Thread by @Will_Tanner_1

Yes, this is actually happening in Britain, but it’s not new or innovative

The Bolsheviks did the same thing

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First, as a reminder for those who don’t know what is going on, riots in Britain started after an Islamist butchered three young English girls and the government, currently headed by socialist Labour PM Starmer, did pretty much nothing

Years of frustration about immigration, legal and illegal, turned to riots

Starmer responded by cracking down on the English for protesting and now is locking up people for even retweeting posts siding with the rioters

So, now, Starmer is letting actual criminals out of jail so that Englishmen who simply don’t want their daughters murdered can be stuffed into prison

This is horrifying, but it’s not new

When the Bolsheviks acceded to power, they opened up the jails and freed all the violent criminals.

General Wrangel describes this happening in Crimea, and Gustav Krist, the Austrian prisoner of war who wrote Prisoner in the Forbidden Land describes the same thing happening in Central Asia

After the prisoners were free, the Bolsheviks established the Red Guards

The Bolsheviks weren’t freeing prisoners because they had kind hearts or disagreed with the idea of prison. They went on to kill tens of millions in prison camps, as we all know

Rather, it was about establishing control over the population. It’s a whole lot harder to think about the political system when you’re starving and having to deal with a huge crime wave, after all, the the freed prisoners create the anarchic conditions in which Bolshevism thrives

There’s not really much else to say about it other than that the Bolsheviks thrived on the anarchic conditions their prison policies created, then went on to fill the prisons right back up, only this time with political prisoners rather than real criminals

Solzhenitsyn described the communist attitude toward crime quite well:

So, that’s what Starmer is now doing.

Like the Bolsheviks, he’s letting real criminals go free do that the prisons can be crowded with political prisoners whose only crime is having a different opinion of immigration than he does

The state sees that as necessary because crime isn’t a threat to its rule, whereas an angry populace of competent people could be

Ok apparently the butcher was Rwandan rather than an Islamist

Whatever. He’s not an Anglo or Norman and so ought not be there