There is still someone in the UK who makes sense

From The Brussels Journal:

A quote from Jasper Gerard in The Observer, 7 January 2007

[Simone Clarke] might be a nut, but why crack her with a sledgehammer? If you can no longer hold views liberal society rightly regards as repugnant, how liberal is your society? […] We are faced with McCarthyism in reverse, an illiberal liberalism. Perhaps we should call it Livingstonism, after Ken. Or maybe Stourtonism, for its home is the BBC.

Of course the tactics of smear which go under the name "McCarthyism" are the stock-in-trade of the left. Since they cannot win a debate with logic and facts they resort to personal attacks. They use loaded terms like "Nazi" or "fascist" or "racist" in order to shut down debate.

People like Simone Clarke and her BNP who stand up to them and refuse to be intimidated are their worst nightmare and must be hammered into submission or destroyed outright. For if the smears lose their power to frighten the left loses its power.

The lynching continues

Paul Belien has some comments on the ongoing situation in England involving Simone Clarke the leading ballerina at the English National Ballet. Ms. Clarke was recently outed by the far left-wing newspaper The Guardian as a member of the BNP, a political party which worries about the uncontrolled immigration into the UK of islamist militants, rising crime rates and confiscatory taxes.

Mr. Belien compares Simone Clarke to Katharina Blum the heroine of the Heinrich Böll novel The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum:

. . . In the story the reporter, Werner Tötges, works for Die Zeitung, a right-wing mass circulation paper. Tötges deliberately ruins the life of Katharina Blum, a divorced housewife, who has met Ludwig Götten, a bank robber on the run from the police.
Katharina is innocent. She does not know who Götten, whom she bumped into at a carnival party, really is. Nevertheless, since Götten has escaped the law, Tötges concocts a story depicting Katharina as Götten’s accomplice. The journalist tracks down her friends and family, including her ex-husband, and publishes a wild story in which Katharina Blum is depicted as a fervent communist and an accomplice of Götten.

In order to set the record straight, Katharina agrees to grant Tötges an interview. The journalist, however, distorts her story to inform his readers how “cold and calculating” she is and to cast suspicion on her socialist father and brother. Die Zeitung crushes Katharina and her family completely, causing the death of her sick mother. When finally Tötges forces his way into Katharina’s home and proposes to let her off the hook if they have sex together, she ends the ordeal by shooting him, aware that her life has been utterly destroyed.

I very highly recomend going over and reading Mr. Belien's entire post. Europe is growing progressively less free on an almost daily basis. The fact is that they are an ally to the United States in name only and will soon not even be that.