USA. The woman handed me my receipt and said, "Have a nice day!"
I froze. A command. From a stranger. With no time limit, and no clear conditions for success.
In my country, no one tells you to have a nice day. You are simply released into whatever day the heavens send. But here, this woman had issued an order, kindly, and looked me in the eye, and meant it. I could not fail her.
So I set out to have a nice day. On purpose. With everything I had.
I noticed a bird, and thanked it. I let four cars merge. I told a man his hat was excellent — it was. I drank a coffee slowly enough to actually taste it, which I had not done in nineteen years. Each small good thing, I added to the report I was building in my heart. For her.
By dusk I was exhausted from niceness. But I had done it. By direct order, I had had a nice day.
So I went back.
She was still at the register. I bowed deeply.
"I have completed it," I told her. "It was a nice day. I will remember it until the hour of my death."
She blinked. Then she laughed — the real kind — and said, "...aw. You just made MY day, man."
I had been sent to have a nice day. I returned having given one away.
So tell me, America.
You say it a hundred times a shift, and mean it lightly.
I heard it once, and obeyed it with my whole life —
and somehow we both ended the day a little better than we began it.
Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.
Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.
It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.
@japan_nobunaga We have always been told the US and England have a “special relationship “, but now that we can read Japanese X, I think Japan and the US are soulmates. Thank you for your clear perspective on our situation.
@oidonhagouda Telling people to prioritize “minorities” that are not actually minorities is psychological warfare meant to keep us from fighting for our own rights and our own cultures.
This is the most important image on the internet right now:
Henry Nowak’s hand cuffed.
Pale due to loss of blood.
Henry is dying.
The demonic hands of the British authorities restraining him as they coddle his migrant murderer.
Henry bleeds out as UK cops and migrants insult him
This is horrifying on every level. I imagine poor Henry was probably relieved when he saw the officers arrive. He probably thought he’d get help. If you’re not angry about this, then you’re not human.
'The most excruciating bit of footage that I have ever seen'.
@PatrickChristys reacts to the extremely distressing bodycam footage of Henry Nowak being arrested by police whilst bleeding to death.
Two-tier, racist policing led these officers to ignore Henry’s cries for help. The Officers involved are a disgrace to law enforcement and deserve to be severely punished. That poor young man died knowing he was being denied help by the very officers that should have been protecting him. I can’t imagine his parent’s pain knowing this. Make an example of those officers and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
Today, a man has been convicted of the murder of student Henry Nowak in Southampton. Throughout the trial, we have not discussed this case publicly to ensure that justice could be done but now we can share a message from DCC Robert France.
https://t.co/13203Yq9DA
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A foreign billionaire just did the job the entire British press wouldn't.
@elonmusk asked the question every newsroom in this country should have been screaming for months. Who are the officers that handcuffed a dying boy and let him bleed out in the street? Who are they, and why are they still in a job?
Not the BBC. Not Sky. Not GB News. A bloke in Texas with no stake in this country.
They had the story. They let it die. He picked it back up, called it unconscionable, and offered to fund a wrongful death lawsuit.
The answer to his question? Silence. Still.
This is Henry Nowak. First year student. Walking home from a night out with his football team. A wounded teenager telling officers he couldn't breathe, and the response was handcuffs, not an ambulance.
A boy dies like this on a British street and it should never have left the front page. It should have been the reckoning that didn't stop until someone answered for it. Instead it took a man who owes us nothing to drag it back into the light.
Not one officer named. Not one suspended. The watchdog is investigating now, and only now, because the pressure came from a website and not a single news desk in this country.
Ordinary people never needed permission to care. They raised over £40,000 for Henry at a charity football match in his memory. That is the Britain that still has a pulse. The one that doesn't wait to be told who's allowed to matter.
When the richest man on earth has to do your journalism for you, what exactly is the British press for?
So let me ask you the question they wouldn't. Did you see Henry's name on the news? Or did you have to find it here?
Henry Nowak. 18 years old. Walking home. He should have made it.