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The Real Lesson of Belfast
Lyceum ^ | 6/22/26 | Scott Mechkowski

Posted on 06/22/2026 10:13:36 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort

A man named Stephen Ogilvie is lying in a coma after a brutal knife attack on a Belfast street. If he wakes, he will have lost at least one eye and will carry severe scars on his face and neck for the rest of his life.

The man charged with attempting to murder him is a 30-year-old Sudanese national who entered the United Kingdom in 2023 after traveling through Paris and Dublin before claiming asylum. In the days after the attack, Belfast erupted. Homes were burned, businesses were attacked, and families fled their neighborhoods.

The political class quickly condemned the riots. That’s understandable — no one wants to see the city they govern burn. But politicians should also be asking why this crime, unlike others before it, triggered days of unrest.

For decades, Western elites have treated immigration enforcement as optional. Citizens were told that demographic change was inevitable, deportations were impossible, and concerns about social cohesion were ignorant or prejudiced. Belfast shows the limits of that thinking. Communities can absorb only so much before people conclude that the institutions meant to protect them no longer work. At that point, they stop waiting for the government to act.

(Excerpt) Read more at lyceumnow.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belfast; deportation; immigration

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1 posted on 06/22/2026 10:13:36 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
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To: PoliticallyShort

That’s understandable — no one wants to see the city they govern burn.


Well except in Minnesota. Open the windows to smell the fires.


2 posted on 06/22/2026 10:18:36 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: PoliticallyShort

If most of the people figure out the hordes are the replacement voters it will blow up.


3 posted on 06/22/2026 10:20:40 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: PoliticallyShort
When you threaten people's families they get upset.

They will go guano crazy. 40 years down the line they may partly regret it. But probably not.

So stop pushing people.

4 posted on 06/22/2026 10:21:51 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: sauropod

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5 posted on 06/22/2026 10:39:23 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: hanamizu

That fell under the liberal definition of a mostly peaceful riot so it was ok with them.


6 posted on 06/22/2026 10:58:42 AM PDT by Freedumb
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To: PoliticallyShort

“and families fled their neighborhoods”. Ahhhh, no. ILLEGALS fled the neighborhoods where they were installed and given EVERYTHING necessary to live, funded by taxpaying natives. Good thing they fled. Once the politicians responsible for this absolute travesty are hunted down and dealt with properly, those illegals are next


7 posted on 06/22/2026 11:10:17 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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