{"id":8505,"date":"2014-08-28T14:28:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2014-08-28T14:28:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T20:28:45","slug":"sunset-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/sunset-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between my English and Scots-Irish-English grandparents, a deep and abiding love of English literature and history, a fair number of English friends, and two long-ago summers sojourns in Britain doing the youth hostel and Brit-Rail Pass, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always looked on the place as my metaphorical second country. I know it about as well as any American could and not actually be in residence there, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always kept in touch \u00e2\u20ac\u201c through English magazines, newspapers and yes, in recent years through websites. Yes, and I score sufficiently high on any number of those quizzes testing American knowledge of British slang to say, with perfect truth, that I speak fluent Brit. (Although I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t place British regional accents \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 something to do with acquiring most of this knowledge from the printed page rather than the spoken word.)<\/em><\/p>\n

So, ever since I happily discovered The Internet, and began following more news than was available in the local newspaper and mainstream print publications, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been reading English news sites \u00e2\u20ac\u201c starting with, I think, The Times of London<\/em> and The Spectator<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c before they put the good stuff behind a pay-wall, and moving on to the Telegraph<\/em>. I had a print subscription to the Guardian Weekly<\/em>, for years \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and occasionally checked out their website before the burden of wading through waist to neck-deep oceans of political-correctitude got to be too much of a chore. Now my guilty tabloid pleasure is to scan the Daily Mail<\/em>; I know, in the eyes of the grand and the good, this is about one step above the Star<\/em> or the National Enquirer<\/em>. But the Mail<\/em> and the Enquirer<\/em> have of late begun to commit regular acts of non-partisan journalism \u00e2\u20ac\u201c especially when it comes to the American political scene, in contract to the supposedly more respectable publications.<\/p>\n

So, I was already aware of the horrific and ongoing scandal<\/a> of native English girls \u00e2\u20ac\u201c many barely into their teens \u00e2\u20ac\u201c being groomed, raped, gang-raped and sex-trafficked by British-born Pakistani men, in Rotherham and elsewhere. The release of an especially damning report<\/a> on a formal inquiry into the matter has even rattled the cages of bloggers like Wretchard at Belmont Club<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and no wonder. The most horrifying aspect isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just that girls were routinely raped on a wholesale basis, or that many were blackmailed by threats to their family into cooperating in their own exploitation. Even worse is that the police forces, social workers, and local politicians also knew \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but refrained from doing anything about it because they did not want to be accused of racism. It seems that the national media outlets also looked away, for as long as they could. As commenter Andrew X, at this discussion thread<\/a> explained: The media lying is due to a combination of fears \u00e2\u20ac\u201c fear of being called racist, fear of Muslim fanatics, and above all a fear of the public. The establishment sees the working class as ignorant racist morons so they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re afraid to say anything that might give the mob an excuse to go on the rampage. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just the rape gangs that see British people as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153white trash\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Wrap your mind around that, if you please \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that those bureaucrats, politicians and investigators whose profession and mission is to protect and defend their fellow citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c hesitated to act because they were afraid of being called racists, which would be a career-limiter, in these present days. They might get a letter of reprimand, or a tough question or two from local media and a certain degree of heat from the diversity-loving intellectual set. That many of the girls victimized were from working-class families or the English equivalent of trailer-trash, or from troubled backgrounds anyway just adds a dimension of particularly ugly snobbery. In order to maintain the benign mask of multicultural toleration and diversity in place, the ruling managerial and political class essentially sacrificed the children of the ruled class to a sexual Moloch \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and kept quiet about it for years. How badly the ordinary British citizens are being served by their ruling class, these days! (Nearly as bad as as Americans are being served when it comes to black on white crime, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a rant for another occasion.)<\/em> My grandparents would be appalled, and horrified at what has become of the country that they immigrated from 100 years ago, but still held in affection.
\nDiscuss.<\/p>\n

(Crossposted at www.chicagoboyz.net)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between my English and Scots-Irish-English grandparents, a deep and abiding love of English literature and history, a fair number of English friends, and two long-ago summers sojourns in Britain doing the youth hostel and Brit-Rail Pass, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always looked on the place as my metaphorical second country. I know it about as well as any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,76,28,5,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-disunion","category-fun-with-islam","category-good-god","category-media-matters-not","category-rant","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}