The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

The behaviour of Hampshire & Isle of White Police officers in relation to the murder of Henry Nowak is being treated as extraordinary. Alas, it really isn’t. Rather, it’s part of a consistent pattern of racist behaviour on behalf of the British state and its employees.

Henry’s story is very much of a kind with that of Barney Webber, Grace O’Malley Kumar and Ian Coates. Their killer Valdo Calocane had a long history of violence. Had he been white, he would not have been at large to kill them.

In May 2020, after Calocane violently broke into a neighbour’s flat during a psychotic episode, mental health workers and doctors considered the over-representation of young black men in custody and detention as part of the context around his assessment, which contributed to his release back into the community.

Henry’s story is very much of a kind with that of the twenty-two people, some of them children, killed by Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi. His suspicious behaviour was reported to arena security. They took no action. Why? According the The Guardian;

A security guard had a “bad feeling” when he saw Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi but did not approach him …

“I was scared of … being branded a racist if I got it wrong and would have got into trouble. It made me hesitant. I wanted to get it right and not mess it up by overreacting or judging someone by their race.”

Henry’s story is very much of a kind with that of more than a hundred thousand working-class girls raped by Pakistani Muslim gangs in recent decades. MPs, councillors, social-workers, police officers and teachers across the country prioritised their fears of being thought racist over the welfare of the rape victims. They put “community cohesion” above the law, justice and human decency.

I could go on. This is far from being a one-off. I do not mean to diminish Henry’s story. It is an absolute horror that he should have been scorned, handcuffed and dragged across gravel as he lay dying. It’s appalling that the last words he heard in this life were a police caution and that the last thing he saw was his killer and accomplices standing over him – unrestrained, lying and gloating.

Nor do I mean to attack immigrants in general. Natives commit crimes too. Law-abiding people of any colour or creed are to be respected and criminals are to be condemned. The only relevance of the various “protected characteristics” under the Equality Act 2010 shared by the criminals in all these cases is in the wicked responses they evoked from our authorities.

Because the real scandal is not that some police officers in Henry’s case behaved cruelly and immorally. It’s that they did so in full compliance with both their training and their operational procedures. The Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) has already stated (before their investigation has concluded) that there is no evidence that the officers misconducted themselves. The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Police force has a published policy requiring officers to treat those with “protected characteristics” under the Equalities Act differently from those without such characteristics.

To the extent that we’re talking about racial “protected characteristics,” this force (and every other in the UK) is institutionally racist. As is every council’s Social Services, Education and Housing Department.

Which brings us to where this all began. That phrase “institutional racism” first seized the attention of the British public following the Report of an Enquiry by Sir William Macpherson of Cluny into the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

6.5 We have been concerned with the more subtle and much discussed concept of racism referred to as institutional racism which (in the words of Dr Robin Oakley) can influence police service delivery “not solely through the deliberate actions of a small number of bigoted individuals, but through a more systematic tendency that could unconsciously influence police performance generally”.

Following on from that report, this nebulous concept was weaponised by Critical Race Theory grifters to conduct a programme of indoctrination throughout the British police service. White police officers might not think they’re racist. They might have a black or brown boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife or child. Still, as their racism is deemed to operate at a subconscious level, any attempt at denial is proof.

This is every bit as absurd and primitive as the medieval notion of proving a woman’s innocence by drowning her, while burning her at the stake as a witch if she floats.

This campaign of indoctrination has not been restricted to the police. An immigration judge of my acquaintance took early retirement rather than submit to relentless attempts to conflate her desire to apply the law fairly with subconscious racism.

Even the private sector, with its relentless DEI enforcement by HR, has to some extent embraced Critical Race Theory – and therefore become actually racist. In the commercial world however, there’s always a countervailing market pressure against such insanity. Not only do you not want to frighten customers away, but employing the wrong person could cost you your business. In the public sector, there’s only policy to guide you. If the policy is insane, then so – if you know what’s good for you – are you.

My anger here is not directed at immigrants. Henry and his family (originally from Poland) are themselves immigrants. I feel no different about Sikhs just because the murderer and his accomplices were Sikhs. Every category of human has good, bad and evil members.

I mention immigration not because I want to evaluate my fellow men by ethnicity but because – stupidly – that’s what the British State does. Out of fear of being thought racist, it has itself become racist. My pure cold rage on this subject is therefore reserved entirely for the state, its employees and their enablers in academia and the press. They have destroyed one of the foundational principles of our civilisation – equality before the law.

Anyone who thinks that because bad things were done by one race to another in the past, bad things must now be done in return is a racist. Having pets in academia prepared to construct a warped definition of racism makes no difference. Moral responsibility always lies with individuals. Justice can only ever be done at the individual level. Collective punishment is the very opposite of justice.

DEI indoctrination made an anonymous police officer say:

Don’t think you have, mate…

when Henry said repeatedly that he’d been stabbed. That indoctrinated policeman abused a dying boy while carefully choosing his words in front of people he’d been trained to regard as his moral superiors.

Both Labour and the “Conservatives” are far too busy slandering all who are angry about it to make any change. While they accuse us all of being “Far Right” and of “seeking to politicise” Henry’s death, the courts have already imprisoned protesters. There seems to be little hope of an immediate solution. Even if Reform wins the next election, it doesn’t have the experience, the expertise or, frankly, the bottle to take on the ranks of the permanent Establishment and do what needs to be done.

Let’s hope I’m wrong because – one way or another – more lives depend on it.