Perfidious Albion
Perfidious Albion
By Taki Theodoracopulos
The American Conservative , February 24, 2003
If you think comedy is dead, take a trip to that filthy, depressing, and
lawless place I wrote about last column. Yes, I'm talking once again about
Britain, where the famed Scotland Yard has just launched an investigation
that could land me in jail for two years.
My crime? In a Spectator column last month I wrote that violent criminals in
London and other big cities in the north of England were mostly black thugs
that belonged to gangs. Here is the Independent newspaper reporting on the
crime of the century and with a very straight face: "The prospect of a
two-year stretch in jail looms for the Greek playboy and columnist. Taki and
the Spectator are being investigated by Scotland Yard over an article he
wrote on January 11. The investigation was triggered by a complaint from
Peter Herbert, a lawyer and member of the Metropolitan Police Authority. The
Yard's Diversity Directorate will assess whether the piece incites racial
hatred and thereby breaks the Public Order Act, for which the maximum
sentence is two years." The Independent, of course, is anything but
independent. It is a slave to politically correct thought. Many British
journalists are not only on the take, they will murder a reputation quicker
than you can say Rupert Murdoch.
Journalists, I would have thought, are supposed to safeguard free speech.
After all, that's how we make our living. Not the Brits. Consumed by class
envy and full of malice, they piled on as soon as they got the news. The
tone of the article made me out to be almost a worse person than the killers
of those two innocent girls. That's par for the course.
The reason I wrote the offending column was very simple. On New Year's Eve,
two young black girls were killed when they were caught in the crossfire of
two rival gangs . The brother of one of the girls was a gang member, ergo
the gunfire. Now although the newspapers were full of columns by outraged
pundits, the fact that the perpetrators were members of a totally black gang
was somehow overlooked. Worse, the area where the killings took place was a
no-go area for white people, another fact overlooked by reporters and
pundits. Here are some more unpleasant truths: violent crime has skyrocketed
in Britain, mostly committed by young, West Indian, unemployed youths.
Politically correct newspapers have been following government guidelines for
years in not mentioning the color of people committing these crimes.
If memory serves, in my article I mentioned that another columnist, one
Melanie Phillips writing in the Daily Mail, had insisted that these gangs of
"disaffected young people" suffered from lack of self-esteem and came from
underprivileged backgrounds. (Phillips is no liberal, but has fallen into
the PC trap). Well, I wrote, I remember millions of people who lost
everything during the war, had very low self-esteem and absolutely no
background, yet managed to live useful and law-abiding lives. This, of
course, is anathema to the new breed of coercive European bureaucrooks
striving to alter our culture and control our behavior and our thoughts. It
is this persistent form of untruthfulness that makes political correctness
so poisonous. It's about pretending that things are different from what they
are. It means adjusting what you say to what you think ought to be true, not
what you actually know to be true.
My friend and colleague George Szamuely was outraged when he read the
Independent's description of yours truly, but he believes it's
government-inspired. I am against the coming war, against Tony Blair, and
against big government. Why not shut the Greek pest up? And what better way
of doing it than by having Scotland Yard's Diversity Directorate decide that
I incited racial hatred and thereby broke the Public Order Act. (I was under
the mistaken impression that the Public Order Act punished people who went
around yelling fire in crowded movie houses). Perfidious Albion indeed.
Actually, I am not a conspiracy theorist, and I think it is an effort by the
PC police not only to throttle free speech, but to warn other writers to toe
the line. What really made me laugh was the sheer envy of the hack who wrote
the story. He brought in the politically incorrect things I have written in
my lifetime-and there are hundreds-but like most English hacks, he got many
facts wrong because he was obviously much too lazy to read his own copy.
The worst charge against me was, "When building a new house he declared that
he would name it Palazzo Pinochet, after the Chilean dictator. General
Franco is another of his heroes ..." (That he got right). Another allegation
was that my wife is a Serene Highness and that my fortune is inherited.
(Meant to incite class warfare, but I'm rather proud of being married to a
princess and having got it the old fashioned way).
I must admit that I've never been very popular with the press. This was
payback. William Kristol, a man I've never met because we don't exactly run
in the same circles, has described me as "loathsome." I agree with him. If I
sold myself to the highest bidder as he does, I would hate someone like me
who cannot be bought. Just before Christmas, one Lloyd Grove, a gossip
columnist for the Washington Post, wrote an item that was totally false, and
I have sixty people who were present as my witnesses. (Many of them
respected journalists and writers, unlike Grove.) Why attack the poor little
rich Greek boy? Why not. Envy and the inability to do anything to my person
drives these cheap hacks nuts.
In the midst of all this the reason I wrote the column has been lost. I was
driven by an overwhelming sense of moral indignation against the Blair
government, which closes its eyes to the problem of black crime. (Mostly
black on black).
Now the Blair government and Scotland Yard might be able to do something.
But before the neocons begin to celebrate, I advise them to hold the
champagne. I do not push around easily and have the financial means to
defend myself up to the highest court of law. I am an American citizen, and
English law can shove it-especially the Yard's Diversity Directorate.
Let this be a lesson to all of us. As Sidney Hook wrote, "The cardinal sin,
when we are looking for truth of fact or wisdom of policy, is refusal to
discuss." The bureaucrooks who now run Europe will not discuss immigration
or race because they know they will be shown to have been totally dishonest.
It took the murder of Pim Fortuyn to convince the Dutch that Muslim
immigrants brought intolerance with them and that since Europe and the
United States are predominantly white societies rooted in Christianity, our
responsibility to immigrants is to bring them into our culture- not the
other way round. What those fat European politicos want-and the Brits are at
the head-is to turn the continent into a Total State, a regime that will
force people to be ashamed and frightened even to acknowledge the slightest
difference between cultures. The power of political correctness has so
corrupted the media that even the few conservative papers left are full of
odious drivel about hate crimes, sex education for three-year-olds, and
diversity.
Scotland Yard, instead of chasing crooks, has fired a shot across my bow. It
is a laughable shot, almost as funny as the charge of anti-Semitism against
Pat Buchanan. When the politically correct cannot win an argument, they
charge racism, anti-Semitism, meat eating, cigarette smoking. Scotland Yard
investigating whether or not I incited racial hatred is as absurd as Bill
Clinton pretending to tell the truth. Stay tuned, as they say.
date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:44:19 GMT
author: Avenger
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