbibed the media Kool Aid and turned up to see off the dreaded Faaah Right, which never showed, except for tiny numbers in some locations – outnumbered even by the journalists who had turned up to watch the fun.

When we recall the sanctimonious lectures from the media (and the Regime) about misinformation, especially in respect of the mistaken identity of the Southport killer, it is germane to note that today’s coverage has been a monumental exercise in misinformation, with gullibility the dominant factor driving the would-be counter-protestors.

In typical fashion of the media though, when (almost) no-one showed up for the party they doubled down on their misinformation, claiming a great victory over the forces of darkness that never existed in the first place. That is, all except for Croydon – which featured so prominently in the 2011 riots. When no-one showed, the “counter-protesters” kicked off and had a riot all by themselves.

Meanwhile, as the government and the “cousins” wibble about Islamophobia, we got a timely reminder about the vile nature of some of the followers of Islam, when we learned that the Austrian police had arrested two men who were planning an Islamist terror attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna this weekend.

As long as this religion embraces within its ranks a substantial number of extremists dedicated to the foul murder of innocent citizens, I don’t really see how we can trust any Muslim community in the UK. They are Mao’s “water” which provides cover and sustenance for the “fish” who perform the terrorist deeds.

As such, mass immigration has long been recognised as a significant security threat and while there are measures we can take to reduce the threat, there is probably nothing as effective as reducing immigration in the first place, breaking up ghetto communities and deporting those who refuse to integrate.

The problem we have in the UK though – probably to a greater extent than anywhere else in Europe – is the number of second-generation, politicised Muslims, who have turned their backs on their parent’s traditions and carved out their own, unique version of Islam which rejects assimilation and creates a unique, hybrid identity.

These people are not British in any real sense, apart from the legal fiction of a British passport, but they are not of their homeland either, the core values of which the have also rejected. Effectively marooned in their (mainly northern) ghetto towns and cities, these people will always be a threat as long as they exist, and any attempts to turn them into loyal British citizens are futile.

This is an element that has not been discussed over the last week or so, when the focus has shifted from the revulsion over the senseless killing of innocents by yet another black migrant, to the broader scope of immigration in general.

The great danger here though is that the Regime seems intent on shutting down any discussion of the issues, with Komisar Mark Roley issuing pointed threats at “keyboard warriors” who disagree with his partisan stance on policing, backed up by the CPS which is threatening prosecution against those who post content “that incites violence or hatred”.

Such threats, to put it kindly, are disingenuous at best. Although the CPS refer to the “legal test” being met, they don’t say that the Public Order Act 1968 (as amended) sets the high bar, where to be guilty of an offence, there must be “intent” to cause another person to believe that “immediate unlawful violence will be used against him”.

In any event, this is in respect of racial hatred but, when it comes to religion, there is the block exemption where nothing in the Act can be read as prohibiting or restricting “discussion, criticism or expressions of antipathy, dislike, ridicule, insult or abuse of particular religions or the beliefs or practices of their adherents”.

Basically, anyone can be as critical as they like about Islam as a religion, and its Muslim practitioners, and there is absolutely no legal constraint. This is, of course, why the Muslims want the new offence of Islamophobia created – their contribution to shutting down debate, matching the Regime’s enthusiasm for doing likewise.

The Regime here is in nightmare territory. While it can use its stormtroopers on the ground to suppress dissent, when it comes to social media, the Far White “keyboard warriors” that Rolley hates so much are winning hands down when it comes to reach and engagement.

Data how that posts that used anti-immigrant hashtags were engaged with approximately four million times between 29 July and 7 August while posts that mentioned #RefugeesWelcome, #AsylumSeekersWelcome or #noracismnofascism saw just over 22,000 engagements.

Worse still for the Regime, this reflects (even if it does not completely mirror) general public sentiment, where YouGov shows that some 58 percent sympathise with the protestors out on the streets (but not the rioters), nearly double the number (32 percent) who have no sympathy.

When that also represents three times the proportion of the electorate who voted for Labour at the general election (20 percent), the Regime is out on its own in taking such a hard line against protestors.

Furthermore, while the Faaah Right schtick has gained an amount of credibility, as responsible for the unrest (at 74 percent), social media takes a bigger share of the blame (at 86 percent). No wonder the Regime is so keen to target the “keyboard warriors”. However, the legacy media also takes a hit, at 69 precent, while Muslims (for the moment) get a free pass at 25 percent.

Generally, this underlines the complexity of this subject, which encompasses so many moving parts as to defy easy analysis. This is not even just about immigration, as the failed policy of multiculturalism is also in the frame, and one must also look carefully as to why blacks in particular seem to be most associated with murderous frenzies, using knives to deliver death.

Nevertheless, Two-Tier Keir and the rest of the political classes are clearly trailing behind public sentiment and Starmer’s dogmatism seems set to ensure he and his Regime never catch up.

But public sentiment, itself, is behind the curve, with many people failing to catch up with the threat posed by mass immigration and the effects of multiculturalism outside the capital. And, on balance, a week of protests and rioting don’t seem to have brought us any closer to generating a real debate about the issues.

But the one thing the week does seem to have achieved is to elevate immigration to the top of the list of public concerns. That, I suppose, is a start.