The Catholic pastoral office of St. Gallen, Switzerland, is co-organizing a free drag event in a public hall, and a church-employed liturgist will moderate it on stage this Friday evening.
Titled “Deep Drag – Memory and Hope,” the program will feature a St. Gallen “drag performer” referred to as “Lupa Nova” and “drag queen Amélie Putain” who, according to local media, are “working together with the city chaplaincy of Katholisch St.Gallen.”
The St. Gallen Catholic Church website highlights an advertisement for the event.
The format mixes “drag performances” with interviews and discussion facilitated by Ann-Katrin Gässlein, identified as an employed theologian in the pastoral offices the Catholic Church in St. Gallen, and a research assistant at the Chair of Liturgy Studies of the University of Lucerne.
According to a report by traditional Catholic writer and commentator Chris Jackson, Gässlein “even finds a theological analogy between drag and Christianity: ‘transformation,’ she argues, stands at the center of Catholic faith. She says the collaboration is meant to send a signal for diversity within society and the Catholic Church.”
In response to this presentation, Jackson clarified that “Christian conversion means the old man dies so that the new man may live in Christ. Drag deliberately manipulates the symbols of sex and identity as performance. These are hardly the same spiritual movement.”
He argues that post-conciliar pastoral practice meets every cultural fashion with “dialogue”—a rave, Pride, drag—and has forgotten that Christianity can simply say no: “No hostility toward the person. No humiliation. Just no.”
The allegations centre on riots at Eritrean festivals in Giessen in August 2022 and August 2023, and at a seminar of an Eritrean association in Stuttgart in September 2023. Screengrab youtube
Two suspected leaders of an Eritrean opposition group classified by German prosecutors as a domestic terrorist organisation have been arrested and remanded in custody after investigators said members treated violence against German police as a legitimate tactic.
Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office said on September 15 that an Eritrean national (Merhawi A.) and a German national (Shimangus T.) were detained near Saarbrücken and in Stuttgart.
They face accusations of membership of a terrorist organisation. An investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe issued arrest warrants and both men were placed in pre-trial detention.
Prosecutors identified the pair as central figures in building the German structures of Brigade N’Hamedu Deutschland and in organising violent actions. The Eritrean national had served for a time as secretary-general; the German national was the group’s first chairman.
According to the Karlsruhe office, the internationally networked group’s declared aim is the overthrow of the government in Eritrea.
In Germany it pursued that objective through violence at events staged by supporters of the Eritrean authorities.
“In doing so, the members of the organisation regarded violence against German state institutions and representatives of state authority, including police officers deployed to protect the events, as a legitimate means,” prosecutors said.
The allegations centre on riots at Eritrean festivals in Giessen in August 2022 and August 2023, and at a seminar of an Eritrean association in Stuttgart in September 2023.
Numerous police officers were injured in those clashes, some of them seriously. Dozens of people were detained at the time.
The latest arrests follow nationwide searches in March 2025. More than 200 officers searched 19 properties in Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Rhineland-Palatinate, with a further raid in Denmark.
Seventeen named suspects were then under investigation for founding or belonging to the German branch of the group; no arrests were made that day.
Eritrea, a Horn of Africa state of about four million people, has long been described by human-rights organisations as one of the world’s most repressive countries, marked by systematic restrictions on basic freedoms.
Rival factions within its diaspora have repeatedly clashed in European cities, including violent scenes in the Netherlands as well as Germany. Prosecutors have treated the German branch of Brigade N’Hamedu as a terrorist organisation since at least those 2022–23 incidents.
A Dutch review committee has now ruled that the country’s first euthanasia of a child under 12 was handled with “due care.”
The child, nearly two, had been born at 26 weeks’ gestation. He had severe brain damage, cerebral palsy, seizures, and a developmental age of about six weeks. Although the child was not dying, doctors and parents chose to sedate and kill him, as LifeSiteNews first covered in June.
Now, the Review Committee’s full report has been released. It argues that the child “had multiple, very severe disabilities, both mental and physical, and the prognosis was that the child would be dependent on support with all activities of daily living for the rest of their life,” with a “very high probability of the child dying at a very young age due to complications.”
“In the course of the child’s short life, there was a complete lack of development or improvement,” the report claims, with parents and physicians “convinced that the child was suffering unbearably and without prospect of improvement.” The child’s attending multidisciplinary team concurred, as did a mandatory second opinion.
However, not every second opinion consulted concurred in all respects. One group of second-opinion doctors agreed “there was no real chance of improving the situation and that there was an irreversible situation,” but not “that there was no continuous unbearable suffering at that time,” and therefore “reasonable other solutions existed, such as palliative capabilities and drug alternatives that could potentially lead to better seizure control of the epilepsy.”
But parents ultimately ruled out palliative care, so the doctor “approached another doctor outside his own region (second second opinion) who concluded that the unbearable suffering in the child was clearly visible” and could only be ended in a “reasonable way” by “ending life.”
Ultimately, the report says, “given that the child was incapable of any form of communication, the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment options were discussed extensively with the parents. As more and more became clear on the basis of medical examinations and in view of the child’s visible clinical deterioration, the parents asked the physician to terminate the child’s life. The physician spoke extensively with the parents about the termination of life, and their position was consistent.”
This is not technically the end of the review; the Public Prosecution Service must still review the case and decide if the doctors complied with the law. But that agency is not expected to contradict the Review Committee.
The case is a grim milestone for euthanasia, which was legally extended to minors under 12 in 2024. At the time, Dutch Health Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Hugo de Jonge called it an “appropriate step to meet the identified need from practice and provide physicians with the desired legal protection.” The system had already progressed in recent years to killing autistic people and healthy young women with depression.
As Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF) executive director Matt Vallière has argued, euthanasia programs in the United States constitute discrimination against the disabled when programs “will pay for every instance of assisted suicide” but not palliative care. “I don’t call that autonomy,” he says; “I call that eugenics.”
Live Action’s Bridget Sielicki further notes that “because a paralytic is involved, a person can look peaceful, while they actually drown to death in their own bodily secretions. Experimental assisted suicide drugs have led to the ‘burning of patients’ mouths and throats, causing some to scream in pain.’ Furthermore, a study in the medical journal Anaesthesia found that a third of patients took up to 30 hours to die after ingesting assisted suicide drugs, while four percent took seven days to die.”
A trans-identified male athlete has returned for a second season on Santa Rosa Junior College’s women’s volleyball team despite complaints about his inclusion, which triggered two federal Title IX investigations. With this latest victory, Santa Rosa opens its new campaign with six consecutive wins.
Head coach Ally Sather celebrated her 100th career win at the California college after the Bear Cubs swept both Napa Valley College and Butte College during a September 4 double-header. Ximena Gomez, a trans-identified male player on the team, started against Butte and helped SRJC win 25–14, 25–10 and 25–20, recording five kills, two blocks and 6.5 points.
The team’s Instagram account marked the result with a graphic declaring “100 WINS” and the caption: “100th Career Win for Coach Sather after beating Napa and Butte in convincing style!” Sather has led the program since 2018.
Women’s sports campaigner Beth Bourne branded the coach and program “CHEATERS,” noting that number 20, Gomez, is male.
🚨CHEATERS: Yesterday Santa Rosa Junior College women’s volleyball team defeated Butte College, 3-0.
Afterwards, Santa Rosa head coach Ally Slather boasted on Instagram it was her 100th win.
Last year, Gomez was the subject of a formal complaint brought by three female players who alleged that the college sacrificed their safety, privacy, and playing opportunities in order to keep him on the women’s squad.
Gomez is now listed as a 5ft 10in sophomore middle blocker on the current 18-player roster. He has started all six matches and played in 18 of the team’s 20 sets this season.
According to SRJC’s current player statistics, Gomez has registered 26 kills from 67 attacks, a .209 hitting percentage, 36 points and 14 blocks. His six solo blocks and 14 total blocks are both team highs.
Gomez’ player profile from Santa Rosa.
In the latest victory over Butte, Gomez made five kills from seven attacks with one error for a .571 hitting percentage, the best hitting rate recorded by any SRJC player in that match. The college’s match report praised him for “another efficient performance.”
Santa Rosa is the only unbeaten team in the Big 8 standings, sitting at the top of the overall table with a 6–0 record.
Five of their six victories have come in straight sets. Their only dropped sets were in a 3–2 win over Yuba College on 2nd September, meaning SRJC has won 18 of the 20 sets it has played. The team entered the state’s first 2026 Top 25 poll at number 21 on 31st August, when it was 2–0, and has since added four further wins.
Three female athletes at @SantaRosaJC have filed a Title IX complaint in an effort to remove a male from their volleyball team.
The women say they were penalized for expressing concerns about Ximena Gomez, even after he injured another player.https://t.co/dpbHNnK2F9
The undefeated start comes one year after Madison Shaw, Gracie Shaw and Brielle Galli filed the original complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on 3rd September last year. As Reduxx reported at the time, the women accused SRJC, the California Community College Athletic Association and its member colleges of violating Title IX by allowing Gomez to compete in women’s volleyball and use the women’s changing room.
The complaint alleged that Gomez struck then-teammate Kiana Walker in the head with a spike during a 2024 practice, causing a concussion that kept her out for two weeks. It also stated that he hit Gracie Shaw in the face with a spike during practice on August 28 last year..
The three complainants said they refused to compete alongside Gomez and were then deprived of starting positions, playing time and coaching attention. They specifically accused Sather of retaliation after they raised objections with her, athletic director Matt Markovich and the college’s Title IX staff.
On 14th January, the Department of Education announced that its Office for Civil Rights had opened an investigation into SRJC as part of a group of 18 probes into educational institutions accused of permitting male athletes to compete according to gender identity rather than sex.
The following day, a joint Department of Education and Department of Justice Title IX Special Investigations Team opened a separate investigation into 3C2A’s Transgender Participation Policy. The federal announcement explicitly cited allegations that the policy had discriminated against at least three female athletes by allowing a male volleyball player to compete and enter women’s locker facilities during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey called the policy a “stunning indictment of our culture” adding that “women’s sports are for women.”
No public determination or resolution has since been announced in either investigation. SRJC said it was cooperating with the federal investigation and was committed to “accuracy, transparency, and compliance throughout the process.” The college and 3C2A have nevertheless continued to roster and permit Gomez to compete.
The contrast with the complainants is stark. Official 2025 statistics record no match appearances for either Madison or Gracie Shaw. Galli played in six matches and 21 sets, all before conference competition, while Gomez appeared in 15 matches and 46 sets and accumulated 71 kills, 19 blocks and 82.5 points.
Fox News reported in May that Madison had abandoned her plan to transfer to an NCAA volleyball programme, was working three jobs to save for tuition and was exploring opportunities outside sport. Gracie initially continued practising while refusing to play, but ultimately left the team. Galli said the lack of game footage had also damaged her recruitment prospects.
At that point, Galli and Gracie planned to complete another year at junior college. However, none of the three complainants appears on Santa Rosa’s current roster, and Reduxx could find no public record showing that any has joined another college volleyball program. Gomez, meanwhile, remains a starter on the women’s team and its leading blocker.
During a meeting with science students, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz openly derided the principle of freedom of speech and defended the need for the state to “protect” citizens from American-style libertarianism on the internet.
What would have typically been an unremarkable photo-op for the increasingly unpopular German leader drew condemnation over a major gaffe (read: accidentally revealing his true feelings) as Merz held court at the Chancellery with the winners of the ‘Youth Researchers’ competition on Tuesday.
When pressed by a young student on whether his plans to end online anonymity would impede personal liberties, Chancellor Merz reacted indignantly, declaring: “Please, no one comes to me with free speech… That has nothing to do with free speech anymore.”
The supposedly conservative politician — who made sure to use English when repeating the phrase “free speech” as if to mock the very concept — said that he rejects the “libertarian understanding of politics,” which he claimed emanates from the United States.
Merz said that his vision of a liberal society was rather one in which the state steps in to protect citizens “from false information, from personal degradation, from discrimination” on the internet.
The Chancellor complained that in the “analogue world” of his youth, German newspapers were liable to face legal action for spreading false claims, but this is no longer possible with the advent of anonymous social media profiles, and thus the media landscape lacks “hygiene”.
He also asserted that anonymity allows the proliferation of bot-generated messages, which he claimed were instrumental in helping the Alternative for Germany (AfD) trounce his globalist Christian Democrats in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections earlier this month.
Yet, it is doubtful that any amount of censorship from Berlin would bolster the Chancellor’s faltering coalition government, which rumours suggest may be on its last legs.
Indeed, following the embarrassing defeat in Saxony-Anhalt — which may yet result in the AfD taking control of a state government for the first time in its history — Merz’ popularity fell to an all-time low, with the latest RTL/ntv trend barometer finding that just 10 per cent of Germans approve of the Chancellor’s performance, compared to a staggering 88 per cent disapproval rate.
The comments from Merz were roundly criticised as a mask-off moment for the embattled Chancellor. Tichys Einblick columnist Sofia Taxidis remarked: “The tighter the noose closes around him, the more aggressively and irrationally he lashes out. It’s a good thing it’s coming to an end. The man is becoming increasingly agitated and increasingly dangerous for democracy.”
Die Welt’s influential Chief reporter Anna Schneider quipped that the German public is not in need of Merz to protect them from the internet, but rather of being able to have a “train ride without worrying about knives in the chest”.
The draconian speech restrictions have become a major fault line between Berlin and the United States, with Vice President JD Vance criticising Germany and other European states in his landmark address at the Munich Security Conference last year for failing to live up to Western principles of liberty.
Ali A. is accused of killing a pregnant Dutch woman while he was high on anti-dust spray.
Ali A. had just turned 18 when he decided to drive his brand new BMW X1 over double the speed limit, high on anti-dust spray, striking 33-year-old Dutchwoman Elisabeth in Rotterdam.
On Monday, prosecutors said in court that it was just two days after his eighteenth birthday, in March of last year, when Ali A. drove at 115 km/h in a 50 km/h zone, or 71 mph in a 30 mph zone, with the car which his father had just given him as a gift.
Prosecutors say they want him to be sentenced to eight months in prison and given a five-year driving ban.
Dutch news outlet NOS wrote that Ali A. was weaving his car, driving on the wrong side of the road, and is suspected of having been under the influence of propellant anti-dust spray, a kind of narcotic used by young people.
Video footage shows him overtaking a car at very high speed and barely avoiding an oncoming vehicle. Then, he hit Elisabeth’s car, who was on her way to her hockey club, which led her vehicle to slam directly into a tree.
Doctors tried to save her life but she died that same day. She was fourteen weeks pregnant with her first child, who also died.
The suspect, now 19, offered a different account of the accident in the Rotterdam court. He said he lost control of the car and was trying to avoid other cars, but one of his statements also appears to contradict this claim.
“I didn’t know the car well yet and wanted to test it out. I may have been overambitious and thought I was a better driver, but I couldn’t control it,” he said.
After the collision, Ali A. ended up in the ditch with his car. He claims he thought he was unconscious for a while and was “in terrible shock” after the accident.
The prosecution argues the man was high on anti-dust spray, but Ali strongly denies inhaling any drugs.
However, police have recorded him fleeing the scene of the accident and throwing away two aerosol cans. He claims that if police had discovered the aerosol cans, it would have given them the “wrong impression.”
“I am aware that the spray is used to get high. I was afraid they would suspect me of that if they had found the cans in the car,’ he stated.
When asked why he did not go help Elisabeth, or call emergency services, he said: “I was in shock.”
The prosecutor went on attack, saying that Ali A. is claiming he is too shocked to help Elisabeth or call emergency services but had the presence of mind to run away and toss the two anti-dust cans.
He had recently bought two cans of the spray because he saw — right after coming home from a short foreign birthday trip — that there was some dust on his PlayStation. He claims his plan was only to clean his PlayStation. When asked why he bought two cans, he said he had no idea how much cleaning product was needed.
The prosecutor rejected that explanation.
“I don’t see any shock, I see someone deliberately dumping evidence,” she said.
The attorney representing the family, Anne Bleeker, said that Ali A is, “Thoughtful, cunning, self-centered.”
She added that she does not believe a word of Ali’s story.
Incredibly, the alleged intoxication of Ali cannot be legally proven because the blood sample was destroyed due to a hospital error.
During police interrogations, Ali A. previously said that he could not remember the accident. He said he didn’t notice at all that he had hit someone.
“Temporary amnesia,” he said at the time.
Now, he can remember, he told the judge.
“This is the worst thing I’ve ever experienced,” he said, and added that he was also greatly affected by the accident. That claim was heard with disbelief in the packed courtroom.
When Ali said again during his closing words how much trouble and stress he himself had from the accident, several of Elisabeth’s relatives walked out of the room.
Elisabeth’s partner, mother and brother called on him in their victim statements to take responsibility.
“It is completely disrespectful to us. You say you were in shock after the accident and can’t remember anything. I was also in shock after hearing about the accident, but I can still remember everything exactly,” Elisabeth’s partner said, according to De Telegraaf newspaper.
Her mother said she should not have been in court at all today.
“I should have picked out a present for my grandchild’s first birthday…You drove like crazy. There are too many young people like you. Too much testosterone, too little brain.”
“We were happy to become grandparents again, it was [the other parents of the father] who were preparing to become grandparents for the first time. They had already prepared some old baby clothes,” she added.
Her brother also spoke, saying: “A beautiful vision of the future on a sun-drenched day. It turned into horror in the hospital. We were completely devastated.”
The court will rule in two weeks, on Sept. 28.
Various commentators and political figures are outraged by the case, including Eva Vlaardingerbroek.
“Ali A. (18) hit and killed Elisabeth (33) who was pregnant with her first child. He was driving 115 km/h in a 50 km/h zone and was high on laughing gas. The Dutch prosecutor is demanding 8 months in jail. That’s apparently all the life of a Dutch pregnant woman is worth,” she wrote on X.
Nicole Sturgeon resigned as Scottish Prime Minister back in 2023, in the wake of a scandal in which her husband, Peter Murrell, stole over half a thousand dollars from SNP party funds to fund their sumptuous lifestyle.
Murrell, now reportedly estranged from her, pled guilty to the crimes, and was sentenced in June 2026 to 5 years in prison.
Not content to pretend this debacle had nothing to do with her, Sturgeon now walks out in the public arena to call for the abolition of the British Monarchy.
This comes as she has been reported to the police for keeping goods bought to her by Murrell using stolen money.
Nicola Sturgeon's 'mask slips' as she calls for an end to the monarchy.https://t.co/nNAEqhCFT6
“The monarchy should be abolished to free Prince George from the burden of becoming king, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
Scotland’s former first minister said it was unfair that the 13-year-old prince had no control over his destiny, and suggested that scrapping the monarchy would be considerate.
Nicola Sturgeon stated her case in a new Channel 4 documentary, The Royals: Time To Go, presented by John Humphrys, an avowed republican.”
Prince George of Wales – Wiki Commons
“She continued: ‘In fact, I would say one of the arguments for getting rid of the monarchy is for the sake of members of the Royal Family, like Prince George, for example. That kid doesn’t know any different. He has a certain life ahead of him that he has no choice over. Is that really fair?’”
Yes, you read it right. Her unbelievable argument is end the Monarchy to ‘free the future members of the Royal Family from carrying that burden’.
Nicola Sturgeon reported to Police Scotland for 'handling stolen goods'https://t.co/TGibYswH9k
This unwelcome tirade comes just as Sturgeon has been reported to the police for keeping ‘stolen goods’ bought by her husband that has been jailed for embezzlement.
“Stuart Campbell, who runs the pro-independence blog Wings over Scotland, said he had written to Police Scotland to make a formal complaint. […] Mr. Campbell said Ms. Sturgeon ‘has for some years been in the possession of numerous high-value items paid for by her husband Peter Murrell with money embezzled from the Scottish National Party’.
He alleged that the former SNP leader was guilty of “reset”, an offence in Scots law whereby a person is in possession of property stolen by someone else.
It can apply to those who knew an item was stolen when they received it, or if they acquired it in good faith and later discovered it was stolen but decided to keep it anyway.”
One of the cool things about being heterosexual is that you don’t have to think about it every minute of every day. It does not define who you are. Your romantic and sexual choices are just a subset of your life. If that were true about so-called transgender people, a so-called “transwoman” police officer in Germany would not stand accused of raping a 14-year-old girl or possessing the most vile pedophilic pornography imaginable.
Growing up and living most of my adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area, an LGB hub, and having worked for physicians investigating AIDS’ origin, I’ve spent a lot of time around the LGBTQ+ crowd, so I’m certainly qualified to speak about my personal conclusions.
Over the years, I observed that, for many homosexual and lesbian people, it’s not necessarily true that their sexuality runs quietly in the background. Many of them have their orientation as a prime part of their identity. Their world—work, friendships, recreation—revolves around their sexual status. Obviously, that’s not true for everyone: Just look at Scott Bessent and Scott Presler, two men I greatly admire because of their brilliant outward focus.
Where my “lived experience” (to borrow from the leftist lexicon) shows that things get completely out of control is with the so-called “transgender” deviations from the sexual norm. Again, based on observation, these are people whose entire being is consumed with their non-stop efforts to obtain sexual satisfaction despite going beyond any natural sexual boundaries.
It appears that, once you go down the transgressive path, you become jaded quickly and must endlessly search for new experiences. (This totally NSFW illustrated post makes my point.) This is especially true if you’ve warped your body’s normal sexual responses with hormones and surgery.
Because the FBI does not have a special “trans” category for people arrested for sex crimes, it’s not always possible to tell whether pedophiles, rapists, and other sexual criminals in the US identify as transgender. However, the UK does, and those numbers are growing.
In the UK, the recorded transgender prison population rose from 230 in 2022, to 268 in 2023, to 295 in 2024, and to 339 in 2025. The most recent one-year increase was 15%, while the overall prison population was essentially flat. The disparity is striking. In 2024, 151 of 245 transgender prisoners whose legal sex was male—about 62%—had been convicted of a sexual offense. By comparison, sexual offenders account for roughly 17%–19% of the male prison population generally.
As just one more illustration of my observational principles, here’s a report out of Germany (once traditional Bavaria) featuring an especially heinous example of what’s happening when men with sexually focused mental illnesses are given free rein:
A trans person on trial in the German state of Bavaria on charges that include the alleged rape of a teenage girl and the possession of a large collection of child sexual abuse material while serving as a German police officer.
The trial of the 55-year-old defendant — who is a male-to-female trans person and who has been removed from duty — began today, Tuesday morning, at the Traunstein Regional Court, according to German news outlet Rosenheim24.
Prosecutors accuse the trans ex-officer of raping a 14-year-old girl in the toilet stall of a fast food restaurant and of possessing hundreds of files depicting the sexual abuse of children. Investigators say the material includes violent acts against children, with the youngest victims described as about three years old.
Photos of the trans ex-officer in the courtroom show a tall individual with long bleach-blonde hair, a large arm tattoo, and tall platform shoes.
In other words, the photos show a man in fetish clothing:
🇩🇪‼️🚨 TRANS COP RAPES TEENAGER
German MSM avoids telling people that the female cop who raped a 15-year-old girl is a trans person. They go with “female police officer” but leave out that this person is a man. How would a woman even do that?
And because you can’t keep satisfying a jaded palate with rape, pedophilia, and child porn, you won’t be surprised to learn that this man was involved in other deviant sexual behavior as well:
The defendant also faces an accusation of producing animal pornography. The trans ex-officer is alleged to have made videos where the defendant had sex with a dog, along with several sexual partners.
It’s obvious that this person should never have been allowed into a position of trust as a police officer. That 14-year-old girl must have been taken completely unawares when someone she thought was safe brutally abused her.
Nevertheless, across the West, people in positions of power insist that we must fully accept these people. Indeed, not only must we accept them, we must fund them. ReMix News, which published this information, also reports that, to meet a diversity checklist, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein contributed €12,500 (about $14,425) to a film about a “trans man” (i.e., a mentally ill woman).
Yes, that’s in Germany, but keep in mind that, until Trump took office, a lot of USAID money was spent on supporting so-called transgenderism across the globe, often forcibly inserting it into traditional cultures.
Every society will always have marginal people—that is, people whose conduct has traditionally forced them to the margins of society. Unkindly, they were once referred to as dregs—the dysfunctional alcoholics and drug addicts, the mentally ill, the petty criminals, and the sexually deviant.
We, as a civilized society, don’t need to be unkind. We can offer treatment to substance abusers, safety for the mentally ill (for themselves and others), appropriate prison sentences for the petty criminals, and a measure of sexual privacy and freedom for the deviants. What we cannot do—but the left has been doing and continues to advance—is allow the people on the margin to take center stage. That way lies madness and societal downfall.
After weeks of total inaction by the Spanish government, police, and military, frustration in Ceuta reached a boiling point. Then the police took action—against their own people. According to Ceuta residents, the state had abandoned its duty to protect the border and left the inhabitants to their fate. Locals were therefore forced to intervene themselves to clear their beaches—only to be met with batons from the very police officers who had previously appeared helpless.
Following the historic mass influx in late July 2026, when over 72,000 illegal migrants poured across the border from Morocco in just 48 hours, Ceuta’s residents have experienced a total betrayal by the state. Despite the acute emergency, the military and national police remained completely passive, even though they maintained a heavy presence with military-grade weapons and armored vehicles. Large parts of the city quickly descended into chaos, with roaming crowds of migrants. The city was plagued by shop looting, acts of violence, tent camps, and human waste on beaches and streets. Residents were left entirely at the mercy of the African immigrants, without protection or support from the government in Madrid.
Police Finally Take Action
Eventually, the local population had had enough of seeing their public spaces and beaches occupied. On Friday, August 28, proactive residents took matters into their own hands to do the job the police and military had refused to do for a full month. They marched down to the beach, dismantled the illegal tent camps, and cleared the area of the migrants’ abandoned belongings. The migrants—who, according to Ceuta residents, had previously displayed the arrogant behavior of occupiers and acted with impunity—were now forced to flee. From a distance, they watched as their camps were torn down, thrown into the sea, or set on fire.
It was then—right in the middle of the citizens’ action—that the police suddenly appeared from their slumber. The very same security forces that had passively watched as the enclave was subjected to a massive invasion now mobilized at lightning speed, clad in full riot gear. The police formed a human wall on the beach to protect the illegal migrants and turned their batons against the local population. For the residents, the sight was as revealing as it was provocative: the state refused to halt a veritable invasion yet acted with full force against its own citizens when they attempted to restore order.
Enormous Public Support
The action in Ceuta has ignited a spark of resistance across the Spanish mainland—a phenomenon clearly visible in independent alternative media and on various social media platforms such as Telegram. In the days following the August 28th action, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in several major Spanish cities, including Madrid, to show their support for “the brave residents of Ceuta.”
On September 2nd, the people of Ceuta themselves staged a massive protest in their city. Of the city’s approximately 84,000 inhabitants, more than half are believed to have participated in or lined the streets during this historic, massive demonstration. Images and videos from independent media outlets show vast crowds filling squares and boulevards in numerous cities, protesting against Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s socialist government.
Despite the monumental turnout, mainstream media and the government launched a coordinated disinformation campaign. Mainstream media outlets have deliberately fragmented the statistics regarding the massive nationwide protests and understated the number of participants in individual cities—an obvious attempt to downplay the deep and growing public anger. Critics argue that this is being done because Spanish authorities fear losing control over the narrative—and, by extension, the nation itself.
Piddington has voted to secede from the United Kingdom for the second time in a damning rebuke to Home Office plans to leave locals outnumbered by asylum seekers in the Oxfordshire village.
The symbolic referendum – dubbed the “Battle for Britain” by residents – was held by Piddington Parish Council amid Labour proposals to house 1,256 male asylum seekers at a nearby disused military site.
Piddington, which is home to just 350 residents, held its first vote on July 4.
A staggering 96 per cent backed independence, with just seven local residents voting to remain a member of the UK.
And on Wednesday, the village once again voted to leave.
Ahead of the result, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told GB News it was “absolutely right” that the Government listens to the village.
“What I would say to the people of Piddington is I think it’s absolutely right and fair that they express their views, and I think it’s absolutely right that the Government listens to those views,” she said.
After casting his vote, 76-year-old Herbert Owen said: “It means everything our grandparents, our parents fought for – today is the Battle of Britain.
“This isn’t just about Piddington, this is about our whole country. This Government is destabilising our country.
“Wherever they put these people, in camps, in HMOs (houses in multiple occupation), or whatever, they’re ruining people’s lives.”
Mr Owen hailed the community as a “wonderful little village” and said it had not changed much since moving there more than three decades ago.
Concern is also mounting at the suitability of the MoD Bicester site set to receive the horde of illegal migrants, with roads around the former base not even having pavements.
According to Government planning documents, the male asylum seekers will be handed “high-visibility vests” should they wish to freely wander into nearby towns.
However, the proposals say that the men will be “strongly encouraged” to catch a lift from the taxpayer-funded shuttle buses, with the garments being distributed “to further emphasise the potential danger”.
The vote in Piddington had drawn the attention of politicians in Westminster, with Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp and Shadow Equalities Minister Joy Morrisey joining 20 women at the village green earlier this week.
Reform UK MPs Sarah Pochin and Suella Braverman also responded to an open letter penned by a group of Piddington’s female residents, which warned of a looming “crisis” for their “safety, security and freedoms”.
One local told GB News the village received visits from Reform UK, the Tories, Restore Britain and the Lib Dems in the run-up to the crunch vote – but nobody from the Labour Party had come knocking.
Despite just a handful of residents voting against independence from the UK last time round, one local woman claimed “overt racism” was afoot within the village in opposing the plans.
The local – known only as Rachel – told BBC Newsnight: “I came to England over 35, almost 40 years ago, and I loved it for the diversity and the richness of it.”
Despite saying she had “so much empathy” for the concerns of her fellow villagers, Rachel said her criticisms of the opposition to the plans had caused her to be “seriously othered” by her neighbours.
“One of the things about allyship is that you shouldn’t be expecting black and brown people to defend or stand up to racism,” she added.
“If you added 1,256 males of any demographic to the end of our village, the risk to women would rise, simply because of the arithmetic,” Ms West told The Telegraph.
“We will be outnumbered 10 to one. Put that many men in one place and, statistically, some of them will not be law-abiding, wherever they come from.”
The Home Office attempted to talk down concerns over the migrants earlier this month by opening a public consultation, which runs until midnight on September 17.
A Home Office spokesman said: “The Government is closing every asylum hotel, saving taxpayers over £1billion on asylum support since the election.
“We are working to fairly house asylum seekers across the country, moving asylum seekers into alternative accommodation, including former military sites which are designed to be self-contained to reduce impact on the local community.
“As part of the process, we engage with local authorities and police forces to ensure the safety and security of those in the surrounding area.”
