Uncivil War
Professor David Betz is an academic whose area of expertise includes civil war. His title is Professor of War in the Modern World, and he teaches at King’s College, London, a highly respected university. He has been doing the rounds on alternative media for the last year or so predicting that civil war, or some variant, is imminent not just in the UK but across Europe. Recently, he made an interesting comment. If civil war or something similar starts in Europe, it will start in Northern Ireland. After a savage attack in Belfast on June 8, in which a Sudanese man can be seen on video attempting to behead an Irish man, trouble seemed inevitable, if not actual civil war. Trouble, of course, is not new to the streets of Northern Ireland. Any British person of my generation remembers The Troubles.
Northern Ireland has been in a civil war, both hot and cold, for decades. This religiously and politically driven battle was commonly referred to as “The Troubles.” Northern Ireland is a separate country, and a part of the United Kingdom, unlike the south, Éire, which is a part of the European Union (EU). The country is divided along religious lines, Catholic and Protestant, and from the late 1960s this schism became savagely violent. The Loyalists wished to remain part of the Union, the Republicans wanted Northern Ireland to be independent. One of the most (in)famous acronyms in the UK, recognized by all, is that of the Irish Republican Army, the IRA. One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, of course, and opinion is divided about what Belfast people used to call “the Rah.” Those who wished to escape the yoke of the hated British saw them as heroes. Others saw them as violent, drug-dealing thugs. If anyone reading this likes the Irish “band” called Kneecap, you need to have a bit of a look at yourself. At the very least, you should know what “knee-capping” was in Northern Ireland. Typically, a couple of IRA members, predominantly Roman Catholics, would take a Protestant man off the street, take him to a house somewhere, and duct-tape him to a chair. Then they would use power-tools on the man’s knee-caps. Drills. Angle-grinders. Power-saws. If your knees are destroyed, it is unlikely you will ever walk again without massive reconstructive surgery. Imagine what it is like to have a man from your own country, who speaks and looks like you do, look into your eyes as he drills into your knee. Now imagine what it is like to do the drilling, and think about what sort of a person you would have to be to do such a thing. Have a think about that, then run off and listen to Kneecap (although I seriously doubt any reader of this site would). This was Belfast in the 1970s, with British troops on the streets, regular rioting, and the return of the Molotov cocktail.
Now, Belfast is ablaze again. Rioting has been going on for consecutive evenings following the attack, and water-cannons have been seen on the Shankill Road for the first time in half a century. The attack on a man by a Sudanese national has pushed the fighting Irish too far. As with the Henry Nowak murder in England, the yawning cultural gap between attacker and attacked—or perhaps oppressor and oppressed, to use language the Left will understand—is worth noting. Who were the two men involved in an incident that has put Northern Ireland on the brink of The Troubles 2.0?
The Sudanese knifeman (originally and wrongly reported as being Congolese) is as yet unnamed, and in his thirties. His journey to Belfast sounds like a tourist’s dream, and was actually rather clever. He took a plane from Sudan to Paris, which put him in the Schengen Zone, thereby guaranteeing travel across the borders of signatory states. Instead of going to England, and thereby leaving the EU (nominally; Brexit never actually happened) he went on to Dublin before travelling to Belfast by bus on February 10, 2023, passing through the porous border between Northern Ireland and Éire with ease. Once there, he applied for asylum, and was given “leave to remain” in September of the same year. This he did. It is alleged that he attacked a man who was helping him move to a new house. This happened in Kinnaird Avenue, a relatively poor area in the north of Belfast. Let’s unpack his journey to a new world.
He flies from Sudan to Paris on a false passport. That’s right. Could you do that? Where would you start? I know people in London’s demi monde, and I could get a false passport, but it would cost me a hell of a lot of money. How does a near-ape from Sudan manage this? And also, think about the times you have been held up at airports where they check your iris and other biometric details, even with your real passport (one assumes). The man doesn’t exist on any records until he gets the bus from Dublin to Belfast. Why not? Britain has more surveillance cameras per capita than China. Was there no blip on the radar? Think about what this means. It means that someone from a country with an average IQ of 78 outwitted the European and British security services at every stage of his journey, not from London to Brighton, but from Sudan to Belfast. The technocratic state, with its system and process, couldn’t stop a man, essentially a retarded man, from entering one of its nation states and attempting to behead a disabled man in the street. Who is the unfortunate victim, who remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries as I write?
The victim was Stephen Ogilvie, a man in his forties. He was disabled, although he is a lot more disabled now. He is deaf, and has learning difficulties. In the modern West, being disabled is a “protected characteristic,” along with (non-white) ethnicity and sexual orientation. To make jokes about cripples, or even to call them cripples, is deemed “ableist.” The mainstream media do not mention the fact that the man was deaf and has special needs. He may well be blind now, as well as deaf. Reports differ at the time of writing, but the Sudanese man gouged out at least one of Mr. Ogilvie’s eyes with a knife. It is unclear whether the other eye has been saved. This is a story which is moving at a rapid pace, and the usual miasma of garbled facts is common in the British media, as they want to trick people into spreading “disinformation.” Once this happens, at their behest, they can go after social media and start throwing white people in jail, which is every Leftist British politician’s wet-dream. What of the nature of the attack?
I have heard more than one military or ex-military man say that the attack showed evidence of army training. Whose army trained him? A phrase which is often used to describe the steady influx of Muslim immigrants to the UK is “fighting-age men.” What if they are militarily trained? I’ve been saying it for two years, but immigration to Britain looks very much like the assembly of a standing army. As for the actual British Army, there are two points worth considering.
Firstly, there are more Muslim “fighting-age men” quartered across the UK than there are trained soldiers. You could get the entire British Army into Wembley Stadium, and still have a few seats to spare for diversity officers. And that is the second point about the once-feared British Army. As with America and Europe, there has been a drive to recruit more women and homosexuals into the British armed forces. I am not sure what Sun Tzu, Bismarck, or von Clausewitz would have made of this recruitment strategy, but it doesn’t sound terribly martial. The Duke of Wellington famously said of his troops that “I don’t know what effect they have on the enemy, but by Christ they scare me.” Today’s British Army would also scare the Duke, but for different reasons. Sir Oswald Mosley once remarked that a revolution was impossible in a country with a loyal, well-armed militia. That is all well and good, but that was then and this is now. An army heavy on gays and chicks are hardly Mongol hordes. If there comes a certain day when the Muslim “fighting-age men” barracked across Britain receive a call to arms, what will the British Army do? Cancel their diversity training, adjust their Pride-pins, and fight them on the beaches and the landing-grounds? No. They will put up a pathetic fight, and they will lose. I have quoted this Nietzsche line from The Antichrist so many times I should have it on hot key, but it is telling; “At least Islam assumes it is dealing with men.” What of the men of Ireland, feared and fearsome as they have traditionally been?
The attack was filmed for a worryingly long time by people who made no attempt to help a man being stabbed in the face by a man screaming gibberish. No one can work out what he is saying, at least not yet, but it doesn’t seem to be “Allahu akhbar!” or “God is great!” (or “greater”). Then, Irishmen intervened, one of them with a “hurley.” This is the bat used in the traditional Irish game of hurling which, if you are unfamiliar with it, is a sort of cross between field-hockey and a bar brawl. The hurley is like a hockey-stick, and the attacker took several lusty blows to the head. He shrugged them off and continued his frenzied attack. Finally, the Garda Siochána, the Irish police, arrived and took the man into custody. As noted, the victim remains hospitalized. “Garda Siochána,” incidentally, means “Guardians of the peace” in Gaelic. Good luck with that, lads, in the weeks to come. I wish you “the luck of the Irish,” as we used to say.
What do we imagine the political response was to this act, carried out by a near-primate from the heart of darkness? Michelle O’Neal is the First Minister of Ireland, representing Sinn Féin—“our people”—a party we have already met, without realizing it, in relation to the IRA and The Troubles. The IRA were traditionally known as “the provisional wing of Sinn Féin.” The party provided money and political backing, the “Provos” did the knee-capping. Ms. O’Neal had nothing to say about the victim, struggling in hospital with at least one eye gone for good. Instead, she condemned the rioting, talking of thuggery, racism, and the familiar inventory of insults to white people.
The Leftist media reacted predictably, as did their political paymasters. The blame for the attack does not lie with the attacker, is what they effectively said en masse. In fact, the “far-Right” were responsible, along with Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, Tommy Robinson and anyone to the political right of Lenin. One female politician (and a lot of them are women) interviewed on TV said that the problem was that the video was available online. This, she said, will “whip up” hatred. “Whipping up” is a popular phrase for the British political class, like “sowing division.” You will recall John Enoch Powell’s famous “like the Roman” speech. An unnamed constituent in Powell’s ward said that, if immigration continued, the day would come when “the black man has the whip-hand over the white man.” That was in 1968. Now, the whip-hand is here, but the public are being told that watching a video of an atrocity is “whipping up” hatred. A mad world, my masters.
The YouTubers who have covered this, and many other similar incidents, deserve medals. They have put themselves at considerable risk, as Western governments regularly target content providers they deem undesirable. It is highly likely that there will be a British Charlie Kirk before long, just as Henry Nowak is a British George Floyd, with a few adjustments for difference in the content of their respective characters. As for “motive,” well, you can imagine the journalistic contortions. The Belfast police have “confirmed that the incident was not terror-related,” and we need to pay attention to this ubiquitous phrase. In British media-speak, it means either “a Muslim didn’t do it” or “A Muslim did do it, but he has no political motive or affiliation.” In other words, the killer wasn’t an “Islamist,” another weasel-word. This is nonsense on stilts. All Muslims are Islamists, and I could prove it to you. But that, as the poet Shelley writes, is a tale for the long winter nights. Is the attacker a Muslim? Sudan’s Muslim population is 97%, so it is a safe bet that he is. Who on earth are the 3% who aren’t Muslim in Sudan, by the way? I suspect that they won’t be on earth for much longer.
Things are changing in Northern Ireland, and there is a new enemy to replace the British (which always means the English). There are many reports of Catholics and Protestants sitting down for parley, not along religious lines, but as concerned citizens and parents. To think that a murder attempt by a Sudanese migrant could bring Northern Ireland’s warring factions together may be a silver-lining on a very dark cloud. The Irish have had enough, and when the Irish have had enough you had better be with them or you are in a lot of trouble.