Over the weekend, we saw the inevitable outcome of the largest naval build-up in the Gulf in decades: an earth-shaking display of force by the US and Israel, culminating in surgical strikes against the tyrannical leadership of Iran.
If intelligence is to be believed, whole swathes of Governmental leadership were wiped out with a casualty rate which would have been unthinkable at the start of the century, and the weakening grip that the Ayotollahs hold over the Iranian people has been shaken further to the point where it may not take much for the public to finally be able to free themself of almost 50 years of tyranny.
You would think that the death of brutal dictators - who oversaw the indiscriminate deaths of tens if not hundreds of thousands of protestors down the years - would be welcomed by the leftist protestors who have spent the last few years in the streets talking about human rights, justice, and freedom.
Surely, our streets would be clogged with the throng of bodies with Socialist Workers Party placards, megaphones, and flares, chanting in support of President Trump for freeing millions of people from the yoke of despotism.
I mean, sure, the left didn’t come out to protest in support of the thousands of protestors who were gunned down by Iranian authorities, but maybe they were just busy. They would come out this time, right?
The London Mayor has had plenty to say on Gaza. Where is he now Islamists are in retreat? I know - Susan Hall
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Well, they did, but predictably so. Tears, floods of tears, that the US was engaging in illegal wars. Protestors flocked to Parliament Square to decry the strikes, imperialism, and the United States.
No “thank you”s for strategically removing some of the most evil men in contemporary history: no, instead, we got chants supporting Iran against the US, attended by the usual suspects.
It’s a disgrace, I’ll tell you that, and it exposes that to these unwashed masses, the veneer of “human rights” exists just to beat us over the head with, not the real dictators or imperialists who murder indiscriminately.
And where is Sadiq Khan in all of this? Conspicuously missing. Londoners - who have had to endure Islamists on the streets for three years now - are facing down the prospect of more intimidating protests, more disobedience, more abuse.
Stretched policing budgets will be stretched further to accommodate the legions of sycophants for the Iranian regime, and we will be told to accept it as the new “normal”.
Well, I don’t think it is normal, and I don’t think it should be allowed to be normal.
These protestors have exposed that “human rights”, “international law”, and their concerns about freedom are just useful vehicles for hating Britain, America, and Israel, when it suits them.
There is no moral consistency or position: there is just naked opportunism, dressed in the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah, now littering the streets of London. I hope the Mayor sees sense and puts a stop to this - but I won’t hold my breath.