@RanTeeThree@bea_johanssen Kier killed the law. Murdered it. Beheaded it. Sucked the blood out of it by refusing to enforce it against the people whose first act on British soil was to violate its immigration laws.
He wants the citizenry to continue paying for their own destruction.
It will be his.
Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.
But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.
That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.
There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.
The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”
Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.
That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.
Colonialism is bad, right?
Wrong.
The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Flower Wars" whose purpose was capturing live victims for the altar. Hearts were cut out of living people. Subject peoples hated Aztec rule so much that Tlaxcalans made up most of Cortes's army. The conquest was largely an indigenous uprising against an indigenous empire. The sacrifices ended under Spanish rule.
India: burning a widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. British records from Bengal alone documented thousands of cases between 1815 and 1828. The British, with Indian reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, banned it in 1829. When priests told General Napier it was sacred custom, he answered: my nation also has a custom, we hang men who burn women alive. You follow yours, we will follow ours.
India: Thuggee cults murdered travelers by the tens of thousands over centuries as offerings to Kali. It was a hereditary profession. William Sleeman's campaign in the 1830s wiped it out.
Slavery was a universal indigenous institution. Dahomey and Ashanti were built on slave raiding and sold captives for a thousand years to Arab traders before any European ship arrived. Pacific Northwest tribes held up to a quarter of some village populations as slaves and killed them ceremonially at potlatches. The Comanche ran a captive-raiding economy across the Southwest. What colonizers introduced after 1807 was the first attempt in history to abolish slavery globally. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron spent fifty years hunting slave ships and freed about 150,000 Africans. African kings protested. The King of Bonny complained that abolition was destroying a trade ordained by his gods and priests.
The Dahomey kingdom's "Annual Customs" beheaded hundreds of captives and slaves every year to honor dead kings. Documented by European visitors for two centuries. It ended when France conquered Dahomey in 1894.
Sailors called Fiji the Cannibal Isles. Chief Ratu Udre Udre kept a stone for every victim he ate. His pile holds nearly 900. Shipwrecked sailors were killed and eaten. Within a generation of missionaries and British administration after 1874, the practice was gone.
Nigeria: In parts of Igboland, newborn twins were left in the bush to die and their mothers ostracized or killed. Missionary Mary Slessor spent decades in Calabar rescuing abandoned infants until the practice collapsed.
Indigenous genocide of indigenous people. In 1835, two Maori tribes invaded the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori, whose own law forbade them to fight back. They killed, enslaved, and ate them. The Moriori population fell from about 2,000 to barely 100. No European did this. British colonial law ended it.
Add headhunting in Borneo, the Philippines, and Nagaland. Female infanticide in India and Polynesia. Foot binding in China, dismantled partly by missionary campaigns. Every one of these ended under pressure from the colonial powers we are taught to treat as history's unique villains.
Colonialism was not charity. The Belgian Congo was a horror, conquest was for profit, and rule was without consent. But the ledger has two sides and one has been erased. Pre-colonial societies practiced slavery, human sacrifice, widow burning, infanticide, and genocide, because cruelty is not a European invention. The first civilization that tried to abolish these practices worldwide is the one you were taught to be ashamed of.
If "indigenous" means innocent and "colonizer" means guilty by definition, that is not history.
A key concept for people to understand:
If law enforcement is posing as ISIS online, engaging with someone who never had any actual contact with ISIS, and then charging that person as an ISIS supporter or operative, they have not disrupted ISIS itself. They have not arrested an ISIS member, dismantled an ISIS network, or degraded any of ISIS's capabilities.
Whatever value those cases may have from a public safety perspective, they do not represent a direct operational impact against the terrorist organization.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
@AshtonForbes So how does this relate to Zero Point Energy? if we build Fusion reactors with connections to the traditional grid through transmission lines, then don't we miss a huge part of what Tesla was trying to develop—namely using the earth and atmosphere as the transmission medium?
What kind of government warns us not to enter very dangerous countries, yet lets people from those same countries just walk into ours without a passport?
@MathewDav1d@johnkonrad Take away the concentration of $7T within the beltway and you would go a long way towards returning power to the states. That 7T supports between 40-44MILLION jobs. Most of which I would argue we do. It need.
No. That was my point three reauthorizations ago.
The surveillance tools they are using now are unlawful. They will not stop using them, just because the authority to use them ends. The whole thing is unlawful.
Reauthorization from congress is moot.
The FBI and those with political access, will not stop searching your metadata. Ever. As long as this tool exists, it will be abused; congressional involvement or not is moot.
@MathewDav1d@johnkonrad The key in all of this is the relationships between the staffers and the lobbyists at the working level. That is where the deals get made.
House staff names are found here:
https://t.co/Jc78TmX3Bu
Senate staff names are found here:
https://t.co/RyIsym6MfT
And yes, both information sources were purposely designed to obfuscate and make it difficult to find names, titles, and/or salaries. And where public money was spent.
Congressional staff are always clever when they are the authors.