Britain's National Suicide

The Brussels Journal (Belgium) has a great article this morning by Fjordman, "The Execution of Britain." I disagree with the title -- when one takes his own life, it is suicide, not execution.

The article, however, describes well Britain's accelerating slide into Islamic barbarism, the suppression of free speech, especially criticism of Islam, and the dilution of national identity, pride and boundaries. The massive immigration of anti-western, unassimilable Muslims into Britain is, of course, the self-inflicted coup de grace.

There is a depressing fatalism in Britain today, as if many native Brits have just given up, accepting their fate. They seem to see the demise of their nation and culture as a done deal, as if the hand of history has been wrought against them and all they can do is watch the sun set on their once great nation. They're wrong. Let the seeds of a British reclamation begin today, in the hearts and minds of one or two or a hundred people, and let it grow to critical mass. Resist! Do not go meekly into the dust bin of history.

When the current system of government fails to protect the rights, safety and culture of the citizenry, the citizens (to quote Lincoln) "have a right to throw off their existing form of government and institute a new one that suits them better." The citizens of Britain are fast approaching that point - where, in my opinion, the legitimacy of their established government no longer exists. At that point revolution is called for. Preferably, it will be a revolution of the ballot box, followed by a new written constitution. However, there are no guarantees. A revolution that ends with a leftist traitor dangling from every lamp post would suit me just fine, but that's just me.

Fjordman writes:

In May 2008, 18 year-old Ben Smith was stopped in a routine check. The police officer noticed an English flag on the parcel shelf and ordered him to remove it because it was "racist towards immigrants."

One of the first things foreign powers usually do when they invade a country is to ban its national symbols. The fact that you can no longer run your flag in parts of Britain – and the Netherlands, Sweden, France, etc. – shows that the country is de facto under occupation, not just by Muslims, but by Multiculturalists and Globalists of all kinds.

In an essay entitled Put away the flags, Howard Zinn, the Leftist author of the best-selling book A People's History of the United States, writes that "On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed. Is not nationalism – that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder – one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?" He concludes that "We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation."

The problem is, rights can only be protected by sovereign states upholding their territorial integrity. How is "the global community" or "the human race" going to protect Mr. Zinn's liberties? For a free society to function, the state has to pass laws in the best interest of its citizenry and enforce these within its territory. Otherwise, self-government is impossible. In order to defend this territory from outside aggression, people need to identify with it as something more than just a random space on a map. By removing sovereign states, you remove the very foundations of a free society.

Read it all here.