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((To Jenn and others: Talkabout, bless their hearts isn't nearly the
responsive Ferrari of public news readers, but rather an old doubledecker
Brit Foden bus with its pretty but undriveable centrifugally scavenged two
cycle engine and no tachometer. So I put here an alternate view, on its own
subject header. Bon appetit.

Enoch Powell was an odd duck, it must be said. But what he said had even
more need of saying. Bret.))


Enoch Powell, 40 Years Later

Posted By James Fulford On 20 April 2008 @ 12:58 In General | Comments
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Today is the 40th anniversary of Enoch Powells famous speech, known as
the €œRivers of Blood€� speech, although that phrase appears nowhere in
it. Read [1] the whole thing, courtesy of VDare.com. Ill have more to
say later.

Another person who noticed this is Trevor Phillips, the United Kingdom
€œrace czar€�

[2] The Press Association: UK need to shed shadow of Powell
Britain needs to shed the €œ40-year shadow€� of Enoch Powells
Rivers of Blood speech and begin a renewed debate on immigration, the head
of Britains race watchdog has said.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the [3] Equality and Human Rights
Commission (EHRC), said the infamous speech had left the country with
suppressed political debate on the subject.

Speaking to a crowd of about 200 people at the same Birmingham hotel
Enoch Powell gave his speech, Mr Phillips was speaking 40 years after the
Wolverhampton South West MPs notorious pronouncements

He said: €œFor 40 years we have, by mutual consent, sustained a
particular silence on the one issue where British people most needed
articulate political leadership. Powell so discredited any talk of
planning that we have plunged along with an ad hoc approach to
immigration.€�[[4] More]

First of all, Britain is not in the shadow of Enoch Powell, its in the
shadow of Trevor Phillips, the man who can prosecute you if you say the
wrong thing. A large part of Powells speech concerned not mass
immigration itself, but the nascent Race Relations Act, which could put
people in jail for speaking out against immigration, which is why
theres a €œparticular silence€� on this subject.

Addressing representatives from local authorities, police, and a range
of equality groups present at the MacDonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham,
Mr Phillips said he thought Mr Powells dire predictions had not been
fulfilled.

Tell that to the victims of the[5] London Bombings, of the [6] riots, and
the [7] crime, and of [8] the EHRC itself. Powell [9] was right.







http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2008/...s-later/print/

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