Gary Monro’s blog

As I walked home this afternoon I heard from the other side of the road a lady screaming. A very weird sound - it actually started from under the subway and sounded like an animal. But once she got above ground it was very obviously not.

A not-exactly-young Muslim lady was chasing four schoolgirls down the road; they’d stolen her bag and were in the process of emptying the contents all over the place.

The girls - and the chasing lady - were running away from us and distance meant there was nothing I could do except watch them disappear into the distance. An Asian couple looked like they were turning their car around to give chase but she stalled and they changed drivers… It looked like it was all over. I walked off, anger rising at the audacity of some of todays kids and at the injustice of what had happened to the lady. And at the fact that I was unable to do anything to help.

Then - lo and behold - these girls seemed to have doubled back on themselves and the next thing I know they’re crossing over to my side of the road in front of me.

Out comes the mobile phone.

They walk past me to turn into a side street and one says something to the other about ‘why did you take the whole bag?’ - or words to that effect. As I dial the police they head into a park. After a few minutes holding I got to the person I needed and she started taking details from me.

The operator wants a description of the girls - how many (four), age (14 or 15), colour (black), dress (school uniform which I describe). I hope she doesn’t ask me what actually happened becase I didn’t actually see the event take place - I witnessed the aftermath.

While I’m speaking to her the girls start to leave the park. They walk past me and I tell the operator where they’re heading. I hope the police will come quickly.

The police do come quickly. I’m still talking to the operator when they arrive.

The first car comes down the road and is going the wrong way. I call him and he reverses - faster than my old banger can go forwards - up the road the girls are walking along - although they’re quite a bit ahead now - and then into another side road. Hmmm. You won’t catch them there, thinks I.

Then a van comes by, blue lights flashing and speeds down the same road. As I walk up the road in the direction of the girls another police van passes me and then, alittle further on, I see another police car. Two minutes later I catch up with the girls. They are - literally - surrounded. The van and car that had gone the ‘wrong’ way were there too. They basically cut off any escape route the girls had. These chaps have obviously done this before…

Two vans, two cars, 6 or 7 police officers and at least one plain clothes officer. Wow!

I told the operator the lady was a Muslim because I figured, at this delicate time, the police would react exceedingly quickly to a crime against a Muslim. And they did - at the speed of light as far as I’m concerned.

That lady deserved that speedy response. I do hope she’s okay. She had enough pluck - if not enough speed - to give chase to them.

We all deserve such a quick response. I hope we’re all going to get it.

Update Just spent an hour and a half giving a written statement to a police officer who, it turns out, I used ot go to school with. Small world,eh?

Then, as we left the interview room we bumped into what I strongly suspect were the families of the girls who committed the robbery. Great. I wonder what the witness protection scheme is like round here…

This shocking news via The Times suggests that 48 year old Kamal Raza Butt was beaten to death Sunday as part of a backlash against Muslims in the UK.

Nine men have been arrested.

After continuous demands from politicians and police officers that we don’t abuse our Muslim neighbours the sad truth is the kind of people who actually would do such a thing will do it regardless of the demands. Maybe they’d do it because of the demands…

I hope the guilty are caught. And I hope they spend the rest of their lives in prison.

For those of us who didn’t need a massacre to demonstrate that a proper, responsible security regime includes sealed, guarded borders this will offer a faint - but only a faint - glimmer of hope that the totalitarian and wicked EU project is starting to lose its grip on its member states.

Having rejected the Constitution and with rumblings amongst the serfs that they’d like their own currencies back I saw this today in The Guardian:

Reflecting the anxiety about the movement of extremists across Europe, France last night reintroduced border controls and Italy said it was increasing border checks.

The French interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, said he was suspending the Schengen agreement and tightening passport checks at France’s borders with its EU neighbours.

The tightening of borders came amid fears that associates of the suspected bombers have the capability to carry out further attacks.

“We could be looking for the fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth man,” said a senior security source.

Now although this is a classic example of closing the gate after the horse has bolted - and there can be few people who ever doubted the horse actually was going to bolt - if this review of the ridiculous open borders policy operating in the EU state brings permanent change to the recognition of states and their borders then perhaps we can sleep a little easier in our beds.