Posted on 11/09/2025 2:31:52 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Alec Penstone, a 100-year-old veteran of World War Two, appeared on Good Morning Britain this week to offer a damning indictment on the state of his country today.
With liberals weaponizing immigration to change the face of Western countries — literally — and the British government fully embracing censorship, arresting people by the dozens over social media posts, it’s fair to say that the Greatest Generation struggles to recognize the world they collectively saved.
Asked what Remembrance Day means to him, Penstone, who served in the Royal Navy, responded with a heart-wrenching message.
“My message is,” he said, “I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their lives, for what? The country of today?”
“No, I’m sorry – but the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result of what it is now,” Penstone added. “What we fought for was our freedom, now it’s a darn sight worse than when I fought for it.”
The United Kingdom passed the Online Safety Act in 2023, which regulates so-called hate speech, harmful content and misinformation — with the government deciding what fits these categories.
Social media users could relate to how the vet feels, with many calling it “heart-wrenching” — here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
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A parallel would be Czechoslovakia 1938. Of course The Sudetenland was just the pretext, but look at the map.
Czechoslovakia was a dagger aimed at the heart of Germany, and Hitler was not going to allow Czechoslovakia to become a base for British, French or even Soviet troops.
Nice thread hijack.
The boomers’ kids blame the boomers.
Who has been—and pretty much still is—in the drivers’ seats? The kids didn’t rack up 38T in nationl debt, but that’s their gift, their legacy from us. Big cities like Detroit, bombed out.
Boomers. Let’s take responsibility, or be irresponsible, like democrats.
“But he’s not talking about wars, he’s talking about the society he fought to preserve.”
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He fought to repel Hitler and the Nazis from taking the UK, in addition to the rest of Western Europe. The Soviet Union and its communists were his allies in that fight.
Now there are Neo-Nazis throughout Europe and the West, often funded these days by Putin.
“The boomers spoiled their kids, bought into leftist nonsense, and flushed their own culture down the toilet.”
I see more and more of this “boomer” nonsense. No one generation, ever, has control over a culture.
The novelist Kenneth Roberts was sounding the alarm over the future overthrow of American culture through immigration in the 1930s. Arithmetic may be beyond your skill set, but that predates the birth of boomers.
Listen you arrogant jackass, who the hell do you think let all the migrants in? That’s what he’s talking about.
Yeah I can do math and I can be polite until you open your trap.
Remembrance Day = Forgotanance Day. Ungratefulness Day.
Not to totally dispute you, but the boomers didn’t create FDR.
Communism was moving into America, even before WWII, I believe. He is talking about more than just illegal imigrants.
I think some here don’t like the boomers or their kids being blamed for anything.
Of course they didn’t all do it, but somehow enough fell for sappy liberal rhetoric and the death of outrage, that society is doing stuff nobody should tolerate. Or they just became afraid to speak up.
Well he didn’t name boomers, all I’m saying is things went to hell sometime after WW2. society doesn’t resemble what he fought for, and that would be true on many many levels.
I read your replies and thought that that generation of MY family were all Liberals! Oh, how they LOVED FDR - and Censorship, and Rationing and, of course, the War to Save Communism.
WWII was like swimming in acid. Nothing good came of it.
There was some resistance at the time with Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare.
While Reagan took on the Soviets, he did nothing about the Communists on College Campuses in America.
“Listen you arrogant jackass, who the hell do you think let all the migrants in? That’s what he’s talking about.”
Listen you idiot. The ones who let the migrants in (factoring our the Biden administration, Biden not being a boomer) was the Immigration Act of 1965 (primarily Teddy Kennedy) when the oldest boomer was 18.
The Immigration Act of 1965 specified that henceforth immigrants to the United States were to be non-whites and non-Christians. Look it up.
That song was prescient.
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The boomers did not vote in the disastrous election of 1964. The first national election we could vote in was 1968 and we elected the supposedly conservative law and order candidate Nixon and took away the Democrats filibuster proof Senate majority. Then in 1972, with the lowered voting age (more boomers) Nixon was re-elected overwhelmingly. Your blaming boomers solely for our problems is false. It’s just liberals from every generation.
“ Listen you arrogant jackass, who the hell do you think let all the migrants in? That’s what he’s talking about.”
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1. The 1965 Immigration Act was signed into law when the oldest Boomer was 19. Boomers didn’t start the problem, not by a long shot.
2. Not all of us supported this unlimited immigration crap - that the libs and lefties of our generation, which is only about half of us.
3. Find me a single individual, let alone an entire generation, that is either perfectly good and wise, or perfectly bad and foolish. Such doesn’t exist, never has and never will.
My dad (WW2 Navy fighter pilot) and my uncle Jack (WWII 8th AF B-24 navigator) said the same thing when 0bama occupied the White Hut.
WWII was like swimming in acid. Nothing good came of it.
WWII was just a continuation of WWI. And had the US and Britain stayed out of WWI, there would have been no WWII. It would have just been Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia, and who won should have been of no consequence to us.
It’s not only the beaches, it’s the average British citizen that took his boat and crossed the English Channel to help save and evacuate the British Expeditionary force at Dunkirk, it’s the RAF pilots who despite all the odds held off the Luftwaffe over the skies of the UK, it’s the entire British population that went to war to save their country from being invaded, only to see it invaded now while the Government helps and encourages it.
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