The shadow of the fictional far-right falls across the land once
again, cast by the diminutive figure of one man who has come to represent many
things to many people. To Owen-Squealer-Jones he is a fraudster and fear
figure, a leader of brown-shirted thugs, who has radicalised every thicko in the
land to commit hate crimes against a beleaguered people afraid for their lives,
who, allowed their cultural freedom, would happily dispatch Master Jones from
the tallest tower in the capital.
To others he is a figure of singular significance, here
to deliver us from the fate decreed by the forces of the evil leftist global dominators
and their muslim attack dogs; leading the grass roots fight back against the oppression
of the state. He is a V-for-Vendetta revolutionary, inspiring a heroic
resistance to the overbearing state’s desire to neatly package its human
livestock into easily defined categories that can be filed, and controlled.
Conspiracy theorists see the hidden hand of others – the Rothschilds,
the Illuminati, Klansmen, Murdoch, *add favourite evil empire here* – secretly manipulating
his appearances, his words and his media treatment for their own ends. As always,
however, conspiracy theory is a mass of such muddle, contradiction and
batshit-crazy, lizard-overlordity that it rarely survives scrutiny. But is that
just what they want you to think?
Too much, you think? Well batty leftist Guardian witch, Carole
Cadwalladr recently tweeted: “Robinson is
the intolerable face of the new fascism. He’s funded by foreign interests to
incite violence & racial hatred in UK. This is a threat to our national
interest & national security. & it’s Bannon. The same Bannon who played
major covert role in Brexit.” If that isn’t a master class in two-plus-two
equals five then I don’t know what is. But hey, anything which gets the likes
of Catweazle all balled up in fist-clenching, teeth-gritting fury is okay by
me!
Isn’t the simple truth the most likely? Local footie hooligan
gets angry at muslim disrespect for returning troops, sees how his home town
has changed and recruits other hooligans to the cause. Realises thuggery is not
the way, publicly leaves the group he founded and denounces violent direct
action . Educates himself, grows up, sees the threat to himself and his family
and finds himself targeted by the authorities for speaking out. Makes a
decision to carry on and finds that millions support his cause, while millions
revile him.
The State leans heavily on him and clumsily tries to
silence him; puts him in the way of harm, harasses him frequently; he emerges
stronger. It is the classic Robin Hood tale; the little man against the might
of the law; the unsavoury truths they cannot silence. Now TR has become an
international symbol of the fight against the less than savoury practices of
the increasingly authoritarian British Establishment. TR is Brexit – Cadwalladr
says so – and more so every day comes to be a symbol of the ordinary people
versus the changes they haven’t been able to arrest.
It could be you
But what Tommy Robinson is, most of all, is a barometer
of who you are. What you think of him speaks volumes. Swallow him whole
and you might just be a gullible camp follower, quick to fists and slow of wit.
Despise him and call him a Nazi and you are clearly part of the problem which
created him in the first place. Others, without a firmly held agenda are surely
capable of recognising that he has a point, however bluntly he makes it, and
what ought to worry everybody greatly, is that what has happened to him could
happen to anybody.
Not only could but does happen to anybody. Usually, white, heterosexual males.
ReplyDeleteIf the establishment was not worried or maybe even frightened of the gospel he preaches why would they go to such lengths to silence or demonize this man. I see shades of the way other right wing parties were demonized and destroyed before they became too popular.
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