Following on from my previous thoughts on Woolwich, I have become concerned to the point of being irate at the attitude of many left-wingers.
Numerous times this week on social networking sites, I have been informed that I must object to hate marches by the BNP or the EDL. Frankly, I'll decide what I object to, but moreover; this is a country of free speech. Many people lost their lives to keep it that way. As such, attempting to silence those whose opinions differ to your own is really rather ridiculous. If you don't agree with it, I'm afraid it's tough.
However, alongside the Facebook and Twitter campaigns, a group of anti-fascists decided to try and spoil the days of the EDL and the BNP by counter-marching against them and blocking their proposed path.
My question....and its rather uncomfortable for these left-wing nutters.....is, where are they when Muslim extremists are walking the streets of Luton chanting "UK got to hell" and "British police go to hell"?
This is fascism too. And yet, this is not opposed with anywhere near the kind of vehemence reserved for white people marching against this kind of lunacy.
If you're going to be left wing, then you need to be consistent. It is not only white, British skin heads who can be right-wing and fascist. It is anybody, and in the case of that video, the Muslim extremists are of as much concern as the idiots in the BNP or EDL.
Another thing I tire of, is those leaping to the defence of the Woolwich murderers, stating they are "angry", or they felt "oppressed", or that society is ignoring them. So, left-wingers are prepared to look beyond their actions to the cause of them. That's good, there are bound to be some determining factors to their behaviour. What's bad is, why is the same scrutiny not applied to those marching for the EDL?
Dismissed as lager-swilling, coke-snorting thugs, why is their behaviour not held up to the microscope either? Do the left not consider that they feel angry, that they feel oppressed, and that society and government are ignoring their wishes?
Of course they do. Where then, is their break? One side is given the benefit of the doubt and dare I say it....sympathy......and the other is dismissed and branded.
It doesn't work. It seems the majority of the left are simply out to wring their hands and moralise. We must let ethnic minorities march for their beliefs, but the whites are thugs that need to be dealt with. Attempting to steer anyone's thoughts in a certain direction is by definition the opposite of freedom of thought and therefore freedom of speech. If they don't want the EDL to march by all means picket, but where are they when the Muslims are marching for an Islamic Britain?
