The state already has more than enough money, laws and committees to protect us from Islamofascists...

...it’s just that the people who spend that money, frame those laws, and sit on those committees are too confused, too politically prejudiced and too drippingly wet to use the means already at their disposal to keep us safe. Here are a few suggestions for protecting us  which don’t involve any of fatuous displacement activities being hysterically mooted by our rulers.

1. Why don’t the intelligence services actually use the information they already have? One of the “suspects” allegedly involved in the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby was arrested in Kenya in 2010, where he was believed to have been trying to join the notorious al-Shabab terrorist group, and deported after having received British consular assistance. Hardly flying below the radar, was he?

2. Before trying to silence “hate preachers”, what about withdrawing the benefits – paid for by the British taxpayer – which provide them with the leisure to turn young men in this country into killers.

3. I know – instead of making multiple attempts to deport people wanted in connection with terrorist offences in other countries, why not, you know, just fucking do it.

4. We are constantly being told that the young men who in the main commit the sort of bestial atrocities we saw in Woolwich and Boston are “radicalised” (ghastly word – but I’ll leave that for another post) at university or in prison. Last time I looked, colleges and prisons are both pretty much under the control of the state. We give the state shed-loads of our money to pay for prisons and universities. Why in the name of God are these allowed to be used as recruiting centres by Islamofascist terrorist groups? David Willetts is the Universities Minister and he reports to that horrid old man, Vince Cable – what the hell are they doing to stop this happening? As for prisons, I would imagine right-wing Justice Secretary Chris Grayling – a relatively recent appointment following the defenestration of that appalling crypto-communist Ken Clarke - is simply gagging to halt this nonsense. Be our guest, Chris!

5. Vast sums of tax-payers’ money have been used to keep the “Muslim community” sweet, and the government has involved some well dodgy Islamic groups to advise on where that money should be spent (where the money hasn’t actually been handed to these blisters directly). Given that all this largesse seems to have done little to halt the spread of Islamofascism in this country, let’s just stop funding ethnic and religious groups of any stripe. Being allowed to live in a country as tolerant and civilised as Britain is an enormous privilege – bribing certain groups will merely convince them that we’re (a) fools, and (b) lucky to have them here.

6. We already have laws in place to stop people inciting violence. The only problem is that the authorities we pay to enforce those laws seem unwilling to do so in an even-handed fashion: write something nasty about islam on Facebook and plod will bust a gut to bring you to justice, but turn up in public carrying placards advocating the slaughter of British troops – a clear act of treason, one would have thought – and chances are your collar will remain unfelt. Why?

7. When people living in a certain neighbourhood complain to the police that gangs of Islamic militants have taken to threatening and beating Muslims and non-Muslims for breaking what they non-Islamic behaviour, maybe the cops, instead of bursting into tears because they might be accused of racism, could actually bloody well do something about it! (Andrew Gilligan wrote about such a case in Tower Hamlets in 2011, here.)

If I weren’t such a sensible, reasonable chap, I’d suspect that there had been a vast and wildly successful conspiracy afoot for years in this country involving politically correct left-wing multi-culti enthusiasts in the government, the civil service, the police, Higher Education and the criminal justice system to afford the adherents of a deranged, violent, alien, fascist creed every opportunity to exploit confused, weak young men when they’re at their most vulnerable – full of self-loathing and fear in prison or full of uncertainty on the brink of adult life at college.

But I know there’s no such conspiracy – it’s just that so many liberal-leftists seem to think they have a perfect right to spend the money the state confiscates from us for the purpose of creating a socialist utopia which the majority of us wish no part of, and which we certainly didn’t vote for. An open, pluralistic society like ours will always be under threat from enemies at home and abroad – what’s particularly galling is that our taxes are being used in a whole variety of ingenious ways to aid and abet enemies who wish to destroy us.

The state doesn't need to add to its considerable powers - it just needs to actually use the ones it already has.