Lessons We Can Learn from Our Mother(land)

By: Chris Johnson

It was about a month ago that America celebrated our independence from the British Empire. And, you may remember, while we were celebrating this decisive event in our past, the Brits were determining their future with national elections.

Polls had shown a surge of popularity for an anti-immigration third party which was politically positioned to the right of the major Conservative Party. As we’d taken note of then, in Great Britain, migrants from many nations formerly belonging to the British Empire are allowed to vote in elections. And, wouldn’t you know it, in an election where immigration was a hot button issue, the immigrants helped give the pro-immigration Labour Party win a majority.

This hot button issue has reached a boiling point in the month since that election, as several instances of extreme violence by those in the immigrant community against native Brits have resulted in protests and riots against immigration – an occurrence which would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

The violence committed by primarily Musim immigrants against British people culminated in the murder of three young girls at a party last weekend and the backlash is something the UK has never seen before. The U.K.’s historic white citizenry has reached the unavoidable conclusion that their government is not there to protect them from threats to their selves, their families, or their property; in fact, their government exists to protect those who threaten their selves, their families, and their property from the citizens themselves.

As protests have formed against the immigrants and the policies which have let them in, counter-protests have been formed by the immigrant communities. Video has emerged of British police telling these counter-protestors, “we’re not on their side, we’re here to protect you.” Meanwhile, British citizens opposed to immigration are arrested in their homes for “Facebook crimes,” sharing memes or posts on social media, which some “oppressed” group or other finds offensive.

This has led to a new nickname for the new prime minister, Keir Starmer: Two-tier Keir. They feel there are two tiers of justice in Great Britain, one for the immigrant community and one for historic British people.

To be sure, the anti-immigration riots going on are comparable to what CNN infamously described as “mostly peaceful” when Black Lives Matter was looting shops, burning storefronts, and shutting down streets, so when one protestor punched a cop in the face and was sentenced to 3 years in jail, that might sound like a reasonable punishment, until you hear that two immigrants who were caught on camera violently attacking officers at Manchester Airport have yet to be charged.

One 21-year-old Muslim man involved in the rape of a 13-year-old girl was sentenced to 180 hours of community service, while those who are sentenced to prison might serve less than half of their sentenced prison time due to prison overcrowding and the Labour Party’s policies.

As a result of this two-tiered justice system, and the waking up of England’s citizens towards it, calls for shutting down social media sites, where memes and volatile posts continue to raise the political temperature, are beginning to appear on news networks.

As I noted in last month’s article on the U.K. vote, America has been said to be 10 to 15 years behind the motherland, culturally, which leaves us wondering if we might face something similar in our future. Violence and social upheaval are prone to pop up when foreign populations arrive in new communities en masse, expecting to have their own dreams come true, often at the expense of the inheritors of existing communities.

Like Great Britain, we have not only unchecked, but government-facilitated, immigration. And, like Great Britain, our government seems to have a soft spot for the immigrant, and a spotlight on those who are critical of their immigration policies.

The United Kingdom didn’t have to wait long to see the fruit of the choices of their election. As the US elections approach, we are again given the opportunity to learn from their mistakes. Perhaps we can learn from their struggles and solve these issues at the ballot box, rather than with violent protests on the streets.

 

To view this article in your browser, Click Here

For more information, articles and newsletters, please check out our website at https://americandecency.org/

You can support ADA financially by visiting: https://give.cornerstone.cc/americandecency

 

---