Britain has become something of a bellwether these days. Go to Britain if you’d like to see what happens when malevolent minorities hijack the culture of a tolerant and generous nation – with assistance from the country’s elites. Two items from the news this week:
From the UK Telegraph:
A hunt supporter killed after being hit by a gyrocopter which had been monitoring the hunt had gone to confront the pilots over their activities, it is claimed.
Trevor Morse, 48, broke off from following the Warwickshire hunt on Monday morning to drive to an airfield where two alleged anti-hunt protesters who had been following and monitoring them were re-fuelling.
It is believed he wanted to challenge them over their behaviour and allegations they were swooping down aggressively and frightening the horses.
Morse was hit by the mini-helicopter and died instantly. It is thought he was decapitated by its blades.
As two men were continuing to be questioned on suspicion of murder, hunting leaders called for calm as tensions in the already hate-fuelled relationship between hunt supporters and protesters rose further.
As the article notes, ‘animal rights’ activists have been harassing British hunters with ultralight aircraft, including auto-gyros. Riding to the hounds is a centuries-old British country tradition, first instituted to control the fox population, which was devastating England’s poultry. Country people have serious grievances with a Labour government that’s repeatedly sided with animal rights crazies to suppress country past-times like hunting.
I’m a bit disappointed with the Telegraph, however, which has adopted a ‘pox on both your houses’ tone for the article: ‘hate-fuelled relationship’, indeed. So far as I can tell, there’s only one aggressor here.
And now this. From the Daily Mail under the headline, ‘Home from the War and Our Troops are Treated to Abuse from Muslim Protestors’:
Twice in two years they have fought in Iraq. Twelve of their regimental comrades paid the ultimate price there and in Afghanistan.
Over the past two years they have spent day after day patrolling hostile territory, where every passer-by could have a gun or a bomb.
So the 200 men of the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment perhaps had a right to expect a heroes’ welcome yesterday on a homecoming parade through Luton.
Instead, they were faced with the hate-filled jeers of anti-war protesters waving placards saying: ‘Anglian soldiers: Butchers of Basra,’ and ‘Anglian soldiers: cowards, killers, extremists.’
There was a furious reaction from the hundreds lining the streets to support the soldiers – known as the Poachers. Shouting ‘scum’ and ‘no surrender to the Taliban’, they turned on the Muslim demonstrators.
Police were already out in force to protect the anti-war group and arrested two men among the soldiers’ supporters.
The crowd’s displeasure gives me some assurance that the British folks I know and love haven’t gone completely starkers.
While the BBC wasn’t able to ignore the protest, they referred to the demonstrators principally as ‘anti-war protestors’ – slipping the ‘M-word’ in quickly at the outset only because the pictures told the story.
Which reinforces my point about the cultural elites.
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