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Masked vigilantes are raiding neighborhoods in England because the government has become so spineless

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They came by night from all over England. Hundreds of men in black, their faces hidden by black balaclavas, descended on the ports of southern England.

At dawn on Sept. 5, as many as 200 men seized the rotaries on the approaches to Britain’s busiest port, Dover in Kent.

The men in black took the police by surprise. For four hours, they blocked the highway to London and disrupted England’s lifeline to the European continent. 

The next night, they descended on Southsea, near the Royal Navy base at Portsmouth, Hampshire after a British lifeboat landed a “mega-dinghy” of 140 illegal immigrants who had crossed the English Channel from France. Separately, local protestors blocked the coaches that the British government uses to ferry the illegal immigrants to hotels, while the men in black faced off against riot police into the small hours.

They returned to the Hampshire coast on Sept. 21. This time, they forced the rescue vessels to dock at Dover.

The next day, their leader, Danny “Tommo” Thomas, and a small crew took to the seas to head off two dinghy-loads of illegal immigrants. 

“This is England!” Tommo shouted as he slashed at a dinghy with a knife.

They call themselves Patriot Platform. They are next-generation English vigilantes.

England’s ports are once more its frontline against invasion. The illegal immigrants who cross the English Channel from France and Belgium and claim asylum in England are the customers of global trafficking networks.

Instead of turning the illegals back, Britain’s government takes them in. This is the first of many........

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