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Britain Lets Rapists Go Free, Imprisons Nonviolent Patriots for Criticizing Police. Now One Is Dead

Peter Lynch was guilty of the crime formerly known as "free speech."

By Gavin Ashenden Published on October 25, 2024

For about 20 years, I have been expressing my concerns about a strange apprehension I had that after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the East and the West would exchange cultures. There would be a totalitarian/democratic inversion. It’s difficult to explain an intuition, but my sense that this is correct has hardened significantly in the last few weeks.

England has arguably convicted its first political prisoner. And tragically, on Oct. 19 he died in prison by his own hand.

His crime? Speaking up about the unchecked immigration policy and double standards that are currently wreaking havoc across Great Britain.  

Police and Politicians Collude to Disrupt Normal Life

Peter Lynch was a 61-year-old grandfather who, like the vast majority of people in United Kingdom, had felt his frustration about uncontrolled immigration grow to a bursting point. It was always going to be clear that there was going to be a bursting point; but no one quite knew when it was.

But for reasons that the state has managed so far to keep completely opaque, an African youth who was brought up in Wales — a child of African immigrants, religion so far unknown — inexplicably stabbed three young white girls to death in Southport, a sleepy town in northwest England.

In the absence of any information, it was not surprising that the general public, knowing that there is only one group of people that overwhelmingly engage in murderous knife crime, came to the conclusion that this was some form of Islamic terrorism at the hands of a recent immigrant.

They were one generation off, but it was an easy mistake to make.

A Muslim Invasion, Enabled by the Government

The general public knows very well that most of the millions of immigrants who have flooded into the United Kingdom in the last few years are young Muslim men whose values and culture are very different from the host nation upon which they have imposed themselves without invitation.

There is a profound anger, particularly among middle-aged Brits who are old enough to know some history and responsible enough to care, that the government is not only doing nothing to protect them against this onslaught, but is actually acting as an agent of this anarchy.

The police have allowed thousands of Muslims to kneel in prayer outside the prime minister’s office, blocking the London roads … while arresting a single white man on the south coast who bowed his head bowed near an abortion clinic to silently pray for the soul of his aborted child.

It is, of course, the biologically evolved role of middle-aged men in particular to defend their daughters, their children, their households, and their culture from the invasion of people who appear only too ready to rape and murder the citizens.

So you could argue that Peter Lynch was extraordinarily restrained when he attended an anti-immigration protest near a migrant hotspot called Rotherham on Aug. 4. He held a placard accusing the police, Parliament, and the media of being corrupt. Technically, he was right. The police, on the instruction of Parliament and supported by the media, have been enforcing a set of Islamicized double standards.

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They have treated Islamic pro-Palestinian Muslim demonstrators with a tender, almost avuncular concern as they have screamed for the mass killing of Jews and the genocide of Israelis from the river to the sea.

They have allowed thousands of Muslims to kneel in prayer outside the prime minister’s office, blocking the London roads and protecting them from any disturbance, while arresting a single white man on the south coast who bowed his head near an abortion clinic to silently pray for the soul of his aborted child.

Both groups technically broke the law. But it seems only the white indigenous English are arrested.

Peter Lynch felt very angry about that, and put it on his placard. Although he had recently had a heart attack, he risked raising his blood pressure to shout at the police during the demonstration.

Sent to Prison for Raising His Voice

Shouting at police during demonstrations is natural. It’s the whole point of a demonstration. Lynch was filmed calling the police “scum.” He committed no violence, nor was he responsible for any damage, criminal or otherwise.


But the criminal law has a very wide definition of “disorder,” so technically he may very well have been part of a situation which constituted social disorder. It has to be pointed out, however, that this is a matter of police discretion.

A Fascist Crackdown in Britain

Lying behind all this, I see a new political strategy. It is almost certain that the ruthlessness of the police, and later the judiciary, reflected instructions flowing from a profound governmental anxiety that the political lid was about to be blown off the system.

Conservatives were decimated at the polls because of their refusal to deal with immigration in the slightest degree. In fact, in the last two years of a conservative government, nearly two million people were added to the British population. The candidates were repudiated on a wave of severe popular anger.

And so the Labour government, which is even more supportive of this extra extraordinary Europe-wide immigration phenomenon, knew very well that the population was close to breaking point. The implications are very severe. Democracy itself is under profound strain.

So instructions were sent both to the police and the judiciary that those demonstrating against immigration were to be treated with the greatest judicial severity. The background to this is that lawyers can only become judges in Britain today if they can prove to the appointing committee that they have gone out of their way to promote what we call wokeness (or “wokery” in the UK) — i.e., the DEI agenda.

In other words, the judiciary is comprised of people who have signaled to the government that they are aligned with the values and purposes of the far political left. They are, therefore, political appointees.

Prisons Are Only for Indigenous Englishmen

Therefore, when the government signaled to the police and judiciary that they wanted the indigenous English treated with an iron fist if they stepped one inch out of line, both the police and the judiciary were only too pleased to comply. People expressing their frustration on social media and  the public square were visited by police at home, arrested, and given jail sentences of three years or longer.

That is what happened to Peter Lynch. He pled guilty to “violent disorder” on Aug. 22 and then reported to prison to serve out a sentence of two years and eight months.

At the same time (just to rub salt into the wound of the captive indigenous population), murderers, rapists, swindlers, bank robbers, child molesters, and a variety of other social misfits were released halfway through their sentences because the jails were full in order to make room for those guilty of using what was formerly known as free speech.

There is no record of what made Peter Lynch take his own life. But it’s very likely that it involved a combination of shock, surprise, betrayal, and despair.

Shock at being arrested; surprise at being a given a criminal record for protesting; betrayal that the police could no longer be trusted to act for him rather than against him as a citizen; and despair because it’s only going to get worse before it gets better — if it does, indeed, get better.

Is Civil War on the Way?

Six years ago, a senior politician in the House of Lords asked me when I thought we would find ourselves involved in full-scale civic disorder verging on civil war. I didn’t know when it was going to happen, but I was fairly sure that it would happen.

Elon Musk has recently been saying similar things. Perhaps the one hopeful element we have is that, because of Musk’s generosity and farsightedness, we have a platform which allows us to tell the truth about what is happening, whereas on Facebook and other platforms we would be smothered and muzzled. And being able to tell the truth provides a modicum of hope.

The government, meanwhile, continues to be afraid, threatening to use the heaviest of hands to silence all dissent from the indigenous population. They know there are thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — of men like Peter Lynch, who are unlikely to continue to sit at home much longer while their own country and culture are subverted at the hands of those nominally elected to govern them.

When asked what worried him most in political life, the former Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan famously replied, “Events, dear boy, events.”

No one could foresee that a deranged black second-generation immigrant would slice the throats of three young white Welsh girls attending a dance class, for no discernible reason. But the ensuing outrage, frustration, and despair very nearly caused a political earthquake. It was contained this time.

Next time?

 

Gavin Ashenden is associate editor of the Catholic Herald. Formerly a priest of the Church of England, and subsequently a continuing Anglican bishop, he was appointed Chaplain to the Queen from 2008 until his resignation in 2017.