The Absolute State of Britain | Guest: Harry Robinson | 8⧸15⧸23
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Harry Robinson of The Lotus Eaters joins me on the show to talk about the controversial video of an autistic woman being berated by a police officer for being a lesbian, and the implications for free speech in the UK. We also talk about Harry's love of power metal and his love of Testament.
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I've got a great stream with a great guest that I think you're really going to enjoy.
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but there was an altercation between the police in the UK,
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There had been some accusations that she had trans-regressed,
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by pointing out that one of the police officers
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looked a little bit like her grandma that was a lesbian.
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We'll get into that and kind of its implications for the wider question of free speech in the West.
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But joining me today to talk about all that is Harry Robinson.
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I was saying just before we started, it's great to meet you finally.
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but this is the first time we're speaking as close to face-to-face as you can get online.
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And to everybody watching from home right now, I apologize for my somewhat primitive setup.
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This is generally where the magic happens, because at the moment,
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I don't have an office space of my own to record from, shall we say.
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So yes, this is where the magic happens, hamster and all.
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And most importantly, Harry has excellent music taste.
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I've always wanted to say this whenever I watch your streams before,
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but I really do like the panel's artwork that you've got in the background at the moment.
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Formation of Damnation, Testament, great album.
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All right, guys, so let's go ahead and jump in.
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I'm just going to show you the video here so you can get an idea of what we're doing.
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The part that we missed so far is there's about seven police officers,
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excuse me, about seven police officers approaching the home.
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They've already entered the home after kind of following this 16-year-old girl in.
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But let's go ahead and watch what happens here.
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Yep, that's what I get for not pre-rolling that video.
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Well, as it's preparing, we can go ahead and give a little bit of an outline of what happened here.
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So, Harry, I think a lot of people would be surprised to find out.
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No fortune does not smile upon us this evening.
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All right, so we'll just go ahead and head in here, guys.
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So, a lot of people would be surprised, I think, to find out that there's some kind of homophobic ordinance going on here with the police of, what is it, Yorkshire, right?
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I need to correct you, Americans, on the pronunciation of all these.
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So, I think a lot of people would be surprised that there's an ordinance about that.
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Now, if I can get this video working at some point, we'll watch the actual footage.
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But, obviously, these police come in, and this 16-year-old girl is sitting in a closet.
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There's a bunch of police officers surrounding here.
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She said, you kind of look like her grandma, who is also a lesbian.
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And all of a sudden, this is an arrestable offense.
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So, in the UK, we have a law from 1986, which consolidated a few other laws.
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A lot of the laws that we exist under in the UK right now, the legislation is consolidation
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of various other laws that have been put into place over the centuries, in some cases, because
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And this has been the case of a public order offense.
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This was a law that was put into place in 1986 under Margaret Thatcher.
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And if I just look here, so it's Section 4 of the Public Order Act, 1986.
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It makes it an offense for a person to use threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behavior that
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causes or is likely to cause another person harassment, alarm, or distress.
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Now, in 2010, I believe it was, some year recently, yeah, it was amended in 2010, Part 3A of the law was,
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to make it an offense to have any law, any insult or kind of behavior, or anything that could really
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be inferred as being homophobic, transphobic, all of the different phobias and different speech
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codes that we have these days that you're not allowed to breach.
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We've got the line here, and that added an extra dimension to the line that you're not allowed to step over.
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And it's just really sad to see when something like this happens, because, like you say, when you're watching
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the video, it's not that the woman is, would rightly, if you ask me, she would be right in saying that this
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isn't something that should be prosecuted in the first place.
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What she said was that you look like my lesbian nana.
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Now, not only is this girl autistic, to add a little bit of context onto it as well, she's 16 years old,
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and the police were involved in this situation in the first place because she was drunk at a local
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supermarket or shopping mall, for you Americans at a shopping center.
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I believe she was drunk, she was causing some commotion, so they had, the mum thought she was
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staying over at somebody else's house, one of her friend's houses.
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So she called the police, they went and picked her up, and they brought her back.
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So reasonably, they were doing a decent duty here.
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This is something that I can support, the idea that the police upholding law and order
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and also preventing young, stupid kids from going out and really making arses of themselves,
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I mean, 16 years old, we all make stupid decisions, and we, you know, I'm not going to say that I didn't
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go out and get drunk a little bit when I was a bit too young to do so, but the police go out,
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they bring her back, as they're putting her through the door, she remarks to one police officer
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that you look like my lesbian nana, and then this entire situation unfolds.
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Now, this isn't something that the mum is going, this shouldn't be a law in the first place,
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The mother is pleading, trying to add context to this.
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Well, she does have a nana who is a lesbian, and you do look a little bit like her, she's autistic.
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This isn't a situation that should have occurred in the very first place, because reasonably,
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there shouldn't be speech codes like this that penalize it if somebody makes not an insulting
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comment, not a harassing comment, not an offensive comment, just an innocent comment, just an
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Yeah, there really is that two levels to it, right?
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Like, first, did she even violate what this ordinance was?
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Because very obviously, like you said, the comment was innocuous.
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It's just, you look like someone I know, who has this particular trait.
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Oh, it's also someone who I love, it's someone I'm, I'm related to.
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So it's not even a insult, which didn't even qualify as something that would violate this
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But the second question, I think the deeper one, the one that's probably more shocking
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to a lot of people, especially in the US, is that this law would even exist.
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And like you said, that this is something that has been attached to law, you know, like
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a culmination of laws that were originally satiated in the 80s.
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I feel like we're going to have a lot more to say about kind of how these laws have creeped
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But let's try this one more time in hopes that let's see what happens.
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I don't think it's going to happen today, guys.
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Well, anyway, do you want me to just sum it up?
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Why don't you go ahead and sum that up for everybody?
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So they're in what appears to be some kind of terraced house, which if you're in the UK
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For those of you in the US, the UK already has very small houses in comparison to what
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you guys are used to at vastly inflated prices because we've decided all of North and Sub-Saharan
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For some reason, I think it's to help GDP go up, although I don't see how we and it's
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The police are all gathered in there and it all looks really, really cramped.
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And they have basically bullied their way into this person's home.
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The young girl, once again, 16 years old, autistic and drunk.
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So reasonably speaking, someone that you would hope that the police would look after and be
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taken care of as part of their legal duties is hiding away in a cupboard in the corner,
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Her mother's filming the whole thing, screaming at the police, also obviously distressed.
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While all of these police officers, some of them calmly, but the one who the remark
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was seemingly directed at, who without wanting to cause a public order offence here, I will
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say, lived up to this girl's description of her, is also in a rather elevated emotional
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So a complete breakdown of order, a complete breakdown of the duties that the police should
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Because at this point, with the UK, the jokes that all of the US has against us about, have
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We are the land of the license, where if you do not have express written governmental
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permission to do or say something, then you are breaking some law.
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We have such a vast labyrinth of legislation in this country that probably stepping outside
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during a sunny day is probably breaking some law out there.
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Under Tony Blair, I think it was something ridiculous where in the entirety of his administration,
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there was something like half a dozen laws passed per day under Tony Blair.
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And what I would like to compare this to, I used to work in a call center.
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Oh, then you'll probably know what I'm talking about here.
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So if you've ever worked in a call center, you're always given all of these little rules
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and targets that you have to hit, which you pile up to such an extent, there is no physical
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way that you have enough time in the day to be able to hit every single one of your targets.
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This isn't necessarily because the targets ensure that you are performing your job to
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No, what they are instead is because of the fact that middle management types in these
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businesses are quite vindictive and will try and look for any reason to fire you if you
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And so all of these laws and therefore all of these rules are set up so that they will
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have a mountain of minor infractions that they can pull from at any time to be able
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to fire you if they so desire at that particular moment, if you've annoyed them.
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You may not necessarily be breaking any major laws.
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You may not be going out and punching somebody in the face and committing what I would consider
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But you will have performed enough minor infractions at any one point that if the police just feel
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like they want to put the boot to your neck, that they have permission to.
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Because what this does, it sends out a message to everybody out there.
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Because, of course, with laws, it doesn't matter exactly necessarily what is written
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What matters is who's interpreting it and who's administering it.
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And we know for a fact that in the UK right now, I would describe it as a very anti-white
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I would say the same in the US as well right now.
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And if you are not a protected class, if you are a native white Englishman, Welshman, Scott,
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whichever, this sends out a message that even if you do anything, if you make any small comment
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that might even just irritate, minorly annoy a police officer, they have complete authority
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to be able to do whatever you want to break into your home and terrorize you and your family.
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Anyway, it's all very distressing, to be perfectly honest, because people have an image of the
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And I hear this from people even at my own work sometimes, that we're the land that birthed
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We fought a civil war to dispose of a tyrant, King, I think, Charles I, the Stuarts.
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We deposed the Stuarts because they were going to step all over the liberties of the people.
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And I don't think it's been a free country for as long as I've been alive.
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And I don't remember a time when this hasn't been the case in the UK.
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Yeah, it is very confusing because, you know, a lot of us looking at the from the United States,
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we think, OK, it's, you know, this Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, all these things
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The Bill of Rights of the United States is from the English Bill of Rights, you know,
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the rights enumerated there, you know, that these things all flow.
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And so this should be this is something that I think Americans just assume is somewhere,
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you know, kind of inside the English tradition to sustain there.
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But I mean, we do have a similar speech has been somewhat more protected in the United States,
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but we do have a similar crush of bureaucratic law, right, especially in the United States
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The old joke is, which is funny because, you know, we fought a whole war against you guys
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But the old joke of the United States is, you know, the IRS knows how much you owe them,
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And if you get it wrong, they'll arrest you for not knowing what they already knew, right?
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And this is and this is the thing is like every American is a criminal under kind of the
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And so it's, you know, the regime always has a reason to drop the boot on you.
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It's an entirely an exercise of kind of their sovereign will as to whether or not they'll
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actually crush you, which is why the kind of the rule of law quickly becomes a joke,
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Because, oh, look, we're a country of laws, not of men.
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Well, actually, men enforce these laws and actually if you enumerate enough of these laws,
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And so then the only question is who is deciding whether or not the law gets applied here.
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But I did want to read this really quick before we talk a little more about the about the freedom
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of speech issue here, because in this statement from the police here, they basically go on to
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say, hey, you know, we recognize that some people are concerned.
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And my main thing, but the thing I love about this is really is like the most thing we want
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you to know is that this woman is that this girl won't be charged.
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I'm so glad that after distressing the family and putting them through a brutal experience,
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at least she's not going to be punished on top of that.
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It reminds me of Tsar Nicholas after like Bloody Sunday.
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And he's like, the main thing is that I forgive you guys for marching on me, like the slaughter
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of you in the streets, the blood that we're mopping.
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I mean, if I'm completely honest, like talking about, you know, the U.S. with the taxes,
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thankfully, that's not something that we're burdened with over here.
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We don't have to do all this ridiculous rigmarole where we have to guess exactly what the IRS
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But when it comes to going back to the other rebellion, the civil war in England, I'm getting
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more and more convinced by the day that we would have just been better left under the
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Stuarts because I don't think they would have let this happen to us.
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So, yeah, let's get in a little bit to this free speech tradition then.
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So in the U.S., obviously, this is this is supposed to be supposed to be instantiated in the First
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It's supposed to be one of the core five freedoms of the First Amendment, along with religion,
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assembly, press, you know, petitioning the government.
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All these things are supposed to be protected by the First Amendment.
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I'm one of the foremost proponents of saying that the Constitution is not doing a great
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But there is at least I think that it does echo a more serious tradition of it in the United
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States where, you know, even though if it's not being held to the same standard now, there
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is still a wider understanding of this freedom in the UK.
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It feels like that's been gone for a long time.
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Like you said, this is something that that that is a law that is built off of things
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A lot of people, you know, talk about wokeness and how it's this American export.
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But if the British were already censoring this kind of speech back under Margaret Thatcher,
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Well, I will say that I think that when people look back on those defining moments of British
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liberty, they do put them on somewhat of a rose tinted.
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They put on the rose tinted goggles when they look back at them, because all of these freedoms
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and liberties that have been afforded to the English people have always come with some
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So when you go back to the 1688 Bill of Rights that we got after the Glorious Revolution,
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it's still said all of these rights are for Englishmen, but not Catholics, not Catholics,
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We don't like Catholics anymore because they're subservient to the Pope and King Henry VIII got
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So we're not going to allow these extend the same rights to the to the to the Tudors.
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And it's whoever is determining that exception.
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And I've recently been really enjoying reading De Maestra, who's an excellent read, if you
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ever get the chance, if you're watching this and you haven't read him.
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But I'm very much on his side when it comes to the idea of a constitution, which is just
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having a piece of paper saying we are a nation now does not make you a nation.
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A nation comes from something much deeper than that, a much thicker idea of identity.
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You need to have some kind of bonds going back generations and generations that ties you
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But I think that has actually proven somewhat of a weakness in the UK, because as much as
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the constitution over where you are isn't doing the most amazing job at defending all of your
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freedoms, it is still somewhat more robust for the purposes at the moment than the unwritten
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Because all it all it showed with Tony Blair, when he came in and started to just completely
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upend the social fabric of the UK was that it just takes the wrong person to come in
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There's a guideline of how this country should be governed and what aims it should be governed
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Margaret Thatcher was part of the initial upending of that.
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The public order is quite ironic, actually, if you know anything about British history
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in the 1980s, there was this huge, huge thing about the fact that the Tories under Thatcher
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wanted to implement something called Section 28.
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This is very controversial now because you have lots of leftist activists going back and
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using this as some kind of linchpin to show everybody that Britain is an institutionally
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Because what it was, was that it was going to prevent schools from teaching gay stuff,
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And, you know, in the long run, I'm sure you understand this in America as well.
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Maybe we should have done a better job of actually passing that through.
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Because it turns out that they might have been right in doing that.
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But under Margaret Thatcher, who wanted to do that, they put in the public order in 1986.
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And ironically, under that same legislation that she got passed through, they've now turned
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that around to make it so that anything that could remotely be interpreted as homophobic
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Because once again, there is no real free speech in the UK.
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We have this kind of idea of freedom of speech where you go back to the tradition of somebody
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like John Locke, who was talking about the freedom of speech that was necessary.
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Once again, even he had exceptions and requirements when he was talking about freedom of speech,
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Somebody pointed out to him, but if we allow all of this, won't it allow space for subversives
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to come in and subvert the social order like atheists?
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His qualification for this was, well, we'll just make atheism illegal then.
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This has always been the English frame of mind, which is we'll have all of these principles
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up to where common sense says maybe we should have a boundary there.
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But now where common sense in our elites is, is so far removed, because it's under this
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managerial frame of mind, from anything that you or I, or even your average working man
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on the street would consider to be common sense.
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And it leads to laws like the very, very infamous, and this is a big one for freedom of speech
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I believe I've heard of it, but go ahead and refresh my memory.
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You will be very familiar with this for one particular story, because it was section 127
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of the Communications Act 2003 that turned Count Dankula into the star that he is today,
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because that's the law that he was prosecuted under when he posted his original Nazi pug video
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So that one, if I just read from the description that I have up here for you, it makes it illegal
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to send malicious communication using social media.
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It was declared an offence to persistently make use of a public electronic communications
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network for the purpose of causing annoyance and convenience or needless anxiety.
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Now, this clause was put in there initially because of the fact that they wanted to reduce
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the number of silent telephone calls that people were receiving, because as you'd imagine,
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it's not pleasant to go and answer your phone and find that somebody's just breathing
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So it kind of has somewhat of a noble intention, but then gets malformed later down the line
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to make it so that, well, we can interpret this as if you're saying nasty things on social
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media, well, then you're doing repeated annoying and inconvenient and causing needless anxiety.
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And section 127, the one that Dank was prosecuted under, made it an offence to send a message
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that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character over a public electronic
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Once again, that may have come with the greatest of intentions, with the best of intentions.
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I can't read Blair or his cabinet or his MP's minds from the time, but this is how it's
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I want to ask Harry another question about what this means about the growth of government
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The Supreme Court recently overturned a 50-year-old legal precedent that permitted open hostility
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To get the word out, this calls for more public expressions of faith.
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The overturning precedent was cited when high school coach Joe Kennedy was fired from his
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It took seven years of court battles to get the precedent overturned and his job back.
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To celebrate, the people over at First Liberty Institute created the First Freedom Challenge.
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They want people to fill local stadiums and pray after the game, just like Coach Kennedy
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So what can you do to promote the First Freedom Challenge?
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One, sign up at rfia.org and commit to praying on September 1st.
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Two, record a short video message challenging people to take a knee in prayer with Coach Kennedy.
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It's been decades since Americans enjoyed this level of freedom.
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So, Harry, as we've, you know, kind of run into multiple times, you've said multiple times.
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Well, they passed this law with the best of intentions.
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It was supposed to give us one thing and the other.
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That's just for being charitable, but yeah, carry on.
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But so we've kind of run into this multiple times.
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Now, obviously, in America, the right kind of learned this lesson, I think, a little bit
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with the Patriot Act and the way it turns out that eventually the war on terror is the
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But I think, you know, a lot of people then ask this question, and this is kind of the
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If this if this is a consistent problem, the government acquires this technology or this
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power, this new provision, then kind of the key is just to restrict government, shrink
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And then that way you don't have to worry about kind of a government accruing power.
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So is this simply a function of government accruing power?
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So I'm not going to turn around and say that this is just a function of the government, that
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everything the government ever does turns terrible.
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I'm going to say it's much more specific to the character of the elites and the governing
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If used well, the government can be a force for good.
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The state can be used to orient the masses and the public in a direction that's beneficial
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I recently got done reading a book by Evelyn, where he was discussing fascism viewed from
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And he had a very interesting way of summing up what the what the state should be for.
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And it kind of lines up a little bit with Hopper's idea of monarchy.
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Ironically, given the two, I imagine would have disagreed a lot on a lot of things.
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But I agree that used properly, government power can be a force for good.
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But our elites don't want to use it for a force for good outside of benefiting the nebulous
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idea of the universal man, the liberal idea of the universal man who is a simple economic
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unit who can be moved about like a pawn on a chessboard into whatever area of the market
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is most necessary for him to be in at that particular time.
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And at the expense of the aging demographics that we have here in the West, and, you know,
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they're not going to do anything that will benefit family formation over here.
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So it's going to continue aging in their estimations.
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If they see the trend lines, if they look at it through the purely rationalistic managerial
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view of let's see what the graphs and the stats have to say.
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Well, they're not going to do anything to try and improve that.
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So what they're going to do is they're going to keep importing foreigners over here.
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Well, if you import foreigners over here, you're going to have divisions that come up because
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And that's one of the reasons that a particular organization called Prevent was started, because
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we have a lot of Islamic migration over to the UK.
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He has his own YouTube channel where he posts documentaries.
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He did a video the other day that was really excellent.
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I'd recommend everybody to watch it called Tourism in Merry Old England.
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It took down information from everybody regarding where they live, their demographic information,
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And when they eventually got around to releasing this information, because they definitely did
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not want to release it at first, because for those worried about demographic replacement
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in the UK, it wasn't going to quell their fears.
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But they released a map online that you can access that will tell you the ethnic breakup
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of various parts of the country, the entire country.
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And you can go down to neighborhood level on this.
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And if you zoom in, you can find parts of the UK that are just completely 0.0% white English.
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And there are parts of Tower Hamlets in London.
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And there's also a town in, we've been speaking about West Yorkshire.
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There's a town in West Yorkshire called Saviltown, which is 0.0% English.
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So he traveled from there to there, and then went to one of the few places in the country
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And, you know, we have, those areas were very Islamic.
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Prevent, as an organization, was originally started to prevent Islamic terrorism.
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The UK had a number of very, very high profile Islamic terror attacks going all the way up
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until 2017, when we had the MEN Manchester Arena bombings at the Ariana Grande concert,
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which is actually, it's quite close home to me, because I had a friend who was attending
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those concerts at the time who was there, who managed to get out, but she had to take
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years of therapy to be able to get over what happened there.
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What Prevent has done instead, in more recent years, has reorientated what they are doing.
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So they're no longer exclusively focusing on Islamic terrorism, but they're doing something
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very similar to what the FBI is doing in the US, which is focusing on homegrown domestic
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terrorism, that being far-right white supremacists, meaning basically anybody in the UK who disagrees
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with demographic replacement and the absolute travesty of what is being done to our country
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It gets to the point where you see all of this constantly being done against the citizens
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I wouldn't be surprised if I'm on the list, if I'm honest.
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Once again, it doesn't take much to break a law in the UK, and I also go on a public platform,
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So I wouldn't be surprised if people are watching me.
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We live in a surveillance state in the UK, and it's absolutely dreadful.
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Well, one of the things that I think kind of brings all that together, what you're talking
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about there, is originally you're saying, well, John Locke just assumed that people would
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But how can sense be common if you don't have a shared tradition, if you don't have a
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shared culture, folk ways, religion, understandings of core basic values?
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You can't have this basic thing like, okay, we can grant people liberty because there'll
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be this general sense of what's right and wrong, what's shared, where our values are, where
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Yeah, we won't be able to liberate, but obviously we understand atheism is dangerous.
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So we'll just, but seriously, it doesn't really transgress.
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It doesn't really transgress because all of the laws that are on the books in that scenario
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where you share that culture and that understanding are ones that hew closely to kind of natural law.
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They're all things that you would naturally have in place if your community wanted to pursue virtue.
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But when you don't have that shared background, when you don't have that shared understanding
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and moral vision, then you end up having these, you need general legislation to bind all of these
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And so that's how, you know, we've seen these videos in the UK where people are getting arrested
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for thinking prayers in their head outside of abortion clinics.
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I mean, this is a country that was essential in the spread of Christendom.
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And now they're imprisoning people because they might be thinking the wrong thoughts
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That only occurs because you have this general blanket idea of the universal man
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instead of the specific culture of this is how we are.
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This is how we understand our freedoms and liberties inside our, you know, inside our country.
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Yeah, well, I mean, I'm not a big fan of John Locke being that I'm not a liberal.
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I don't subscribe to the idea of the universal man.
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But even when he was describing this idea of the universal man out of the state of nature,
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once again, he had these exceptions that he would bring into it.
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And I think one thing that we always need to take into account is that when people in the 1600s,
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the original liberal philosophers were talking about the idea of this man,
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they weren't actually being quite as universal as we take it as being now.
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They were really talking about well-born European or Englishman.
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In the same way that you look back at Aristotle, and he talks about democracy
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and the need for certain elements of democracy being good
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because it allows the people to be able to make their own decisions.
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Well, in the ancient Greek conception of democracy,
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the people was a very set few citizens, a few thousand people in an overall polis,
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which was mostly made up of people who weren't citizens.
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So you still have this idea of a closed community of people
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who were intelligent enough and refined enough to be able to make the decisions.
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But as we get further and further and further away from that,
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that's when these ideas become more and more abstracted.
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And you have to refer more to this general idea of common sense.
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And I think England would still be a country with common sense
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had we not opened the floodgates up to all of these new communities
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who've come in here since the late 1990s when Tony Blair opened the floodgates.
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England was still about, I think, 95.7% white English.
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Going back to the 1950s, when supposedly we originally opened up the floodgates
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in the Windrush generation to rebuild the country,
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who have, who appear regularly on television shows like GB News,
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who associate themselves with our Conservative Party,
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who will turn around and out of, as far as I can tell,
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so I'm sure you're well aware of the Rochdale grooming gang scandals
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But once again, it's the fact that the government
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They decided to pass through the Equalities Act,
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So they were already protecting transition classes.
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which introduced a public sector equality duty,
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Congratulations, you guys have a disparate impact.
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even when it's done against native English people.