Angry Citizens – Obstinate Government From the UK to the USA

With foreboding of an anxious Democrat convention city locked up to the hilt, one can only wonder what the week will hold. Will Chicago descend into chaos as Great Britian has these past weeks? There were sparks that started the present UK Riots. What sparks are needed to commence U.S. unrest? Rumors of thousands of Palestinian agitators intending to join the demonstrations can only add concern.

How is Great Britain different than the U.S.? For one, free speech is about done there.

‘Certainly not intimidated’: Elon Musk speaks out on UK riots

Last week’s post Great Britain Erupts With Riots Over Immigration sets the stage and background for today’s post by Mustang who gives us his thoughts.

Angry Citizens — Obstinate Government

by Mustang

Understanding the differences between the United Kingdom and the United States is an ongoing and complex task. It’s not a matter of simply listing their disparities, as this process could continue indefinitely.  Even the notion that the two nations were once united is challenged by the fact that Englishmen were already seeking ways to leave the British Isles in 1607.

We all understand what happened “back in the day,” but many may not realize that the coin has flipped and created an irony.  While America’s founding fathers railed against the overbearing executive power of the British monarchy, they created a presidency with far greater power than any British King or Queen since 1789.  Today, the United States is a republic in the form of a monarchy, while the United Kingdom is a monarchy in the form of a republic.

What this means is that the people of both countries are subjects of their respective governments.  We Americans may not like this, but it is the truth.  If anyone disagrees, they are deluding themselves.  It may not have started out that way, but that’s where it is now.

Today, the United Kingdom is a land beset with violent clashes with police.  The issues, according to the British press, involve white nationalists demanding a return to a time when the British Isles belonged to the British.  I’m sorry to say that that day ended soon after Rome first landed on British soil.  Since then, the true British people have been completely eradicated and replaced with Italians, Germans, Danes, Norwegians, French, Indians, Pakistanis, Africans, Asians, and Caribbeans.  This evolution is the result of imperialism and human migration.

In 1948, the British Parliament passed the British Nationality Act.  No doubt, parliament did this with the King’s concurrence, but even if he objected, in the U.K., parliament runs the show.  Another thing the British government doesn’t worry about is any interference by the British high court.  In any case, the BNA permitted citizens of British Commonwealth nations to live and work in the United Kingdom.

HMT Windrush began transporting blacks from the West Indies to British shores that same year and continued to flood into the U.K. through 1960.  1948 was a time following World War II when war veterans were still returning from overseas assignments, taking off their uniforms, dealing with post-war depression, and starting the process of finding jobs.  What these war veterans discovered was that there weren’t any jobs because they had been taken by blacks from the West Indies, who were willing to work for far less money than whites.

The preceding wasn’t the fault of war veterans; it also wasn’t the fault of the West Indians.  It was the fault of the government.  It seems to me, looking at the totality of world history, that government is humanity’s greatest danger.  The government also pushed back against labor unions and lost, so in the 1970s, the British experienced winters without heat.  Hundreds of people froze to death in their homes.  Additionally, most Americans do not realize that the British government began war rationing in 1939 and remained on national rationing through 1954.  With few exceptions, British families survived on Irish stew for years.

Thus, we might understand why the British have had their fill of immigrants. While some citizens are pushing back against the “foreigners,” whom we might describe simply as people who look differently from themselves, most people are not pushing back at all. They don’t see skin color; they see fellow citizens, a small percentage of whom should be locked away where they can’t hurt themselves or anyone else.

According to the Express, 17-year-old Axel Rudakabana (whose parents migrated to the U.K. from Rwanda) entered a dance school where twenty-five children were attending a Taylor Swift Workshop and began stabbing them, along with their two adult dance instructors.  British officials credit the instructors with saving 16 children from death or injury.  Six people were transported to local hospitals for emergency treatment, including both adults, some in critical condition.  The adults couldn’t save Alice Aguilar (age 9), Bebe King (age 6), or Elsie Stancombe (age 7).  Eight other children also sustained stab wounds, and five of those were left in critical condition.

The incident was horrible beyond words, but making the aftershock worse were the incorrect identities and false claims, including that the perpetrator was an Islamist immigrant previously arrested for murder.  As the Rudakabana family migrated from Rwanda, and given that 95% of the Rwandan people are Christians, it is not likely that Axel was a Muslim.  

Nevertheless, subsequent clashes with police and “far right” rioters ensued.  As Rudakubana refused to speak to law enforcement officials, even to give his name, no one quite understands his motivation for the despicable attack on young children — but despite twenty-five terrified children and two adults, British police have not discovered any connection to Islamist extremism.

Every political landscape is complex, and we can no more easily understand the convoluted nature of British politics than we can understand our own.  The United Kingdom’s population is 68,459,055, more or less divided equally between males and females. The nation’s ethnic groups include 87% white, with minority groups involving black, African, Caribbean, Indian, Asian, Pakistani, and unspecified mixed races. Of the total population, 60% are Christian, 4.4% are Muslim, 1.3% are Hindu, 2% are “other,” 7.2% are unspecified, and 25.7% claim no religious affiliation.

Given the preceding information, foreigners living in the United Kingdom should not be a concern to anyone.  However, around fourteen years ago, several right-wing political groups formed as a response to 14 incidents of Islamic terrorism perpetrated against the people of Great Britain.  Such groups included the English Defense League (EDL), National Action (NA), Britain First (BF), the UK Independence Party (UKIP), English Democrats (ED), and the British Democratic Party (BDP).

In the general election of 2010, the BNP fielded 338 candidates across England, Scotland, and Wales and won 1.9% of the votes cast in that election — and no seats in the legislature. It’s important to note that these groups have a limited influence on the UK’s political landscape, with their impact being largely insignificant — and yet, such groups offer citizens with passionate beliefs a way to demonstrate their support for or opposition to government policy or legislation.  Because these “right-wing” groups are politically insignificant, the British government largely ignores them unless they aid the interests of politicians during periods of electioneering.

According to Reuters, British authorities have now arrested more than 1,000 people and charged them with rioting, violence, arson, and looting, as well as perpetrating indiscriminate attacks on Muslims and other migrants.  The liberal media tells us that “far right” groups are responsible for these incitements.  I’m not aware of what proof any media has that such demonstrations are the work of far-right groups.  It does seem to be a convenient/easily applied label.

The British press also reported that the disinformation identifying the murderer of the girls as a Muslim originated with a website called Channel Three.  Rioting has occurred in cities all across England and in Northern Ireland.  One arrested rioter was a 69-year-old man who was charged with looting and vandalism in Liverpool.  Another individual was a 13-year-old girl who had pleaded guilty to violent disorder for punching and kicking the doorway of a local hotel.  These facts, if representative, cause us to question the morality of the protests and their resulting damage.

British rioters do not convince anyone of the righteousness of their cause.  They will not change government policy respecting immigration.  Nothing they do will bring those little girls back to life or soothe the heartaches of the parents of the dead and injured children.  But there is something the government could do — if it had a mind to do it.  The government might begin listening to people with the intelligence to realize that nothing positive is achieved by working outside mainstream society; it must occur from within mainstream society.  Calm but sustained insistence is how you get the government to listen and act.

Unfortunately, this lesson has not been well learned here in the U.S., either.  But maybe one day, we’ll figure it out. We might start the process by making better choices on Election Day.

Mustang also has blogs called  Fix Bayonets and Searching History