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Ann Cryer, Sarah Champion, Maggie Oliver, Suella Braverman, all paid a price for speaking out "...pour encourager les autres" as did some ordinary people such as parents getting arrested for the 'racism' of identifying perpetrators. In one case, where a semi clad underage victim was found drunk in a room with seven Pakistani men, it was the young girl who was arrested for being "drunk and disorderly". The institutional denial and gaslighting of victims beggars befief and is indeed extremely worrying.

Naz Shah MP's retweet in 2017 (albeit deleted quite quickly) that vicitms should shut up for the sake of diversity illustrated in summary form the all too prevalent attitude that cascaded down from elites to foot soldiers with ordinary coppers following the lead so set. Local councillors felt the same way as did, in a slighlty different context, colleagues of an NGO worker in Calais who told a rape vicitim not to report a rape by an immigrant. It is not just the elites' response that is worrying but the extent of the diffusion down the ranks, so to speak, of the omerta to produce what must be the greatest moral indictment of multiculturalism and the diversity mantra in existence.

There are calls for a public enquiry. I doubt that will come to pass and even if it did it would not produce anything meaningful. As with Covid, or the various enquiries in Northen Ireland, they tend to be very long, very expensive ways of avoiding real issues, often dealing with secondary phenonmena as a way of distracting from (intractable) underlying causes, and become a way of kicking cans down the road. Instead, I would like to see a task force whose object was to identify every public office holder - police, councillors and MPs - who knew or could reasonably be expected to have known, what was going on. Prosecutions for malfeasance in public office should then follow and where such prosecutions failed (as many would given the closing of ranks by the establishment though some might suceed if investigators were thorough and brave enough) at least putting these people through the stress of such a process would be some sort of justice. It might even produce evidence enough at the lower civil standard for victims to sue them for compensation. That absolutely no-one involved in the omerta has even lost their job is a huge injustice. Let's have a "...encourager les autres" going the other way. Every policeman, councillor and MP needs to see and feel there will be a price for looking the other way ever again.

One problem is that a DPP with zero prosecutions for rape gangs was in post during the height of the crisis and is now PM. The establishment has every motive to protect him as it will be to protect themselves. Starmer once claimed that prosecutions were for his case workers and so why he knew or did nothing. This defies belief in that if they did not report to him, seek his advice or approval for decisions, if he did not check their work, then he is admitting he was paid for nothing. Perhaps, a member of the DPP's office will one day contradict Starmer's account of his time as DPP. One can dream.

There is I believe such a thing as cultural memory and I suspect it played apart in the working class' disorder in Southport. That cultural memory is being provoked again with the new clamour for a public enquiry. The estabilishment appears to believe it can keep a lid on a pressure cooker for ever. Or, rather, it may be begining to suspect it cannot but has no idea at all of what to do. They are like a soldier suddenly aware he is standing in a minefield who then freezes. How long can this go on?

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Not to mention Tommy Robinson. There are instances in the Netherlands and Sweden too. Wasn’t there a documentary about the Dutch situation?

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Most Germans today live under a burden of guilt for the horrific crimes of their government 1933 - 1945, even though there was a partial reckoning at Nuremburg, and few if any responsible are left alive. Yet in Britain these monstrous crimes by the Muslim rape gangs have been ignored by those responsible for protecting against such things, and they remain "respectable" and in power. The response of the establishment to the rape gangs is a terrible stain on the moral character of the country and its citizenry who vote for those responsible.

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This all started in 1987 with Sikh girls bro g targeted. The Sikhs managed to protect their girls.

Tommy Robinson and Peter Mccloughlin’s book details the situation. Tommy was imprisoned for his efforts. This atrocity has been going on for many years. The targeting of vulnerable often fatherless white girls being groomed with free taxi rides, gifts and then raped and mutilated while the authorities closed their eyes is a national disgrace.

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But, Frank, what do they want revenge for?

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There is a culturally entrenched inferority complex across the Arab and Muslim world. They see a zero sum world in which the sucess of the West can only be at their expense. They are down because the West is up (or rather was).

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2020/02/06/harvard-university-and-the-muslim-worlds-inferiority-complex/

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Stout is right- in addition they blame the West for their predicament and take the view that they are its victims.

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