I don’t go looking for this stuff; frankly it’s becoming hard to avoid. Yet example of the complete and total pussification of my new favorite punching bag, Britain – they make it so easy:
For more than two years, Sydney Davis’ house has been under siege from stone-throwing youths. And more than two hours into the latest attack on his family home, the police had yet to respond.
So after a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, the 65-year-old grabbed a plank of wood and ran towards the gang to scare them away. But his desperate act came just as the police finally arrived on the scene – where they promptly arrested him for possession of an offensive weapon.
He now faces up to six months in prison.
Yesterday the retired builder, who has two young sons, said he had been left reeling by the decision to prosecute him.
Mr Davis – who claims to have had objects thrown at his house on 700 separate occasions, and his windows smashed five times in eight months – said: ‘Something needs to be done to stop these kids.
‘They are out there every night. One of my neighbours even had a seven-month-old in their kitchen when a brick came through the window. It showered glass across the baby’s face. When these kids see the police they are off through the alleyways. The police have got no chance of catching them.’
Mr Davis’ 42-year-old wife Pauline dialed 999 when their home came under attack yet again last week, but two and a half hours later officers had failed to arrive.
He recalled: ‘My wife called the police at 6 o’clock. But [the youths] just kept on throwing stones. I left the back door open to stop them smashing it. I have two kids and if one of those stones hit them it could have caused some really nasty damage.’
And with his sons Peter, seven, and five-year-old Jimmy cowering behind a sofa, he decided enough was enough.
Grabbing a piece of wood from his garden, he chased the youths at the precise moment police officers arrived outside his home in Swindon, Wiltshire. Mr Davis was handcuffed and led away to the cells, where he was later charged.
…Yesterday a spokesman confirmed that no youths were arrested in relation to the incident.
A few years ago, if you’d presented me with a list like this:
Britain
Syria
Afghanistan
Iran
Myanmar
Darfur
Antarctica
Hell
…and asked me which of those places I would like to live, I would have said Britain without batting an eye. Not so today and I’m almost not kidding. Maybe I’ll get over it soon, but these articles just keep coming and each one is more absurd than the last, and just, what the fuck is WRONG with these people?
I know there’s not much more to say than hasn’t already been said in the last few comment threads about our emasculated former stalwart ally. They’re gone. It’s over. America is the last thing standing between humanity’s intact testicles and the quivering blade of liberalism.
The only tiny sliver of hope left for Britain is that at least some of the victims of this ridiculous shit aren’t taking it without a bit of righteous anger. Here’s what the man from the above article says:
‘What in the world is this country coming to that the police arrest people like me for protecting their own property?
‘The police say they want to reduce crime, yet they let evil little toe-rags like this off.
‘Then they prosecute hard-working, upstanding residents like me. The law is, quite simply, a colossal ass.’
Understatement of the year, right there. But if I were him, I’d replace “ass” with “tool of totalitarian subjugation of decent citizens.” And then I’d move to America and buy some guns.
Poor guy. Britain is reaping the fruits of its “enlightenment”.
If I can have a gun there, I’ll go with Antarctica!
This is of Brit homeowners being prosecuted for self-defense —
— horrifying! But then, they also have to let in order to preserve hypothetically breeding amphibians, too.
Yup. Antarctica.
Tragically, they’re out-voted by the gun-grabbing socialist weenies — Bloody Hell!
It’s cool that we freed Iraq and all that, but I have a new job for the US Armed Services: Take Back England. Make John Bolton the colonial governor.
fuck ’em.They’re putting up with the nonsense
Geez, a piece of wood? Not even a cane or a cricket bat? Just a piece of wood? Good thing it wasn’t his fists because I’d think they would be just as offensive if they happened to find their accompanying digits entwined around the toe-rags’ throats.
The UK has been spiraling down for quite some time with its insistence that people must only rely on the government to help them. The sniveling Brit captured by the Iranians is the poster boy for that country now.
Old Blighty is now Old Blighted.
At least they still have all those hot babes like Amy Winehouse….
Hi Rachel.
Sad but true. .
I agree. We’ll see.
Jesus on Jamba Juice, these stories make me mad.
Humanity is a lost cause. Thank God (if that’s still allowed) that the United States is so freaking big. It makes it a lot harder to herd us together to bleat like sheep. Not impossible, mind you, just harder.
Time for me to go spend my “stimulus” on a new pistol…Oh my God! I just turned into my father!
Wiltshire is going through serious growing pains. It’s a rural village that’s undergone some very serious population expansion because London and its southwestern suburbs are just too damned full. Even ten years ago Wiltshire was considered country-bumpkin, nowadays it’s all a part of the asphalt jungle, complete with disspirited and disgruntled youth. Britain’s had a problem with handling riotous youth since World War II- Teddy Boys, Mods, Freaks, punks, chavs.
I feel sorry for England, and wish that the Glouster area stayed free of it, but it looks like there’s nowhere else to go any more.
Well, maybe the Isle of Skye.
I’m telling you, someone in the Britgov read “1984” and thought it was a political treatise akin to “The Prince” instead of a piece of dystopian fiction railing against totalitarianism. The Brits need to find this person/persons, and hang them from the tallest part of the Tower. If I go over there, I’ll probably be arrested for being unsympathetic towards the feelings of Big Brother or something. That’ll be after I’m called a racist for not eating any foul-tasting food.
But even scarier was BlogDog thinking Amy Winehouse is hot. Maybe once, but the drugs and the nameless lung disease caused by smoking said drugs puts her in the “wouldn’t touch it with a biohazard suit on” category.
Seriously, the only reason that England even has cops any more is to provide employment to the little pricks who were picked on in school and ran to tell the teacher at every opportunity. The little snots who kept yammering about peace and love and not hurting each other’s feeeeeeelings. The ones whom everyone – without exception (and that includes their parents)- couldn’t stand to be around.(ref.: obamabots & codepink)
It’s a damned shame, but England is lost. Great Britain has become Mediocre Britain. I know that there are probably lots of nice, normal people left in England – but the time has come when we have to write them off as lost; and just hope that any survivors can make it out on their own. We certainly can’t help them. The same sort of things are happening right here in the USA; and we’ll soon join England as part of the “great ummah” if we aren’t able to stop the PCBullshit that is going to suck us all down the drain.
Some day, all the brave Brits will be in prison, the rest will be whimpering in the corner of their flats and keeping their heads down. All else will be owned by the jihadists. And, from that point on Big Ben will be known as Big Bin Ali.
And, let me repeat, again. Read Mark Steyn’s book, “America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.” What clarity of of mind and understanding of just what has happened to most of Western Civilization. And, how all that is left after Western Civilization’s destruction is the long, dark, Jihad night of Muslimism. Git yur burkas, wimmin!
“toe-rags”? I usually hate what the Brits do to our language, but that’s a good one.
As for the rest – it’s on it’s way here – vote obamama and the toe-rags will pwn this country in no time.
dfwmtx,
Recognize sarcasm you must. I wouldn’t do Amy Winehouse with Janet Reno’s … (what? I’m commenting here … Really!?) All right. I guess I can’t use that analogy any more.
Since it is obvious that the Brits don’t really want their homeland anymore, when we do go to clean it up, we should just scrape it clean and start all over.
My vote will be to turn it into a Elizabethan Medieval Theme Park and Sherwood Adventure Area.
Yep, anyone with any balls left there long ago to the US or Australia.
The only thing left are a bunch of whiny babies.
I just cannot believe this. What the hell are they thinking?? I just don’t understand how there is not a public outcry and marching on the city prison for this kind of outrage.
Seems the Brits have gotten too civilized to even stand up for themselves.
Luckily our Supreme Court gave us the means to do this for many years still.
I lived in Israel for a time as a kibbutz volunteer. I got used to seeing guns in public. Open carry is the norm. After a time I was allowed (even encouraged) to carry a firearm though I am neither Jewish nor a citizen. I carried an old .30 caliber carbine even while hitch-hiking, and I rarely had to wait more than five minutes for a ride.
After reading a similiar article to this post at American Thinker, I got curious so I ran a google search for “homicide rates by nation.” I consulted five sites and could not find Israel listed in the top 60 most violent nations on any list. I did find the inverse, one site claiming that the low Israeli rates for homicide make it the 5th safest nation in the world. Go figure.
Yup, that’s exactly what I’m going to do – move to America and buy some guns!
In fact, I’m going to buy one and have a play with it the next time I’m over there. I might not be able to bring it back here, but at least my fiance can find a use for it while I’m not there.
Gotta agree with you man. In a democracy, the people deserve the government they get.
Same with us if BHO gets elected.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Democracy simply doesn’t work.
(I kid. I’m just ripping off The Simpsons.)
The trouble with people is they tend to vote for the government they want, not the government they need. They vote for gun safety laws because, really, who wants unsafe guns around? They vote for restrictive self-defense laws because, really, isn’t that what the police is for? Unfortunately, while they’re voting their wishes, reality is making bitches of them… and that’s unfortunate. Thankfully, we kicked those blokes out of this country over 200 years ago, so we should be okay for a little longer, Obamabots or not.
Hopefully.
The British have got it all wrong. I’ve got a gun AND a shovel. There wouldn’t be any evidence to tie me to the, umm, crime.
I’ve got a wife and two small children. Some asswipes throw shit at my house and through my windows, they are going to be looking at a world of hurt. They’ll be praying for the police to arrive to stop me.
Yeah, I take defense of my homestead very seriously. Too bad the British are not allowed to do so anymore.
BTW, I think that Australia hasn’t succumbed to the Muslim ass-kissing disease yet. Unless I missed some really horrible news recently.
My wife was smart.
She left.
Remember what someone (?)said about American immigrants:
“The stupid stayed and the weak died on the way.”
I got a laugh out of the comments. Every one of them that objected to the arrest blamed the Police. So instead of voting in people who promise common-sense laws they’re clamoring for selective enforcement in their favor.
My father’s grandfather came over from Hull, England in the early part of the century. I weep for my British heritage — why are they letting this happen?
Stand up Britons, FIGHT this liberal BS!
I’ve long said that the temprament of modern Americans and Britons/Europeans is shaped by the fact the we are the descendants of people who said “This isn’t right. We’re going across the sea to the New World for the chance to make it better. Yes, it will difficult and dangerous, and nothing is guaranteed, but the chance to start from scratch and make it right from the beginning is worth any risk,”: while they are the descendants of people who said “Go to the New World? You know, all the tyranny and oppression and poverty and plague and famine and religious strife around here really aren’t that bad once you get used to them. You get on your boats and have fun, we’ll be fine back here.”
I’d also like to point out that, as RW Donn recommends, I’ve read Mark Steyn’s America Alone, as well as that Time Traveller story you linked to recently, and I haven’t been able to get that ominous “The Cylons are everywhere and They. Have. A. Plan.” music from Battlestar Galactica out of my head ever since. I’ve been spending a lot of time pants-wettingly terrified that we’re going to have to exterminate over a billion people in the self-defense of the world’s other five billion, and of what will happen if we don’t have it in us to follow through.
What I don’t get is why the Tories don’t run on a get tough on crime platform. If they can’t win on a platform like that then either it isn’t as bad as these stories would make you belive, or the mass of British people are all submissives and the hoodlums are the doms, and that is the way they both like it.
Sad to think that Britain was so courageous in standing alone against the Nazis, and is now being defeated by its own petty tyrants.
There are FOUR countries that stand between civilization and leftism. One is mighty, the other three are small but still powerful and vibrant. These countries are :
America
Denmark
Australia
Israel
These four are the remaining bastions of Western Values..
He should have used !!!
I don’t want Brit emigres coming to the States. The few I know are carriers of the same wasting disease they are fleeing.
Sounds like they are living in “A Clockwork Orange.” I have a two word solution to their problem: Vigilance Commitees. They really should look into it.
Perhaps it is true: Britain cannot begin again.
Maybe there’s one way though. Let them become them become thoroughly enmeshed in the EU. When or if the resulting situation becomes intolerable, let them have a War of Independence.
They did provide much of the ideas and manpower for the first, after all…
Tut, tut, everything is under control. The Prevailing Administrative Culture has definitively established that the law-abiding British citizen’s sole justification for existence is as resource, recreation, rapine, and repast for the so-called criminal element. Excessive and divisive complaints against the modern balanced approach will be recorded with the complainants’ names and be available for review when bureaucrats in the National Health Service and Council Housing need to make agonizing decisions about who gets what.
/sarcasm off.
I remember years ago reading something in some Brit newspaper online saying that “the prevailing administrative culture” could never countenance a “regression” to earlier views on self-defense.
It’s why I left and came to the new world. English by birth, Southern by the grace of God!
Here’s another:
Short story — guy hears alarm outside. Goes out and interrupts thugs breaking into a phone store. Gets punched for his trouble, takes down one of the punks and holds him until cops arrive. Punks get off with a “caution” (which as I recall from previous articles, amounts to telling him “you’ve been naughty, now run along”), good guy arrested for assault on the punk.
Britain is lost.
Michael Medved discussed murder rates recently. According to him, it was 10 times more lethal to be in Washington, DC (Which hasn’t yet recognized the Supreme Court!) than it is to live in Israel. 30 vs. 3. Wikipedia has a very detailed page under “List of countries by homicide rate”. It is actually a number of lists, so you can compare historical data where it is available.
Why are they safer in Israel? As Robert Heinlein said: “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
“Sad to think that Britain was so courageous in standing alone against the Nazis, and is now being defeated by its own petty tyrants.” What? The Brits were 90% for unilateral disarmament. They brought Hitler on themselves. The only problem with WWII is that none of the Brits said out loud “we screwed up”. Or very few did. There would not have been a WWII but for the Brits and French.
You have to look on the bright side of these things. This time, we won’t have to bother sending US servicemen “over there” to die for the Brits and the rest of Europe in their fight against the Muslim hordes. There just isn’t anything worth saving in Britain and Europe anymore.
Let ’em sleep in the bed they made for themselves. They asked for it, and they deserve it.
To hell with Europe, if that’s where they want to go.
These days it almost seems that police and the courts in Britain are encouraging yob violence. Keeps the sheeple cowed and in line.
Nuke it from orbit &ct.
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“Stone throwing Youths” = Muslims? It’s like something out of Graham Greene’s “The Destructors.”
Emigrate? When I was a college student I stayed a weekend with an English family in Southampton, not far from London. Husband, wife, two boys about 7 to 9 years old. Definitely English middle class, lived in a nice home on a good street. No hoodlum problems. Very well educated. And the man told me that he wanted his children to emigrate when they reached adulthood, but he wasn’t sure where he wanted them to go.
This was in 1973. Which only goes to show how long the smarter Brits have known the sun was seriously setting.
It’s all in Clockwork Orange. Burgess saw it coming; Kubrick reified it.
Bobbies suck shit and always have. I wouldn’t piss on a Bobbie if he was on fire.
Labour are so far down in the polls that it will be a miracle if they’re re-elected. The last time the UK was gripped in this apparent death spiral was the late 70’s. Then Margaret Thatcher came to power and turned things around. There’s no Thatcher on the horizon this time, but at long last David Cameron’s Tories are starting to make the right noises about the problem. A big sticking point is the extent to which the EU has etiolated the powers of member state governments, but all of this can be rolled back with sufficient political will. I don’t think anyone should underestimate the depth of hatred that Labour under Blair and Brown have attracted. There’s every chance they’ll be electorally extirpated at the next general election, which would yield enough electoral capital to start putting things right.
I saw the writing on the wall in 1997 when Blair was elected. I emigrated in 1999, and nothing since has made me regret my decision. But there’s a lot of ruin in a nation, as Adam Smith said. The UK has been in much, much graver straits before.
It was certainly Churchill’s finest hour. And his credit redounds back to the Brits, but mostly back onto those long dead souls who conquered the seas and in other ways made Britain great. Those sort were mostly gone by WWII, though it was a final great moment for a once great people.
Jeffrey Snyder put it best 15 years ago in “A Nation of Cowards:”
ha so funny reading these criticisms from AMERICANS. I mean America has the highest murder rates of any “developed” country. More Americans kill Americans than English people kill Englishman; more amercans rape other Americans; America is more corrupt according to transparency international; America has higher poverty rates; America has more political assassinations (jfk, Robert Kennedy, MLK); America has the most violent domestic terrorism (mcveigh) and so on. By any measure your country is a s**thole by civilized standards and yet you spend time trashing a country who is vastly morecivilized. The dollar is going down the tubes because noone outside America believes in America anymore; your growth rates are anemic although your policies are obsessed with growth at the expense of social programmes; you’re stuck in a trillion dollar a year war in Iraq where you can only avoid defeat by paying off the insurgncy; you’re at the bottom of every international poll; everyone thinks your a bad joke; your president has to up beg to the saudis so that please pretty please americans can keep driving their huge ugly SUVs; you’ve mortgaged the entire country to the chinese so that you can continue living your tacky lifestyles: way to go USA!!
Many Brits are fine. The blokes you see on a rugby pitch are more than willing (and capable) to defend themselves, their families and their property.
It’s the gutless, well-meaning elites that cause all the problems… Along with the union types that defer to authority for just about everything.
The Brits have gotten quite used to being taxed, regulated, and harassed by the authorities at every turn. They are a defeated people in this regard.
Again… There are plenty of good Brits that won’t stand for it. But they don’t make policy. The Brits are not close to finding another Thatcher to break them from their malaise…
The mayor of London has been a communist for ages, the head of the courts endorses Sharia for some folks (as does the head of the church!), the Monarchy exists to be politically correct, the nanny staters are running the government, and most of the folks in charge are pushing Britain to abdicate its sovereignty to the EU.
Bloody hell!
At least the Brits are pushing back. A few more incidents like this might steel their resolve and make them remember what makes the Anglosphere so special… What makes British troops among the best in the world…
Alas, the more likely course is that there will be laws passed against throwing bricks and running from policemen down the alleys.
And Bob’s your uncle… Problem solved from the elites’ point of view.
I wonder how long it will take for the currently law abiding Brits to understand that the bobbies are not their friends. The next realization would be that the courts are not on their side either. Conclusion? Quiet little militia groups that would descend on the thugs and leave their bleeding carcasses in an alley.
“Did I hear anything? No, sorry Gov’na. I was watchin’ the telly. Couldn’t hear a thing.”
“No sorr, me neither. I was watchin’ me telly too, and I could see Fred watchin’ his. Good luck officer.”
It’ll be interesting to see when the surge in rentals of the “” series starts to pick up on the Isles.
The British are famous for their humor. Only now instead of laughing with them we laugh at them.
If you want to know how the British police feel about the crime there then read this blog –
It’s bad in Britland, but ain’t all gone yet.
The elastic is dang near played out of the situation but something/someone will push just that little too far and the snap back will be most explosive.
I wouldn’t be too terrible surprised to see it start off in a subconscious recreation of the ancient fyrdmen forming up a shield wall to confront their enemy. Bunches of mobs of pissed off Brits marching down the street with whatever could be picked up for a shield (garbage can lids, ect) screaming at the top of their lungs, working themselves up to zerker rage while pounding on their shields with whatever weapon they could lay their hands on. Like a solid wave of mayhem ready to whip the living shit out of anyone that gets in their way.
Woe be unto the inbred tards (mo or lib) that get rolled up on that day. Cause it would only get worse from there.
I’m thinking you’ve never been to Israel… It’s extremely safe (apart from terrorism and typical Middle Eastern driving) but I’ve never heard anyone describe it as “polite” before.
Investors Business Daily had an picking up on the same basic thread. It starts out…
Unassisted Suicide
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Western Culture: If we didn’t know better, we’d say the news out of England suggests the British are hell-bent on killing their civilization. But, of course, we do know better — don’t we?
Where’s the free market solution for this?
Everyone knows that if a Brit political party proposed a real self defense law, they’d win the next election in a landslide. One of the major newspapers had a poll years ago, what law do you most want to see enacted? Self defense won huge.
Do the conservatives really value a defenseless population more than being in power?
America is the last thing standing between humanity’s intact testicles and the quivering blade of liberalism.
Well, you know, it isn’t liberalism, really. Today’s “liberals” aren’t liberals at all as I have understood the term for the past forty-five years or so. Totalitarians, maybe, with the difference from those in the past that totalitarians like Stalin and Hitler believed in a strong national defense.
Lyndon Johnson was a liberal, and as bad a President as he was, I can’t imagine him presiding over this. He was also serious about national defense, although his implentation skills in that area left a good deal to be desired.
You know Rachel, when I read stuff like this, and even the stories about the authoritarian greenies and “libs” I think, maybe I should open a factory manufacturing pitchforks and torches.
Because either there is going to be one hell of a market for them, or the human race is finished and it doesn’t matter anymore.
The UK needs some Texans. Recently here a guy saw that some punk was outside trying to steal his car stereo. So the homeowner called 911, grabbed his gun, went outside to chase the thief down while on the phone, gave a quick warning, and shot the punk dead … outside, while on the phone to 911!
Oddly they did send it to a grand jury but it was “no billed” … no crime committed.
Links, please??
You are making a lot of statements that would seem to require some sort of backup beyond Wikipedia. Or are you just ranting?
Something tells me ‘bobby’ will still be feeling cozy and self-righteous, no matter how many times a day he has to prostrate himself towards Mecca, no matter how many years have gone by since the last time a woman walked the streets of Londonistan uncovered.
You prefer your homeland? Enjoy it while it lasts, bobby!
A lot of you drag the Moslems into this…but I’d bet that anybody who tried that sort of nonsense on in Turkey, the most secular Moslem-majority state, would soon be finding out that Midnight Express was a lot more documentary than drama. And let’s not even think about what would happen in Saudi Arabia.
One reason the Taliban were let rule in Afghanistan was because, for all their religious extremism (my major professor in college had spent two years in Afghanistan with the Peace Corps before the Russians came; he said that at that time, the Afghans were pretty relaxed about religion) they at least put down bandits and you had some sort of law and order.
LOL yeah, right.
Just like the fascists, at least the trains ran on time. Whatever.
Btw, numbnuts, Turkey’s well on the way to falling to radicalist sharia law now. Islamists have also slaughtered 10s of thousands in the “peaceful” north african countries of Morocco and Algeria for not being muslim enough over the last decade.
The only thing worse than a spineless piece of shit that wont stand up against an enemy is that craven piece of shit that enables that same enemy.
No thing is as universally despised and abhorred as is the betrayer. That is common to every single human society to have ever existed, without exception.
Well…this is amazing: An article from the UK praising Bush as an underratted and underappreciated president. Maybe there is hope:
Because their undue influence (scroll down and read Rachel’s previous ‘Britain Surrenders’ posts if you doubt there is such!) represents another example of how the Brits have succumbed to stupid, politically correct dogma, and in so doing, weakened their country!
Sharia? Inevitable! So says the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Guns? Unthinkable! So say the sheep.
Boobby Bobby is the typical myopic lefty America hater of all that is moral and good who is striving dilligently to deliver a decadent continent and a sullen island to their muslim soon to be masters. Meanwhile he and his drunken yob buds will continue electing goofy leftists hoping they will deliver them the next mess of socialist potage.
In Booby’s marxism addled brain he fails to see that it is Britain that has the failing economy, fleeing educated, and skyrocketing crime.
By the way Booby the conservative red counties where a majority voted for Bush in 2004 have a murder rate below the UK and any country in Europe. America’s murders are almost entirely confined to those counties where the leftie wanabee socialist voter who live and love on failed “social programs reside.
Britain and most of Europe is done all that awaits it is the test fork more likely a scimtar.
Hey Bobby,
Whadayasay we trade our elite types who agree with your opinion of America (sans crime figures per below) for your Rugby types and see who’s the better for it.
Regarding crime rates, the US has, in absolute terms, more murders, rapes, etc., but your “more civilized” country has higher crime RATES when adjusted for population. Never used to be that way pre-late 90’s. Alas, things change.
Pity the poor United Kingdom. Yes, the US has many problems – however the fact remains that we need to build walls/fences to keep people out and Europe still has a history of building walls to keep people in – seems people are voting with their feet.
What the chaos of freedom gives (in addition to people making choices to drive ugly SUVs) are options: I could respond to the rock throwers with a baseball bat, pellet gun, pepper spray, shotgun w/ rock salt; shotgun w/ birdshot; shotgun w/ OO buck; shotgun w/ rifled slugs; .22, .38, .45, .40, 9mm, .357, .25? (don’t be insulting), 30-30, 30-06, .300, .356, .458, .500 nitro express, – why the choices are nearly endless! And this gives excitement to the youthful thugs too! Why they will never really know when their boring, oppressed lives are about to violently end. Indeed, if sufficient daylight (or nightscope) they may never even hear the report of the discharge prior to the projectile striking them. Surprize! – Ah what excitement!
Rachel, and other commenters here.
As a Brit, I have to agree with the commenter above who said “fuck ‘em.They’re putting up with the nonsense”.
We have brought this upon ourselves, and we’ve got to deal with it. That said, I wonder if attitudes are starting to change. There is far more talk of the right to bear arms in the UK blogosphere than there was a year ago. I wonder if we are about to see a sea-change.
Guns. ‘Cause when seconds count, a policeman is only minutes away.
Thanks America for your unwavering support; it’s good to read so many concerned voice here. You can see why we in the UK regard so highly our special relationship with the US when you read some of these comments, like: “fuck ‘em.They’re putting up with the nonsense” and “I don’t want Brit emigres coming to the States. The few I know are carriers of the same wasting disease they are fleeing.” Cheers, guys!
Seriously, a lot of Brits (like me) aren’t happy with our political rulers and equally dismayed by the fact the police have imposed on them “targets to meet” which encourages them to arrest ordinary people on ludicrous charges to appear to be doing their job.
We also seem to have created a culture where a victim of crime is regarded as unimportant while the louts and thugs have “social issues” that must be addressed and their lives eased.
But in spite of all this try not to discount us too much, for all our faults. We still have something about us and one day it might just manifest itself.
Until then, remember we have supported the US in some of its ventures and as allies go, we haven’t done too badly.
US has a higher murder rate, true, but UK has a higher overall crime rate:
There is, after all, a reason that God put those people on an island…
Thoughts of an American by birth, and a Virginian by the Grace of God. God created men and Sam Colt made them equal.
Unbelievable. That would not happen at my house. A rock through the window would be answered with the click of a shotgun.
It seems to me the Britian is turning into France. When I was in Paris a couple of years ago, I was talking to a woman about the “youths” running around burning cars. She told me there was nothing that could be done. I told her that would never happen in the USA, since if “youths” starting burning cars at one end of a street, before they made it half way down they would be met with a hail of bullets. At that moment, she realized (she told me) how the 2nd amendment protects our rights. She then asked me I thought she could find a job here.
Unbelievable. That would not happen at my house. A rock through the window would be answered with the click of a shotgun.
It seems to me the Britian is turning into France. When I was in Paris a couple of years ago, I was talking to a woman about the “youths” running around burning cars. She told me there was nothing that could be done. I told her that would never happen in the USA, since if “youths” starting burning cars at one end of a street, before they made it half way down they would be met with a hail of bullets. At that moment, she realized (she told me) how the 2nd amendment protects our rights. She then asked me I thought she could find a job here.
The one mistake everyone is making is thinking of people like bobby as merely acting out of fear. That’s not what it is. bobby isn’t acting out of fear; he’s acting out of lust for power. He’s joined the other side. And he doesn’t plan on prostrating himself towards Mecca; he plans on being the person making us do so. He wants to be an apparatichik. Of course, likely it won’t work out that way, but you can’t tell people like him that. They have to learn for themselves, but by then it will be too late.
Why, yes. Otherwise, what’s the point of being in power?
Physics Geek Jr.?! My son plays on the computer already but
a) he cannot type clearly, being only 5
b) he isn’t a junior
I used to live in England when I was a kid, and have been following the decline of British Civilization in your blog…so sad. Didn’t know if you’d seen this one:
Man charged after stopping suspect
A Weymouth, England, man said he has been charged with assault after he detained a man who broke a business’window. Steve Kink, 47, said he went outside his wife’s bar when he heard an alarm go off in a nearby cell phone store and confronted two men standing near the store’s broken window, The Daily Mail reported. “I accused one of them of smashing the window and he said ‘what … has it got to do with you?'” Kink said. “He then took a swing at me and punched me just under my left eye. I grabbed hold of him and managed to sweep one of his legs from under him and I held him there by putting the toe of my shoe on his shoulder blade. “There were lots of other people around at this stage and somebody had hold of the other bloke he was with. When the police arrived I stepped back and he kicked off at them. When he was put in the police car he tried to kick in the windows,” he said. However, Kink said the man was eventually released with a caution for criminal damage — and a few days later, police showed up at Kink’s home to arrest him for assault. A police spokesman confirmed the charge.
Actually, there is one crime that is relatively commonplace in the UK that is almost unheard of in the United States – home invasions, attempting to burgle or otherwise enter an occupied dwelling.
Criminals may be immoral but most aren’t completely stupid. If they think that a homeowner has a gun, they probably will wait till the home is unoccupied. In a society where only the criminals have guns and where the police are likely to prosecute a homeowner who uses violence to defend themselves and their property, well then, you can expect home invasions.
I read stories like this to get my blood boiling with righteous indignation. Then, to calm down, I crack open The American Rifleman and read The Armed Citizen for a little of how we do it here in America. Makes me feel all better.
“America is the last thing standing between humanity’s intact testicles and the quivering blade of liberalism.”
Please, please, please put this on a bumper sticker and sell it in your store. Put it on t-shirts, also.
I have a credit card and I am not afraid to use it!
What Ed said up there about little militia groups is what I’m expecting to see eventually. It will take a while, probably, but when this kind of thing has happened to enough people, “accidents” will start happening to the bad guys.
Bishop hill, your lips (um, keyboard) to God’s ears… or perhaps Parliament’s, which acts a bit more directly. They have to understand that the price of ignoring the obvious will make the English Civil War casualty figures look like a railway accident.
If the Police in Britain are THAT stupid, perhaps the citizens need to convince Parliament to pass their own version of the Right to Bear Arms.
It’s hard to know if these stories represent only small numbers of flaky cops/judges or actually represent a serious trend in British society. Still, large numbers of Britons seem to be so worried about becoming Americanized that they are opting to become Weimarized (the Weimar Republic was a society so tolerant that it allowed the Nazi Brownshirts to beat and kill people almost with impunity; it was this street thuggery that was the main force behind Hitler’s rise to power). I think it’s time for the Tories (or the Laborites, whomever) to declare that people have a right and a duty to defend themselves, especially if the police fail to do so. At the very least, they should encourage the legalization and use of non-lethal defense devices (like mace or pepper spray), and set aside money to defend people who are prosecuted for defending themselves.
For the British reading this blog, I suspect many commenters are frustrated and concerned with the direction the UK is headed. While we don’t expect much from the old Europe, we did have expectations of England. British fundamentals form the basis of our culture. We don’t want to head down the same road you’re currently speeding. Plus, it is painful reading a myriad of insults about one’s country and leaders, isn’t it. Suck it up. Until that fine Irish lad Barry Obama is elected, we’ll continue to be subject to vicious, thoughtless and unnecessary criticism from our UK “allies.”
Oh, Hi “Bobby”
Our air is cleaner than in any major country, our “anemic growth” is double that of Europe, our overall crime rate is lower than Britain’s, most of us don’t drive SUVs, except for the twit soccer moms whose politics are the same as yours and who’s kids play that sissy “step-dancing with a ball” game you call a sport. Oh, and we still have real men here with what you call “bollocks” in your prissy, limey-poofter fashion. Also, our food is better, and so are our teeth.
Sod off, you over-civilized eunuch!
Every night I thank God that the Sharps and the Edwards GOT THE HE$@ out of there, and blessing them for coming to Virginia.
I’ve read so many times about the victums being arrested in britain. and it would suck to live there.
I think the movie ” V for Vendetta ” just may come true(in a sence) in the near future and i hope it does – All citizens should fight back.
This is happening in Greenland and other places.
This link has good run down but make sure your sitting down and have removed all breakable object from reach.
An earlier post suggested vigilance committees. I would add that the movie ‘V’ might be useful.
Guys, don’t beat up on Bobby or Brit. It’s prefectly natural to be defensive when your nation is criticised for having turned into a living hell – and before I get a righteous tongue-lashing from the limeys, I was born there. Lived there until the 90’s, and then, through some luck, foresight and effort, came to the US.
Britain has some huge problems that may get far worse in the near future. Some of the polity have enough balls to confront the hordes of assorted chavs, scrotes and scumbags that have been allowed to run thru’ the cities and suburbs like rabid dogs. The problem is that these people will be voting at some point soon and that’s when the manure really hits the fan. And already, you can see a realignment whereby there really is no penalty to behaving lawlessly.
The Darwinist in me tells me that these scumbags might be better suited to surviving in the First Islamist Civil War, but it bodes evil for the old place.
Oh, and Brit, the reason you’re getting the kind of pushback from Americans who you might have expected to be more sympathetic is that from over here, the day-to-day feedback they get from Britain isn’t so different from the kind of feedback they get from France. Whiny editorials by British intellectuals telling them that in some perverse way, Americans would be far better if they renounced their allegiance to an America Ruled By Bush and His Evil Oil Cronies and became more European. This is not what Americans expect from a nation with whom they are in a ‘Special Relationship’.
“pussification” one of my favorite words. bahahaha
Iowavette, there are some of us who haven’t surrendered yet and who are still your staunch allies.
By now, for me, Britain’s just a piece of rock that stops me from getting my feet wet. I don’t belong to the British any more. Not in my heart, not in any way except with those who make the same decision every year. I want to be with my own people again.
I’ll still love what what was lost and I’d fly the UK flag with the Stars and Stripes though; apparently they still let you do that over there without installing an Electronic Flag Monitor (TM), along with something to determine whether a hot dog can should really be in the refuse bin, or in the recycling bin.
A teenager leaves a wooden lollipop stick lying on a wall: ? I would have thought that was environmentally friendly, lollie sticks being, you know…wooden, but apparently she can be fined whereas the trees where I work which drop wooden and other carbon-based stuff onto my head all the time are apparently immune to prosecution. Maybe I’d better prosecute the trees for pollution, the evil bastards.
I wouldn’t want to bring my kids up anywhere but over there, even if you do have problems of your own. Just make a space on the barricades and hand me a rifle.
The problem is that these people will be voting at some point soon and that’s when the manure really hits the fan.
Voting? Hell! What about socialist makework ??
What happens in the UK is an indication of the future in the USA. Perhaps this is the change that Obama promises us.
Well, it appears Bobby has been addressed nicely. Truth is, the places where those awful crime figures come from are those liberal bastions of the left. In “red” country(how in the he(( did the conservative states become red?) that stuff is the quite the opposite. Brit, we’re simply appalled with the direction your country is taking, that’s all. I was stationed in GB for 12 years, from 82 to 94. Glad I left when I did. TAKE YOUR COUNTRY BACK!!!!!! THEN WATCH US CHEER. Too simple.
To the Brits and other EUnix, here’s an example of the proper attitude (notice to the overly sensitive, children or easily offended. Fighting words used):
Something along the lines of loud and proud wouldn’t hurt y’all either:
A bit of pop culture reveling in your own pride for your own tribe and a blatant declaration of wilful hostility to all who wish to put you under would be good to see.
Man up. Time to ride.
No, it’s not *quite* as bad here……yet..
The Islamists are certainly working hard to make inroads here, though, and we have too many PC politicians here making life easy for the (coff coff) ‘Peaceful Religion'[TM]. A good site to visit to get a sense of what’s going on here concerning Islam is They have much educational info on Islamism in general.
So we are well on the way to dhimmitude, too, unless the sheeple wake up.
… or is it the quivering blade of Jesse Jackson?
So I’m in a booth next to the ROTC guys at an academic fair today and I strike up a convo with the hottest 22-year-old hottie mchothot (and yes, I’ll have some fries with that, thanks) about this very topic, and he sadly shakes his head and sighs:
I got a pen and yellow pad and wrote that shit down, word for word, and then spontaneously birthed his children, right there.
We then had a candid presidential election conversation regarding the douche and the turd.
ME: SO do you pick giant douche or turd sandwich?
HOTTIE MC HOTHOT: Dude, I really don’t care.
ME: Do you really want that asshole to win?
HOTTIE MC HOTHOT: I’m not voting!
ME: Did you just say that… voting is ridiculous?
HOTTIE MC HOTHOT: No, I think voting is great, but, if I have to choose between a douche and a turd, I just don’t see the point.
So then came the theme songs …
After we snickered our asses off and ignored all comers (we both had faculty present to answer questions), he told me that the Washington State National Guard 81st, of which he is a member, is heading back to Iraq for another deployment in August.
Prayers for HOTTIE MC HOTHOT and his brethern. What a fantastic young man, who just gets it, and gets what it means. If this guy is any indication of the Army as a whole, the USA won’t go that way.
Yo Brit,
Speaking for myself, I do enjoy colorfully expressing my frustration at watching our UK brothers, on the whole, bending over to the dual onslaught of Islam and political correctness.
It’s frustrating because I’d love nothing more than for you chaps to find your huevos and get in touch with your inner Winston C.
Heck, I’d even bring my rightfully-possessed heavy weponry to your partly if you’d let me.
14K – your story gives me great hope for the future.
I’d be interested in knowing that too. I have a theory that its based on news organizations decisions, and likely that if they continued to use red for the liberal states people might associate them with the communistic ideas that they do have even sooner. Can’t have that happening now can we?
Like the way you got pushed out of Basra? The Iraqis took only 5 or 6 weeks to clean up after you once they got started.
I find it hard to believe that it was the average soldier’s fault though. The British soldier’s legendary coolness under fire couldn’t have disappeared that fast. What is your ruling class / officier class shooting up to lose in Basra? You are the problem until you get rid of the politicos ruining your nation. Same as us (damn it), we just don’t have as much to correct yet.
In the US, you’re a citizen.
In Britain, you’re a subject.
Great discussion. I’m of British (and German) heritage, but going way back before Yorktown. I hope you guys wake up, but if you don’t, then die in place and don’t spread your capitulation attitudes to healthier English-speaking countries.
As to the red/blue thing, I do recall it being the other way at one time and heard an explanation. The news folk used to alternate the colors they used on the maps on differeent election years. Then, “red state/blue state” got in to the vernacular and so has now become fixed.
bobby:
Which way are the rafts going? How many Americans emigrate to Britain (or anywhere else, for that matter)?
I thought so.
Don’t believe everything you read in the papers or on Wikipedia, you bloody pommy poofter.
The stupid stayed and the weak died on the way, indeed.
Also, blue does fit libtards better because while it can mean cool headedness, it also stands for passivity and depression. Englanders, know that many Americans are hoping you can turn it about and welcome the Rob Farrington’s with open arms. Bobby, enjoy the bed you have made. For people who like it, masochism is a fine thing. More likely, however, you will be just another dhimfuck who loses his head for not facing East at the right time of day.
While in France years ago the family and I were on a tour boat looking at their little statue of Liberty and all that… just like our big one it is.
Well there were about 20 British ‘school kids’ on the boat also. As my wife was taking photos, these 5’10”, 120 lb ‘kids’ were doing everything to disrupt her shots including rushing her face, slapping her camera… There was no mistaking their provocative actions.
I asked them to stop, politely too. I was shocked that these kids would act that way. They began taunting me too. Rushing me like gangstas, trying to make me flinch etc. Well their keeper, a teacher, came up, asked what was going on and began to scold me for arguing with these ‘children’. They did not stop even when their teacher was there.
I told him that I was not ‘arguing’, I was asking them to stop and this was in lieu of Throwing Some Of Them Overboard. The teacher shook his head and grumbled something in ref to ‘Violent Americans…’
It was a slice of the UK. A prime example of how people will be if there are no consequences for their actions. As the years go by, I think of that situation and kind of regret not having to tell the Jeandarms how I had no choice.
Well, in most wargames “Blue” is the good guys/US ‘n’ allies and “Red” is the Opposing Force (or OpFor)/whoever is the bad guy this year. (Hence “blue on blue” is another term for “friendly fire”.)
Other than visibility/graphic design issues I also think the newsies (like most folks) think of red as agressive and powerful (yay!) and blue as calm and peaceful.
So they made the “bad” guys (in their minds) red. QED.
There’s even some recent evidence of that being psychologically true. I think the most recent study focuses on Unreal Tournament where the opposing team colors are red and blue. You would think that it would be an even split one which color tends to win or at least within the margin of error, but I don’t think that is the case. Turns out that red wins more often than blue.
It’s too bad that Mr. Davis didn’t have his friend Mr. Mossberg near at hand, not that the piece of wood isn’t impressive. Still, the piece of wood can’t unload buckshot and slugs at the ‘yobs’, but maybe it could be used as a ‘shooting stick’ of sorts.
Exactly the problem- the Tories are essentially left-wing clones of Labour now. There is not alternative for our government. For goodness sake, the head of the Conservative Party (the so-called law and order chaps) was yammering on not-so-long-ago about giving hoodies (i.e. yobs) a hug And Conservative Boris Johnson thinks Londners should walk on by crime because it’s too dangerous to help people in need.
Our entire political class in infected with this PC, criminals come first attitude.
To give them their dues, the press continue to highlight these extraordinary abuses of ordinary people in favour of criminals – and a lot of people are furious about it.
I’m English (NOT British) and live in London. The problem is that people have totally lost faith in Government and so don’t bother to take part in any form of politics – local or national. It’s full of tossers (local are worse than national; not only venal but stupid too); I don’t want to have to talk to them.
Perhaps being the oldest democratic nation means that we’re the closest to death. Certainly democracy in Europe is very much on the slide.
I wish I could emigrate to he USA.
Thanks for your blog, rachl!