I read Boris Johnson comment on Barrack Obama
intervention into the Referendum campaign. He called him “half
Kenyan” , I saw the sneer in Nigel Farage face when he talked of
Obama removing the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. I
remember reading Churchill's comment on Gandhi describing him as a
“savage in a loin cloth”. I realised that all of them were saying
the same thing yet the words they wanted to say was that Obama was a
black man who had gone to far. In the debate Sen.
John McCain
had accused Obama using the phrase “people like you” . Its quite
clear what they mean the prejudice runs so deep. Here is a quote from
Johnson in the Spectator “ It
is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly
because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving
piccaninnies “ he
goes on “and
the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see
the big white chief
“ If you donrt believe me here is the link www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3571742/If-Blairs-so-good-at-running-the-Congo-let-him-stay-there.html
I can understand ordinray people who are vulnerable
because of low income, of the stories they read in the press ,
because they are at the mercy of large corporations and are afraid.
There was a film made called “it happened here” It was very
controversial because it interviews neo Fascists from the UK and
placed them into the film. It
Happened Here (also
known as It
Happened Here: The Story of Hitler's England)
is a black-and white 1964 British World
War II film
written, produced and directed by Kevin
Brownlow and Andrew
Mollo,
who began work on the film as teenagers. The film's largely amateur
production took some eight years, using volunteer actors with some
support from professional film maker.
It
Happened Here is
set in an alternate
history where
the United
Kingdom has
been invaded and occupied by Nazi
Germany.
The plot follows the experiences of an Irish nurse working in
England, who encounters people who believe collaboration with the
invaders is for the best whilst others are involved in the resistance
movement against the occupiers and their local collaborators.
The
film opens with the statement: "The German
invasion of Britain took
place in 1940 after the retreat
from Dunkirk."
After months of fierce resistance and brutal reprisals, the occupying
forces manage to restore order, largely suppressing the resistance
movement. However, due to demands from the Ural
Mountains front,
most German troops are eventually removed from Western Europe, and
the garrisoning of
Britain is largely carried out by local volunteers to the German army
and the SS.
England
appears to be governed by the British
Union of Fascists (the
situation in the rest of the British Isles is unclear but presumably
similar); the followers are referred to as "Blackshirts",
wear uniforms with the Flash
and Circle,
and a framed portrait of Oswald
Mosley appears
in a government building, alongside one of Adolf
Hitler.
Meanwhile, the United States, having entered the war, stations
its U.S.
Seventh Fleet off
Ireland. The Americans begin bombing raids on the south west coast of
England, as well as supplying men and equipment to a resurgent
partisan movement.
Set
in 1944–1945, the story focuses on an apolitical Irish district
nurse,
Pauline. Following an upsurge in partisan activity in her area, she
is forcibly evacuated from her village by the Germans and their
collaborators and
witnesses an attack on German forces by a group of British partisans,
during which a number of her friends from the village are killed in
the crossfire. The attack (and more particularly the deaths)
influences her subsequent views and decisions.
She
is evacuated to London,
where she reluctantly becomes a collaborator, joining the medical
wing of the Immediate Action Organisation (IAO), a kind of
quasi-paramilitary medical corps and is re-trained as an ambulance
attendant. Although at first reluctant and intent on remaining
apolitical, Pauline begins to show the effects of
fascist indoctrination in
her behaviour. It is a reunion with old friends
(an antifascist doctor
and his wife) that gives Pauline pause and when she subsequently
discovers they are harbouring an injured partisan she reluctantly
agrees to help.
Gradually
Pauline learns more about the impacts of the German occupation and
she sees her friends arrested. The discovery of her association with
the antifascist couple by her superiors in the IAO leads to her
demotion and transfer to another part of the country. She welcomes
the move at first, as her new job appears to have less of the
paramilitary trappings. However Pauline discovers that she has
unwittingly taken part in a forced
euthanasia programme and
killed a group of foreign forced labourers who had
contracted tuberculosis.
The
film ends with Pauline being arrested after protesting and refusing
to continue but before she can be put on trial, she is captured by
the resurgent British Resistance and agrees to work for them as they
fight to liberate the country with the help of arriving American
troops. In the finale, Pauline tends a group of wounded partisans
while, out of her view, a large group of soldiers from the Black
Prince Regiment of the British Legion of the Waffen-SS who
had surrendered are summarily shot, a scene reminiscent of an SS
massacre of civilians earlier in the film.
In
the film a character says “ There is a problem getting rid of
fascism because there is a bit of it in all of us” You could see in
in the reaction of Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Sen.
John McCain
to a blackman who got above his station .
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