CharlesAnthony CharlesAnthony:
N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:
But mainstream media didn't tell you about any of that. Did they?
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Whenever the people need a hero we shall supply him."
I was thinking about that. What a hero is.
Have you ever seen the movie or read the book Bridge on the River Kwai?
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In early 1943, British POWs arrive by train at a Japanese prison camp in Burma. The commandant, Colonel Saito, informs them that all prisoners, regardless of rank, are to work on the construction of a railway bridge over the River Kwai that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon. The senior British officer, Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson, informs Saito that the Geneva Conventions exempt officers from manual labour. Nicholson later forbids any escape attempts because they had been ordered by headquarters to surrender, and escapes could be seen as defiance of orders.
At the morning assembly, Nicholson orders his officers to remain behind when the enlisted men march off to work. Saito threatens to have them shot, but Nicholson refuses to back down. When Major Clipton, the British medical officer, warns Saito there are too many witnesses for him to get away with murder, Saito leaves the officers standing all day in the intense heat. That evening, the officers are placed in a punishment hut, while Nicholson is locked in an iron box.
That's the setup and up to there I can make a parallel with Tommy Robinson.
Both Nicholson and Robinson were men of principles and they both found themselves locked in heat box, punishment containers as a result of a refusal to compromise on their principles.
Tommy might have been in his a little longer but that's just nitpicking.
After their time in the heat boxes though there's a real divergence in the two stories. Nicholson gets out. He compromises on building the bridge after Saito compromises on exempting officers from manual labor. Tommy's out but the only compromise is British justice now realizes he shouldn't have been in there in the first place.
Back at the movie though, the prisoners build the bridge and Nicholson has pride in what he now sees as an example of superior British engineering.
However it turns out the bridge is a tactical danger to British forces. Nicholson hadn't considered that. He only discovers he is actually traitor when it is too late for him.
So with Tommy he would have to discover that Islamist/Prog=>Comm conflation of ideologies moving to deconstruct Western society to be replaced with some sort of EU, globalist, sharia compliant, open borders, Multi-cultural amalgamation is what must be accepted as the new Britain in order to reach the Nicholson conclusion he is actually a traitor.
Tommy isn't going to do that. I believe the motto of Tommy and his followers is "never surrender."
Nicholson made an oops and admitted it. Although he had a hero's principles and courage of convictions he realized he made a mistake in the end. In the final analysis he was a failure as a hero.
Tommy is motivationally correct in the righteousness of his goal though. You'll never convince him or me he isn't. But there's a difference between him and me too. I can only wish I had the courage of conviction and leadership abilities in the righteous cause he does. Nicholson and myself weren't or aren't heroes. Nor are you. Tommy Robinson is though.
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