I wrote recently about how there are a number of potential flashpoints building up in Britain over the issue of Islam and the government’s increasingly oppressive and authoritarian way that they are treating critics of this ideology. I decried the removal of the safety valve of free speech and I likened what is happening in Britain with regards anger about Islam to a volcanic magma chamber, one that is being plugged by solid rock allowing the pressure to build up. I remarked that unless the subject was again, as of old, authorised to speak freely about Islam and thereby relieve social and political pressure, the molten rock of the mob could burst out at any time and at any part of the mountain.
Tim Newman of the White Sun of the Desert blog has spotted another potential flashpoint that could ignite public anger and cause great disturbance. Mr Newman remarked that the saga of the pensioner who killed a thief from a Gypsy Traveller family during an attempt to burgle the pensioner’s home, is acting as a locus for public anger. I find myself in agreement with Mr Newman about this assessment of the situation that it is one of those situation that could kick off more widespread expressions of anger. The way the police have handled this situation has in my view been appalling. Of course they had to investigate the death of the burglar, that is only right and proper, but did they really need to hold a frail, traumatised pensioner of as far as I know of previous good character in a cell and treat him the way that they did? We are not after all dealing with an analogue of Harold Shipman or one of the Hatton Garden blaggers, we are dealing with an ordinary person put in an extraordinary circumstance. The police have also made things worse by letting the family of Pikeys to which the dead burglar belonged, put up floral tributes to the scumbag, possibly in an attempt to intimidate the burglary victims family.
This is such a good and thoughtful piece by Mr Newman, with so much in it that is worth quoting, that I don’t know what to use as an example for this From Elsewhere piece. Instead I would advise you to grab a coffee, sit down and read this excellent piece, which can be had via the link below, about another potential flashpoint in an increasingly tense Britain.
