Rage Against The Machine

The government is furious we’re furious about two tier justice.

I remember the very first time I became aware that in Britain, different laws applied to different people according to their race, religion, or hats.

It was 1976, and I was ten.

The Motor-Cycle Crash Helmets (Religious Exemption) Act 1976 stated that from then on, Sikhs with their turbans, were exempt from the law that says everyone in Britain must wear a crash helmet when riding a motorbike.

I don’t know how I even knew about it, not the name of the act and everything, I had to look that up just now, but the basic idea of it. I mean, I was ten, and I promise I really wasn’t that precocious.

Maybe my newly acquired Evel Knievel stunt cycle (The only toy I ever had which performed as well in real life, as it did in the adverts) made me cognisant of everything motorbike. Maybe there was a lot of chatter about it on the telly, I simply don’t know.

I certainly had no issue with Sikhs, or men wearing turbans in general. After being mesmerised by the heart pounding, realistic action of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973. 6.8 IMDb Recommended) the whole idea seemed exotic, dashing, and adventurous to little me.

But even then it struck me as wrong that the law should apply to people differently, depending on their race, religion, or choices.

I couldn’t get my head round it then. Any more than I can get my head around it now.

It has taken a murder to prove, to some people at least, that the thing that we have spent the last two years complaining was happening, and which our traitorous government has been vehemently denying is happening, is happening.

Two tier policing.

Yet even now, after the full details of how a DEI mandated police response compounded the grim squalor of Henry Nowak’s needless death, those at the top of government still refuse to acknowledge it as a factor.

Last Wednesday at PMQs Keir Starmer himself said

‘I don’t believe there’s two-tier policing in this country’.

And Justice Secretary (yes, really) David Lammy repeated this same denial on Sunday.

This is plainly, obviously, and demonstrably not true.

Starmer is denying the truth, in the face of the obvious.

He’s like Nicola Sturgeon, the Mr Magoo of Scottish politics, unconvincingly claiming she never once noticed the twenty five foot Winnebago parked on her driveway.

We’re not even asking Starmer to ‘believe’ anything.

Because the existence or otherwise of two tier policing is not a matter of opinion.

It is right there, in black and white.

Codified, institutionalised, and normalised, in the police’s own guidance.

By now we’ve all learned how The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) ‘anti-racism commitment’ clearly and explicitly states that as far as it is concerned, ‘racial equity’ (‘equity’ is simply the left’s demand that there should be special rules for special people-and Spoiler Alert: You’re not one of them) does not mean

‘Treating everyone the same or being colour blind.’

In other words, the NPCC is expressly demanding that police officers treat British citizens differently, depending on their skin colour.

And for most reasonable people, that is the very definition of racism.

Hampshire police’s own Race Action Plan states that part of the force’s key purpose is

‘Making sure that staff and officers are trained to recognise and deal with crimes that impact the most on our Black and ethnic minority communities.’

I’d suggest that even capitalising ‘black’ is an implicit admission that the force has surrendered any claim to impartiality, and capitulated to the divisive, anti-white doctrine of Critical Race Theory.

Meanwhile Alexis Boon, the chief constable of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary, the force which we now learn tried to smear Henry Nowak as the aggressor, even after his death, claims

‘a “furore” had been “whipped up” about the murder of the teenager and he would not be resigning.’

Some of us felt that a ‘furore’ had been ‘whipped up’ in 2020 over the death of George Floyd, 4000 miles away, in Minneapolis, USA.

And that the sight of white, middle class Guardian readers taking to British streets to chant ‘Hands up don’t shoot’ at unarmed British police officers, who were literally cowering on their knees before them, was self indulgent, performative, narcissistic, and utterly ridiculous.

But to suggest as much at the time would have resulted in many of us losing our jobs, getting kicked off social media, being ostracised by our friends, and accused by the complicit, captured legacy media, of some unforgivable racist ‘hate crime’.

Now we learn that some police forces are ‘under pressure’ to drop ‘positive discrimination’ policies altogether.

But this is itself a failure of understanding, a misnomer, and a category error. There is no such thing as ‘positive discrimination’.

There is only discrimination.

You cannot cure racism with more racism.

Any more than you can cure a failed Labour administration with more Gordon Brown.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is attempting to row back on a policy that has been foundational to Labour thinking (yes, I am aware this is an oxymoron) for years.

The Telegraph reports that

Ms Mahmood said there must be no instances of two-tier policing, reminding officers they had a “sacred duty” to police“without fear or favour”.

And stating that

“Everyone should be equal in the eyes of the law.”

Yes Shabana. We’ve been saying that for years. But all we got for our troubles, was to be dismissed as ‘far right thugs’, and threatened with jail by your (soon to be ex) boss.

When confronted with the evidence that asymmetrical, two tier policing is enshrined in police guidance at the very highest level, Mahmood equivocates, describing the wording of the guidance as “clumsy”.

This word ‘clumsy’ is worth listening out for. It is a tool, regularly used by the ruling elite to reframe and downgrade what was clearly calculated, considered, and intentional, to little more than mishap, accident, and blunder.

It’s the very same word used by Dame Karen Bradley, chair of the Home Affairs Committee, to partially excuse the government’s two tier policing of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football match, which effectively empowered Muslim ‘community leaders’ to employ our national police force as a private militia in order to enforce a ‘no Jews’ exclusion zone in Birmingham.

‘Clumsy’ is a policeman tripping over his own riot shield. Banning Jews from going about their lawful business in a British city is not a knock kneed prat fall. It is anti-Semitism.

Similarly, institutionalising anti-majority prejudice in our police force is not slipping on a banana peel. It is racism.

Credit where it is due, at PMQs on Wednesday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, spoke eloquently about the murder of Henry Nowak.

At least at first.

But then he, like the increasingly nauseating Sadiq Khan the day before, felt the need to invoke the fact that he is a father to a teenager, in order to signal just how much this crime had affected him personally.

Look. I concede I’m maybe being overly sensitive on this particular point. But it sticks in my craw the way our self-serving politicians always try, on some level, to make this stuff all about them.

Starmer saved his real fury, ire, and wrath, not for murderer Vickrum Digwa, not for Digwa’s family, who clearly lied to the police, and tried to hide the murder weapon, (the family is now facing weapons charges,) not for the broken justice system, which had so catastrophically failed Henry Nowak.

No, he reserved the worst of his outrage for Reform leader Nigel Farage.

Attempting, with the full throated, febrile support of a baying uni-party parliament, to change the narrative.

Climbing onto the arse-shone saddle of his moral high horse, Starmer declared himself to be ‘shocked’, at the way Nigel Farage was ‘politicising’ Henry Nowak’s murder.

Professing to be appalled at how Farage was exploiting the tragic death of this innocent young man, to vilify his enemies, demonise his political opponents, stir up his base, and ‘create division’.

Which of course was very different to how Keir Starmer himself was, at that very moment, exploiting the tragic death of this innocent young man, to vilify his enemies, demonise his political opponents, stir up his base, and ‘create division’.

Starmer claimed that Farage had incited the previous night’s disturbances in Southampton when he called on the public to respond to both the murder, and the police reaction to it, with ‘cold pure rage’.

And fair enough.

Because the very last thing little people like us should do in situations like this, and there seems to be an increasing number of situations like this, is get angry.

We should instead follow our leaders’ instruction not to ‘Look Back in Anger’ when an Islamist bombs a concert full of children.

We must temper our base emotions when a nutter with a knife, well known to Prevent, his local police force, and social services, murders three young children at a Taylor Swift dance class.

We should limit ourselves to holding yet another silent vigil every time a member of some ‘marginalised community’ elects to drive a van full of knifemen into a bridge full of commuters.

We must celebrate ‘cultural differences’ when emasculated, impotent, police chiefs look on silently as mothers beg unhinged zealots not to visit holy violence on their teenage sons for the unforgivable transgression of scuffing a book.

And when a young woman, working at an ‘asylum hotel’ (how did we even get to the point where such a thing exists?) is stabbed to death by a foreign man living there at our enforced expense, we are supposed to sigh, shrug and move on. After all it’s just one of those things. Unfortunate sure, but sadly there’s nothing to be done.

In contrast, of course, it is completely understandable when hordes of furious Muslim men besiege a police station after two blameless lads from their peace loving ‘community’ are arrested for breaking a female police officer’s face at Manchester airport. Because a violent man, resisting arrest, and punching a female cop in the face is ‘not a clear cut issue’ according to our future PM, Andy Burnham.

It is considered completely legitimate, and even laudable for black Britons to become enraged to the point of riot, when a career criminal, and drug addict dies at the hands of police, in a foreign country.

And entirely justifiable when belligerent Muslim mobs arm themselves with machetes to stalk the streets of our second city in violent pursuit of the largely imaginary ‘organised far right’ which they have been ‘whipped up’ to expect to arrive at any moment by our Prime Minister, the BBC, and self satisfied malice-mongers ‘Hope Not Hate’.

The British government, Tory and Labour, has over many years, knowingly, carefully, and intentionally, instituted a series of incentives, and punishments, asymmetrical rules, partisan codes of practice, and anti-majority doctrines which have made two tier, racist policing inevitable.

Which is why we have now reached the demented position where ‘racism’ is at once the worst and most heinous crime a British citizen can be accused of, while simultaneously being so ingrained in our public institutions, that it is now considered perfectly acceptable, justified, and even officially mandated, as long as it is directed against those the progressive elites don’t like.

Us.

Our contemptuous ruling class, seem intent to dismiss the public’s furious response to the Nowak murder as little more than a confected ‘furore’, ‘whipped up’ by demagogues, populists, and agitators, to trick us, the brainless, gullible masses, into bigotry, violence, and fascism.

And appear increasingly exasperated, annoyed, and infuriated that we are finally refusing to remain quietly complicit in our own annihilation.

Let’s conclude by stating the obvious.

Regardless of race, colour, or creed, justice should be blind. There should be just one law (No Sharia. Not you), and it should apply to everyone equally.

Because when it doesn’t, you no longer have a set of laws.

Instead you have a programme of entitlement, patronage, and discrimination.

Which serves to remove power from an independent, broadly impartial (yes, thank you, I know) justice system, and hand it to a rabidly partisan, fanatically progressive, narrowly ideological, elite. Which gets to choose on a whim, exactly who in our society is favoured, indulged, and advantaged, with special rules, exemptions, and privileges.

And who gets to be handcuffed, and left to bleed out, on a cold wet driveway, in Southampton.

RIP. Henry Nowak

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