{"id":1197136,"date":"2022-01-07T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197136"},"modified":"2022-01-07T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:34:34","slug":"delingpole-only-the-states-useful-idiots-can-tear-down-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delingpole-only-the-states-useful-idiots-can-tear-down-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"Delingpole: Only the State&#039;s Useful Idiots Can Tear Down Statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdelingpole-only-the-states-useful-idiots-can-tear-down-statues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197136&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1248165445-e1641559596837-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">There\u2019s a truly hideous statue in Ilfracombe, Devon that I want to tear down and drag into the sea. \u2018Verity\u2019 is a 66-foot high steel and bronze sculpture of a pregnant woman brandishing a sword, with her flesh partially cut away so that you can see the skull beneath the skin of her head and the foetus in her belly. It\u2019s by Damien Hirst and it manages to be crass, woke, nauseating, fatuous, ugly and insulting all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and while we\u2019re about it, let\u2019s pull down the statue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/12\/27\/big-brother-surveillance-cameras-installed-at-the-grave-of-karl-marx\/\">Karl Marx in Highgate cemetery<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>So do you think when I destroy these monstrosities I\u2019m going to get let off by the courts, as has just happened to four Bristol trustafarian types \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/06\/blm-statue-toppling-colston-four-case-found-not-guilty\/\">so-called Colston Four<\/a> \u2014 who pulled down a statue of Edward Colston and dumped it in the city docks with the police looking on uselessly?<\/p>\n<p>My guess is not, because there is now a two-tier legal system operating in the UK: one part of it rewards and applauds stooges of the Establishment; the other part crushes enemies of that Establishment. It is not about justice let alone equality before the law. It is about maintaining the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>When that quartet of bourgeois milquetoasts pulled down the statue of Colston they were not engaging in an act of rebellion but licking the Establishment\u2019s boots.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BLM Statue Toppling: Colston Four Case Found Not Guilty <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V18k1i1kpB\">https:\/\/t.co\/V18k1i1kpB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1479065209478156290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2021 (when the incident occurred), there was nothing brave or countercultural, let alone radical, about vandalising property in the name of combating racism or supporting Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>How could it be when the entirety of the Establishment was committed to the same cause? BLM\u2019s supporters included the MPs (included Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer) who grovelled before it in parliament; the policemen who took the knee in homage to it; the headmasters of all the ritzy private schools who incorporated its toxic critical race theory nonsense into their curricula; the legacy media, such as the <em>Mail On Sunday<\/em>, which rewarded one of its marches with a fawning double-page spread.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for Extinction Rebellion and its various offshoots. Sure, MPs might have pretended to deplore the vandalism, the disruption, the economic damage being committed by these eco-loons as they shut down public highways and city centres. But in reality, they would never have got away with these stunts if they hadn\u2019t been given tacit official approval.<\/p>\n<p>XR has been getting away with murder because the Establishment has allowed them to get away with murder. The Johnson regime needed to give the impression that its eco-fascist Net Zero policies had popular support. Those XR demonstrations provided the government with the fig leaf it needed. They said: \u201cLook, Britain really cares about the planet. So when the government comes to confiscate your petrol car and your gas-fired boiler and deprives you of your holidays abroad it\u2019s only doing what you asked it to do\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Now imagine for a moment it had been anti-lockdown, or anti-vaccine-passporters who\u2019d pulled down a statue or committed Extinction Rebellion levels of disruption and vandalism. The police would have come down on them like a ton of bricks and the sentences would have been brutal.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because, unlike XR and the BLM crowd, people who oppose the bio-security tyranny slowly strangling Britain are not the stooges and useful idiots of the Establishment. They are its enemies \u2013 and will be treated by Britain\u2019s biased and iniquitous justice system accordingly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The jury that let the Colston Four of the hook, let\u2019s face it, was the product of decades of Establishment brainwashing. All they needed to hear was the trigger word \u2018racism\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/06\/blm-statue-toppling-colston-four-case-found-not-guilty\/\">and to be told to make sure their decision was \u201con the right side of history\u201d<\/a> to know that they had to let the Colston Four free because to do otherwise would have meant that they thought \u2018racism\u2019 was a good thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">60 Per Cent of Britons Reject Higher Taxes to Fulfil BoJo\u2019s Green Agenda<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1mQmismRhP\">https:\/\/t.co\/1mQmismRhP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1478712892794957826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The same goes for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/crime\/extinction-rebellion-activists-cleared-criminal-damage-shell-protest-court-b931419.html\">the trial last year where six XR demonstrators were cleared of criminal damage<\/a>. All their barristers had to do was say the magic words \u2018climate emergency\u2019 and, lo, the jury just knew like the pre-programmed drones they were that the only verdict could be \u2018not guilty.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>So it really takes the biscuit to hear various government ministers lining up to say how appalled they were by the jury\u2019s decision in the Colston Four trial. What else did they expect in a climate which MPs like themselves did more than anyone to create? MPs are forever draping themselves in the mantle of anti-racism, either out of opportunism or fear that if they don\u2019t it might look like they are pro-racism. It was they themselves who stoked the divisive atmosphere in Britain whereby any race-baiting scumbag with a cheap point to make can do so confident in the knowledge that the system won\u2019t hold them to account.<\/p>\n<p>But things are actually even more sinister than I have just suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2022\/01\/06\/take-vandalism-seriously-police-warned-downing-street-colston\/\">quoted<\/a> in the <em>Telegraph<\/em>, from the noisome Grant Shapps:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, said it amounted to \u201cmob rule\u201d and that forthcoming legislation would \u201cplug a gap\u201d on the vandalisation of statues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must live in a society where people can\u2019t go around destroying public property and be able to walk away from it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are introducing, via the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, new measures which would potentially plug a gap and make it absolutely clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or this one from an MP whose surname must surely be some kind of rhyming slang.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tom Hunt, another Tory MP, appeared to suggest jury trials should be abandoned in statue vandalism cases, saying: \u201cIf the jury is a barrier to ensuring they are punished, then that needs to be addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you see what\u2019s going on here? In the guise of responding to public outrage about a court\u2019s apparent endorsement of vandalising public property in the name of worthy causes, some of the dodgier, more authoritarian MPs are agitating for measures that will further criminalise public protests, and are even arguing for the suspension of trial by jury.<\/p>\n<p>The British Establishment is pushing us ever closer to totalitarian tyranny. Incidents like the Colston Four trial verdict are just part of the smokescreen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a truly hideous statue in Ilfracombe, Devon that I want to tear down and drag into the sea. \u2018Verity\u2019 is a 66-foot high steel and bronze sculpture of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}