‘Black Lives Matter’ Demo and the Grand Old Duke of York

The Grand Old Duke of York was famous for having 10,000 men, and according to nursery rhyme, for marching them up to the top of the hill and marching them down again!

Sadly, the moral of this ancient ditty is rather lost on many people nowadays, so let me explain:

In just over two weeks’ time we will commemorate the 104^th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, a bloody affair in which 3 million combatants took part and more than a million died. During the battle which lasted six months, British and French forces advanced just five miles into German held territory. None-the-less, it was heralded by some as a great victory, but it was in fact a pyric victory, in which the cost in human lives lost far outweighed any advantage obtained by gaining those few precious miles. However it could have been much worse.

Imagine the consternation that would have been felt among British forces had the British and French generals commanding the allied forces recalled all their men once the battle was over, and marched them all off to some delightful hostelry in Amiens for a knees-up, some 20 miles back from the front.

Imagine also the consternation among British forces had the Germans responded by re-occupying the land they had just lost and which the British and French forces had previously won at such great cost?

In short, had this happened there would have been a mutiny among British and French forces, outraged by the pointless loss of so many of their fallen comrades with the land won at such great cost being carelessly given back to the enemy. This of course is something that didn’t happen and simply wouldn’t happen in real warfare, but it is analogous to a tragic strategic mistake that certain patriotic groups and certain patriotic leaders keep repeating, time and time again.

The last time I wrote on this subject was in January 2016 shortly after what was described by some as the ‘Battle of Dover’.

In the article I wrote then, I stated, “Saturday’s skirmish will have served to bolster our morale and no doubt many nationalists will be eager to taste similar ‘victories’ in the future, but a measure of what was achieved on Saturday can be gleaned by observing what is different in Dover today, compared with Friday?

“Today there is no great nationalist presence in Dover and life has returned to normal, in which illegal immigrants still steal their way into our country on the backs of hapless lorry driver’s vehicles.

“The nationalist movement has acted like an army that has expended much time, energy and manpower in taking from our enemies a strategically vital piece of ground, only to immediately vacate that hard won ground and retreat to the warmth and hospitality of the nearest public house.

“Today, the state apparatus that conspires to bring about our displacement and race replacement is once again in control of Dover and the invasion continues unabated.”

I continued, “Ours was but a fleeting victory, the glory of which has been snatched back from us by virtue of the fact that we currently lack the resources needed to occupy and hold that strategic port. Indeed, I will wager that none of the organisers of Saturday’s campaign gave a moment’s thought to the task of occupying and holding Dover in order to permanently halt the invasion. The leaders of the various groups who took part in Saturday’s demonstrations claim that we are involved in a ‘war’ and yet they failed to think and plan as the leaders of an army involved in warfare should. Sadly, Saturday was but a brief glimpse of what could be achieved if we were properly mobilised, nothing more.”

Today, an ‘army’ of nationalists and patriots descended upon London and other large towns and cities with the intention of protecting our national monuments and with the intention, if necessary of putting the Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) hooligans to flight. However, even if as some had hoped, patriots had given the enemy a ‘good hiding’ and there had been a glorious victory on the ‘battlefield’ of London’s streets, unless we have the capacity to keep patriots permanently stationed around the sacred monuments, tomorrow those monuments will be just as vulnerable to attack from Antifa/BLM as they were yesterday.

Worse still is the fact that the patriots who turned out today to defend our monuments were kettled by the police and were allowed to drink beer until enough of them reached a point of intoxication beyond which they were incapable of controlling their anger and instead of putting on a display of disciplined men showing restraint and an iron hard resolve to do their duty and conduct themselves in a way that would make our fallen heroes of the past proud, they ended up brawling with the police in front of TV cameras, looking for all the world indistinguishable from the hooligans we watched damaging Edward Colston’s and Winston Churchill’s statues last week.

Even if todays’ protests by patriots had gone to plan, it is of little use acting like the ‘Grand Old Duke of York’, and having marched our men to the top of the hill, to march them home again — travelling home and leaving vulnerable to our enemies the monuments we have managed to protect for just one day.

BLM have identified around 70 monuments that they wish to destroy and if we are to safeguard those monuments we will need manpower and resources that are simply beyond our means at present. The only way we can defend these monuments and statues in the long-term is too gain the enormous financial wherewithal necessary to put in place a permanent guard.

However, to have as our aim the provision of a permanent guard for our national monuments, is to accept that we can do nothing about the demographic situation in this country. It is to accept that we can do nothing about the imposition of a multiracial society against our will and that we must content ourselves with simply fighting a desperate rear-guard action rather than fighting to win our country back.

Our primary aim must be to halt and reverse the current open door immigration policy imposed by successive Labour and Tory governments and if this is to be done we must spend a number of years stock-piling funds and building a nationalist infrastructure so that we can mount a concerted campaign and not have a situation in which our activists need to go home at the end of each day because they have work tomorrow!

Let me once more remind you of the words of Dr William Pierce, which are being used metaphorically here, from his speech entitled, ‘Our Cause’:

“We have enormously difficult problems. If we are to solve them at all, we must tackle them with more determination, more tenacity, and more fanaticism than they have ever been tackled before. We must prepare ourselves mentally and spiritually for a very long, … and agonizing struggle.

“… We must think of ourselves … as the beginning — the barest beginning — of a mighty ‘army’ whose task is to conquer an entire hostile world. Before the first ‘shot’ is fired we must build our invasion fleet … We must lay in massive supplies … And we must do a hundred other things.

“In other words, we must prepare ourselves for our political struggle before we can count on it yielding anything other than the invariable failure which has rewarded patriots in the past. We must build a foundation which will sustain us for a very long campaign.”

Western Spring have for some years now advocated a massive fund raising effort to raise the funds needed to achieve what I have described as the Six Prerequisites and our efforts in this respect continue. The cornerstone of the Six Prerequisites is the fund raising programme and it is worth considering that today could have been so much more productive for us than it has been.

Today possibly as many as 10,000 patriots travelled to various locations around the country with the intention of defending our national monuments. However, had those 10,000 patriots donated £100 each to our cause instead; they would not have wasted a day on what will turn out to have been a fool’s errand; those individual patriots who were ambushed and beaten up by BLM thugs would not have suffered the injuries they have; the media would not have captured video footage of a minority of patriots disgracing our cause by scuffling with the police; and our movement would have raised £1,000,000. And while £1,000,000 is still nowhere near enough if we are to be ultimately victorious, it would take us £1,000,000 closer to our target and closer to the day upon which we will win our country back.

By Max Musson © 2020