Too Much is Not Enough
Punishing all Immigrants for the Crimes of one man is Wrong. So is Allowing Attacks on UK Citizens Over Fears of Being Labeled Racist. And Rioting is Unlikely to end the Problem.
I don’t want to write this. I hate writing this. I have to write it though, because someone needs to and, at least to the best of my knowledge and belief, no one else has. What’s happening is insane. It’s unnecessary even though it’s totally necessary. I hate the fact that I’m witnessing this, but it’s what I’ve expected and well…
Crap.
First off, the disclaimer: No one deserves to be punished for the crimes someone else committed. That’s regardless of DEI status. If you, as an individual, did not do something then it is not your job to take the rap for it.
But let’s face it: The British people are under siege. Their government has facilitated the immigration of millions of people which it has then refused to police. Rape gangs are common and the British Parliament has admitted such. The immigrants have been protected by a system that is geared more toward avoiding accusations of racism than it is toward preventing acts of violence against its own citizens. So, when an immigrant decided to attack an Irishman and put the attack on social media, the public reacted.
Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese immigrant, attacked Steven Ogilvy, an Irishman, and recorded and broadcast his own crime. Alodid, in a surprising twist, has been arrested for his crime. One would assume that a conviction will follow, given the fact that said recording exists. Ogilvy, for his part, is in the hospital, recovering from injuries to his face, neck, and back, and for the loss of an eye. I will pray for his recovery.
I find it surprising to find out that Alodid was charged for his crime, but I suppose a desire to stop the country from burning was enough to get one man prosecuted. This is a good thing, but I still feel like the Irish are taking things too far.
But make no mistake about it. Vigilante justice is warranted when the government won’t do its job. Had the crowd found Alodid before the police did and beaten/stabbed him to death I would have condoned it. Violence against British citizens cannot be allowed to continue and, since the government has clearly refused to live up to its responsibilities to protect those for whom it is required to protect, it is incumbent upon the people to protect their own from harm. That is a harsh judgment but this the real world. And the same principle applies in the US.
When George Floyd died, my immediate reaction to the riots was that they had been taken too far: If it had been Derek Chauvin under the boots of the mob, I would have been okay with things. Having said that, justice for murder did not include the burning of businesses and housing owned by people who did nothing to harm George Floyd. George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis. It was bad enough that innocent people lost their businesses there. What did people in Seattle have to do with anything?
And I’m applying that same thought process here: I can’t condone the burning and terrorism against immigrants who haven’t committed a crime. Don’t get me wrong, if the Irish (English/Scottish/Welsh) are aware of the existence of a rape gang that the police won’t prosecute because they’re afraid of the optics of doing so and decide to take down that rape gang by force/killing I’m okay with that IF THEY LIMIT THE KILLING TO THOSE WHO RAPED THE GIRLS, OR THOSE WHO TRY TO STOP THEM FROM TAKING THE MEN WHO RAPED THE GIRLS. Yes, people have a right to trials if the government will conduct them. But if the government treats the situation with neglect, then the public has no choice but to treat the rights of the accused with the same neglect. But the second they went after the rest of the immigrant community they went too far.
And I’m not saying that the Irish don’t have the right to their own country. I have no problem with deporting some/all of the immigrants if that’s what it takes to make the Irish safe in their own country. But if that occurs it needs to happen within the limits of the law and as peacefully as humanly possible. You can’t just run around burning things because you’re angry. Temper tantrums are for toddlers, not adults. And definitely not when the results of said temper tantrum are this serious.
And, while the rioters in Belfast are certainly worthy of any punishment they receive, they are not the only people responsible here. The British government allowed immigrants to act in whatever manner they wished to with no fear of repercussions. One wonders if Alodid would have recorded his crime if he thought he’d face consequences for it. One does not wonder why he would believe that he wouldn’t face consequences: For the most part, immigrants are no more likely to face prosecution for crimes committed against British subjects in 2026 that Klan member were to face prosecution for crimes committed against black people in Alabama in 1950.
Seriously, the British government is treating assaults against its own citizen the same way many people wish the government of Texas would have treated the Karmelo Anthony stabbing: By ignoring it because it’s okay for dark skinned people to kill whites. The argument goes something, something, oppression, it was just a white guy.
Ask Henry Nowak what he thinks of that attitude. Oh wait, you can’t. He’s dead. He was arrested and allowed to bleed out because Vickrum Singh Digwa, the immigrant who killed him, screamed racism. Nowak was refused medical treatment and drowned in his own blood.
And the actions of the British government vis a vis Nowak and others like him is why I can see the point of the actions of the men in Belfast. It’s the lives of their families on the line and their wives and daughters who might end up raped if someone doesn’t stop this crap from happening. Make no mistake about it. The British government shares responsibility with the criminals for every rape or murder it allows. Their people are sick of it.
The Belfast police may be acting to quell the riots, but they’re also the people who helped to cause them. The majority of the force won’t see that, and the ones who do will never admit it. And that’s sad because the only way to prevent this in the future is to stop allowing immigrants to harm the natives. What I’m really afraid of is that the cure will be worse than the disease and that the British government will use this as an excuse to crack down harder on their own citizens who refuse to fall in line.
“Vigilante justice is warranted when the government wont do its job”. True story - self defense becomes increasingly necessary and in this situation, vigilante justice is no more nor no less than self defense.
I agree that if the government won't protect the people they have the right and duty to do so themselves. But, not only does that apply to the individual immigrant criminal but it extends to the governments inaction, actually complicity, with the vast number of immigrants who are, in effect, taking over the country. As you say they should be deported as humanly as possible. But what if the government won't? What are the people to do? There may be a better way than burning them out but how are the people to deported them? You see it as a tantrum and to some extent it is. But as I see it, if you're going to condem them you should suggest a more humane alternative if the government won't do as you suggest.