An old French saying: *”This animal is very wicked. It defends itself when attacked.”
Tommy Robinson, leader of the English Defence League (EDL), has been having a rough time of it recently. So would you if at every turn you found yourself up against what amounts to a collusion between the illiberal forces of Islam – with its UAF ancillaries – and an oleaginous establishment hostile to any murmurings of discontent from the natives.
Most recently in this lopsided war, an incident caught on camera that readers here will recognize as a clear-cut case of anarcho-tyranny took place as Robinson and his associate Kevin Carroll, on their way to the murder site of Lee Rigby, were set upon by what appeared to be political enemies of the leftist kind; this, in full view of the police. Assaulted, in other words. Perhaps those doing the assaulting were plants seeking to provoke a violent reaction from Robinson and Carroll, or perhaps they merely intuited the police weren’t going to do anything anyway; or perhaps none of the above is true and we can say with some relief that the bobbies were merely – with their usual mixture of bumbling incompetence and dogged ineffectuality – lassooing a situation before it got out of hand.The point to be made however, is one wherein it can no longer be said with any force related to certainty which is the more likely case; and that the paranoid argument is as plausible as the orthodox one. That should be a sobering thought for even the most middling reader.
I dare say most objections to the EDL are on a purely aesthetic level. The men who flesh out the organization are the sorts who would have comprised the ungainly bulge of Britain’s armies and navies as they busied themselves painting a globe pink. Scarred, gnarled, not always nice, not always sober, too much of this or that, not enough of that or this, cruel, witty, roughly hewn, doughty, mouthy and unfashionably patriotic, these men were and are condemned to stand in closest proximity to the excesses of ideological experimentation. They’re the ones who can’t afford to simply pack up and follow their wealthier cousins to less vibrant neighbourhoods. And so their outbursts are ones of bewilderment and pain like the exhausted bull in a bullfight, surrounded by inhospitable voices and jeering eyes, awaiting the final stroke of the blade.
Less poetical however, are the actual methods employed by the state for dispatching belligerent white Britons, exemplified in the grinding down of Emma West with what appears to be a gentler, more discreet form of hanging, drawing, and quartering. (I only half joke when I say the more literal punishment would still be in force if ostracism, fines, imprisonment and the fear of being tattooed with the scarlet letter ‘R’ didn’t do the trick.)
But with the increased media exposure of leader Tommy Robinson public perceptions are softening with regards to the EDL. His interview with the BBC’s Andrew Neil elicited much (unintended) sympathy for his organization and offered up an enlightening juxtaposition between a condescending and clearly biased media man, and Robinson: an articulate, polite fellow tolerating being rudely interrupted and sneered at, while doing his best to articulate legitimate grievances on behalf of those who have no real political representation left. This modern day John Ball is in the midst of his own working class revolution and in a similar fashion doing his utmost to close the gap between the villein and gentleman.
Cet animal est très méchant: Quand on l’attaque, il se défend! *
With the same incredulity are the bien pensants of Britain raging over the very idea of the EDL. The middle letter in that acronym is one strictly forbidden to the ‘peasantry’. If Asian gangs pimp out your women, killing, as they readily admit, the two birds of sexual gratification and the humiliation of a rival tribe, then you had best do as the police do and look the other way. Starting to notice the asymmetrical enforcement of hate crime and hate speech laws? Don’t. It will only serve to further divide ‘The Community’. The EDL (and for that matter Liberty GB), to their credit, are willing to be the finger-pointing pariahs and, to the chagrin of elites, are doing so in a markedly peaceful manner. So when Tommy Robinson was punched, instead of resorting to what might be expected of him – punching back, kicking low, falling into the image many wish to paint of EDL members as street brawling oi-oi-oiers – Robinson, rather admirably, turned the other cheek.
He was arrested nonetheless. But it was a small price to pay to make the police look like bullies with a political agenda and it showed the public, in Britain and around the world, that the moral high ground no longer belongs to the EDL’s opponents.
What remains to be seen is how well a party like Liberty GB or UKIP does in the coming elections and what the LibLabCons are willing to do to address those problems which gave rise to Liberty GB and the EDL in the first place. Or if, in the attempt to maintain the illusion of community cohesiveness at all costs, they proceed along the same lines of wilful discrimination against the ‘lowborn’ aboriginal population and behead some chickens to scare some monkeys.
* An old French saying: “This animal is very wicked. It defends itself when attacked.”
Originally published on the website of LibertyGB.