It's a war ... and we are losing CHIEF police officers like to boast that there aren't any "no-go" areas in Britain. Instead, they've created areas where they don't go, where the rule of law is virtually non-existent. Unless, of course, like Tony Martin, you dare to "take the law into your own hands" in defence of yourself or your property. Vast chunks of the nation are now "help yourself" areas as far as burglars and thieves are concerned. The result of The Sun's You The Jury poll doesn't surprise me. I spent most of yesterday sifting through e-mails about Tony Martin's conviction for murder. It was far and away the biggest response I've had since, well, since the column I wrote in the wake of Tony Martin's arrest last August. There is a wave of revulsion from Aberdeen to Anglesey, from Glasgow to Guildford. Britain is united in the belief that there has been a serious miscarriage of justice. Your e-mails make depressing reading. So many of them detail police negligence and dereliction of duty. You contrast their complete indifference towards burglary and car crime with their heavy-handed obsession with minor motoring offences. My contention that the police are frightened of confronting so-called "travellers" is borne out by your own experiences. As I've written before, the police only police those who consent to be policed. Their idea of "community" policing is turning a blind eye to petty crime and drug dealing. This problem isn't just confined to Norfolk. It's the same in rural Scotland and elsewhere in England and Wales. It's acknowledged not just by victims of crime but by ordinary police officers. Front-line coppers are frustrated and angry at the attitudes and priorities of their senior officers. The top brass seem interested solely in advancing their own careers by sucking up to the Guardian readers in the Home Office and pandering to their obsession with the politics of race and sex and the rights of criminals. But it's not only the justice system which is warped. The governance of Britain bears absolutely no relation to the values, beliefs and best interests of the overwhelming number of people who live here. Sometimes it seems to me the country is being run by the Pod People. Where the hell did they all come from? I'll tell you. I deliberately mentioned Guardian readers. For the past 25 years it has been impossible to get a job in the public sector without subscribing to the whole Guardian agenda. It's the only place jobs in teaching, the health service, local government, the social services, the probation service and the civil service are advertised. Now we have a whole generation of politicians who buy the package, too. The prejudices of a smug, self-selecting, metropolitan elite have been imposed ruthlessly on a largely unsuspecting public. I have never known a time when the ideological gap between government and the governed was quite so cavernous. Nor when politicians have shown such contempt towards the paying public. The Guardian Generation have now captured the commanding heights of the state - Parliament, the police, the law, the civil service, the town halls, and they are making huge inroads into the armed forces, our last bastion of excellence. They are the New Establishment I wrote about yesterday. And at the top of the stinking heap sits the Grinning Jackanapes himself and his hideous wife. They have brought with them a rotten criminal justice system, the grotesque compensation culture, lorry loads of regulation and draconian restrictions on free speech and movement. Now they are even targeting private thought. They are also in the process of introducing an alien legal system, one in which Cherie Blair is about to clean up at the expense of the British taxpayer. Don't be surprised if Cherie fronts up the Fred Barras family's claim for compensation. In the interests of human rights, you understand. Anyone who dares disagree with them is smeared as an extremist or part of the dreaded forces of conservatism. But they are the real extremists, on everything from the promotion of homosexuality in schools to their determination to scrap the pound. They pose as liberals, but in reality they are crypto-fascists. And, you know what, they're winning. OK, so we may win the odd skirmish but the war is almost theirs. For instance, we may have forced them to postpone their plans to get rid of the pound but behind the scenes they are relentlessly locking us in to a federal Europe by treaty, by directive, by statutory instrument. Every day, in every area of our lives, the ratchet clicks on another notch. Their agenda is furthered by stealth. We kick up a fuss every now and again, when something like the Tony Martin case focuses our attention. We write to our MPs, call a radio phone-in. There are a few angry editorials in the papers, like this one. But the circus moves on. Nothing ever happens. What they can't get away with today, they sneak through the back door tomorrow. They have stolen the soul of the nation and are remodelling it in their own image. New Britain is not a pretty place. Blair will lie and con his way through the next election and even if by some miracle he loses, it won't make much difference. The apparatus is in place and the revolution will march on regardless until there is nothing left to save. For now, we may clear Tony Martin of murder, but don't bank on it changing anything fundamental. Soon the only "no-go" areas in Britain will be the roads. -------[Cybershooters contacts]-------- Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
