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'I can't breath' - The murder of Henry Nowak
Recently a story that was bouncing around right-wing circles on Twitter has broken through to the front pages. Henry Nowak, an eighteen year old white (Polish) man was murdered in the UK by Vikrum Digwa, a Sikh, with his ceremonial blade (a Shastar). When police arrived, Henry was on the floor telling police that he had been stabbed (four times) and that he couldn't breathe (nine times). However, the police ignored Henry's pleas and instead believed the story concocted by Vikrum and his brother, that Henry was a drunk racist who had attacked an innocent brown man.
In a chilling exchange, a policeman responds to Henry's plea that he has been stabbed with 'Don't think you have mate', before dragging him across the gravel and handcuffing him. A policewoman agrees with Vikrum's brother that he hasn't been stabbed, saying 'I know, but we should probably check'. By the time they realise the truth and try to administer first aid, it is too late. Henry died knowing that the people who should have come to save him, instead believed his murderer.
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Comparisons are rightly being drawn to the killing of George Floyd. Nigel Farage has demanded 'white hot rage' and has in turn been accused by MPs of inciting violence (there have been riots outside the local police station). The Police Minister has denied that Britain has two-tier policing, while also condemning police guidance that seems to mandate it.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating the local police force, and one of the arresting officers has already resigned. We'll see if anything comes of these investigations, although the most likely outcome in my opinion will be just the usual 'lessons will be learned'. Police currently working for the constabulary speak of a climate where an accusation of racism can ruin careers, and where staff are trained to always take the side of racial minority complainants, so it'll be interesting to see if the IOPC investigation finds this to be the case.
The 'two tier justice' claim seems to be cutting through with the public, and clearly rattles the government. One can hope that Henry's death leads to less antiracism training, affirmative action and race action plans, but we'll see.
The reality is that minorities do suffer disproportionate policing attention, but in the opposite direction they claim. In the UK Muslim and black criminal yoof commit crimes far in excess of their baseline arrest and charge rate and their population level overrepresentation is explained simply by their greater criminal propensity. The only saving grace is travelers also being criminal scum but they somehow managed to get the magic shield of racial consideration so they just raid and trash communities without consequence or reporting.
You can't walk back charities already extended with rolling back all considerations. Muslims blacks indians jews arabs all will band together to collectively support this population level exploitation of native white charities and the whites have progressives who will champion these defectors since the real enemy is the pale stale male jenricks and farages of the UK.
There is no culture war. A war means it is still being fought. The UK lost already and the rearguard is being squeezed and told to let themselves be murdered by minorities to not make minorities look bad. That minorities keep insisting on being criminal assholes is just the fault of white society for being so racist that the minorities STILL feel aggrieved. Perhaps sacrificing another dozen little girls to black knives and then making an award winning tv special about how white racists are the real problem will earn some leeway for whites to continue existing till another minority decides to stab or rape for fun.
Given that the leader of the party that is currently sitting top of the polls has come out with his one of his strongest statements regarding race relations since his moderate pivot, at least that I can remember, and has been widely hounded by the political-media class (including in Parliament itself), I'd say the war is far from over. The police situation is exacerbated by the fact that there has been huge churn in the last few years, and so many (most?) are young, incompetent, and/or ideologically captured. Things can change just as easily as they changed in the first place.
Farage has been saying things for a long time. So far he has only proven to be a populist voice with the very same 'moderate' anti-white policies of Labour and the Tories. Ready to play the respectability politics and then lose when push comes to shove and his party is faced with the same problems that have driven the majority of the west towards the now typical anti-white solutions.
Without a worldview that is a hardline fact based contradiction to the blank slate alternative and without the moral backbone to stand by a specific people, there will be no positive change. Reform has explicitly rejected all avenues that can logically lead to success. They can win elections, but what will they resort to when the left political machine re-asserts their claim on the moral mandate that Reform refuses to contest? When the sheer weight of demographic change starts impacting every aspect of political life? Will Reform really get a steady enough supply of ethnically motivated rape gangs, murders and other crime to challenge the moral narrative that every western media outlet is churning out to their captive audience 24/7?
Reform is not fighting a war. They're an informal surrender. Be prim and proper, don't rock the boat, keep a stiff upper lip and don't look at the endless horde of foreigners waiting on the horizon that are all motivated by an ethnic ideology that demonizes native Brits.
Agreed. Farage is Ambrose Burnsides running a grift, promising the great battle but chickening out at committing. The European Right is the Star Citizen of politics, a machine to extract gibs but never complete the project because it both stops the gravy train and the project can't be done anyways. I do not see any real appetite for Europeans to retake their lands from the migrants invaders that gleefully rape murder and grift their way through the cowed populations because the actual real solution is Idi Amins expulsion of the gujuratis and this time the criminal muslims have shown themselves eager to blow up europeans while also weaponizing the lefts moral axioms. Until someone actually dares name the beast and propose a real solution I see the entire right wing as a pretend force grifting an increasingly cucked population.
The sell still is that some criminal migrants are worth it for curry and caretakers, an insane proposition but one the establishment on all sides is committed to. Get european robotics up to speed to make sure you don't need any fucking meatbags and then you'll see the calculus change.
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