Back in November, the State Department warned that “mass migration poses an existential threat to western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies.” In February, in his address to the Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio expanded on that theme. After the Berlin Wall fell, Rubio noted, many in the West thought “the end of history” had finally arrived. Utopia was nigh. Western nations opened their borders, forsook spending on defense in order to bolster the welfare state and “outsourced” their national sovereignty. This was, Rubio warned, to ignore both human nature as well as the lessons of “over 5,000 years of recorded human history. And it has cost us dearly.” He continued:

[W]e opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people. We made these mistakes together, and now, together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward, to rebuild.

That is the goal: a new western unity shaped by a frank acknowledgment of past folly.

Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old university student in Southampton, England, was murdered by Vickrum Singh Digwa, a British Sikh, last December. Nowak encountered Digwa after leaving a pub. An altercation ensued. Digwa stabbed Nowak five times. He then filmed Nowak, taunting him as he bled. When the police arrived, they took Digwa’s side: he had falsely accused Nowak of uttering something “racist.” Nowak told the police nine times that he had been stabbed. “I don’t think you have, mate,” said one officer. “I can’t breathe,” Nowak moaned. The police handcuffed him. They dragged him across the road and read him his rights. Then he died.

If this happened in early December, why is it only in early June that Nowak’s murder made international headlines, sparked demonstrations across England and shook Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government to its core? Because it was only in early June, following Digwa’s trial, that the police bodycam footage and Digwa’s video were released. The public outrage was immediate and extreme. Digwa was convicted of murder. But where was the government? When the career criminal George Floyd died while resisting arrest in Minneapolis in 2020, Starmer hopped on the maudlin bandwagon of politically correct liberal guilt and publicly took the knee.

So far, Starmer’s most prominent response to Nowak’s murder is anger at J.D. Vance for criticizing the policies that foster such crimes. “Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies,” Vance said, “abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants.”

When an interviewer asked David Lammy, Starmer’s deputy, whether he would take the knee for Nowak, he gibbered for a moment and then said no. All across England, however, ordinary citizens have been flocking to local police stations to demonstrate and take the knee. They see the reality. If you are white, you are, de facto, a second-class citizen. The law will bend over backwards to favor migrants and minorities. Hold a Bible, a Union Flag, or be “conspicuously Jewish” in public and you risk arrest.

Of course, this double standard is not confined to England. In Sweden, an Eritrean migrant convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl was allowed to remain in the country after a judge ruled that the incident was not an “exceptionally serious crime.” In Germany, nine men – several of whom were migrants – were convicted for the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl. A German woman who insulted one of the rapists online was given a harsher sentence than the perpetrators.

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