Enoch Powell: Prophet of England

In biblical times, the prophets would come from the wilderness and preach to the Children of Israel about G-d's anger at them. And the Children of Israel would ignore the prophets and finally incur G-d's wraith.

Great Britain had a prophet. He didn't come out of the wilderness, he came from Stechford, Birmingham, England. This prophet wasn't illiterate nor uneducated, but a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge. An enlistee in the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, he served his nation first as a private but eventually as a Brigadier General (the youngest ever to hold that title). After the war he continue to serve his nation as a member of the Conservative Party when he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton, South Wales. He stayed there until 1987 when he finally lost his seat in Parliament.

So how did this scholar turned war hero turned politician become a prophet?

He did it by speaking out against what he perceived as the evils of his day: immigration, the loss of national identity, the monetary policy, and Great Britain's entry into the European Economic Community (the forerunner of the European Union). But this prophet is best known for his warning to the people of Great Britain on Immigration. A speech that wasn't well received at the time among the elitists, but the common man loved it. A speech that warned Great Britain that the time would come in which the streets of their cities would be running with A River of Blood.



Powell quoted statistics that in 15 to 20 years, there would be 3.5 million immigrants and their descendants in Britain. Powell estimated that by the year 2000, the figure would be 5 to 7 million, around one tenth of the population. Powell claimed that it was urgent to stop "further inflow, and by promoting the maximum outflow" because by 1985, the majority of the immigrant community would have been born in Britain. Powell asserted that this was "part of the official policy of the Conservative Party". He went on to say:

We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiances whom they have never seen.

He advocated voluntary re-emigration by "generous grants and assistance" and he claimed that immigrants had asked him whether it was possible. Powell said that all citizens should be equal before the law, and that:

The third element of the Conservative Party’s policy is that all who are in this country as citizens should be equal before the law and that there shall be no discrimination or difference made between them by public authority. As Mr. Heath has put it, we will have no ‘first-class citizens’ and ‘second-class citizens’. This does not mean that the immigrant and his descendants should be elevated into a privileged or special class or that the citizen should be denied his right to discriminate in the management of his own affairs between one fellow-citizen and another or that he should be subjected to inquisition as to his reasons and motives for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another.

He argued that journalists who urged the government to pass anti-discrimination laws were "of the same kidney and sometimes on the same newspapers which year after year in the 1930s tried to blind this country to rising power which confronted it.

The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and of resentment, lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come and are still coming. This is why to enact legislation of the kind before Parliament at this moment is to risk throwing a match on to gunpowder.

This prophet, Enoch Powell was correct in his assessment of the way things would become in Great Britain if immigration wasn't curtailed. And he was correct. When he talked about the indigenous population of the nation (White people) in 1968 he spoke the truth:

For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country. They found their wives unable to obtain hospital beds in childbirth, their children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighborhoods changed beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began to hear, as time went by, more and more voices which told them that they were now the unwanted. On top of this, they now learn that a one-way privilege is to be established by Act of Parliament: a law, which cannot, and is not intended, to operate to protect them or redress their grievances, is to be enacted to give the stranger, the disgruntled and the agent provocateur the power to pillory them for their private actions.

Powell's peroration of the speech gave rise to its popular title. He quotes the Sibyl speaking in the epic poem Aeneid:

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood’. That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.

And then he was crucified on the cross of Multiculturalism. But his message didn't fall on deaf ears. Over the 40 years of this speech, the British have seen their nation of civilized behavior become a nation of barbarity. Christians not allowed to preach their Gospel, Muslim only enclaves in cities, Muslim bigotries becoming the norm.

But the news isn't all bad. Today we have many prophets crying the message of Enoch Powell. Prophets who are becoming outspoken against Multiculturalism and the Muslim invasion. Prophets who will not back down when faced with official harassment. Such a prophet is Lionheart. A man who is being harassed for hate speech in Great Britain simply because he spoke out about the truth behind the Muslim, oops Asian youth gangs destroying his hometown. And like the prophets of old and Enoch Powell, he is being persecuted for his words.