What do we expect if we treat our own nation with such contempt?
15th March 2009
The insulting anti-British demonstration in Luton is a sign that we are losing—and may already have lost—the most important battle for survival in our modern history.
Our political leaders like to pretend they are defending us against all kinds of perils—especially bogeymen such as Al Qaeda.
I have always thought this was humbug, partly designed to conceal their failure to protect us from the real perils of the EU and the destruction of our culture.
Now you can see, in those Luton faces, exactly what I mean.
For years these same leaders have been the active allies of a real enemy right here among us.
That enemy is the deliberate destruction of Britain, the smearing of its history, the mocking of decent patriotism, the undermining of loyalty.
Those who were rightly angered at the ill-mannered and contemptuous display in Luton—the scowling menfolk and their sullen, shrouded women—should aim their anger not at these misguided individuals but at the liberal Left which has brought us to this point.
[LA replies: Of course the main enemy is the dominant British left that have allowed these things to happen. But WHAT have they allowed to happen? They’ve allowed to happen the invasion of Britain by mortal enemies of Britain. And Hitchens himself has supported and still supports that invasion, as proved by the fact that he describes the open Islamic enemies of Britain as merely “misguided individuals.” That remark is one of the strongest indications he’s given yet of how far gone he is in denial of reality. The man is just hopelessly thick. Speaking of which, look at his photo at the top of his column. That is a face that is immune to reasoning. It’s the original face of the Stupid Party—except that the Stupid Party was actually supposed to stand for the preservation of society, not for open borders and the universal mixing of all races and cultures.]
… For, let us be absolutely clear, the people on that Luton protest are British by every legal measure.
We have rightly been told for many years not to refer to such people as ‘immigrants’ for the simple reason that they have been born and raised here.
Why then do they not feel as we do? It is not because they are Muslims. Muslims served the British Crown with loyalty and distinction in the days of Empire, and would not then have dreamed of insulting this country’s flag or scorning its soldiers.
It is because we have encouraged them to think like this by ceaselessly attacking our own country.
We teach our children to be ashamed of our past. We tell them our sailors at Trafalgar had weevils in their biscuits but not that by astonishing courage and endurance they saved Europe from endless tyranny.
We act ashamed of the Christian religion that formed our laws and institutions. We encourage new arrivals to speak their own languages, to stay in isolated communities.
We never say that there are two sides to hospitality—a concept our Muslim citizens understand very well—and that those who are welcomed are expected to be loyal members of the society they have voluntarily joined. What do we expect these people and their children to think if we treat our own nation with contempt?
The reasons for this lie buried in the lost teenage years of our elite. Far more of them than are now ready to admit it were revolutionary Marxists at the time.
They have not really changed the views they held then, just become cleverer at achieving their aims. Now we see the result.
Of course, if British Christians living in an Islamic country turned out to jeer at that country’s army, they would be torn to pieces by the crowd or hurled into prison.
I am rather proud of the immense restraint shown by most of those who went there to cheer—because such restraint is very British. But how long will restraint be British, and the British be restrained?
I cling to the idea that it is not too late to stop the disintegration of our society but, if so, then time is very short indeed.