Editor’s note: Please note that this article contains discussion of crimes such as sexual assault. We believe the stories, while disturbing even when told with minimal detail, deserve mention and honest reporting.

In recent weeks, riots have broken out across the U.K., with rival gangs of native Britons and Muslims clashing. The police response has been telling.

The following is just a selection of the hundreds of arrests and sentences already meted out:

• A middle-aged woman from Cheshire was arrested for posting incorrect information on Facebook.
• A 61-year-old man was jailed for 18 months after shouting abuse at police officers, making “threatening gestures,” and shouting “who the f*** is Allah.”
• A 40-year-old man was arrested for posts alleged to contain “anti-Muslim and anti-establishment rhetoric.”
• One man who watched riots from the sidelines had his bail refused on the ground that he “participated” in disorder by watching it.
• Police have even threatened to “come after” foreigners if they participate in “incitement” in online posts.

Judging by these responses, one might conclude that the British police are at least a bit overzealous in their commitment to law and order. Yet evidence suggests the opposite. Over the last decades, tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of young British girls have been targeted and raped by “grooming gangs,” which are predominately composed of Pakistani Muslim immigrants and their descendants.

The police response to this unimaginable horror? Inaction.

Contrast the crackdown on “anti-establishment rhetoric” with the following:

• One father called the British equivalent of “911” 200 times to try to get help for his daughter—to no avail.
• Two fathers realized their teenage daughters were being gang raped and went to save them. Police were called—they arrested the fathers.
• Five men got a 12-year-old girl drunk then had their way with her. Police were called—they arrested the girl for drunkenness and disorderliness.

English girls have been subject to horrors that would outrage any civilized person. With tens of thousands of cases documented, it is simply impossible that police and social services did not know this was happening. The police refused to act on these reports for years because they were afraid of “triggering unrest … and being branded racist.” After decades, word got out, spurring the justice system into action far too late for thousands of families.

The native people of England have been living a nightmare for decades, and they have voted accordingly. In virtually every election since 2000, they have called for an end to mass immigration. Yet once elected, politicians have broken their promises. The Conservative government that just lost power promised to keep legal immigration to under 100,000 people. In its last year in Westminster, 700,000 people entered the country—and that’s only counting the legal immigrants.

Clearly, the United Kingdom has a two-tier system of justice. Unspeakable atrocities are permitted when carried out against the native population, even as critics of those atrocities are swiftly prosecuted. The result is a police state that tolerates terrorism so long as it does not challenge government power.

This is in keeping with the prophetic vision of Britain’s greatest political critic, George Orwell. The London of his dystopian classic 1984 resembles the London of today in more ways than one:

There was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world-within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitutes, drug-peddlers, and racketeers of every description; but since it all happened among the proles themselves, it was of no importance. In all questions of morals they were allowed to follow their ancestral code. The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them. Promiscuity went unpunished, divorce was permitted. For that matter, even religious worship would have been permitted if the proles had shown any sign of needing or wanting it. They were beneath suspicion. As the Party slogan put it: ‘Proles and animals are free.’

As the spiritual descendants and allies of the English people, Americans should take note. There is no reason why this two-tier justice system should not arrive in the United States. In some ways, it already has.

For example, Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in Manhattan in May of 2024. Usually, the crimes he was charged with would count as misdemeanors, but the statute of limitations on misdemeanors had already passed. Not to be deterred, the District Attorney of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, simply upgraded Trump’s charges from misdemeanors to felonies. Even Andrew Cuomo said the case would have never been brought “if his name was not Donald Trump and if he wasn’t running for president.”

If Alvin Bragg is willing to upgrade misdemeanors to felonies, how does he treat possible felons? In 2023, over 60 percent of the felony charges in New York City were downgraded to misdemeanors.

Just as in the U.K., those entrusted with protecting the innocent tolerate violence against ordinary Americans so long as that violence does not pose a threat to their own power. Looking at England, we know where this might lead.

The question is, will we be able to turn the ship around before it’s too late?

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