WWII Navy Veteran Sinks British Establishment
For once, a video has gone “viral” on social media platforms that actually deserves to be seen by everyone. It involves hundred-year-old Royal Navy and Arctic Convoy veteran Alec Penstone in a live appearance on Friday’s episode of Good Morning Britain. Co-hosts Adil Ray and Kate Garraway intended to use Penstone as a pre–Armistice Day prop for conveying to the country’s viewing audience that corporate news reporters are just as patriotic as ordinary Brits who are thrown in jail for waving Union Jack flags near taxpayer-funded hotels housing child-grooming illegal aliens.
You could see how Ray, Garraway, and Good Morning Britain’s producers expected the conversation to go. They would introduce Penstone as a WWII hero (he is!). The co-hosts would talk about the sacrifices so many young Brits made during both world wars to preserve the U.K.’s independence and freedoms. By pretending to care about Penstone, the corporate news propagandists would then peel away some of the centenarian’s nobility and honor and paste those virtues onto themselves. It didn’t work out so well for the corporate talking heads.
When the co-hosts asked Penstone for his thoughts on Remembrance Day and what it should mean for the country, the humble veteran responded with heartbreaking sincerity: “I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones. All the hundreds of my friends, everybody else, who gave their lives. For what? The country of today. No, I’m sorry, the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result that it is now.”
Penstone’s words — tender, somber, masculine, and direct — caught the co-hosts completely off guard. Corporate news “journalist” Kate Garraway started blinking quickly as her internal programming directed her to express fake sympathy and passive-aggressive understanding. “Oh, Alec, I’m sorry you feel like that,” she responded, as if Penstone’s honesty were a sign of poor mental health. Adil Ray, a comedian from immigrant-heavy Birmingham and the son of a Punjabi Muslim father and an Indo-Kenyan mother, excitedly asked, “What do you mean by that, though?” You could sense that Ray hoped Penstone would denounce patriotic Brits who protest illegal immigration as “far-right extremists” no different than the Nazis he fought eighty years earlier.
Instead, Penstone bemoaned the sorry state of freedom in a censorship-addicted United Kingdom in which actual “thought police” arrest Brits for expressing opinions. “What we fought for was our freedom. We find that even now, it’s a darn sight worse than what it was when I fought for it.” Boom! The ol’ salty dog managed to knock out both co-hosts with just a few blunt words and direct eye contact.
The rapidly-blinking Garraway attempted to “correct” Penstone’s thinking by pushing this propaganda: “I want you to know that all the generations that have come since — including me and my children — are so grateful for your bravery.” (Do the millions of foreigners who have invaded the U.K. feel the same way?) Placing a hand on Penstone’s shoulder, Garraway continued, “It’s our job now, isn’t it, to make it the country that you fought for.” (Unless you fought for an English-speaking, Christian nation with vibrant traditions and rich history — because then you must go directly to prison for your “hate.”)
Hurrying to finish up the segment before Penstone could deliver any more “truth bombs,” Garraway and Ray called over the members of a musical act from Britain’s Got Talent — The D-Day Darlings — to give him a compact-disc of popular WWII-era music “to thank you for all your many brave years of service and others like you.” Ray even boasted, “And it’s all signed for you there, as well,” as if an autographed CD were a worthy tribute to a great man who risked everything for a country he no longer recognizes.
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