“War is peace ignorance
is strength and freedom is slavery.” Thus grave the prophet Orwell. Since the
publishing of 1984 of course we know those words to be only a small part of the
fictions spun by those who need to distort the truth to control reality. ‘The
cheque is in the post’, ‘This will not affect the pound in your pocket’ and ‘I
did not have sexual relations with that woman’ have become as familiar as ‘It’s
not you, it’s me.’ It has been said that the bigger the lie the easier it is to
sell and few lies come easier than the one that says all who are concerned by immigration
are racists.
This was the
basis on which the appalling anti-white racist and serial liar Diane Abbott attempted
to stir up the hatred of the ironically self-styled ‘anti-fascists’ to violence
against protesters at Dover yesterday. Of course the anti-immigration crowd has its fair
share of racists, nobody would deny that, but organisations such as EDL,
Britain First and their ilk have generally tried to air their grievances
without resorting to violence, only being let down by the inability of some of
their number to behave like human beings.
Anti Fascism,
however, contains a challenge in its very name and rarely fails to provoke
extreme behaviour. In no way am I excusing the thugs of the anti-immigrant organisations,
but those who feel they have right on their side are far from being innocent bystanders in these
proceedings, various anti-anti-organisations being on high alert to respond,
flying picket style, at the first hint of citizens exercising their rights to
peaceful demonstration. Unite, the union, has a track record, among others, of
organising rent-a-mobs to descend on such gatherings where inflammatory rabble
rousing is employed to generate righteous hatred. I don’t see how this is any
different from the hatred they believe they are shouting down.
Of course the
anti-immigration voice has a point. It is one thing opening the doors to
skilled European workers when there are shortages which need correcting. And most
people see it as a human duty to give refuge to people genuinely fleeing from
horrific situations. But the wave of islamic migrants of unknown provenance is
neither of these things. Even the sainted Trevor Phillips says muslims are not like us and will never properly integrate: The hope that they
will bring any positive contribution to the civilised world is comprehensively
debunked, time and again, by the warlike scenes exploding all over Europe in our media daily.
Members of the religion of peace showing
they pose no threat to our way of life...
But for those of
a certain inclination the truth holds no appeal. Uber-Feminists find themselves
unable to condemn rape because of the contradictions in their philosophy,
opting instead to defend ‘diversity’. Anti-fascists find it impossible not to
imitate and often exceed the bigotry and violence they believe they oppose. And
abstract political movements everywhere tend to organise cynical opposition to
the simple concerns of those who feel helpless in the face of change which
directly challenges their way of life. It’s hard not to conclude that the real
enemy lies within.
