Freedom No Longer Characterizes the Western World

Former British prime minister Liz Truss describes Britain, as I describe the United States, as a country ruled by an establishment that is stronger than the elected leader.  The brief interview with Truss is enlightening. 

Clearly Britain is no longer a free country.  It is not even a country in which ethnic British can complain about the lawlessness they suffer at the hands of immigrant invaders.

Here is the recent prime minister’s description of Great Britain:

“What has happened is an orthodoxy has taken over British institutions in the same way as it has taken over European institutions. That orthodoxy believes in mass migration, multiculturalism, toleration of Islamism. We have seen appalling coverups of grooming gangs in Britain with girls as young as 12  being systematically raped and no national inquiry. It’s been covered up. There is a group of people who have essentially taken over our institutions with a particular world view and they don’t want to be challenged, which is why we’re seeing free speech being suppressed because they don’t want people to know just how badly wrong it is going. I think all of these problems are connected. 

“So, mass migration is putting pressure on housing costs which means that Brits are not able to start a family. They are not able to buy a home because it is too expensive. That is creating a population crisis which then creates the demand for more migration. You’ve also got a left-wing ideology in terms of things like net zero which is making British energy very expensive. So, our energy costs in Britain are four times what they are in the United States. All of these things are compounded and people feel that things are getting worse and they cannot even say what is wrong. They can’t even complain about the grooming gangs or speak out about what happened in Southport because they are literally fearful of getting arrested.

“A similar thing has happened in Britain that also happened in the United States: The deep state, the unelected bureaucracy accumulated a lot of power, particularly under Tony Blair. He gave more power to judges; more power to so-called independent bodies. Those bodies have now been captured by woke ideology, by Islamic extreme Islamism, by a sort of multicultural human rights lobby. They said, ‘We don’t really care if you are British or Afghani, you have got the same rights in Britain.’ The British public do not agree with that. They believe that if you are British, those are the people the government should be prioritizing. So, all of that must be changed.

“The way to change it is to do what President Trump is doing in the United States. Win an election. What you have to do is first of all, restore justice and accountability to our justice system. At present, we have a two-tier system where if you tweet something, you could be put in jail, but if you’re found abusing children, you might not be put in jail.

“We have got a major problem with mass immigration, a major problem with de-industrialization, with stagnation. People’s incomes aren’t going up. Things are getting worse. But we have a very powerful establishment that doesn’t want the radical change that our country needs. So, it is a very serious situation we’re in at a very severe level. I believe unless there is change in the next few years, it could become irreversible.”

Dear Readers, We have the same situation in the United States.  Trump is finding it as hard to move against the establishment as PM Truss did in Britain.  Russiagate has been discredited, but now the establishment is coming for Trump with the Epstein documents.

Democracy only works when the people are motivated to be informed.  An insouciant people always succumb to tyranny.  

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$bio: Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.

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