GESTURE POLITICS SWEEP THE NATIONS. Enough said. Two Western governments sell their citizens short. Just so the stealth but vitriolic and plotting barbarians can rush in...
Suicide. What kind of civilizational survival strategy is this?
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese Navy b.1884 d.1943)
NOW THAT HISTORY IS MATCHING THE FUTURE pound for pound, perhaps we should consider a tale of two British voices. History speaks first. Controversial British politician Enoch Powell throws himself on the pyre of political correctness, and suffers the black and white result we now produce in color and in common all across the world with tragically discouraging results in far too many situations to continue to ignore.
Parrhesia is the moral concept of speaking truth to power, never an easy task in the past, hardly the present, nor God help us in the future to be certain. Powell's speech "Rivers of Blood" spoke to the power of his time and ours. The consequences of what happened to Powell and the civilization he sought to preserve are now upon our brow. We can continue to ignore the evidence that is before us, or miserably cling to a broken idea that was mismanaged with great care for several generations unto the present hour.
But let's start simple. Rabid, unchecked, inflexible multiculturalism is damning the world to a poverty of reason and a gross impersonal terror upon civilization.
As one commentator put it, "Multiculturalism is cancer, the school system has bred an entire generation of weak and sniveling cowards who are more concerned with being politically correct, bowing to the money of their new masters, than they are in comporting to a rational strategy in maintaining their own most basic interests."
It's no secret among those who can connect the damned dots without paying homage to that snarling beast of MSM that Great Britain is breaking down rapidly, right along the precise fault lines that Powell predicted, but the folks who have bought heavily into Beatle logic refuse to deal with what their stance has wrought. The left-wing of Britain, enforced with prejudice by the EU, has successfully destroyed the future of the UK, short of all out civil war, it seems. But that is what THEY THE MULTICULTURALIST ELITES had planned all along. The Marxist snarl is a smiling face supported by a toothless but pervasive police power and a lawmaker's holiday. British columnist Melanie Phillips writes:
This new strategy entails targeting countries with a substantial Muslim presence for 'low-intensity warfare' comprising bombings, kidnappings, the taking of hostages, the use of women and children as human shields, beheadings and other attacks that make normal life impossible.
So, al Qaeda, according to Phillips, plans to target countries with a substantial Muslim presence for low-intensity terrorist warfare along the lines of the Bombay attack that would make normal life in those countries impossible. Isn't that phrase, "substantial Muslim presence," uh, telling us something? Something connected with the non-discriminatory immigration policies that have brought into existence the substantial Muslim presence in Western countries?
Phillips writes that Britain is highly vulnerable to the threat of Bombay-type attacks, and she expresses great anxiety about it, but she ends the article without a single mention of a possible course of action. The thought evidently doesn't even cross her mind: "Shouldn't we at least stop further Muslim immigration into Britain? And those 2,000 known terrorists currently under surveillance by the policeshouldn't we just, uh, remove them from our neighborhoods, expel them or neutralize them by any means within the laws already on the books?"
Note: Britain is busily whitewashing their laws against treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors against the state, so as not to offend those who will soon rule over them.
While Phillips repeatedly insisted in her 2006 bookLondonistan that Muslim immigration into Britain had been a "lethal" development, she has never proposed that Muslim immigration be reduced by so much as a single Muslim per year. If Melanie truly fears and loathes the lethal, her own submission to liberalism in power doesn't convince her that she should call for anything to stop this lethal policy.
Such is the mindset of the modest American liberal and moderate appeasers, also. Better to drown oneself in yesterday's details than imagine the impact of tomorrow's invoices. The drama is excruciatingly loud and proud but is also effectively muffled by the beautiful sway of political incorrectness. Incorrect because it reeks of wrongness and moral insanity not for the idea itself, but for the brutality of its consequences. Incorrect because I refuse to call this upside down political phenomenon politically correct. I slip occasionally, but I am earnestly resisting this disturbing groupthink.
Here's the second part of the Rivers of Blood video series, and a classic Bob Dylan track to help those, whose fertile minds haven't glazed over in self-righteousness yet, to ease the existential angst served up when having to rethink yesterday's task again today without much thought of what tomorrow's task may require.
No man survives when freedom fails; the best men rot in filthy jails. And those who cry "Appease, appease!" are hanged by those they tried to please.
Horace Mann
The best lack all conviction, while The worst are full of passionate intensity.
W.B.Yeats
RIGHT-WING DUTCH LEGISLATOR Geert Wilders, who is being prosecuted at home for anti-Islam remarks, said he was barred from entering Britain on Thursday after he landed in defiance of a government ban. Wilders wanted to show his film "Fitna," which argues that the Koran incites violence, in the British parliament. But he was told by British authorities on Tuesday that he was being excluded. Despite that, he took a flight to London.
"I am in a detention centre at Heathrow. I will not be allowed to enter the country. They will send me back within a few hours," Wilders told Reuters from the airport.
"It is a very sad day, not only for me, but for freedom of speech," he said. The Home Office said he would not be allowed entry into the country, but gave no other details....
Wilders' exclusion caused a diplomatic spat between the Netherlands and Britain. And this is a story with hardly a peep from the mainstream media.
It has come to this: If you are an Islamic radical, trained to carry out terrorist atrocities in al-Qaeda’s jihad against the United Kingdom, the British will welcome you with open arms. Not content with that, Great Britain will lobby insistently for your release from custody so that you may freely roam British streetsand the halls of Westminster.
If, by contrast, you are a duly elected representative in the democratic government of a country to which England is bound in the European Union, and you speak about the undeniablethough mulishly deniednexus between Islamic doctrine and jihadist terror, Great Britain will slam her door in your face.
A MUSLIM BUS DRIVER told stunned passengers to get off so he could PRAY. The white Islamic convert rolled out his prayer mat in the aisle and knelt on the floor facing Mecca. Passengers watched in amazement as he held out his palms towards the sky, bowed his head and began to chant.
One, who filmed the man on his mobile phone, said: “He was clearly praying and chanting in Arabic. A 21-year-old plumber added: “He looked English and had a London accent. He looked like a Muslim convert, with a big, bushy beard.
“Eventually everyone started complaining. One woman said, ‘What the hell are you doing? I’m going to be late for work’.”
After a few minutes the driver calmly got up, opened the doors and asked everyone back on board. But they saw a rucksack lying on the floor of the red single-decker and feared he might be a fanatic. So they all refused.
The passenger added: “One chap said, ‘I’m not getting on there now.' An elderly couple also looked really confused and worried. After seeing that no-one wanted to get on he drove off and we all waited until the next bus came about 20 minutes later. I was left totally stunned. It made me not want to get on a bus again.”
The bizarre event unfolded on the number 81 in Langley, Berkshire, at around 1.30pm on Thursday. A passenger said he rang the bus firm to complain but claimed it did not believe him.
Will this idiot bus driver get the boot? One would like to think so, but the West has lost its nerve and its sense of righteousness as it falls hostage to these Mohammedan terrorists of every stripe. How much longer before this madness ends?
The Augur (pl: augures) was a priest and official in ancient Rome. His main
role was to take auspices: interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of the birds (flying in groups or alone,
what noises they make as they fly, direction of flight and what kind of birds they are), known as "taking the auspices."
The ceremony and function of the augur was central to any major undertaking in Roman societypublic or privateincluding
matters of war, commerce, and religion. In the context of global unrest in my generationI am sometimes peace activist, but more often an entrenched war correspondent.
"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed;
if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the
moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
"There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope
of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves."
Winston Churchill, 1948
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who's face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
Who knows the greatest enthusiasm, the great devotion and sends himself into a worthy cause. Who at best, if he
winsknows the thrill of high achievement, and if he failsat least fails while bearing greatness. So that his
place shall never be, with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Today the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself.
Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power
of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be
Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power."
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1950
“Islam was not a torch, as has been claimed, but an extinguisher. Conceived in a barbarous brain for the
use of a barbarous people, it wasand it remainsincapable of adapting itself to civilization. Wherever
it has dominated, it has broken the impulse towards progress and checked the evolution of society.”
Andre Servier, 1922
“Islam is an absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, a rotting corpse which poisons our lives."
Kemal Ataturk, 1919
"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers".
Tayyip Erdogan, 2007
"I have been made victorious through terror."
Muhammad, founder of Islam
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Omar Ahmad, founder of CAIR
"Ignorance and virtue suck on the same straw."
Icarus Tull, 1984
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.
If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant,
if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the
onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed,
and tolerance with them… We should therefore claim, in the name
of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim
that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law,
and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal,
in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping,
or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”