Enoch Lives! Today,14/4/18, UK Terrorised By 1968 Echo?
I missed out on this story, the BBC of all things under fire from the left/liberal ruling class for daring to broadcast the words of a long-dead hero.
I am therefore grateful to spiked-com for bringing this ‘controversy’ to my attention and accordingly, readily, accede to their editor’s request to pass on his comments on the demand by Britain’s Enemy Within to silence the voice of Enoch Powell.
Please read it.
While almost all of it is indisputable, I reserve my own right to comment at the end of what’s been written.
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To understand the new illiberalism, look no further than the hysteria over the BBC’s decision to broadcast Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech on its 50th anniversary.
No sooner had the Beeb said it would air a performance of Powell’s 1968 comments on immigration – with commentary and criticism, not on their own – than the cry went out that the corporation was ‘enabling’ racism.
It would ‘normalise’ racial hatred. To broadcast this ‘sickening oratory’ would put ‘black and brown people’ at risk, said one observer. People will hear the speech and think it is a ‘call to arms’, said another.
The broadcast must be scrapped, they insist.
This borderline medieval desire to expunge 50-year-old comments, to memory-hole an old speech, perfectly captures the elitist contempt that motors demands for censorship. They see us, ordinary people, as animals-in-waiting, liable to be triggered to barbarism by certain words.
Monkey see, monkey do: the misanthropic prejudice of those who insist that certain ideas and images be kept from the plebs. Oh the irony of their bemoaning Powell’s speech as dehumanising even as they dehumanise the British public.
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I like it, so you have it now, and the only dissent I’d offer is that description of the evil afflicting Britain is ‘illiberalism.’
Liberalism is the cancer, democracy the cure.
So to Hell with Lord Adonis, the Brexit-bashing Socialist bore, who has asked media regulator Ofcom to stop the broadcast, calling it “incendiary and racist.”
BBC plan to air Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech sparks fury
That call to stomp free speech is a quote from The Sun. Adonis may, is, an SOB but he’s no fool. He understands perfectly that to hear the voice of sanity is to start thinking.
Inevitably the worst intolerance is found in the Guardian and the Independent.
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The BBC must withdraw its dangerous Rivers of Blood broadcast …
But let’s not pretend the BBC has redeemed itself in the eyes of patriots.
As the spiked writer says, the mandarins of Broadcasting House do not trust the British people (who are forced by the state to fund its bias ) to decide for themselves on the merits of Enoch’s words…
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…which, in their inimitable Pravdoid style, they have characterised as –
‘the infamous speech!’
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well known for some bad quality or deed,notorious,disreputable
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Petra Malley 7:25 pm on April 14, 2018 Permalink |
The BBC makes me sick, that ineradicable bias which you spotted as you do so well.
‘Infamous?’ As a child I remember he was a household hero.
The state media in the UK is as bad as ever Hitler’s was, or Pravda too.
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Audrey Ogilvie 7:38 pm on April 14, 2018 Permalink |
Why do we keep reading about that Lord Adonis?
He is a typical NGO type, always a leftist, Lib Dem then Labour then into all kinds of ‘public sector’ do-goody groups, but I like best what Ian Duncan Smith said about him.
“It’s a bit rich for him to pontificate on what he calls populism, but what most would refer to as democracy, when he himself has never been elected by a public vote. He has instead relied on preferment from others.”
I would have put it more like he never had a real job, just one cushy hanger-on spot after another.
Brian Janssen 9:34 pm on April 14, 2018 Permalink |
The BBC will never reform itself and never give the British the fair reporting they deserve.
So the British should not be forced by Theresa May to pay the BBC salaries when the journalism is so bad.
We too have the same kind of problem, and when i say that, you can try to guess where I am.
I could be in so many countries like France, Germany and Austria because the same problem exists there.
Vanessa 11:39 pm on April 14, 2018 Permalink |
I agree with all of the above!
Enoch does live, in many of our hearts.