War Against the West Not Confined to the US

Source: Townhall.com, November 14, 2000

War Against the West Not Confined to the U.S.

Sam Francis

Under Prime Minister Tony Blair and his cohorts, Great Britain is threatening to become almost as totalitarian, if not more, in its reconstruction of history as the United States under Bill Clinton. One such cohort is Ken Livingstone, the new mayor of London, whose contribution to constructing the new order is to propose that the city’s statues of various “imperialist” generals and statesmen be knocked off their pedestals.

Mayor Livingstone is known as “Red Ken,” from which nickname you can probably guess his political orientation, and his demand for removal of the statues is perfectly consistent with his socialism and hatred of the old order. What’s interesting about his demand is that it parallels almost exactly the same kind of attack in this country on the Confederate flag and similar icons.

Some statues, however, are more equal than others. Thus, the mayor especially wants to rid the city of the images of such warriors as Sir Henry Havelock, who suppressed the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857, and Gen. Charles Napier, who among other accomplishments conquered the province of Sindh in 1843. Of course, there are, today in London, other statues, such as those of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, which seem to be OK with Red Ken. Perhaps you can guess why.

Statues of any Englishman who ever did anything considered by the left to be “bad” to nonwhites must go. Statues of nonwhites who resisted British and white imperialism, “racism,” colonialism and other villainous isms are fine. Well, how about Englishmen who actually helped nonwhites, if any such there be? Nope, they have to go, too.

One such Englishman who has more than one statue in his honor in London is Major Gen. Charles “Chinese” Gordon, who supposedly destroyed a large collection of Chinese art when suppressing the brutal Taiping Rebellion in China in the 1850s. No doubt that was awful of him, but then he later helped suppress the slave trade in Africa and met his death there while fighting an army of Islamic religious fanatics in the Sudan. Of course, that sort of stuff counts for naught with Red Ken; Gordon must go, too.

The mayor’s war against the statues is just as ignorant of real history and just as ideologically lopsided as the crusade against the Confederacy in the United States, but the mayor likes to mask his real agenda by claiming the statues honor men whose achievements are now obscure. “In our capital city,” Red Ken intones, “the people on the plinth should be identifiable to most of the population.” There are two answers to that.

In the first place, there are many public statues of historic figures who are today not well-known. That’s why the statues were built — to make us ask who these gents were, and why somebody thought so well of them as to put up statues at all. In the second place, maybe they should be better known, and maybe the British schools should teach people a bit less about the iniquities of their past, but a bit more about their real history and the men who made it.

But the larger point about Red Ken’s dishonest and barbaric war on the statues is that it’s of the same kidney as the war against the West that attacks the Confederate flag and Columbus Day, and any other institution or symbol that represents Western man. It’s an attack not confined to the American South and has nothing to do with slavery — or with imperialism, either.

It’s all part of a general war by which the nonwhite races now flooding into every white majority nation on Earth — the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain — can erase the historic civilization of those lands and replace it with their own cultural patterns. As the example of Red Ken shows, not everyone on the anti-white and anti-Western side is nonwhite himself. As in every war, each side has its renegades and traitors. Red Ken and Tony Blair are British examples; Bill Clinton and Al Gore are their American analogues.

Indeed, the war against the white West probably could never succeed without the help of the racial and civil traitors who lead it, who think up clever reasons to welcome immigration, who never cease to preach about the guilt, the evil, the injustices the white West has inflicted on the rest of mankind, to sneer at and debunk its heroes, warriors, and creative geniuses. If ever the white West recovers and begins to win the war being waged against it, the main enemies it will have to pull off their pedestals are not nonwhites but its own white traitors, like Red Ken, who helped open the gates to the enemy in the dead of night.

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