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Human Events:

After a young British soldier named Lee Rigby was hacked to death with machetes and cleavers in broad daylight by Islamist fanatics last week, his government’s response included a warning that British troops should avoid wearing their uniforms in public when traveling alone, at least temporarily, as a “common-sense precaution” for their own safety.

The British have been brothers-in-arms with American troops throughout a long and bloody century, fighting and dying together in defiance of one monstrous evil after the next, so an American hearing this desperate foolishness can’t help but wince. The “answer” to a savage assault on a soldier while he’s strolling through his home city is a warning to his fellow troops that it would be best to hide their identities for a while, because their safety can’t be guaranteed? Nuts to that.

Another part of the British government’s response involved cracking down on citizens who grow too vigorous about denouncing Rigby’s murderers in their social media posts. One man got busted for “making malicious comments” of an allegedly “racist or anti-religious nature” on Facebook, while another enjoyed a little visit from the police after making some overheated online comments of his own, according to the UK Daily Mail. One cannot help but notice the authorities have not been so aggressive about cracking down on the sort of “malicious comments” that led those jihadists to run Rigby down with a car and chop his head off. One of the killers is linked to a group that carried out hateful demonstrations and howled “British soldiers burn in hell!” on a day their “adopted country” sets aside to honor fallen troops.

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