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The New Normal

It's only a matter of time before Europes problems cross the Atlantic.

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If you’ve been paying attention you would think that planning a vacation anywhere in Europe would be a bit like playing a game of minesweeper. That one would have to be slightly insane to spend a week in London, which at the time of writing this was one of the highest risk cities for an attack in Europe.But this is exactly what my family and I did, seeing how the cost to visit the UK is at a historic low thanks to Brexit.

Now I’ve written about the current civil conflicts in Europe previously, and all it took was a quick stroll through Hyde park’s speakers corner to confirm everything I’ve heard from an ocean away.Black Lives Matter has made it over to the UK, in an effort to combat what little racism is present in the UK there was a speaker on the corner angrily demanding that passersby tell him why they hated black people. As you could imagine, he was surrounded by only a handful of people who were looking on out of sheer curiosity/confusion as to what he was on about. The UK doesn’t have race issues, they have Ideological issues, as evidenced by the scene only a couple of yards further down the footpath. Where there was a patriotic black Christian preacher shouting over the massive crowd gathered before him at the Imam directly across from him, who was busy condemning Israel and trying to convince the crowd that Laura Bush was a Muslim. This very brief spectacle of public debate set the tone for the rest of my visit.

You see Britain, and by extension Europe, are currently engaged in a two front war. The first being the Propaganda war, which is essentially just the shouting match I described to you on a macro scale.And walking through the streets of the west end, it’s clear which side has the advantage. On two separate occasions I saw men with beards and skullcaps passing out pamphlets about the glory of Islam and Allah, with the odd Omni-bus with the message Subhan Allah on it. Think about that for a moment, probably one of the most iconic things about London, now has messages praising Allah. Now call me a xenophobe all you’d like, but when British Muslims are more homophobic than the Muslims in Palestine, we may have to consider the possibility that something is going horribly wrong. If that wasn’t enough do I even need to explain how it feels to go to church in Europe just one week after a priest’s throat was slit in the middle of mass? You can tell which side someone takes by who they silence, and right now there is a concerted effort by government and police to silence any who would criticize the slow erosion of the British Identity. London alone has cobblestone pathways that are older than the United States as a country, that were probably walked by people who helped shape the course of history, and it boggles the mind that they seem so willing to allow that history to be given up, if not at worst feel ashamed of that history. The concepts of Patriotism and nationalism to those in London is such a foreign concept, which would not be a problem if the immigrants and minorities of England and Europe felt the same way. History has always shown that the group with the strongest sense of Identity will always overtake the groups with weaker identities, and it would be inconceivable if the second successful invasion of Britain would be by those she offered refuge to.

The second front in this great war is quite obviously the physical front. Which included in this are movements of people, terror attacks and responses to said attacks. Now as I’m sure you’re all aware mainland Europe bears the brunt of the migrant crisis, but that doesn’t stop migrants from sneaking through to the UK.In fact, the Calais jungle in France routinely has people smugglers that take ISIS fighters into the UK.In the time I was in London I heard about at least two separate incidents where on one occasion a truck full of migrants was caught at the border. Those are just the ones they’ve caught. Now couple that with the fact that more native people are slowly starting to leave the UK and you have a recipe for a cultural takeover.Now that I think about it, with the amount of Saudi funding that European mosques get, this is starting to look like a more devious form of imperialism than just migration.I’m curious as to where all the perpetually outraged liberals are to decry this. Now you may be wondering, what brings someone all that way from “Syria” to Germany, The UK, France and Sweden. The answer at this point seems to be for sluts and handouts, forgive the callousness of that statement but it seems to be the truth at this point. But what happens when the host country says no to this ridiculous demand? Well, they attack and riot.I only just avoided the knife attack in Russel square that left one American dead and five others wounded, and while it hit a little close to home when I first heard about it I began feeling a bit more conflicted when I learned the husband in the group was an open borders advocate.While ISIS supporters and Islamists praised this attack however, this was not one of those situations I described.Despite what you heard I don’t think this was motivated by the desire to wage Jihad. I reached out to somebody who claimed witnessed the aftermath of the attack on yik-yak. What he described was a dark-skinned man writhing around on the ground in police custody, shouting gibberish. He described it as something straight out of the exorcist, which seems to support the claim that this man was mentally ill.What you probably didn’t hear about last week, was the potential attempted car bombing that almost took place in Camden. The official story was that it was simply a suspicious car parked and after a quick inspection was given the all clear by the bomb squad.But if Info-wars is to be believed, it could have been an actual bomb that failed to detonate. So why do I believe Info-wars of all places? Well, I first heard about this from the London snapchat story of all places, and apparently someone who was there when it happened saw something resembling a bomb, and after the official story released decided to reach out to Info-wars with this information. But why not a credible news organization you say? Because London is currently under a severe risk for Terror attacks. ISIS already named it as a target a few weeks ago and the media needs to keep people calm and have them carry on.

Europeans like to shit America for our police state when they now have actual special forces patrolling their cities. Another news worthy event that happened when I was in London is that they Unveiled their new counter terrorism police force, which unsurprisingly is SAS-esque in their utility.

I unfortunately didn’t get to see them but I can tell you its slightly unsettling to see police patrolling with assault rifles anywhere other than the parliament and royal buildings. Even more disturbing is the Brits massive trust of their government as they seem more than willing to surrender their civil liberties as this conflict goes on. Granted London’s police force is many times better than our own but I for one would rather not put too much faith in big brother or his agents.Speaking of big brother by the way there are cameras EVERYWHERE in London. If you ever wondered why all the great dystopian novels take place in London just go for a visit, it’ll become pretty clear.

So why does any of this matter?Why do I pay attention to this shit even when I’m on holiday? Because this is where we could be heading. The UK is our canary in the coal mine for these kinds of issues. And let me tell you the result is a terrifying invisible battle that gets fought every day.And I will raise hell about this to prevent it from becoming the new normal here in the states. But despite everything, Britain has survived much worse, and I have faith they'll survive this as well.

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