Charlottesville and the Car-Crash Policing of a Demonstration
Imagine for a moment that you have just attended your first political demonstration, a demonstration that had been billed as a peaceful event, but which had ended in violent turmoil. Picture a scene in which you form up at the designated location with your fellow demonstrators and suddenly find yourself under violent attack from counterdemonstrators dressed in riot gear, wielding baseball bats and metal poles and armed with pepper spray. Worse still, you witness one…
Multiculturalism, Terrorism and the Sad Inevitability of Intercommunal Violence.
During the last forty-eight hours the news has been dominated by reports of a random, cowardly, ill-conceived and deplorable attack on members of the Muslim community of Finsbury Park, London. The attack appears to have been carried out by a man who has no previous history of racist or Islamophobic behaviour; who has no history of membership of so-called ‘far-right’ groups or political parties; who has according to the police, ‘no far-right digital footprint’; and who was…
When Two Tribes Go To War!
By Max Musson: It is well understood that the social dynamics of all multiracial and multicultural societies drive ethnic minorities to organise in their own interests, and where societies are transitioning from an originally homogenous state towards multiculturalism, the actions of organised minorities inevitably militate against the interests of the original host community. Furthermore, host communities that do not respond by organising to prevent the undermining of their ethnic interests, and ethnic minorities that do…
Russian Militancy Appears Effective
By Max Musson: Following violent clashes between police and nationalist demonstrators in Moscow over the last few days, Moscow police have moved to arrest as many as 1200 immigrants across the capital in an effort to defuse tension. Last Sunday night’s rioting in the southern Biryulyovo residential district of Moscow erupted after hundreds of Russians gathered at the spot where Egor Shcherbakov, 25, was stabbed and killed in front of his girlfriend on the previous Thursday…
Do Bad Things With You …
By Max Musson: Years ago the story lines of horror films often featured vampires, and in those early films the vampire was always the villain, visiting terror upon some hapless Transylvanian community, until a suitably handsome hero came to the rescue, saving the community preyed upon, and of course the obligatory fair maiden, from the clutches of evil. Increasingly however, first vampires and now werewolves and other demons are being portrayed in a sympathetic light.…