The Manipulator’s Logbook

Barbed Wire for Citizens: The EU’s Soft Tyranny Exposed “Another sign of a tyrant is that he prefers foreigners over his own citizens, lives among them, and invites them to his table; for the former are his enemies, while the latter do not compete with him in any way.” — Aristotle Yesterday we saw tyranny in action with our own eyes. European citizens tried to deliver more than 530,000 signatures for the “Save Europe” remigration initiative. Instead of open dialogue at the headquarters of what is supposed to be “democracy in action” — an institution that should protect citizens, ensure their security, sovereignty, and freedom of speech — they were greeted with barbed wire fences and police cordons. This is the same system that for years has claimed “we cannot close the borders,” yet it managed to do so within hours — when the goal was to protect itself from its own people. Why? Because citizens have rights, expectations, and the potential power to resist. They can question those in power and demand justice. To the EU’s tyranny, they are the “enemy” because they represent a real threat. Foreigners, on the other hand, are dependent on the authorities’ goodwill. They do not resist injustice — in fact, they often support it, since they live off the same resources: taxes and rights extracted from working citizens. They are grateful for their place “at the table” and willingly serve as bodyguards, advisors, or tools of repression. A tyrant surrounds himself with those who do not challenge his dominance. Modern tyranny is not a single person or family, but a sprawling network of institutions, oligarchs, and political elites who maintain power through lobbying, algorithmic manipulation, censorship, mass surveillance, financial dependency, lawfare, and cultural authoritarianism — including cancel culture, mandatory gender ideology in schools and workplaces, climate alarmism used as a control mechanism, and engineered mass migration. All of this serves to shield their power from their own people. This system now dominates much of the Western world and key supranational institutions (the EU, UN, Big Tech, and global financial bodies). Understanding what is truly happening helps us recognize threats to freedom in any era. The philosophical study of tyranny shows us that it is not about uniforms or titles. It is about the relationship between those in power and the citizens: whether the state and its institutions serve the common good, or whether they exist primarily to maintain and expand their own dominance. When authorities begin to treat their own people as the enemy — blocking petitions with barbed wire and silencing dissenting voices — we are witnessing classical tyranny, only in a modern, “soft” form. It is time for citizens to remind the elites who is really in charge in Europe.

Suddenly, the EU proves that they CAN protect borders when they want to. Convenient that. They placed a barbed wire fence against patriots during the Save Europe Remigration rally. They are the extremists, not us.

Police stopping us from delivering the signatures we rightfully collected.

Everyone is allowed to protest on the Place du Luxembourg in front of the European Parliament: whether they are Antifa, Pro-Palestine, Pro-Curdistan and Pro-refugee. But the EU does not seem to like Pro-European They want to shut down ONLY our demonstration. The current EU is an anti-European engine of destruction."

“The barbarians are not at the gates. They are inside the gates — and they have academic tenure, judicial appointments, government grants, and control of the movies, television, and other media.” - Thomas Sowell Today, this mechanism has taken on a new and far more dangerous form. The barbarians are no longer confined to the realms of culture and ideas. They are increasingly occupying positions that grant them real, concrete power. Anyone who controls law enforcement, enforcement priorities, and immigration policy has a decisive influence over the shape of society. When such positions are held by individuals who openly declare that their Islamic faith is “the absolute driving force behind everything they do,” a fundamental question arises about loyalty and priorities. Since September 2025, Shabana Mahmood has served as Home Secretary — one of the most powerful positions in the United Kingdom. She is responsible for: • Immigration and asylum policy, • Border control (Border Force), • Strategic oversight of policing in England and Wales, • National security (including MI5). In an interview with British Muslim TV, Mahmood stated plainly: “Islam, my own religion… like many practising Muslims, my faith is the most important thing in my life. It is the absolute driving force behind everything I do. I feel a very strong calling of my conscience, and my conscience calls me to God.” This is not a private declaration of faith. It is a public admission that her religion serves as the supreme frame of reference for every her decisions — including those concerning who enters the country, who is deported, and what priorities the police should have. We see a similar pattern across other European countries. Individuals with strong Islamic identification are taking up roles related to migration, integration, and public security — in Belgium (particularly Molenbeek and the Brussels area), Germany, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Sowell was right: the most dangerous forces are not standing outside the gates. They are already inside — and they increasingly hold the levers of state power: the police, the borders, the courts, and the migration apparatus. This is not about claiming that every Muslim is a threat. It is about recognising that Islam, as a religio-legal system, is fundamentally incompatible with the Western liberal democracy we have known — and never will be compatible. Their religion contains no genuine concept of integration or assimilation. Wherever Muslims settle, they bring their own religious laws and values with them, systematically displacing and uprooting anything that differs from their own. Europe stands at a civilisational crossroads. If we do not summon the will to remove from positions of power those whose primary loyalty lies elsewhere, our continent will not be conquered — it will be quietly surrendered from within. Time is no longer on our side.