Angry and Proud
The Limits of Tolerance in Southport, UK
According to Saint Thomas Aquinas, witnessing injustice without feeling anger is a sin in itself. It's the sin of tolerating too much.
So what did you feel when you heard about a 17-year-old second-generation British citizen, whose parents were from Rwanda, attempted to murder 11 small children in Southport, UK, and succeeded in murdering three girls between the ages of 6 and 9, using a knife as his weapon?
Where's the outrage? Why doesn't it make us mad?
The authorities seemed to be working together to rapidly quell the response, meaning the people's response, and journalists were quick to instruct us that such attacks are extremely rare.
Such attacks used to be non-existent. Now they are part and parcel of everyday life.
Remember, just a few days earlier, a scuffle at Manchester airport saw mobs of angry, bearded men threaten to take out the police, until, of course, new footage was released showing the usual suspects had started the brawl themselves, injuring a White female police officer.
But mainstream media around the world first showed the footage of the police officer who responded with a kick, to single him out as though he were a bad person for being born White, and calling for his resignation.
It's been like this for a long time. Our people are under constant attack from an unholy alliance of journalists and politicians who seem to be concerned with protecting everyone's interests except our own.
It's starting to feel like treason.
Saint Thomas Aquinas famously argued that it was necessary for a government to tolerate some evils in order to prevent worse. He also said we should measure our tolerance by what serves the common good.
This isn't it.
The murder of children by perpetrators with an immigrant background is not the sort of evil we should tolerate. We should not have to sacrifice children on the altar of diversity and multiculturalism.
Just think of how certain others would have responded if the skin colors had been reversed? What if three black girls had lost their lives and the attacker had been a White teen? The whole UK would have been on fire, as during the riots in France after police shot a Muslim youth.
So I wonder, how come our people have stopped feeling their emotions? How come we keep practicing a cool, calm, almost distant response when the victims are our own people, as though we collectively understand the assignment that it would be wrong for us to feel angry and demand justice?
This is no way of living. We can't just keep denying justice for the sake of keeping up appearances. Multiculturalism has utterly failed. It was declared so by a Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel in 2010.
A picture of one of the girls lifelessly lying on the ground after the attack in Southport shows her lower arms were heavily cut. It means she still had the courage to defend herself.
Crimes like this are not just bumps in the road we'll have to learn to live with. These are injustices that demand a clear and effective response. Or have we been numbed by so many attacks already that we prefer not to respond at all to crimes committed against our people?
Maybe it'll go away if we ignore it? Aquinas would say, this level of tolerance is a sin in itself. It's the sin of apathy.
I know the police are very busy handing immigrants the keys to their new homes, so maybe it's time for ordinary people to start patrolling the neighborhoods. I suppose pensioners in their 60s and 70s can still lose some weight and gain some muscle, and start a local Neighborhood Watch.
I think it would be a good idea for old men to start having a regular stroll down their streets together, just to show that someone is still watching out for everyone else's protection. Because I don't think our governments and media will ever care.
If we're planning to change the way things are going, we'll have to do it ourselves.
It's time we start feeling our feelings again.
It's time to feel angry and proud.