What Bruce Bawer calls America’s “€œoppressive Christian fundamentalism”€ is exactly what keeps America healthy (at least in comparison to the continent). If the situation in Europe continues to deteriorate it will not be long before Bruce Bawer, for his own safety and that of his “€œpartner,”€ will feel compelled to flee back to his native America. One can only hope that liberalism will not progress to the point where the American nation, like the nations of Europe, loses the will to assert its own identity, the conservative belief in the supremacy of its Christian heritage, the willingness to fight for the preservation of its traditional values. Contrary to what Bawer says, it is not true that “€œfirst they came for the gays.”€ First they came for the Christians, and radical homosexual activists were in the vanguard of the liberal storm troopers who silenced the Christians in Europe.

On April 20, 1968, on a Saturday afternoon, Enoch Powell delivered his “€œRivers of Blood”€ speech at the Midland Hotel in Birmingham. He went there fully aware that what he was going to say would be of historic importance. Earlier in the week, he had told his friend Clement Jones: “€œI”€™m going to make a speech at the weekend and it’s going to go up “€˜fizz”€™ like a rocket; but whereas all rockets fall to the earth, this one is going to stay up.”€ In his speech, Powell warned of the dramatic and tragic results which mass immigration from the undeveloped world was going to have on Britain. He referred to the Roman poet Virgil, who has the Sybil prophetize, in Book 6 of the Aeneid, “€œthe River Tiber foaming with much blood.”€