Evil has overtaken Europe many, many times. Evil has worn many faces over the years, but Europe has never been immune to it. They’ve become accustomed to it through a sort of mass-Stockholm-syndrome, or they’ve become so emasculated and concerned that somebody may not like them, that they would willingly walk into the gas chamber, just so long as it was done peacefully, and without confrontation.
In the end, it all boils down to a mentality of “peace at any cost” (which, as it were, was really what Chamberlain meant when he said “peace in our time."). However, there will come a day in every man’s life time, that he must ask himself:
“Is peace so valuable a prize that I am willing to sacrifice my freedom for it? My property? My country?”
The answer from most of our urban centers (and those of Europe) would be, yes. Peace, to them, is the ultimate prize. Nothing outweighs the value of peace in the eyes of an emasculated, softened urbanite.
Peace to me is not that important when weighed against things more valuable like freedom, self-determination, family, and property. I would fracture even the most enduring peace, and do so willingly and without reserve, if any of the above were placed in peril. I would destroy my enemy at the very peril of my immortal soul to protect my family and their freedom, and would gladly give up my freedom to protect theirs.
Many Europeans would not. Maybe it is time for them to be naturally selected against, as nature intended, if that is the path that they so choose.
Consider what Mark Steyn had to say in America Alone:
On the night of September 11, Muslim youths in northern England rampaged through the streets cheering Islam's glorious victory over the Great Satan. They pounded on the hoods -- or, to use the quaintly bucolic locution of British English, the "bonnets" -- of the cars, hammered the doors, and demanded that the drivers join them in their chants of "Osama bin Laden is a great man."
Try that in Texas, and the guy will reach into his glove box and blow your head off. Even in Vermont it's an ill-advised tactic. But in Britain you're not allowed to own a gun or even (to all intents and purposes) resist assault. So the unfortunate burghers of Bradford went home cowed and terrified, and the Muslim gangs went swaggering off with their self-esteem enormously enhanced. The bullying, intimidating side of Muslim immigration in Europe seems to be largely absent in America, in part at least because the assertiveness of the average American citizen makes it a riskier undertaking.
Every time we let them get away with things like this, every time, we set ourselves up for it to be a bit worse next time, and the time after that. Proof is in the pudding. Watch this video for the pro-HAMAS protests in England a few days back. Note the police, the police, running away. The police! If the law enforcement of Europe is owned and controlled by the whims of the hateful mob, then who is there to stand between them and the people? Who is there to protect them if they will not protect themselves???
It is trickier this time, though, isn’t it? When we faced Nazi Germany, we faced down a powerful, strong, and well organized nation-state whom we could unabashedly brand as evil and without reservation, beat into submission. This isn’t a nation-state, though, is it? This isn’t even a force that is really all that powerful, at all, is it? It is hard to see the great threat in a rag-tag group of 3rd world thugs with a horrid ideology and the will to do something about it. It is easier to just appease them for now. We have become so adverse to that festering tick of the human condition that we call racism, that we fear that any attempt to stand up to a class of people, rather than a nation-state, will be branded just that; racism. Would we be any better than Nazi Germany, itself, if we declared war on a class of people, instead of a nation-state? But this, gentle reader, is a class of people who took to the streets in LA mere days ago shouting that Hitler had not done a good enough job, and we need bigger ovens (an obvious reference to the mass crematoria used by the Nazis to get rid of the dead Jews after they were executed).*
These are the questions people worry over. The Europeans are too afraid of being hated by someone; of being branded a vile racist, so they will continue to appease, like Chamberlain and his failed policies.
But are we Americans so aligned? Time will tell, but I can not picture American police in a US city running away from rioters because they are so afraid of using force that retreat is the only option. A temporary fall-back, maybe, but only until they can regroup, and then wade back in to bust some heads.
I fear that the time is coming, friends, that we shall all have to ask ourselves, “what price, peace?” Violence can be avoided if we all stop hiding from the problem, and confront the schoolyard bully to expose him for the hateful coward that he is. Stop fearing the name-calling, and being branded a racist, because it does no one any good to run away from these thugs who would celebrate your death. Now is the hour in which we must assert ourselves as a people not to be trifled with. When they call for our death on our own streets, call back for theirs as loudly. Do not be cowed and bullied as those in Europe. Be strong enough to help yourself.
*As an aside, can you IMAGINE the Muslim outrage if I were to take to the streets advocating mass cremation of Muslims? My God!
5 comments:
Goob, the problem you describ is common in many places and becoming more common. And ironically, the cause of it is the same wherever it happens. It is weakness on the part of the people. This is not necessarily a natural weakness, but rather an instilled weakness, and generally instilled by the Left, with help from their propaganda arm, the MSM.
Those on the Left are usually the ones who preach non-violence and tolerance, yet when we pay attention to what they do, (not say) we see that they are the most intolerant. Over time, the people have had their will to fight and resist watered-down to a point where it no longer exists, making them much easier to "handle".
A perfect example is our own financial crisis. At no time in the history of our country, (or the world for that matter) has so much wealth been taken away from the people who have earned it, and given to those who have squandered it. And how have the people responded? ZZZZZZZZZZ! Once again, we are showing those who rule us, be they political or corporate rulers, that they can do anything and the people will take it! And IMO, there is nothing to show that this will change anytime soon.
The image of the police running from a determined group of rioters, protesters or looters ias not as far fetched as you might think. Just recall what happened in New Orleans after the levees broke. Most of the city was underwater. Looters smashed store windows and took what they wanted. A large number of the police officers abandoned their jobs in order to protect their own families or to get the hell out of town. What remained of the police force went from house to house confiscating guns at the order of mayor Ray Nagin. Roving bands of armed punks terrorized unarmed citizens after Nagin's thugs had disarmed them. I refused to give up my guns to Nagin's gestapo and told them if they wanted them that bad they would have to take them away from me by force. I guess they didn't want them bad enough to get shot because they tucked their tail and left. I didn't get robbed after that either.
"A large number of the police officers abandoned their jobs in order to protect their own families or to get the hell out of town."
And had you been one of them, you would have done, what? With 10 million savages on the loose and 2 thousand cops to stop them, what outcome would you have expected? Especially since the chocolate mayor was on the side of the savages.
I would have left, too. It seems you are trying to read condemnation into my post when it's not there.
Fact: New Orleans was underwater.
Fact: Most of the cops split.
Fact: Those who stayed collected guns.
Fact: Thugs preyed on unarmed people.
Maybe your experience is different than mine. I was there. Were you?
I stand corrected. It sounded like a knock at the local police, some of whom btw, were not having their finest hour.
And yes, i was there also.
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