A nefarious plot to... defend patriotism? (08-28-2025--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] So there is a plot unfolding in the United Kingdom that threatens the very fabric of the British society. And the means of distribution of this nefarious plot is fabric, actually. It's, yeah, it's apparently flying the British flag. That is the... that's the threat, apparently.

[00:00:58] Yeah, an army of patriotic campaigners. This is from the Daily Mail, so it's from the UK. And so they write and speak a little funny over there. That's why we seceded from them. But anyway, an army of patriotic campaigners have vowed to continue putting up England and Union Jack flags, despite council workers ripping them down.

[00:01:24] Council is like the municipal governments and stuff. It's an online movement, which I'm surprised the Brits have not been able to completely ban all social media. I think if they maybe reach out to Winnie the Pooh over there in communist China, they may be able to get some tips on how to restrict all of the access to the social media platforms where Operation Raise the Colors, which is spelled incorrectly, apparently.

[00:01:52] It's C-O-L-O-U-R-S. So they've misspelled the name of their own campaign for some reason. But it's called Operation Raise the Colors. It is being fomented online. Birmingham City Council provoked a major backlash by announcing that it would begin removing hundreds of the flags from the city streets.

[00:02:15] And the reason they are removing the flags of their own nation is due to, quote, safety reasons. Safety reasons. Well, OK, before I dismiss this apparent dumbassery out of hand, I'm going to maybe give them the benefit of the doubt here.

[00:02:36] Maybe the flags are like those really, really big flags that the CEO of Camping World, Marcus Limonis, keeps putting up over his his RV and camper lots that are like, you know, the size of seven football fields. And maybe they're hanging too low and maybe they're like suffocating people or crushing them under the weight of the fabric. They fall down or something. Maybe there are like some legitimate. Safety reasons.

[00:03:04] Again, I'm not really buying it, but let's see what they let's see what their explanation is. Critics have pointed out that Palestine flags were allowed to fly in parts of Birmingham and the East London borough, which have had which have large Muslim populations. And they were allowed to fly for months without being challenged by authorities. OK, so maybe they weren't as big. Maybe that's the deal.

[00:03:33] Maybe they didn't make the Palestine flag as big or something. And so there was no safety reasons. And that's why they were allowed to fly for so long. Operation Raise the Colors has led to communities across the country hanging up flags on their streets, including Bradford, Newcastle of the beer fame, Norwich and the Isle of Wight. And that's not spelled W. W-H-I-T-E. This is W.I.G.H.T.

[00:04:03] So lest you think this is some racialized thing. And so they're flying these flags in defiance of council bans. Later in this article, Downing Street, which is the prime minister. They were like we called the White House. They call it Downing Street. Downing Street.

[00:04:22] So Downing Street backed the flying of the national flags, although stopped short of commenting on individual cases such as the disputes specifically in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets. Sir Keir, two tier Starmer. That's what they call him over there now. They call him two tier Keir. Because there are two tiers of justice in the U.K. now.

[00:04:47] The official spokesman said, quote, the prime minister has always talked about his pride in being British, his patriotism. Patriotism will always be an important thing to him. Asked if Sir Keir Two Tier was supportive of people putting up English flags. His spokesman said, oh, absolutely. We put up English flags all around Downing Street every time the English football team, women's and men's are out trying to win games for us. Bully bully.

[00:05:16] We're just like these campaigners. I added that last part. Including the bully bully. There were fractious scenes on the streets of Tower Hamlets, though, when a small team of council cleaners. So municipal workers began to cut down the flags from lampposts. The authority is led by Lutfur Rachman.

[00:05:40] He is a member of the Aspire Party, which is a pro-Palestine party. And he had previously refused to remove hundreds of Palestine flags that were hanging from lampposts and council buildings in the borough. Because, well, he did not want to, quote, destabilize community cohesion.

[00:06:09] Yes, that's what would do it. That destabilizes cohesion. Right. Right. It's not the presence of thousands or tens of thousands of asylum seekers.

[00:06:24] It's not them and their presence and their exertion of power and their different cultural norms, their ideology that they bring with them from the lands they fled to the land they preferred to live in. And yet still fly the flags of the land they fled or actually a country that doesn't even exist, but never has. But regardless.

[00:06:52] That's why you leave the flags up. But when you try to hoist the colors of Britain. That will now create division, too. So you have to fly the flag of. Pakistan. Sorry. Pakistan and. Pakistan and. The Palestinian flag. You got to leave those up for months so as to not destabilize community cohesion.

[00:07:20] And you cannot leave the flag of your own country flying because that, too, would destabilize community cohesion. Look, I'm just a simple man. But why would people who come to a country. Obviously preferring it. They traveled a great distance, spent a lot of money to get there.

[00:07:49] Why would that country's flag be offensive to them? That's a brain buster for me. I don't understand. Again, if you're like, I really like when I moved down to South Carolina, I came down from New York. I graduated high school, went to school in South Carolina. And frankly, I believe South Carolina does have the best, if not one of the best state flags. I like it. I like the cut of its jib. I like the way it looks. It's simple. It's clean. I like the color pattern.

[00:08:19] I like it. It did not offend me. I didn't move down to South Carolina and be like, you got to change that flag. Oh, my gosh, I can't believe I'm looking at this flag. It's the state flag. When I moved to North Carolina, I am not offended by the state flag of North Carolina. Now, I think there are some improvements that could be made, but it doesn't matter. Like, I'm not offended by it. It doesn't disrupt. It doesn't destabilize me. I chose to be here. I want to be here.

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[00:10:33] By hoisting the flag under which all people live is just this destabilizing, divisive act. You see, the leader of the Tower Hamlets municipality or council, Lutfur Rachman of the pro-Palestine Aspire party, he allowed the Palestinian flags and the Pakistani flags to fly for months because

[00:11:02] he didn't want to, quote, destabilize community cohesion. I would note that Mr. Rachman has previously been found guilty of electoral fraud. He did finally take all of the Palestinian flags down after Jewish locals complained that they were intimidating and divisive. But when the cleaners began to remove the English flags, they found themselves on the receiving end of abuse from passersby.

[00:11:32] The flags could be seen dumped in a pile in the back of a refuse lorry being driven by the cleaners. Some had to abort their operation and said they'd try again in the early hours the next day in the hopes that the abuse would be more muted. Although I did get a video, saw a video of apparently Brits who are utilizing this newfound focus on cleanliness.

[00:12:00] I mean, with things that have the St. George cross, which is, you know, the white flag with the red cross right through the middle, the T, you know, from top to bottom and then all the way from left to right, that flag. And as well as the Union Jack. So people are painting stuff that they want the city to throw away, but the city hasn't gotten around to throwing away like couches. So they're painting their couches that are out on the curb to be picked up and the government's not picking them up.

[00:12:28] And so now they're painting them with the St. George white and red cross. And then the city comes and takes them away. It's actually pretty brilliant. It's a good way to get rid of your old televisions to box them up or stick them in the box of the new TV and leave them on the porch. And somebody will come and steal it for you. Anyway, the flag wars began when the Birmingham City Council removed flags in a suburb over claims that the flags were dangerous.

[00:12:57] There's a small group calling themselves the Weoli Warriors. I don't or Woli, W-E-O-L-E-Y, Woli Warriors, describing themselves as a group of proud Englishmen. Oh, well, there you go. There's the problem right there. There are proud Englishmen. That's not allowed. You're not allowed to be a proud English person. Sorry. So they have a common goal to show Birmingham and the rest of the country of how proud we

[00:13:24] are of our history, freedoms and achievements. There's a window cleaner named Matt Glover from Northfield, Birmingham. He's identified as one of the Woolly group. And he said the flags pose no risk to public safety. And he vowed to continue playing cat and mouse with the council. The father of four said he and others in the group observe proper safety procedures here and make sure that the ladders are used by trained individuals. This is so British.

[00:13:56] The father of four went on to say that, you know, they're taking all necessary precautions and such. The Warriors believe to be based out of the Woolly Castle pub in the area. And they claim to have hoisted around 1500 flags around Birmingham in recent weeks. The city council of Birmingham said that staff has been instructed to remove all attachments from lampposts ahead of an upgrade to energy efficient LED street lighting.

[00:14:24] See, so we were already doing this upgrade on the lampposts. And so because we're there, we got to take them down so we can get to the bulbs or something. And so that's the reason we're taking them down. But opponents claim the removal of the flags only began in earnest. When GB and England flags were posted while Palestine and Pakistani, sorry, Pakistani national flags flew untouched in the city for months.

[00:14:54] One guy went and painted a St. George cross on a white mini roundabout, you know, like a little concrete circle in the middle of an intersection for the roundabouts. And he painted the flag there. 40 year old Ian Anderson said locals have been pushed into taking a stance. He said, quote, I certainly don't agree with vandalizing roads or roundabouts. After all, flags are just flags and can be taken down.

[00:15:20] However, there is a real sense that people who are proud to be British are being made to feel ashamed of their patriotism. Yes, there is a reason why people feel that way. It's because that is the messaging that the quote unquote elites or as I call them, the faux elites. That is what they have been promoting.

[00:15:45] That is what Marxists and internationalists have been promoting, that you should be ashamed of being a British person, of being an English man or woman. And it got me thinking that there is, in fact, a word for this kind of a scenario where a foreign nation's flag is flown over your city and your own nation's flag is taken down.

[00:16:14] There's a word for that. That word is conquered. You are conquered. I don't know how much time you have left, but that's what that indicates. When some other nation or people fly their flag over your buildings on your streets and you can't fly your flag there, that means you don't control it. You don't own it. It's not your place anymore because that's their flag. That's what that means.

[00:16:45] I think that's been pretty universally understood for a very long time. I mean, look, what happened when we conquered the moon, right? After the great moon wars of 1964 and we conquered the moon, what did we do? We stuck a flag in its face. That's what you do when you conquer a planet or a moon. That's what you do. And the Brits have a sense that this is happening. Yes. And it actually is much worse than this.

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[00:18:41] People are no longer, I talked a little bit about this the other day, the preference cascade. You have a permission structure, basically, that now allows people to be talking about this stuff, whereas before it was repressed. Media wouldn't touch it. Government officials denied it, wouldn't talk about any of these problems. But now enough people have been talking and the issues have been bubbling.

[00:19:05] And when it starts breaking through, people start realizing, oh, I'm not the only one that thinks like this. I'm not the only one that identifies these problems and are seeing these problems. There's actually a lot of us. And then the dam breaks. That's the preference cascade. It then just, just. I know that probably sounded like a cat purr, but it's like a boom, boom, boom, boom. It's like a bunch of dominoes. So.

[00:19:34] Davidson says, by now you've seen the video circulating on social media of a defiant and terrified young Scottish girl wielding a knife and a hatchet to fend off the advances of a migrant man who allegedly had been harassing her and her younger sister. Have you seen these videos or the video? She's like 12 and. Her she and her sister and her friend are.

[00:20:02] Terrified and telling these telling this guy who is recording and is antagonizing them, goading them, show me the knife, show me the knife, he keeps saying. And she's like freaking out. Get away from us. Don't touch us. Which, by the way, in a statement from one of the girl's mothers said that this man was then assisted by his apparently his sister. Who knocked down one of the 12 year olds or 14.

[00:20:31] There was one 14 year old knocked her to the ground and beat her. Sending her to the hospital with a concussion. Hence the girl with the knives in order to stop the attack. You can hear the fear and anger in their voices, a mix of desperation and rage and confusion. You can also hear the man's voice taunting them. At one point, one of the girls cries out, don't touch my little sister. She's only 12. You might have also heard how the story ended.

[00:20:58] The police arrested the girl for possession of a bladed weapon. They did not detain nor investigate the migrant man. In fact, yesterday, local authorities sent out a statement saying, do not engage in the spreading of misinformation about this. Now, they didn't tell anybody what the misinformation was, but they just put out a stern warning to everybody. Don't you be spreading misinformation.

[00:21:23] The entire sordid history of Britain's civic collapse, stretching back decades to the Rotherham rape gang scandal and forward to today. It's in some ways contained in the striking image of this wisp of a girl with a knife and a hatchet in hand. Facing down a predator. She's clearly desperate, abandoned by the adults who were supposed to protect her. Sold out by the political leaders who were supposed to maintain the cohesion and safety of her city.

[00:21:52] She is reduced at last to brandishing crude weapons to defend herself from foreign men brought to her native land against her will. By the way, this town where she is located, I think it's called Dubin or Devin, this has been one of the places on the maps of where all the rape gang activity has been occurring. So she knows, her family knows, the people in that town, they know what's going on.

[00:22:21] It's a scene that encapsulates the total loss of legitimacy of the British government and a portent of what comes next? Civil war. And it's not hyperbole. Britain right now shows all the signs of descending into sustained civil conflict and then eventually open civil war. The ruling elites have broken the social compact by importing mass numbers of foreigners who are hostile to the native population.

[00:22:51] The government has repeatedly and consistently signaled to the ethnic white majority that there is indeed a two-tiered system of justice and that they are on the lower tier. Political leaders and public officials have criminalized dissent from their agenda and sent police to harass and arrest people in their homes for criticizing the government. They are arresting people in Britain for Facebook posts.

[00:23:16] Worst and most stomach-turning of all, the British ruling class has failed to adequately acknowledge or take appropriate action in response to the Pakistani rape gang scandal. Which is ongoing. The scandal continues. It's a festering wound in the British body politic. They have the rape gang inquiry. It released a statement saying they'd identified 85 local areas or authorities.

[00:23:40] Patterns of targeted exploitation by predominantly Pakistani males combined with gross negligence from public bodies. The maps that I just mentioned. See, the ruling class of British society has let this happen because the migrant gangs target working-class girls, whom the establishment elites, or faux-letes, see as, apparently, expendable. David Betts, professor of war in the modern world at King's College London.

[00:24:10] He's not some kook. He says, It's not a question of if civil war breaks out in Britain, but when. It was long thought that the conditions for civil war, which are loss of social cohesion, high levels of social distrust, growing intertribal conflict, and dwindling economic prospects. It was long thought that these conditions simply did not exist in the West, or at least not sufficiently to bring about widespread civil conflict.

[00:24:38] But that is no longer the case, and nowhere is it more apparent than Britain, where the political establishment, both the Labour Party and the Tory Party, have broken the social compact by imposing mass immigration on a native population that does not want it. In England, a resistance to this alliance is taking shape in the form of the battle over its own national symbols, and that presages a larger conflict to come.

[00:25:08] Operation Raise the Colors, as it's called, is a campaign to plant the distinctive red and white St. George Cross flag and the Union Jack in as many public places as possible. It is an act of national solidarity and patriotism directed unmistakably at a hostile government that's obviously trying to erase the ethnic English majority. These are internationalists that are in control in Britain and in many Western nations.

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[00:26:35] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. From the text line, Anonymous says, it's not just Britain. It's Ireland, France, Spain, and Germany. It's based off of this refugee definition in the treaty after World War II and such,

[00:27:00] but that treaty should not be used for suicide, for national suicide, which is what it's being used for. And by the way, our adversaries, Russia, China, Iran, they're destabilizing other countries knowing that then those populations will go to the Western countries and not be turned away.

[00:27:22] And if you are not willing to address the root cause of this, which is that refugee law, then I guess you deserve to die as a nation. And it's not going to be peaceful. I don't know how the British citizenry will fight in any civil war when they have been disarmed.

[00:27:49] That would require a military coup, and that's a tough ask. Most soldiers and cops would shoot their own mother if ordered to, if they can keep their pensions and benefits. I disagree with that. The Western peoples are in quite a situation. That's from Joseph. Dave says, why do you think the faux elites are funneling in these immigrants? It can't just be kindness, perhaps to lower wages. I just don't get it. Help me understand.

[00:28:15] They are driven by an internationalist view that the nation state is antiquated. It's simple economic zones, and you don't want people unified under this national banner. And again, they're hamstrung by the laws that they've adopted. But yeah, cheap labor is also part of it. It also doesn't affect them personally.

[00:28:39] And they have a Western conceit, which is that people in other cultures and countries think like they do. And that's not true. Michael Syed, he's a writer at the London Times. He's got an interesting theory on all of this. And what actually gave rise to the English Empire was when they banned, and this was, you know, 1,500 years ago,

[00:29:06] they banned cousin marriage because it broke people of this tribal mindset. Because now you had to move out of your local tribe, your clan, your kin, your family, in order to find a mate. And in doing so, it gave people a greater unifying cohesion, which was then that we are all under this same banner of this nation, essentially.

[00:29:35] And you have other parts of the world where that does not exist, right? The Middle East is a very good example of it, and it's why the nation-building project failed. Because they are clannish, they are tribalist, they look at, you know, their own clan as their own, and they also still marry their cousins. And that creates an insular clique.

[00:29:56] And so anything that I can do to get over one on my opposing family or clan for the benefit of my tribe, my clan, my family, well, then I should do it. And that, of course, then destroys any kind of semblance of the rule of law. Because it doesn't matter. If you're just, you know, I'm going to rule against you because you're in a different clan. Davidson at The Federalist continues, well, he concludes by saying,

[00:30:23] the political establishment has predictably responded to the Raise the Colors campaign by branding the displays as racist, tearing the flags down, throwing the book at anybody caught in the act. This state of affairs will not go on forever. There will come a flashpoint. And in America, people need to be prepared to see the situation in Britain clearly as it unfolds

[00:30:46] and understand it for what it really is, a justified revolution of the people against a tyrannical government. That's what's occurring. I completely agree. That's what's occurring in Britain right now. And over at The Spectator, Douglas Murray, he takes up this topic as well. He says, the age-defining question is, what are you actually allowed to do or say if you don't like the direction that the country is going in?

[00:31:15] If you join a rally against the rape of young British girls, you'll be marked as a racist. If you go to a demonstration against putting up illegal migrants in expensive hotels, you'll be branded far right. If you put up a flag, you'll be smeared by the most distant possible association with somebody you've never met who might have put up the same flag for the quote-unquote wrong reasons. Perhaps it's just about possible that the public could be kept down forever, our national story trashed, and our flag said to be toxic.

[00:31:44] The problem is trying to maintain that stance while at the same time encouraging everybody else to have a whale of a time with their own emblems and traditions, even traditions where laws are broken. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecalendershow.com.

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