Andrew L. Urban
Citizen Vigilante is an ugly film, writes acclaimed author and columnist Douglas Murray in The Free Press. “It has been banned in Germany, viewed by millions of people on X, and is currently the number one film in North America on major streaming platforms. It can’t be avoided, and it shouldn’t be.”
Director Uwe Boll’s leading man is Armie Hammer; the film is set in present-day Europe, where crimes are committed every day by some of the millions of illegal migrants who have recently arrived on the continent, even though Europe’s politicians and cultural elites would rather ignore them.
After his critique of the film, Murray concludes that “The migrant wave into Europe, and the unwillingness of the political and cultural mainstream to deal with its repercussions, has left a vast terrain that few people have been willing to enter. The longer it goes unaddressed, the more likely it seems that the response will become anger and even vengeance. Someone will tread into that space, whether with policymaking or filmmaking. But Citizen Vigilante shows that the void will be filled, tastefully or otherwise.”
In an alarming juxtaposition, Australia’s mass migration over the years has resulted in similar threats to safety, as the mass demonstrations supporting Palestinians and violence against Jews demonstrates. We may not suffer the masses of illegal migration, but even unfiltered legal migration has delivered many of the problems that now seem like undesirable genies running amok out of the bottle.
The strident articulation of the problem by One Nation has become the latest and loudest alarm bell, yet still the Labor government fails to act in any serious way to address it. Not even to try …
Mass illegal migration to the Anglosphere has now reached crisis levels, thanks to historical policy decisions by governments who just don’t know what they were and are doing. Here, too, we see “the unwillingness of the political and cultural mainstream to deal with its repercussions.”
If and when a real vigilante set out to violently do what the government fails to do by lawful means, denunciations will not be sufficient. But the Royal Commission into Antisemitism is showing that Labor is and has been unwilling to take tough-minded decisions in favour of protecting its vote in some electorates. That is to be condemned.