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	Rivers of Blood
		It was probably the one speech which brought the debate on immigration, anti-immigration, and racial integration to the fore.
		Powell's "Rivers of Blood", speech is by far the most widely acknowledged as being pivotal to the debate in the late 1960's, it is refered to by both sides of the debate, and it is still quoted by the National Front today.
		Despite the widespread knowledge of his speech, which is what has defined the persona of Powell since he made it, very few people have heard the speech in full, and many were not even born when he uttered his words.
	www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk /rofblood.htm (3147 words)

	Rivers of Blood speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The speech took place at the annual meeting of the West Midlands Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham, in the Midland Hotel.
		The speech was followed by strikes, in particular in London's docklands, both in support and in opposition.
		"Rivers of Blood" was the title of a song by the British Rock Against Communism band Brutal Attack, from their 1985 album Stronger Than Before.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech (663 words)

	Rhetorical "Rivers of Blood"
		The speeches of Churchill in World War II or of King during the American struggle for Civil Rights or, in its own way, the speech delivered by Enoch Powell on 20 April, all are situated within our collective memory and, as such, become ways of understanding the speakers and their place in our cultural legacy.
		The "rivers of blood" are removed from any prior context, in the sense of Powell's philosophy and politics, or any posterior context, in the sense of changing race relations.
		Overall, the presentation of the speech fragments focuses on those most graphic and disturbing images (the "whip hand," the letterbox excreta, and the "river of blood") to the exclusion of historical and international contexts, Powell's argument about the duty of the "statesman," or the statistical and legal argumentation within the text of the speech itself.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr0300/kpfr9b.htm (5748 words)

	Rivers Of Blood Speech
		The name given subsequently to the speech arose from its allusion to Virgil 's line from the Aeneid 6, 1.86 (Powell had an academic background as a Classicist) about the Tiber foaming with blood: "Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno."
		The speech was followed by strikes, in particular in London 's docklands, both in support and in opposition.
		'Rivers of Blood' is also a song by the British nationalist skinhead band ''Brutal Attack'', from their 1985 `Stronger Than Before' album.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Rivers_of_Blood_Speech (614 words)

	Enoch Powell
		John Enoch Powell (June 16, 1912 - February 8, 1998) was a controversial British politician, the controversy mainly stemming (with some irony) from a speech he made on immigration in 1968.
		In April 1968 he made a controversial speech in Birmingham, in which he warned his audience of what he believed would be the consequences of continued unchecked immigration from the Commonwealth to Britain.
		Because of its allusion to Virgil saying that the Tiber would foam with blood, Powell's warning was christened the Rivers of Blood Speech by the press & the name stuck.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/en/Enoch_Powell.html (925 words)

	45229. Powell, J. Enoch. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
		Speech, April 20, 1968, to West Midlands Conservatives, Birmingham.
		According to Brewer’s Quotations (Nigel Rees, 1994), Powell afterwards commented that he should have quoted the remark in Latin to emphasize that he was not predicting a bloodbath, only evoking the Sybil’s prophesy in Virgil’s Aeneid, bk.
		86: “Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno.” The phrase “rivers of blood” was also used by, among others, Thomas Jefferson and Winston Churchill.
	www.bartleby.com /66/29/45229.html (175 words)

	Speech row Tory refuses to sign race pledge \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		The 66-year-old MP for Yorkshire East was today disowned by party leader William Hague for a speech in which he said illegal immigrants had undermined the character of Anglo-Saxon society and were behind a rise in crime.
		Mr Townend's speech, which is at the centre of today's row, was made at a constituency party meeting last month, accused immigrants of "seriously undermining" Britain's society and being behind an increase in crime.
		In his original remarks, Mr Townend praised Enoch Powell's notorious "rivers of blood" speech, made in April 1968, in which Mr Powell predicted social breakdown as a result of immigration.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Tories/story/0,,464505,00.html (829 words)

	L'Ombre de l'Olivier
		Given the recent bombs in London this is perhaps unsurprising since Enoch Powell is best known for his "Rivers of blood" speech, which is indeed what the article is about.
		Unlike the Baron, I was unable to hear the original due to being in my mother's womb at the time, and likewise I am unable to comment on Britian at the time, however as someone who subsequently grew up in multi-culti England thereafter I think I can comment on the accuracy of his predictions.
		He was not 100% correct of course, but then few people are, and was I think overly pessimistic in terms of his expectation of a lack of integration, but he was certainly right enough in his identification of the drawbacks of what we now call political correctness and the like.
	www.di2.nu /200507/21b.htm (668 words)

	Limits on free speech in England \| Turnabout
		I can imagine that in very special circumstances it might be right to ban a speech like this, just as in special circumstances it might be right to set a curfew, forbid street gatherings, or impose martial law.
		What the British government has done, though, is create a situation, through an immigration and multiculturalism policy they treat as untouchable, in which they claim that banning such speeches under the threat of a long prison term is a permanent necessity.
		A major complaint Griffin makes in the speech is that the British press has been going on and on for years about the Stephen Lawrence case while fling out reports of much worse crimes committed by Asians against native English and Scots and not pursued by the police.
	turnabout.ath.cx:8000 /node/1423 (275 words)

	Blood In The River - Part Two:mixed-race features:Intermix.org.uk:
		By the middle of that summer, there was little else in the way of political debate amongst members of my family and, as I was later to discover, in the rest of the country too.
		My strategy, such as it was, born out of the necessity to survive more than anything, was to remain an honorary white when situations became tricky and to start to assert my identity when it felt safe, which wasn’t very often.
		At the start of the Autumn term, the effects of the Powell speech were already evident.
	www.intermix.org.uk /features/FEA_17_bloodintheriver_05.asp (532 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 20 \| 1968: Powell slates immigration policy
		He estimated that by the year 2000 up to seven million people - or one in ten of the population - would be of immigrant descent.
		Mr Powell, the shadow defence spokesman, was applauded during and after his 45-mintue speech.
		Enoch Powell's so-called "Rivers of Blood" speech was his defining political moment.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/20/newsid_2489000/2489357.stm (406 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - RIVERS OF BLOOD MKII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The year was 1968, the speaker was Enoch Powell and his diatribe against "Commonwealth" immigrants became known as the Rivers Of Blood speech.
		Again and again during Mr Howard's launch of his party's unpleasant asylum policies it was possible to detect faint echoes of Rivers Of Blood...
		When he made his speech at a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham in April 1968, even Powell himself admitted race relations were not yet a serious problem.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/tm_objectid=15112319&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=rivers-blood-of-mkii-name_page.html (1052 words)

	EURSOC: The River In Londonistan
		In 1968, he made a speech which sealed his reputation as a prophet of the anti-immigrant extreme right - and a bogeyman for all shades of respectable opinion, from embarrassed centrists on his own Tory party to the broad left.
		In his speech, later known as the "Rivers of Blood Speech" because of one of its central images, Powell warned of the dire results of anti-discrimination legislation designed to protect immigrants.
		His Rivers of Blood "prophecy" was unearthed following last year's Tube bombings: All but one bomber, and all of the failed "second wave" attacks, came from British Muslim families.
	www.eursoc.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/1069/The_River_In_Londonistan.html (1167 words)

	Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The first paragraph of the first chapter alleges that Saudi Arabia was an empire forged recently in "rivers of blood".
		The egregious exaggeration reminds me of Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech which ended his carrier as a serious British politician.
		Murawiec is a no danger of losing a reputation that is non-existent except among fellow travellers and Israeli apologists who lied their way into a war against Iraq which increased terrorism instead of defeating it.
	english.daralhayat.com /opinion/OPED/11-2005/Article-20051121-b2c4b86a-c0a8-10ed-0170-44c5b4f28742/story.html (2060 words)

	What Enoch was really saying Spectator, The - Find Articles
		It was not so much the colour of people's skins that Powell was alerting us to in his speech; it was the problem of allowing their cultures to supplant the indigenous one.
		The word 'multiculturalism' was not in his vocabulary, but the speech was a warning against it.
		It was a warning to politicians of the mess they were storing up for the future by their refusal to act on this problem when it was 'a cloud no bigger than a man's hand'.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200111/ai_n9008646 (830 words)

	The Hindu : The Tories' xenophobia
		NOT SINCE Enoch Powell's infamous ``rivers of blood'' speech on immigration nearly four decades ago has a responsible British politician's statement provoked so much outrage as the Tory leader, Mr.
		Hague's speech extremely distasteful though the Tories have sought to dismiss it as a part of its pro-Labour campaign.
		Hague of ``flirting'' with ``extremism'' and said his speech ``left a nasty taste in the mouth.'' The Times, which has strong reservations on Europe and the Blair Government's somewhat vague policy on asylum, was equally critical of Mr.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/04/12/stories/05122524.htm (1181 words)

	Jonah Goldberg and the "Rivers of Blood" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The piece focuses on Britain's loss of patriotism under the influence of multiculturalism and immigration, and, amazingly, ends with an approving reference to Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech, in which he warned that non-European immigration threatened British civilization.
		However, there are still grounds for suspecting that it's a mistake to put the words "thinking," "thoughts," and "Goldberg" in the same sentence.
		the now largely forgotten speech by the British scholar and--briefly--politician Enoch Powell, who, in 1968, recited the verse to suggest that Britain was heading down a path that could only lead to social division and multicultural chaos.
	www.amnation.com /vfr/archives/003749.html (317 words)

	VDARE.com: 07/26/05 - Thinking About 7/7: Enoch Powell’s Revenge?
		Heath was the leader of the Conservative Party, then in opposition, in the spring of 1968 when Enoch Powell made his famous "Rivers of Blood" speech.
		Powell’s speech was intended to alert his nation to the future dangers inherent in mass Third World immigration.
		After hearing of the speech, Heath fired Powell from that position (though he remained a Member of Parliament and a political gadfly).
	www.vdare.com /derbyshire/050726_london.htm (1289 words)

	Logical Meme » Immigration (International)
		In a speech that overturned more than three decades of Labour support for the idea, he set out a series of requirements that were now expected from ethnic minority groups if they wished to call themselves British.
		The speech was greeted with a mixture of anger from Muslim groups and scepticism from his political opponents.
		Powell’s famous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech was something of a controversial cultural event at the time, and one that of course led to his political demise:
	featuringdave.com /logicalmeme/?cat=29 (3973 words)

	enoch powell - Mixcat Interactive
		The central political issue addressed by the speech was...
		Enoch Powell's famous 'Rivers of Blood speech, as delivered in Birmingham on 20 April 1968.
		Enoch Powell's famous 'Rivers of Blood' speech, as delivered in Birmingham on 20...
	www.mixcat.com /search.php?q=enoch+powell (344 words)

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		OK, I’m not really reminded of the poem itself so much as the now largely forgotten speech by the British scholar and — briefly — politician Enoch Powell, who, in 1968, recited the verse to suggest that Britain was heading down a path that could only lead to social division and multicultural chaos.
		His worry was that the new barbarians were tearing apart the institutions, values and norms that tend to hold a nation together.
		Powell was denounced as a racist and something of a fool for his “Rivers of Blood” speech.
	www.tms.tribune.com /htmlmail/commentators/articles/0720goldberg.htm (806 words)

	Translation Assignment 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		These are only excerpts from the speech (about 10%) chosen to illustrate both speech and propaganda.
		Speech given by Enoch Powell in April 1968
		For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country.
	www.bohemica.com /index.php?m=catalog&s=195&a=97 (456 words)

	The Alien Amongst Us
		No, this was John Stonehouse, Labour member of parliament on 17 February of the same year as Powell’s infamous ‘rivers of blood’ speech and quoted by Powell in his own speech.
		Thirty-six years later, virtually identical speeches are still being made by the current Labour government.
		They now learn that a one-way privilege is to be established by act of parliament; a law which cannot, and is not intended to, operate to protect them or redress their grievances is to be enacted to give the stranger, the disgruntled and the agent-provocateur the power to pillory them for their private actions.
	www.williambowles.info /ini/ini-0306.html (1379 words)

	Tiscali Forums - View Single Post - Freedom of Speech
		I would be the first to agree that the "political correctness" which prevents local authorities to referring to "fl coffee", "flmail", etc., is ludicrous beyond comprehension.
		In a handful of short steps, we then move through denying them jobs and houses, to smashing up their shops, and on to the logical conclusion that is the "death-camps".
		With "freedom" comes "responsibility".and with freedom of speech must come moderation, tolerance, and respect for the opinions of others.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /forums/showpost.php?p=573062&postcount=15 (205 words)

	Editor's Note-Vol 3 No 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In his speech, Powell issued a warning to his fellow countryman about the potential threat of “public violence” and the prospects for a looming racial civil war unless colored immigration levels from the British Commonwealth colonies were drastically reversed.
		He was roundly attacked for making such blunt claims and the controversy that followed, even within conservative circles, set the stage for his remarks in the Stretford speech some four months later.
		It is a nightmare that seems to recur more often the older he grows and to require more extravagance in each retelling.
	theoccidentalquarterly.com /vol3no3/toq-editnote3-3.html (423 words)

	SkyMinds.Net (British Politics : Inequality and Race)
		In April 1968, just before the Second Reading of the Bill, Enoch Powell, Shadow Minister and Conservative MP for Wolverhampton, a Midlands town with a large immigrant population, made an inflammatory speech, since referred to as the 'Rivers of Blood' speech.
		In the latter part of 1967 he made a number of anti-immigration speeches including evoking the question of repatriation.
		The Birmingham speech of April 20th 1968 was perhaps the most infamous.
	www.skyminds.net /politics/gb_09_inequality_and_race.php (843 words)

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