Thursday, July 20, 2006

New Fjordman Essay

Fjordman at Brussels Journal:


In a true, totalitarian society such as the old Soviet Union, crime rates are usually low because of the crushing state control of all its citizens. Supposedly, street crime in Moscow in the USSR was rare, probably because the state itself was the biggest criminal.

In contrast, in the European Union of today, which is not a totalitarian society, at least not yet, crime rates are booming in major cities. At the same time, authorities are stepping up censorship efforts, openly talking about media “speech codes” and aggressively slapping labels such as “racism” or “xenophobia” on anybody daring to criticize the immigration policies or pointing out the inadequate response to Muslim gang violence.

There is obviously a connection here: The less control the authorities have with Muslims, the more control they want to exercise over non-Muslims. As problems in Europe get worse, which they will, the EU will move in an increasingly repressive direction until it either becomes a true, totalitarian entity or falls apart. This strange mix of powerful censorship of public debate, yet little control over public law and order, has by some been labelled anarcho-tyranny.

While Islamic groups in Britain openly brag about how they are going to subdue the country by violent means or call for beheading those insulting Islam, Bryan Cork, 49, of Carlisle, Cumbria, in the Lake District, was sentenced to six months in jail for standing outside a mosque shouting, “Proud to be British,” and “Go back to where you came from.” One British court ruled that even use of the word “immigrant” as an insult could amount to proof of racial hostility.


Go read the whole thing.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Anarcho-tyranny" - that certainly sums up Blair's Britain, where violent crime is spiralling out of control while the government introduces ever more intrusive and repressive rules and regulations.

The British government is far more concerned with eradication thought-crime than with doing anything about physical crimes against people and property. Large areas of Britain's cities are being ethnically cleansed leading to 'white-flight' (to use an un-PC term) to the outer suburbs and countryside. And it isn't just whites who are being put to flight. Hindus are being ethnically cleansed from some expanding Muslim areas.

Nevertheless, the British government will unflinchingly attempt to impose control wherever it is safe for social workers and thought-police to venture.