Since last weekend’s events in North Cronulla we have once again been treated to the enlightened thinking of some visiting liberals.  It tends to be a frustrating experience.  Stopping these people from displaying their faux-morality long enough to answer a fact-based argument is really very difficult.  But it has ever been thus.  I remember how, back in the 1960’s and even as late as the early 1980’s, Conservative thinkers agonised over the tendency for the educated young to look to a radical left that was all noisy protest.  A great many students were weak and were simply swept along with the rebellious spirit of the times.  But be they weak or strong, we are surely reaping their whirlwind now.

GW

The past few months have been a study of contrasts. On the one hand, in the rarefied atmosphere of the House of Commons the right honourable members have been debating whether to make the criticism of any religious or racial group illegal.  On the other, the law-abiding citizens of Birmingham have been asking themselves a somewhat less theoretical version of the same question, as their city erupted in Pakistani-Black gang warfare.  Meanwhile, from Strasbourg in the West to Nantes in the East, from Marseilles in the South to Paris in the North, the Fifth French Republic descended into anarchy and bloodshed.  The perpetrators just happened to be almost exclusively North African or Sub-Saharan African.

The West sure takes diversity, equality and tolerance seriously.  It has grown to be inevitable that, whatever harm “diversity” brings, the anti-racist crowd will demand more effort from the majority.  Let us, however, consider what has been done for Britain’s sexual, racial and religious minorities over the past few years.  Laws banning various forms of discrimination have been passed.  European directives have been agreed on.  A statue commemorating that great hero of the multicultural morality play, Nelson Mandela, is due to be erected in Trafalgar Square.  The new, super-egalitarian Commission for Equality and Human Rights (pdf) will have enough resources lavished on it to lift every single Briton above the poverty line (if it isn’t raised, which it will be).

“And quite right too,” the diversnic will reply, “we need to amend for past wrongs done to these minorities.”  How could anyone possible object to diversity, they may well wonder?- after all, doesn’t it mean everyone getting what they want?

If that is indeed so, if diversity and multiculturalism are indeed the panaceas to all evils, and the routes to political utopia, why have they never, in all the history of humanity, been discovered and tried before?  Was it just the wilful blindness of all our ancestors?  A shadowy conspiracy to defraud others of their rights?  Just the fact that no prior civilisations - for all their genius, for all the Platos and Newtons and Saint Aquinases - could ever match the sheer brilliance of the collection of ex-Marxists and liars currently compromising the British government?  Whilst I am second to none in my admiration for John Prescott’s eloquence and grasp of political philosophy, can it truly be argued that he and his associates, with one fell swoop, have surpassed and made obsolete all previous political meditation?

Alas, to discover the real face of multiculturalism one should observe not its glossy propaganda offerings but its actual, one-sided practice.  UK councils rush to celebrate every Eid, Hanukah, Diwali,  Vaisakhi, etc, etc.  Plans are laid in London for:-

Creating a Black and Asian Heritage Commission to identify key issues and make recommendations for increasing opportunities for communities to explore and assert their heritage.

... and, oh yea:-

The Mayor also supports cultural activities that reflect and celebrate the contribution of London’s diverse communities, including Chinese New Year, Diwali, Mayor’s Thames Festival, St Patrick’s Day, Mardi Gras, and Respect, the largest anti-racist festival in Europe.

Meanwhile, the Flag of St George remains furled and locked away in Hounslow:-

ST GEORGE’S flag won’t be seen flying over the civic centre on his feast day this year - because councillors believe it’s too socially divisive.
Over the years Hounslow council has flown the Palestinian flag, the Co-operative flag on International Co-operators’ Day, the Union Flag on the Queen’s Jubilee and on Armistice Day and the Welsh Flag on the request of a local resident - but the English flag of St George is too controversial apparently.

Too controversial in Britain’s prisons, too, where tie pins with the red cross on a white background, bought by prison officers in support of a cancer charity, were banned by the Chief Inspector of Prisons.

A man with an Irish name had this to say:-

Chris Doyle, director of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding, said Tuesday the red cross was an insensitive reminder of the Crusades.

“A lot of Muslims and Arabs view the Crusades as a bloody episode in our history,” he told CNN.  “They see those campaigns as Christendom launching a brutal holy war against Islam.

“Muslim or Arab prisoners could take umbrage if staff wore a red cross badge.  It’s also got associations with the far-right. Prison officers should be seen to be neutral.”
Doyle added that it was now time for England to find a new flag and a patron saint who is “not associated with our bloody past and one we can all identify with.”

But that may not be the view of genuine English people.  Certainly not the Londoners who responded to a BBC website poll on whether there should be a celebration of St George’s Day in their city:-

London hosted magnificent celebrations for St Patrick’s Day in March and in January welcomed in the Chinese New Year in Trafalgar Square.

We asked ...

Should London have a major St. George’s Day celebration?  The results were:-

Yes 10,642 Votes ( 92.4 %)
No 870 Votes ( 7.6 %)

Elsewhere the culture war grinds exceeding small.  Tom Forrest, the owner of a guest house in the Scottish Highlands, was targeted by homosexual political activists for refusing to accommodate a homosexual couple in a single room.  They haven’t dropped their trousers in his guesthouse yet, and he is determined that they never shall.  But he will have to break the new equality law, due to take effect late next year, to stop them.  Being a party to sodomy is not just allowed now - it’s compulsory.

A little over a year ago the Commission for Racial Equality published a study of what it termed “passive apartheid”.  Real apartheid as pursued in South Africa, of course, was a very active system of racial segregation.  So what could passive apartheid possibly mean? 

According to the report, members of various ethnic minorities were choosing neither to live in nor visit the countryside.  Note what wasn’t alleged by CRE Chairman, Trevor Phillips: that minorities were being chased out of villages by bloodthirsty mobs, that jack-booted fascists were wandering the streets of every isolated hamlet, vigilant against any intruders.  He wasn’t even claiming that rural Britons were utilising their ancient freedom to associate with some but not with others.

But Phillips is informed by the culture of a “right to be offended”.  Under Hate Speech law, for example, an offence is committed if the “victim” feels that one has been committed.  Just so with the minorities’ apparent perception of rural hostility.

What the above show is a willingness by government to invade almost any institution or transaction in a monomaniac pursuit of its goals.  Do not be fooled by the talk of rights: these are not the rights of the American Constitution or of the Magna Carta.  Those old rights were limitations on government power, “immunities” as Edmund Burke called them.  The new homosexual and ethnic - and whatever - minority rights are aggrandisements of government power, suppressing rights of association and freedom of speech.  If you think freedom of speech is an academic irrelevance consider that the mobs looting Lozells would have become uncriticisable with the passage of the Religious and Racial Hatred Bill.

That many in the government pushing this agenda through were once classical economic Marxists is significant.  Their creed has shifted only as far as Political Correctness or, to give it its less flattering name, Cultural/ Frankfurt School Marxism (of Herbert Marcuse and Institut für Sozialforschung fame, or rather obscurity).  Even its official name should give us pause for concern, for it implies that something can be factually true but politically false.  Are we to ignore reality in favour of what our rulers want us to believe, and become their willing dupes?

The reality is more sinister yet.  For the Marxists have never given up on the dream of a wholesale reordering of society.  Rather than production/industry they are using immigration and the destruction of the relationship of Man and Woman as their instruments.  Ordinary people have grown accustomed to it, of course.  They laugh and assert that it could never work, that it is doomed to failure.  Perhaps, but, like every other utopian social experiment it will go down in flames rather than quietly.

The British borders are controlled from abroad; its army has become the auxiliary arm of Washington’s.  The ancient provisions of the Magna Carta (habeas corpus, double jeopardy, right to a fair trial by jury) have been either abolished by dictat from Brussels or are treated as inconveniences by Westminster.  One can be charged with a speech crime against which truth is no defence.  A good half of a man’s income is now spent by distant authorities in Westminster.  And we are told how lucky and free we are because we can sodomise, abort and degrade Britain’s heritage and indulge in other diverse enjoyments (pun intended) to our heart’s content!

Alex Zeka