There have been a lot of changes in the second Trump administration, as we all know. But there was one change from the very beginning that hasn&#8217;t gotten nearly as much attention as it should. It&#8217;s when Trump stood up during his inauguration speech and invoked the idea of Manifest Destiny, which is of course deeply rooted in the idea of American exceptionalism.
For the first time in many generations, a U.S. president felt no shame in proclaiming that America is the greatest nation on the planet. And crucially, Donald Trump didn&#8217;t make this proclamation as a platitude. He wasn&#8217;t seeking to get a quick sound bite out of it, by reminding people of history class when they heard terms like &#8220;Manifest Destiny&#8221; and American exceptionalism. Instead, Trump meant it, in a practical sense. We&#8217;re the best nation, he said. And therefore we can do what we want. We can impose tariffs and force everyone to the negotiating table. We can deport criminals and ignore corrupt judges who tell us otherwise. In a matter of weeks, we can eliminate bureaucracy, talk about acquiring Greenland, and become energy independent — which is no small thing when the entire continent of Europe teeters on the verge of a blackout.  We can do all of these things because, in very real terms, we are unique. Period. We have a fighting spirit that no other nation on the planet can match.
If you attended college in the last 50 years, you&#8217;ve probably been conditioned not to say things like this. You&#8217;re told it&#8217;s gaudy, or a relic of colonialism or something like that. But it happens to be true. And every day, we&#8217;re reminded it&#8217;s true. We can see, right out in the open, that other nations are inferior to our own. Look closely enough, and you&#8217;ll see that they&#8217;ll admit it. They are preoccupied with their own destruction.
Let&#8217;s start with the UK, which is allegedly one of our closest allies. A couple of weeks ago, you might remember, we <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg3G_P1jO_c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talked about</a> the Netflix show &#8220;Adolescence,&#8221; and how it&#8217;s essentially taken over the entire country. 
&#8220;Adolescence&#8221; is a mini-series in which a white 13-year-old boy named Jamie stabs a girl to death after the girl rejects his advances. The &#8220;hook,&#8221; if you can call it that, is that the show blames online culture for the killer&#8217;s actions, at least to some extent. The victim had bullied the 13-year-old boy on Instagram, for example. He had been called an &#8220;incel&#8221; and so on. The point of the show is that &#8220;male rage&#8221; is fueled by online misogyny and bullying, and that children are liable to become murderers at any moment, even if they live in a loving, stable two-parent household. That&#8217;s the message the showrunners wanted to convey, even though it flies in the face of common sense and every data point we have. Beyond that, there wasn&#8217;t anything very interesting about the show. The cameraman is doing more interesting things than any of the actors, since everything is supposedly shot in one take.
So it was reasonable to assume that, after the initial hype died down over this mini-series, that the UK would move on pretty quickly. That&#8217;s the normal trajectory that shows like this tend to follow. And indeed, that&#8217;s what many in my audience said would happen. I received dozens of comments on my last monologue on &#8220;Adolescence&#8221;, where several people who live in Britain explained that, actually, the show isn&#8217;t that popular over there to begin with. Additionally, as we discussed, there was an infamous interview broadcast on the BBC, where the anchors grill a conservative politician about the fact that she hasn&#8217;t seen the show. They were stunned, for the entire interview, that she hadn&#8217;t watched it. And no matter how much the politician tried to explain to these anchors that the show isn&#8217;t real, they kept doubling down. When we played that footage two weeks ago, it seemed like it was safe to assume that the obsession over this show had officially jumped the shark. It seemed too absurd to continue. Everyone, even fans of the show, would certainly walk away slowly and find something else to fixate on.
But that hasn&#8217;t happened in the UK. Instead, &#8220;Adolescence&#8221; isn&#8217;t simply dominating political discussions anymore. Now the show is being used to justify new legislation that would dramatically curtail free speech rights in the country — almost as if that was the point of the show all along. In fact, the show&#8217;s creators just testified in parliament to demand this new legislation. Yes, the government held an entire hearing on a fictional television show, in which the show&#8217;s writer testified as an expert before the government&#8217;s &#8220;Women and Equalities Committee.&#8221; That is the very dire and hopeless state of the so-called United Kingdom at the moment.
We&#8217;ll start at the beginning of the hearing, when a member of parliament named Sarah Owen begins questioning Jack Thorne, who&#8217;s the creator and executive producer of &#8220;Adolescence.&#8221; And this member of parliament is very interested in knowing more about Jamie, and why he snapped and decided to kill a girl. But there&#8217;s a bit of a snag, because the politician clearly doesn&#8217;t understand what the creator of the show was getting at, which leads to this mildly amusing exchange. Watch:
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There&#8217;s a couple of layers of embarrassment here. First of all, of course, they&#8217;re talking about a fake person as if he&#8217;s real. He&#8217;s saying it would take him &#8220;nine years&#8221; to unpack the brain of a fictional character named Jamie, who, because he doesn&#8217;t actually exist, does not therefore have a brain, or a history, or emotions. And for her part, the politician — who apparently chairs this committee in parliament — keeps pressing for more information about this fictional individual. She&#8217;s really determined to understand what makes him tick, even though he doesn&#8217;t exist. This went on for something like two hours, by the way. The hearing was full of moments like this.
As it went on, it became clear that Jack Thorne is especially concerned about &#8220;conspiracy theories,&#8221; as he calls them. And at one point in the hearing, Thorne elaborated on the term &#8220;conspiracy theories.&#8221; It turns out that — stop me if you&#8217;ve heard this one before — a conspiracy theory is something that&#8217;s completely true, but highly inconvenient for the political Left. Watch:
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That&#8217;s his response, when he&#8217;s asked about the race-swap in &#8220;Adolescence.&#8221; He&#8217;s asked about a conservative politician who pointed out that, unlike what you see on Netflix, white kids from stable households are not stabbing many people in the UK. That&#8217;s the truth. It&#8217;s kids from broken homes, along with jihadists, who are doing most of the damage. And in response to that point, which is obviously true, Thorne states that the conservative politician must be &#8220;consuming&#8221; the wrong content online. The implication, of course, is that anyone who tells the truth about knife crime in the UK — and violent crime in general — should be censored. You&#8217;re required to think that it&#8217;s young white kids from loving two-parent households that are knifing everyone, and you&#8217;re supposed to ignore the literal jihadist with an Al Qaeda training manual in his backpack who murders young girls at a dance studio.
Again, this is the state of the UK — a country that we once had a lot in common with. But this is what they&#8217;re reduced to. I want to show one more clip from this hearing, because it just kept getting more and more comical as it went on. Eventually Jack Thorne left, and he was replaced by a bunch of self-described &#8220;experts&#8221; and government officials who — supposedly — would provide some hard evidence in support of more online censorship. 
But then, a funny thing happened. 
When they were asked for evidence that misogyny is on the rise in the UK, they didn&#8217;t have any data. They couldn&#8217;t point to any objective, verifiable information about all the young white men who are going out and killing women because of Andrew Tate or whatever. Instead — and I&#8217;m not making this up — the experts turned around and cited the show &#8220;Adolescence,&#8221; and the testimony from Jack Thorne. Watch:
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So they don&#8217;t have any data, actually. They just have the show &#8220;Adolescence,&#8221; and the testimony from its &#8220;executive producer.&#8221; According to the government expert, that qualifies as &#8220;evidence&#8221; in the UK. Time to pass a law eliminating free speech on the internet, I guess. But the point here is not to mock the UK, as entertaining as that would be. The point is that this kind of embarrassing spectacle is not very surprising for them. There aren’t very many people left in that country to speak out against it. There isn’t much of a &#8220;right wing&#8221; in the UK, or almost anywhere else in the western world outside of the United States.
And if you don&#8217;t believe that, look at the election that just <a href="https://barsoom.substack.com/p/post-mortem-for-the-canadian-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took place</a> in Canada. After ten years of destroying Canada&#8217;s economy and opening the borders to hordes of foreign nationals, the Liberal Party was just re-elected. Voters once again handed the Liberal Party control of government, even after the Liberals froze the bank accounts of peaceful protesters, arrested journalists in the street, trampled old ladies with horses, disarmed the entire population, and effectively banned independent journalists from posting their content on social media platforms. Canadians saw the government declare martial law over a bunch of truckers who didn&#8217;t want to be compelled to take an experimental shot, and they said, &#8220;we want more of that.&#8221; And also, of course, they want more taxes so that they can stop the weather from changing.
I&#8217;m not going to pretend to be an expert on the ins-and-outs of Canadian politics. If you&#8217;re interested in a more granular breakdown, there&#8217;s a Substack <a href="https://barsoom.substack.com/p/post-mortem-for-the-canadian-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from someone named John Carter that goes into some detail about what happened in this week&#8217;s election. Here&#8217;s how it begins.
<blockquote>Have you ever noticed how election results are regularly broken down geographically, as well by the demographic categories of age, sex, and – depending on the country – race, yet we almost never see the results separated into taxpayer vs tax-eater status? &#8230; It is absolutely no surprise that Ottawa voted solidly for the Liberal Party of Canada, whose base consists of three primary groups: migrants, public sector workers, and baby boomers, all of whom are regime client groups, and all of whom are tightly packed into the nation’s capital. Perhaps it’s that it’s tax season and I’m in a grumpy mood because I just got the bad news, but I can’t help but wonder about how electoral politics would change if only taxpayers were allowed to vote.</blockquote>
That&#8217;s a useful framework to look at what just happened in Canada, especially as you hear a lot of people blaming Donald Trump and tariffs and so on. In Canada, very few young people can afford homes. There aren&#8217;t many good jobs. The only really viable aspects of Canadian society are the public sector — which is sustained through taxes and borrowed money — and retirees. The public-sector employees are the ones who celebrated when truckers were beaten by the police in Ottawa a few years ago. They resent the working-class. Their only interest is seeing their pensions vest. Meanwhile, older Canadians have made their money, and they don&#8217;t seem to care about what happens to their country going forward.
Take a look at this chart, which is making the rounds:
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It shows the &#8220;most important factors&#8221; in people&#8217;s votes, broken out by age. It&#8217;s from Abacus Data, which is a Canadian polling firm. Notice that, for most young people under the age of 44, &#8220;reducing the cost of living&#8221; is the top issue. But for Canadians over the age of 60, the top issue was &#8220;dealing with Donald Trump.&#8221;
In other words, Canadian seniors are not even pretending to be interested in the internal affairs of their own country. They&#8217;re not concerned about the fact that young people are overdosing at increasing rates, or that many of them are well into their 30s, sharing tiny apartments with roommates just to make ends meet. What they care about, instead, is &#8220;dealing with Donald Trump&#8221; — an elected official from a different country, who hasn&#8217;t caused a single ounce of the misery that Canada has been enduring for the past decade.
In this country, by contrast, older voters were mostly <a href="https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/info-2024/election-analysis-older-voters.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerned</a> about the economy in the last election. In Michigan, for example, the AARP found that &#8220;24 percent of older voters cited the economy and jobs, and another 24 percent cited inflation, as top concerns.&#8221; So nearly half of these voters are interested in things that every American should be interested in — which is creating a stable and functioning economy so that people can buy homes and raise children.
But in Canada, as in the UK, the priorities are different. That&#8217;s why these countries are spending their time talking about Netflix shows, and electing globalists who promise to send mean tweets to Donald Trump or whatever.
It&#8217;s a sobering realization, but it&#8217;s true: These countries, which are supposed to be great allies who we have a lot in common with, do not have a functioning conservative movement at all. One that respects the sanctity of life from the moment of conception, one that values the importance of economic growth for everyone, and one that understands the distinction between fiction and reality. With every election that takes place in Canada, and every humiliating hearing on &#8220;Adolescence&#8221; that the UK is subjected to, the truth becomes clearer by the day. It&#8217;s time to admit it, because it&#8217;s unavoidable at this point: The future of conservatism, and thus of Western civilization, is in our hands — and our hands alone.

“Adolescence” Special Screening – Arrivals

UK Parliament Hosts Incredibly Embarrassing Hearing Over Netflix Show ‘Adolescence’

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Matt Walsh Breaks Down The Deceptive Propaganda In ‘Adolescence’ Netflix Show

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A 17-year-old Texas boy was stabbed to death on Wednesday at a high school track meet after the victim reportedly told the alleged 17-year-old assailant that he was sitting in the wrong seat. The boy died in his twin brother’s arms.
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Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death by a classmate at a school in Texas today, allegedly after a fight over a spot.
You didn’t hear about this story cuz it doesn’t fit the narrative. <a href="https://t.co/vMA3ZJJrja">pic.twitter.com/vMA3ZJJrja</a>
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<a href="https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/student-stabbed-frisco-track-meet/3806667/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to Jeff Metcalf, his son Austin — whose identical twin Hunter was nearby and saw the confrontation —  had a 4.0 GPA and was MVP of Frisco ISD’s Memorial High School football team. He did not know the alleged assailant when the incident occurred at Kuykendall Stadium at roughly 10 a.m.
“They were twins, identical twins, and his brother was holding on to him, trying to make it stop bleeding, and he died in his brother&#8217;s arms,” Jeff Metcalf said. “I rushed up there and I saw him on the gurney and I could tell &#8212; they said he wasn&#8217;t breathing. I could see all the blood, and I saw where the wound was, and I was very concerned, so I had to find his brother, and we rushed to the hospital. And we prayed, and it&#8217;s God&#8217;s plan. I don&#8217;t understand it, but they weren&#8217;t able to save him. This is murder.”
“I tried to whip around as fast as I could,” Hunter Metcalf <a href="https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/frisco-texas-isd-track-meet-suspended-emergency-incident-schoo-district-kuykendall-stadium/287-6380955c-e03d-4aeb-837f-a0fc31a46c40" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “I looked at my brother and I’m not going to talk about the rest. I tried to help him.”
“He was on the right track,” Jeff Metcalf said of Austin. “He was loved by many. He was a leader.”
“I&#8217;m not trying to judge, but what kind of parents did this child have?” Jeff Metcalf asked. “What was he taught? He brought a knife to a track meet and he murdered my son by stabbing him in the heart. The guy was in the wrong place and they asked him to move and he bowed up. This is murder. You know what, I already forgive this person. Already. God takes care of things. God is going to take care of me. God is going to take care of my family.”
The twins and their father consistently went hunting together.
Karmelo Anthony, 17, a senior at Centennial High School, was<a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/us-news/texas-teen-austin-metcalf-fatally-stabbed-by-karmelo-anthony-at-high-school-track-meet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> charged</a> by Frisco police with Metcalf&#8217;s murder.
“The Frisco Police Department grieves with all those affected by this devastating loss and extends its deepest condolences to the victim’s family, students, and staff who are experiencing unimaginable pain,” the Frisco Police Department stated. “The department is collaborating with the Frisco Independent School District and will continue to provide any support they need during this incredibly difficult time.”
A GoFundMe <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-austin-metcalf-help-his-family-heal?attribution_id=sl:1c02cf72-aa71-45d7-a166-bd8032e61358&amp;lang=en_US&amp;utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&amp;utm_content=amp13_c&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a> has been established to help Metcalf’s family.

Starting line on red running track

High School Football Star Stabbed To Death At Track Meet, Dies In Twin Brother’s Arms

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One person is dead and four more are injured after an Arab citizen in Israel stabbed them at a central transit hub on Monday.
A 20-year-old Druze Israeli reportedly began stabbing victims after exiting a bus in Haifa, Israel, the Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/victim-of-haifa-stabbing-attack-named-as-hassan-karim-dahamsheh-70-from-kafr-kanna/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The killer suffered from mental illness, the outlet reported, citing family members.
The knife attack is being treated as a “militant attack,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/terror-attack-haifa-israel-leaves-dead-wounded.amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Fox News</a>. A security guard and an armed civilian reportedly killed the attacker, who had recently returned to Israel after spending time abroad.
&#8220;My wife Sara and I extend our deepest condolences to the family of the victim of the horrific terrorist attack in Haifa, and we send our wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured,&#8221; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement after the attack. &#8220;We will continue to fight those who seek to harm us – wherever they are – and we will defeat them.”
The sole casualty was a 70-year-old man who was stabbed in the back multiple times, the Times reported. Hassan Karim Dahamsheh was a resident of the Arab town of Kafr Kanna in Israel.
A 15-year-old boy was also among the injured, but is reportedly in stable condition after emergency surgery for his life-threatening injuries. Three others – a woman in her 70s and a man and woman in their 30s – were hospitalized with less severe wounds, the Times reported.
Graphic footage from the incident shows the attacker running up to Dahamsheh and stabbing him multiple times in the back before they both fall to the ground.
An eyewitness told a local outlet that the 20-year-old got off a bus from Shfar’am and shouted “Allahu Akbar” before attacking people around him with a knife. Israel Police Chief Daniel Levy said police were working to confirm that the attacker acted alone, the Times reported. The outlet also noted that police raided the suspect&#8217;s home and were questioning his family.
Shfar’am Mayor Nahad Hazem told the Kan public broadcaster that two of the five victims were from his city and that one was a relative of his office director.
“It is a heinous crime, and I completely condemn it,” he told the outlet, according to the Times.
The killer&#8217;s relatives denied that he was a terrorist, saying he had a mental illness.
“I am a disabled IDF veteran and his other uncle is a reserve soldier. We have nothing in our family hostile to the state,” his uncle Roni Kharis reportedly told Ynet.
The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas praised the attack but did not take credit for it.
As the Times reported, the stabbing was the latest “in a string of terror attacks targeting public transportation in Israel, after a ramming attack at a bus stop on Thursday and a series of botched bus bombings near Tel Aviv a week earlier.”

Israel Stabbing Attack

1 Dead, 4 Injured In Terrorist Attack In Israel

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A Brooklyn man stabbed multiple people at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Eve, and no bystanders tried to stop him.
Jason Sargeant, 28, allegedly stabbed two people in separate attacks before being stopped by police, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/25/us-news/nyc-maniac-slashes-2-people-at-grand-central-subway-station-in-separate-attacks-on-christmas-eve/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. One of the victims, a 26-year-old woman, said no one helped her when she was attacked.
Sargeant has been charged with assault, reckless endangerment, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, harassment, and disorderly conduct. He had three prior arrests, including one for assaulting a police officer, the Post reported.
Imani-Ciara Pizarro, 26, was Facetiming with her neighbor as she left the 4 train around 10 p.m., the Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/25/us-news/victim-who-was-stabbed-in-the-throat-by-a-maniac-at-grand-central-station-says-no-one-came-to-her-aid-just-froze/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, when she saw blood on the ground near the turnstiles. A few seconds later, she was “sucker punched” in the back of the head and “blacked out,” she told the Post.
Sargeant allegedly yelled, “what’s your problem?” at Pizarro multiple times before stabbing her in the throat and kicking her phone away. Witnesses told the Post that they “just froze” and that no police were around.
“I wish I could be able to travel to my livelihood and not be attacked. I wish there were cops in Grand Central when I was attacked, there were none. I was running for help and there was no one there,” Pizarro told the outlet. “There are usually cops in four different spots and I ran to each one of them but none were there.”
Pizarro was on her way to work at a nearby migrant shelter. Sargeant is reportedly a Brooklyn native.
“No one called 911. No one in Grand Central called 911,” Pizarro told the Post. “It was my neighbor. I called my neighbor. I was on the phone with my neighbor when it happened and she called 911.”
Pizarro was the second person allegedly stabbed by Sargeant. The first was a 42-year-old man who has not been identified. The attacks appear to be unprovoked.
“It’s not fair. We’re getting hurt every day. And there’s nothing I can do. I can’t protect myself. I’ve almost been assaulted two other times in the last two months by mentally ill people. I try to ignore them but they don’t like being ignored either,” Pizarro told the Post.
At his first court proceeding on Christmas Day, Sargeant reportedly cried for his mother as he was held on $150,000 bail, the Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/25/us-news/alleged-grand-central-terminal-slasher-wails-for-his-mom-at-first-court-appearance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Wait, mom, I didn’t know you were here! I didn’t know you were here!” Sargeant reportedly cried.

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Man Allegedly Stabs Two People In New York On Christmas Eve. No One Helped Them.

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A manhunt is underway in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Germany</a> after at least nine people were stabbed at a diversity festival on Friday night reportedly by a middle eastern-looking man.
Bild, Germany&#8217;s largest newspaper, said that police are treating the incident as a &#8220;terror attack&#8221; after the suspect, who witnesses described as &#8220;an Arab-looking man,&#8221; began attacking people at a busy city square in Solingen where a stage was set up for the event.
At least three people were killed during the attack, the report <a href="https://www.bild.de/news/inland/messer-amok-in-solingen-mehrere-menschen-bei-stadtfest-getoetet-641fe8c9d020c344f0b8ee09" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. The suspect reportedly stabbed people in the neck during the attack.
&#8220;The attacker stabbed people at random with a knife. That&#8217;s why we are currently assuming it was an attack,&#8221; said Chief Inspector Sascha Kresta, spokesman for the Wuppertal police. &#8220;There are currently three fatally injured victims, five seriously injured and people in shock. A large-scale search for the attacker is underway, and we absolutely want to arrest the perpetrator. But investigations, forensic evidence and witness interviews are also underway at the same time.&#8221;
The attack happened during the “Festival of Diversity” — a three-day event celebrating the 650th anniversary of the city’s founding.
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&#8220;This evening we are all in Solingen in shock, horror and great sadness,&#8221; the city’s mayor, Tim Kurzbach, wrote on social media. &#8220;We all wanted to celebrate our city&#8217;s anniversary together and now we have dead and injured people to mourn. It breaks my heart that there was an attack on our city. I have tears in my eyes when I think of those we have lost. I pray for all those who are still fighting for their lives.&#8221;
Europe has seen a sharp uptick in Islamic terrorist threats since Hamas&#8217; October 7 terrorist attack last year as numerous plots have been foiled throughout the continent.
The largest Islamic terrorist attack to hit Europe recently was in March when ISIS terrorists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/putin-responds-to-islamic-terror-attack-that-killed-133-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murdered</a> more than 130 people at a concert in Moscow.

Fatalities in attack at Solingen city festival

Multiple People Stabbed By ‘Arab-Looking Man’ In ‘Terror Attack’ On Diversity Festival In Germany: Report

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Terrorism

A brief trip back to my native Britain the other week was a depressing experience.
There has been widespread rioting in cities across England following the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-a-dozen-people-mostly-children-stabbed-by-17-year-old-male-in-u-k-multiple-fatalities-reported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murder</a> of three young girls in Southport at a Taylor Swift dance class.
A large number of Brits, I think it is fair to say, are extremely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/people-have-finally-had-enough-of-the-illegal-immigration-takeover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agitated</a> about uncontrolled (often illegal) immigration. Tens of thousands of migrants have been allowed to flood into the country on small dinghies from France. 1 in 27 people now living in Britain arrived in the past two years. 4 in 10 foreign-born people in Britain have arrived in the past decade. 
There is a palpable sense that nothing in Britain runs the way it should, least of all the criminal justice system.
The number of <a href="https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed/statistics-sexual-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recorded rapes</a> in England and Wales in 2023-24 was three times higher than in 2013-14. A recent investigation discovered that across much of the country, the police had not identified a single suspect for neighborhood crimes over the previous three years. Only a few weeks before the unrest erupted, the authorities announced that even violent offenders would be released from prison after serving a mere 40 percent of their sentences.
Then came the riots, and the authorities suddenly discovered that it is possible to arrest and prosecute criminals after all. Prosecutions that would normally take months to come to court were undertaken within a few days. That, plus the return of British rain, seems to have dampened the spirits of the troublemakers.
Instead of clamping down on immigration, or addressing some of the underlying concerns about Muslim integration (or lack thereof), the authorities seem to find it easier to clamp down on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-uks-orwellian-crackdown-on-free-speech-could-be-headed-our-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free speech</a>, prosecuting people for obnoxious opinions about either immigrants or Muslims expressed online.
The most senior official in charge of public prosecutions in Britain declared that he has a team of “dedicated police officers scouring social media” to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uk-police-chief-suggests-he-would-arrest-americans-for-highlighting-british-riots-online" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrest people</a> for posting things that are “insulting” or “abusive”. He even threatened to extradite people to the UK for sharing such material online.
All of this has helped contribute to the now widely held idea that Britain has a “two tier” criminal justice system.
Having cheerfully announced that they would be letting violent criminals out of prison after completing less than half their sentences a few weeks before, the authorities now threaten people with jail time for expressing idiotic views. In Cheshire, the police boasted of arresting a woman for what they called “an inaccurate social media post”.
In order to fully understand why Britain is in such a sorry state it is essential to appreciate what has gone wrong with the country’s judiciary.
Mass immigration has become an explosive issue in Britain because judges have routinely thwarted attempts by successive governments to control it. In 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019, Brits voted repeatedly to end mass immigration. It has not happened because judges have systematically prevented elected governments from controlling the country’s borders.
British judges only ever seem to rule in favor of those who enter the country illegally being able to remain, ruling on the basis of what they think the law should be, not the laws Parliament has passed. 
  
Britain, a once orderly, high-trust society has become increasingly lawless because judges have routinely failed to apply sentences that ordinary Brits would regard as just. It is so commonplace for violent robbers and rapists to be given community sentences, rather than go to prison, it is seldom even reported anymore.
Why are British judges so awful? Because they are unaccountable to the public.
In Britain, judges are appointed, not elected. Until 2006, at least the appointments were made by an elected minister, meaning there was a degree of democratic oversight. 
  
Since 2006, Britain’s judges have been appointed by the Judicial Appointments Commission, a body obsessed about diversity, equity and inclusion, rather than justice. Thanks to Human Rights law, judges are not merely unaccountable. They regard judicial activism as part of their job.
Liberty and order in Britain are collapsing as a consequence.
At some point, we must all hope a new Margaret Thatcher emerges in Britain, someone with the vision and principle to save the country from decline. On its current trajectory, Britain is drifting towards the abyss of a sectarian society.
In 2001, there were one and a half million Muslims in Britain. Today there are 4 million. If even a small percentage of British Muslims adhere to the Islamist teachings of Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian father of modern violent jihad, the country has a massive problem. Far from addressing the problem, right now Britain is a country that cannot even talk about the fact that it might have a problem.
Any new Thatcher must, as she did, address an underlying British economic malaise. Thanks to net zero energy policies, extraordinary restrictive regulations, high taxes and excessive public spending, the UK has had remarkably little per capita growth over the past decade.
But far more important than fixing the economy, Britain needs a state machinery capable of addressing issues of culture and cohesion. Old assumptions, and long established precedents governing citizenship, will need to change.
For that to happen, the next Thatcher needs to recognize that much of the machinery of the British state is dysfunctional. Reform is overdue.
Judges need to come under some sort of democratic oversight. Senior civil servants must no longer be afforded the luxury of deciding whether to implement policies that clash with their preferences. Those elected to Parliament, not unelected officials, need to be able to decide if the country can afford to cut taxes.
Britain can only be pulled back from the brink by a leader that recognizes that it is time to treat the judiciary and the administrative state as Thatcher once treated the trade unions.
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Douglas Carswell is the President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. He was previously a Member of Parliament for 12 years and never lost an election.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Riots

Southport is a seaside town in the northwest of England that looks quite a bit different than it did twenty years ago. There used to be a lot of young people living there, for one thing. And back in 2001, only around 4% of the population of Southport said they were born outside the UK. It was a pretty homogeneous place.
Twenty years later, a lot&#8217;s changed. And for the most part, it hasn&#8217;t changed for the better. As a longtime Southport politician named John Pugh <a href="https://www.livpost.co.uk/p/stasis-on-sea-has-southports-grand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it</a> recently: “Southport as an entity is struggling.” Southport&#8217;s now much older, mainly because young Britons no longer see much opportunity there. And they&#8217;ve been replaced, in many cases, by foreigners. One in ten residents now voluntarily <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/customprofiles/build/#E14000958" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> that they were born outside the UK. And many of them are bringing their religious beliefs with them, as you&#8217;d expect. Mosques — which were once found exclusively in large British cities like London and Birmingham — began <a href="https://religionnews.com/2024/08/01/in-seaside-southport-a-mosque-bears-the-brunt-of-uks-immigrant-anxiety/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">popping</a> up in Southport, as the UK added more than a million Muslims to its population in under a decade.
All of these changes have been accompanied by various indignities along the way. Last year, for example, British officials <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/03/home-office-shelves-plans-house-asylum-seekers-southport-pontins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">floated</a> the idea of housing illegal migrants in Southport&#8217;s holiday park because it would be cheaper than paying for hotels. Illegal aliens had already <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/20/asylum-seekers-abused-and-intimidated-by-staff-in-home-office-hotels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken over</a> five hotels in the Liverpool area, only to complain that they were being mistreated. And rather than kick these ungrateful foreigners out of the country, Britain&#8217;s government attempted to offer them Southport&#8217;s holiday park as an accommodation, as well.
That episode was a pretty clear indication that Southport&#8217;s decline isn&#8217;t accidental. It&#8217;s deliberate. That&#8217;s why the British government doesn&#8217;t see a flood of illegal immigrants as a problem. They see it as an opportunity to shut down the local park. Every catastrophe is just more evidence that their plan is working. It&#8217;s yet another opportunity to degrade the lives of British citizens even further.
That&#8217;s true even after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-a-dozen-people-mostly-children-stabbed-by-17-year-old-male-in-u-k-multiple-fatalities-reported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the massacre</a> that took place on July 29. Police say a 17-year-old man entered a dance studio in Southport that was hosting a Taylor Swift-themed workshop for young children. Armed with a knife, he allegedly murdered three girls — ages 6, 7, and 9 — and seriously injured 10 others, including eight children. Organizers apparently tried to shield the children, and at least one was critically injured in the attempt.
When a police officer finally arrived, he waited before entering the studio because he only had a baton. Ultimately, after more than a dozen victims had been stabbed, the police went in and arrested the killer. That killer, who police have identified as Axel Rudakubana, was born in Britain to Rwandan parents who migrated to the UK roughly twenty years ago. Police haven&#8217;t provided any more information than that.
Following this deliberate and premeditated attack on children, fed up residents of Southport — and towns all across the UK — began engaging in varying degrees of civil disobedience. In Southport, locals threw objects at police officers and apparently lit a police vehicle on fire last week. Watch:
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100 miles away in Rotherham, locals reportedly stormed a taxpayer-funded shelter for so-called &#8220;asylum seekers,&#8221; which of course is a euphemism for illegal aliens looking to abuse the asylum system:
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Competent leaders — people who care about the future of their country — would look at scenes of civil disorder like this and ask themselves why exactly it&#8217;s happening.
It&#8217;s not enough to shake your fist and say that committing crimes during mass protests is a bad thing, although that&#8217;s generally true. That doesn&#8217;t address the problem. To do that, it&#8217;s important to figure out why people are so upset that they&#8217;re willing to commit crimes like this in broad daylight.
Is it because they&#8217;ve bought into years of lies about so-called &#8220;police violence&#8221; against black people, culminating in the false narratives about lifelong criminals like George Floyd, Jacob Blake and many others? That was the impetus for BLM, as we all know.
Or is it because, as was the case with January 6, people didn&#8217;t buy into government lies about lockdowns and mail-in voting and Russian collusion, culminating in an election in which Joe Biden somehow won millions more votes than Barack Obama did in 2008?
Or is it because, as is the case in Southport, people are tired of the decades-long government effort to reengineer the demographics of their entire country? Maybe these people are wondering how the alleged killer&#8217;s Rwandan parents arrived in Britain in the first place. Were they granted citizenship? If so, on what basis? If not, why are they still in the country? Those all seem like reasonable questions.
But Britain&#8217;s government isn&#8217;t answering any questions. Instead, Britain&#8217;s new prime minister Keir Starmer has announced a crackdown on the people who are on the internet saying things that he doesn&#8217;t like. Watch:
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So Britain is establishing a plan to &#8220;tackle violent disorder&#8221; and to shut down &#8220;thugs.&#8221; And it sounds a lot like he&#8217;s going to use these protests as a pretext to establish a surveillance state. This plan will include &#8220;shared intelligence&#8221; and more &#8220;facial recognition technology.&#8221; It will even include &#8220;preventative action&#8221; to prevent people from committing crimes in the first place, like something out of &#8220;Minority Report.&#8221; And then for good measure, he threatens social media companies with criminal prosecution.
Throughout all of this, Keir Starmer claims that he&#8217;s not motivated in any way by the prospect of shutting down criticism of his country&#8217;s open borders policy. Instead, he says he&#8217;s really upset about civil disorder in general. Any time protests turn to arson or violence, Keir Starmer says he&#8217;s opposed to it. He&#8217;s been explicit about that. Watch:
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It&#8217;s a &#8220;non-issue&#8221; to say that there&#8217;s a two-tier system of justice, says Britain&#8217;s new PM. It doesn&#8217;t matter what your motivation is. If you commit acts of &#8220;violence&#8221; on the streets, then your behavior won&#8217;t be tolerated.
This is the kind of claim that might be effective if video cameras and the internet had never been invented. As it stands, people can go back four years ago and see exactly what Keir Starmer said about the BLM riots — which caused more than a billion dollars in property damage and resulted in the deaths of at least two dozen people.
If you pull that tape, you&#8217;ll notice that Keir Starmer doesn&#8217;t condemn the violent BLM thugs a single time. He doesn&#8217;t mention the fact that they torched a police station in Minneapolis or a church outside the White House. Instead, he condemns anyone who tries to criticize them, much less arrest them. Watch:
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Starmer was talking like this several days after BLM protests in London resulted in injuries to more than two dozen police officers. And this was after the BLM violence in the United States. The message is clear: Violence for state-approved purposes is fine. But dissent that humiliates the state, and that exposes its failures, will be crushed. Its proponents will be labeled as sources of &#8220;disinformation,&#8221; and they will be silenced.
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Even allegedly conservative media in this country, to some extent, are buying into this framing. Fox News for example <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/riots-erupt-uk-stabbing-spree-falsely-blamed-asylum-seeker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported:</a> &#8220;Riots erupt in UK after stabbing spree falsely blamed on asylum seeker.&#8221; Various other outlets have run similar stories. The idea is that, because this killer reportedly was born in Britain to Rwandan parents, the protests must be illegitimate.
Pause for a moment to consider the extraordinary degree of irony here. The same people who tell white Britons and white Americans that they&#8217;re colonizers and oppressors — people living on land that their ancestors conquered hundreds if not thousands of years ago — are now telling these same white Britons and Americans that they have no right to be upset about the flood of third world migrants colonizing their country. Only this is a different kind of colonization. It’s not the straightforward act of a stronger and more civilized society coming in and conquering the place, as has happened historically. Instead, it is colonization by subversion. Colonization orchestrated by the elites of the country that is being colonized. A kind of self-imposed colonization done not for the purposes of spreading civilization — which is why the Europeans colonized — but done for the purpose of destroying civilization. European colonizers brought civilization to uncivilized lands. In this case, uncivilized people are bringing chaos, poverty, and lawlessness to previously civilized societies.
Leftist activists would of course disagree with this characterization. In fact they say that if you stop this unchecked tidal wave of immigration, you would be losing civilization.
There’s a lot of commentary like this from an activist named Bushra Shaikh. She <a href="https://x.com/Bushra1Shaikh/status/1820091502883729749">posted</a>:
<blockquote>Take away the curries and kebabs. Take away the Tea. The coffee. Take away the doctors and nurses. The Ubers and buses. Take away the night workers. Take away the clothes.Take away the cleaners.Take it all away.It&#8217;s all foreign.These racists don&#8217;t understand.They will be left with very little.</blockquote>
Now, I’m a huge fan of curry myself. If I had to give it up in order to have law and order and civilization again, I would. Not a tough trade. But she goes further. She says even clothes and technology and transportation would be gone without the foreigners. We will be left with “very little.”
That’s an odd claim, isn’t it? After all, if all of the good things in life are brought to western countries by foreigners, then what are the foreigners coming for in the first place? If they are bringing everything, why bring it? Why not stay where they are? If western countries need these immigrants in order to thrive, then why aren’t their own countries thriving? That’s strange, you must admit. Apparently the West is gifted property by third world immigrants, and yet these immigrants have not given this gift to their own countries.
In any case, the Left is telling Britons that the son of newly-arrived Rwandan immigrants has every right to live in their country. And how dare you say otherwise. The moment you are born on British soil, you are British and no one can ask a single question about anything — including how your parents got there. Those are the rules now. And as usual, they only benefit people who aren&#8217;t white.
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The residents of Southport have had enough of it. The riots we&#8217;re seeing across Britain right now are an inevitable reaction to years of unchecked immigration.
That doesn&#8217;t make the riots a smart strategic response. Strategically, it&#8217;s clear they will backfire. But the frustration and anger is understandable.
And no, the same logic does not apply to BLM. Reasonable people are capable of distinguishing between the BLM riots and the civil disorder taking place in the UK. The BLM riots occurred because the rioters didn&#8217;t like the fact that laws were being enforced. That&#8217;s why they wanted to defund the police. That&#8217;s why they created dozens of race hoaxes involving police officers.
What&#8217;s happening in the UK has the exact opposite explanation. People are revolting against a government that *refuses* to enforce the law. They want the government to fulfill maybe its most basic responsibility, which is to secure the border from foreign invasion.
That&#8217;s why no amount of social media censorship or &#8220;pre-crime&#8221; investigations or finger-wagging from Keir Starmer can change the fact that he now has two options as prime minister. He can commit to ending unrestricted illegal migration into Britain, and deporting illegal aliens currently living in the country. Or he can continue to demonize his own citizens and turn the rest of the UK into Southport. At this point, it&#8217;s clear that both options will lead to some level of unrest and even violence in Britain. The only question now is whether there will be a Britain left at the end of it.

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Three American citizens were stabbed in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> on Monday in what Chinese officials are describing as an “isolated incident.”
The stabbing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/world/asia/cornell-college-attack-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took place</a> as three Americans alongside a non-citizen resident of Iowa with their group were visiting Beishan Park, a public park in Jilin. The four victims were sent to a nearby hospital for treatment and are expected to recover. They were all associated with Cornell College, a private institution in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.
“I am angered and deeply troubled by the stabbing of 3 US citizens + a non-citizen resident of Iowa in Jilin, China,” said U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns on X. “A US Consular Officer visited the 4 in Jilin Hospital today where they are receiving treatment. We are doing all we can to help them &amp; hope for their full recovery.”
Cornell College President Jonathan Brand <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/world/asia/cornell-college-attack-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the school had been in contact with the instructors and had been assisting them after the stabbing. They had been visiting the park with a member of the college’s partner school in China, Beihua University.
Police <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-iowa-cornell-college-instructors-attacked-59ebabadcfe4da3bf76e08121e1a1e9f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they identified the attacker as a 55-year-old with the last name of Cui. No motive has yet been given, but police said there was an argument with the attacker.
“The isolated incident will not disturb the normal cultural and people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States,” said Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian.
One of the victims of the attack was David Zabner, a brother of Iowa Democratic Rep. Adam Zabner.
&#8220;We’d like to see David home in Iowa as soon as possible,&#8221; Zabner <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c844q27v732o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the BBC. &#8220;We’re deeply thankful to the State Department and Iowa’s federal delegation and understand that they are working hard to make that happen.&#8221;
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Multiple Iowa officials posted online saying that they were watching the situation.
“I am in touch with Iowa’s federal delegation and the state department in response to this horrifying attack,” Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds posted on X. “Please pray for their full recovery, safe return, and their families here at home.”
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said he was “deeply concerned” by the stabbings and that he hoped that “appropriate law enforcement steps are being taken.”
Cornell <a href="https://news.cornellcollege.edu/2018/11/cornell-begins-partnership-university-china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first partnered</a> with Beihua University back in 2018 where Cornell agreed to provide instruction on computers, math, and science, and Beihua would fund for travel of Cornell faculty to China to live and teach a course.
The attack comes amid high tensions between the U.S. and China as American lawmakers have warned about Chinese theft of American economic, military, and intellectual property.

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A man who ambushed a couple walking in Queens, New York, on Wednesday afternoon got a surprise: his intended victims responded by beating him up and stabbing him several times.
Surveillance video showed a man, who used a medical scooter due to an apparent foot injury, strolling alongside a woman holding a puppy when the 37-year-old attacker approached them from behind, threw his coat on the ground, and jumped on the man on the scooter.
But according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/15/us-news/would-be-attacker-stabbed-after-ambushing-nyc-couple-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post,</a> the man on the scooter hurled his attacker to the ground and started punching him as the woman joined him. The would-be attacker attempted to get free but the couple kept hitting him.
The three people finally separated, but kept shouting at each other. The initial assailant could be seen in the video with a wound on his head. Bystanders intervened, and the attacker was taken to Elmhurst Hospital. The NYPD said he had multiple stab wounds but was in stable condition.
“No arrests have been made in the case, but sources said cops are looking for two perpetrators,” the Post reported.
<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/15/us-news/boy-15-stabbed-in-head-on-nyc-street-as-teen-violence-explodes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Another stabbing</a> occurred in Queens on Wednesday. A 15-year-old boy was stabbed in the head by someone wearing a ski mask after the boy left August Martin High School. The assailant crept up from behind and stabbed the boy in his head and shoulder. The boy was taken to Cohen Children’s Medical Center by EMTs. He was listed in stable condition.
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On Tuesday, a <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/14/us-news/two-slashed-at-nyc-school-victims-taken-into-custody-cops/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rash of stabbings</a> occurred at various New York City high schools. Two students knifed each other in Hell’s Kitchen at a building that houses the Business of Sports School, the Stephen T. Mather Building Arts of Craftsmanship High School, the Urban Assembly Gateway School For Technology and the Success Academy Charter School – Midtown West Middle School; a student was knifed in a gang-related attack at the Evander Childs Educational Campus in the Bronx; and another stabbing happened at the Queens High School of Teaching, Liberal Arts and the Sciences.

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The homeless man who has been charged with stabbing a 36-year-old mom who was chaperoning a group of schoolgirls on a class trip in Times Square on Saturday has been arrested 14 times in the last 20 years, according to the New York Post.
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Times Square Tourist mom stabbed by maniac was leading school trip to NYC: ‘Don’t feel safe there’ <a href="https://t.co/t0jyOnWOi0">https://t.co/t0jyOnWOi0</a> <a href="https://t.co/kc4WxnHR3M">pic.twitter.com/kc4WxnHR3M</a>
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Amber Lohr, from western Pennsylvania, had just left a souvenir shop with her daughter and other schoolgirls when Cyril Destin, 61, seated at a deli at Eight Avenue and 43rd Street, jumped to his feet and allegedly stabbed her directly through her sweatshirt and into her chest. Lohr, with blood from her chest seeping through her sweatshirt, still kept her composure and made sure the children were safe before she told anyone she had been stabbed. A bystander then ran for aid; Lohr was treated on the sidewalk before she was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
“My wife not only had taken the stabbing but should also be considered a hero by remaining in front of the children, coaching them to go backwards without turning around,” Lohr’s husband John told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/us-news/times-square-tourist-mom-stabbed-by-maniac-was-chaperoning-school-girls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>, adding of the bystander, “Whomever she was, thank you.” He also thanked the “strong and fearless” schoolgirls for maintaining their composure and helping even though they were “scared out of their minds.”
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“We don’t feel safe there,” John Lohr said of Times Square. “A guy with a very lengthy record went out of nowhere and attacked my wife by stabbing her into the chest and within inches of her life being lost. &#8230; This man could have murdered my wife or even worse, one of the children she was chaperoning.“To think I could have been planning a funeral rather celebrating my wife on Mother’s Day is sickening to me.”
Destin reportedly lives in a homeless shelter across from the deli. He was charged with second-degree assault, along with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
“This man will strike again and maybe the next person may not be as fortunate,” John Lohr stated. “I will not accept anything but the max sentence for him. This man doesn’t only need to be jailed but institutionalized permanently following his well-deserved lengthy sentencing.”

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There aren&#8217;t a lot of guarantees in the criminal justice system. But for a long time now, there&#8217;s been at least one thing you can be pretty sure of — if you kill someone else in self-defense, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;re going to be charged with murder.
Trayvon Martin called George Zimmerman a cracker right before pounding his head into the pavement, and famously, the entire country — including the president of the United States — determined immediately that George Zimmerman was the bad guy. And of course, Kyle Rittenhouse very nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison for the crime of defending himself against several people who tried to kill him, including a pedophile who just got out of a mental hospital and an Antifa footsoldier who drew a handgun on him.
Everyone&#8217;s heard of these cases because in both instances, there was a clear racial angle to push. Even though he didn&#8217;t kill any black people, the Kyle Rittenhouse incident happened in the context of BLM mobs torching cities. That&#8217;s why he became an instant target. George Zimmerman, for his part, gave Barack Obama a chance to talk about how systemically racist America is. So his case was useful for a moment as well.
But there are many self-defense cases that don&#8217;t make the mainstream news, at least not nearly to the same extent. And all of them, to one degree or another, contradict the prevailing media narrative, so the corporate press ignores them. But they&#8217;re important to talk about, in part because they show how prosecutors and witnesses are willing to lie to imprison people who exercise one of their most fundamental rights, which is the right of self-defense. And how casually they will destroy people’s lives for the crime of trying to preserve their own lives.
So I&#8217;m going to go in-depth into one of these cases, which is still ongoing and hasn&#8217;t gotten nearly as much attention as it deserves. Plus, it&#8217;s the premiere day for &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/judged-by-matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JUDGED</a>,&#8221; so a deep-dive on a court case seemed fitting.
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Here&#8217;s the background.
In the summer of 2022, a man in his early 50&#8217;s named Nicolae Miu was out tubing with a group of people, including his wife, in the Apple River in Wisconsin. Apparently a member of his party dropped their phone somewhere in the river, and Nicolae Miu left his group and went looking for it. That&#8217;s when, around 3:40 p.m., Miu encountered a couple of additional tubing groups — one consisting of a bunch of teenagers, and the other including some adults.
Most of the involved parties are under the influence of alcohol and other drugs to varying degrees. They began exchanging some words. Here&#8217;s what happened next:
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It&#8217;s clear from this footage that, throughout the entire incident right up until their friend gets stabbed, the crowd of teenagers doesn’t seem to be afraid of anything, or fearful for their lives in any way. And that makes sense. Miu is much older than they are, and, though they wouldn’t have known this, he just had quadruple bypass surgery.
Meanwhile, these teenagers are mostly football players in prime physical condition. So they appear to be very much the aggressors as they jeer and taunt the older man and accuse him of &#8220;looking for a little girl.&#8221;
Then something happens off-camera. An adult woman, who came over from another tubing group, gets in the man&#8217;s face. He apparently makes some sort of contact with her, and the mob pounces. They push the man and begin hitting him repeatedly after he goes down in the water. Meanwhile the woman is fine — she&#8217;s not hurt in any way. Only after the man fatally stabs one of his attackers — a teenager named Isaac Schuman — does the mood change. Schuman bled out on the scene. The man also stabbed several others who were attacking him.
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Based on these facts, within 48 hours, the D.A. charged Nicolae Miu with first-degree murder. What&#8217;s followed, nearly two years later, is nothing short of a train wreck.
There are air-tight cases, close cases, and then there&#8217;s this. Pretty much every prosecution witness has demonstrated very clearly that they&#8217;re either lying or completely unsure of what happened two years ago. This is such a debacle that very real questions need to be asked about why this case was brought, and why these prosecutors still have jobs.
I&#8217;ll start with the incredible testimony of a witness named Larrion Davis, who recorded some of the footage of the incident. Under cross-examination (from one of Kyle Rittenhouse&#8217;s old lawyers, incidentally), Davis admits he lied to the police about why the group was upset with Miu. Watch:
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It&#8217;s hard to believe this is a real interaction between two humans. 
Lawyer: &#8220;You said you saw him taking pictures of the girls.&#8221; 
Witness: &#8220;Yes, I said that.&#8221; 
Lawyer: &#8220;Did you see it?&#8221; 
Witness: &#8220;No, I said it.&#8221;
To be clear, we&#8217;re talking about falsely accusing a man of pedophilia, two years after the fact. And the only excuse he can come up with for lying is, &#8220;There was a lot going on.&#8221;
Keep in mind, this is a prosecution witness. This should be the end of the case right here. This is the clearest possible evidence that the people Miu confronted decided, long after the fact, to come up with a story to justify their aggression towards him. They have no credibility whatsoever.
You&#8217;ll remember in the video, someone shouted that Miu was &#8220;looking for a girl.&#8221; But on cross-examination, another witness, Jawahn Cockfield, admitted that the claim wasn&#8217;t based on any evidence whatsoever. Watch:
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So they just called this man a &#8220;raper&#8221; who&#8217;s interested in little girls, as a way of scoping out the situation. That&#8217;s their way of gathering intel, apparently. And then, elsewhere in the testimony, Cockfield claims to be shocked that the man, in response, turned around and became upset.
None of this makes any sense. And as the trial went on, it continued to make no sense. For example, on cross-examination, it was revealed that the dead teenager&#8217;s best friend, Owen Peloquin, told police — on the day of the incident — that Miu was looking for a lost phone, not underage girls. 
Listen to the defense attorney read Peloquin&#8217;s prior statement, and then watch as Peloquin tries to weasel out of the admission:
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Now, two years later, Peloquin&#8217;s memory is suddenly better. And by that, he means his memory is worse. Now he doesn&#8217;t recall the guy ever saying anything about missing a phone. And he had no way of figuring out how to tell the police any of this, because he&#8217;s just 19-years-old. And 19-year-olds are apparently completely unable to use Google or cellphones or dial 911, evidently.
These are strange lapses in the prosecution&#8217;s case, to say the least. And it keeps going. Peloquin also testifies that he simply can&#8217;t remember the fact that one of his friends was shouting &#8220;For the culture&#8221; to egg on a fight. Watch:
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Admittedly, I had to look this one up, because I&#8217;m not a teenager. If you go on Urban Dictionary, you&#8217;ll find that &#8220;for the culture&#8221; <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=For%20the%20Culture">means</a>,
<blockquote>When you do something you know you usually wouldn&#8217;t have done and are doing it purely for the hype factor of going against your usual judgment to instead try something new and different.</blockquote>
This is what one of the &#8220;witnesses&#8221; was shouting as the mob descended on this 52-year-old man.
This is the kind of fact that, if you&#8217;re trying to make Nicolae Miu out to be the aggressor, is kind of inconvenient. So Owen just pretends he doesn&#8217;t remember it happening. Problem solved, according to the prosecutors.
These kinds of inconsistencies are continuing to pile up as the trial goes along. But a few facts were definitively established. One is that, contrary to what some of these teenagers said, Miu never knocked a woman down at any point during this altercation. She was captured on the recording, standing upright and holding her phone.
Additionally, Miu never stabbed anyone until he was in the water, surrounded by a mob that was punching him in the face. So Nicolae Miu waited until his life was in danger before he used deadly force.
And once he began stabbing people, he didn&#8217;t indiscriminately start swinging. Instead, he only targeted the people who were targeting him — including Isaac Schuman, who put his hands on Miu&#8217;s neck. Watch:
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It&#8217;s not an exaggeration to say that the prosecution has not presented a single witness to bolster its claim that this was first-degree murder. Instead, every single witness rebutted their argument. 
Here for example is another witness, A.J. Martin, who concedes that ganging up on a man in his 50s and beating him may, in fact, not deescalate an already-tense situation:
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So far, we have the prosecution establishing the following facts: Most of its witnesses are liars. It was completely reasonable for this 50-year-old man to fear for his life. One of the teenagers had his hand on this man&#8217;s neck while the others pummeled him from behind. And that they all lied about him being a pedophile, two years after the fact.
This is not exactly the kind of case it takes Perry Mason to win. But somehow, once again, things got worse for the prosecution. Yet another witness claimed that the group was &#8220;afraid&#8221; of Nicolae Miu, but began to feel a little more secure as other adults began surrounding him as well. So he&#8217;s presenting this image of a deranged 50-year-old man who&#8217;s freaking him out. Then the defense attorney shows a photo of the witness looking extremely enthusiastic and not remotely afraid. Watch:
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That&#8217;s not the face of someone who&#8217;s afraid for his life, and who&#8217;s grateful that other adults have appeared to deal with a threat. Everyone looking at this footage knows that. This is yet another prosecution witness who is lying, overtly, on the stand.
I could go on for another hour dissecting every other aspect of this case, and how totally disastrous it&#8217;s been for the prosecution, but you get the point. 
In no sane country is this a first-degree murder case. And by the way, there is no &#8220;duty to retreat&#8221; in Wisconsin, but even if there were, there was no real chance for this man to get away once the mob descended on him. This is a completely unjustifiable prosecution no matter how you look at it.
It was brought for the same reason that most other self-defense claims are brought — to terrorize the rest of the population into submission. Remember how the Rittenhouse prosecutor said &#8220;everyone takes a beating now and then?&#8221; We&#8217;re pretty close to the prosecutors in this case saying the same thing. That&#8217;s more or less their argument at this point — that 52-year-old men should just accept their mob beatings, rather than defend themselves. But that is obviously outrageous. 
In a sane society, if you harass and assault someone, whatever happens next — whatever violence erupts as a result of your choices — is your fault. If you don’t want to get shot or stabbed, don’t go around trying to bully random strangers just for fun.
The reason this case isn&#8217;t on every mainstream channel is that the mob happened to be white, for the most part. But this is every bit as serious and coordinated an attack on the right to self-defense as the Rittenhouse and Zimmerman trials were. The judge should dismiss the charges. The prosecutors should be disbarred, and new prosecutors should consider looking into perjury charges for some of these witnesses. 
If none of that happens — and if somehow the jury convicts — then we can say with certainty that, just a couple years after the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the right of self-defense has been suspended in the state of Wisconsin. Everyone living there should either move, or prepare accordingly. And the rest of us should do everything we can to preserve our fundamental rights while we still have them.

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