May God have mercy on their souls.
Early last November, during a heated discussion with her fellow passengers on a crowded Wimbledon to Croydon tram, a grumpy and stressed 34-year-old former dental receptionist named Emma West proffered up some rather un-PC opinions about immigration and what she saw as the loss of Britain’s identity. The single mother of two remained in her seat throughout, and issued no threats, either physical or verbal, but she complained – profanely – that Britain’s identity has been lost due to excessive immigration (she singled out Poles, Nicaraguans, and “blacks”) and opined that these people should go back and “sort out (their) own countries.”
She was to pay a massive price. At the time, British Transport officers merely escorted her off the tram and waited with her for the next one, but after one of her fellow passengers posted a cellphone video (language warning) of the incident a few weeks later, a nationwide womanhunt commenced – even the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party got in on the act, issuing an “important appeal” to track her down – and on November 29th West was arrested and charged with racially-aggravated harassment. Denied bail over fears of revenge attacks after her home address was widely circulated online, the distraught West was sent to a category A prison (“the highest security prison in England…for ‘prisoners…whose escape would be highly dangerous to the public or national security’”) and had her children taken away from her by social services.
Now infamous, West became an unwitting lightning rod for inflamed passions on both sides of the immigration debate. British journalist and CNN host Piers Morgan tweeted that she should be deported, scores of “anti-racist” online commenters called for her to be beaten and/or raped, and multiple death threats were issued. On the other side, anti-immigration proponents and white nationalists appropriated her image, and almost bizarrely deified her.
Tough gig for a single working-class mum with a history of severe depression.
A week after Emma West was arrested and jailed, four Somali-born Muslim women who had brutally assaulted a passer-by, rendering her bloody and unconscious with kicks to the head while shouting “kill the white slag!” and “white b****!”, walked free from court. None of them had been charged with any race-related offences.
[H/T - Posted by EBD at December 31, 2011 8:07 PM @ SDA.]
