Saturday, December 23, 2006
Merry Christmas!
Well, I'm working over crimbo, so will be unable to post for a while, but I do hope everyone has a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Monday, December 18, 2006
Will you?
Will: to wish; desire or like, as in Go where you will. Ask, if you will.
Do you have the will to resist Islam?
Do you have the desire to resist?
Do you have the wish to resist?
Really?
Well you are in the minority, it seems that most of the West has already given up, whether through elections as in Spain or the US, to the cultural surrender we see every day on the net or in our papers or if you are truly lucky like myself, you will see it in your daily life on the street or at work or when watching a film!
Perhaps when a culture or civilisation loses that will, it deserves to whither and die, to be supplanted by a more vigorous civilisation. Rome was a civilised place, but one that had lost its will to survive, it was replaced by the more vigorous and healthy Germanic tribes, who in hindsight deserved the remnants of the once great Roman Empire.
I do know that we would be plunged into a dark age, made darker by that malignant religion of Satan, but perhaps in the far future, light would once again shine?
I also know that this 'fall of the West' will be slow, only recognised as such in centuries to come as 'the fall', it saddens me to come to this conclusion, but there can now be no other way, and NO, America is not immune, it is for better or worse part of the West, prone, perhaps sometimes more prone to the weaknesses of the West, the light may finally be extinguished in North America, but extinguished they will be, why? We lack the will!
On 9/11 I thought that Islam had overstretched itself, I beleived the West would now wake up to reality and confidently bestride the world once again, I honestly believed Islam would be weakened and the West invigorated!
I was so wrong!
Islam is now more powerful then ever, 9/11 was a strategic triumph for Osama Bin Laden and Islam, it terrified most of Europe into silence and anti-Americanism, in a bid to deflect that terror from them.
America did briefly unite, but only for a few months, Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded, dictators toppled, tactically 9/11 was a defeat for Islam, but look at the strength of Islam now!
Iran filled with confidence brazenly develops a nuke in the full view of the wider world, Hizbollah a terrorist orginisation, is on the brink of complete power in Lebanon, Syria is an Iranian puppet! Pakistan is only one general away from becoming an Islamic state, Somalia is already becoming an Islamic state, praised by Bin Laden, Islam is creeping its way back into public life in Turkey, Indonesia is becoming more Islamic by the month, with the severed heads of Christians being proudly displayed in public! the Caucasus are already in the grip of Islam, the former central Asian Soviet states are slipping to the Islamists, as is Bangladesh. Shariah is law in half of Nigeria, de facto law in parts of France and Britain.
Israel will fall, even Israel no longer has the will to fight, we saw this summer how EVEN Israel, our frontline against this threat is weak! It has lost it's will to fight, not helped by the univeral hatred directed at it by the rest of the world.
The West has lost it's faith in God, it's belief in itself, and it's hope for the future. We no longer breed, we take solice in the futile pleasures of promiscuous sex, drugs and inane celebrity gossip. We care no more for the great things in life, we disdain that which is noble, that which is holy and that which is pure.
Perhaps we deserve conquest?
Perhaps this is just the natural order of things, the way things have always been and will always be?
Maybe now is the time to learn Arabic and Mandarin, to ready ourselves for the future, for the furure realities that will face us!
For we no longer have the will to order this world, and if we don't have that will, the Islamic world and China have it in abundance.
Do you have the will to resist Islam?
Do you have the desire to resist?
Do you have the wish to resist?
Really?
Well you are in the minority, it seems that most of the West has already given up, whether through elections as in Spain or the US, to the cultural surrender we see every day on the net or in our papers or if you are truly lucky like myself, you will see it in your daily life on the street or at work or when watching a film!
Perhaps when a culture or civilisation loses that will, it deserves to whither and die, to be supplanted by a more vigorous civilisation. Rome was a civilised place, but one that had lost its will to survive, it was replaced by the more vigorous and healthy Germanic tribes, who in hindsight deserved the remnants of the once great Roman Empire.
I do know that we would be plunged into a dark age, made darker by that malignant religion of Satan, but perhaps in the far future, light would once again shine?
I also know that this 'fall of the West' will be slow, only recognised as such in centuries to come as 'the fall', it saddens me to come to this conclusion, but there can now be no other way, and NO, America is not immune, it is for better or worse part of the West, prone, perhaps sometimes more prone to the weaknesses of the West, the light may finally be extinguished in North America, but extinguished they will be, why? We lack the will!
On 9/11 I thought that Islam had overstretched itself, I beleived the West would now wake up to reality and confidently bestride the world once again, I honestly believed Islam would be weakened and the West invigorated!
I was so wrong!
Islam is now more powerful then ever, 9/11 was a strategic triumph for Osama Bin Laden and Islam, it terrified most of Europe into silence and anti-Americanism, in a bid to deflect that terror from them.
America did briefly unite, but only for a few months, Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded, dictators toppled, tactically 9/11 was a defeat for Islam, but look at the strength of Islam now!
Iran filled with confidence brazenly develops a nuke in the full view of the wider world, Hizbollah a terrorist orginisation, is on the brink of complete power in Lebanon, Syria is an Iranian puppet! Pakistan is only one general away from becoming an Islamic state, Somalia is already becoming an Islamic state, praised by Bin Laden, Islam is creeping its way back into public life in Turkey, Indonesia is becoming more Islamic by the month, with the severed heads of Christians being proudly displayed in public! the Caucasus are already in the grip of Islam, the former central Asian Soviet states are slipping to the Islamists, as is Bangladesh. Shariah is law in half of Nigeria, de facto law in parts of France and Britain.
Israel will fall, even Israel no longer has the will to fight, we saw this summer how EVEN Israel, our frontline against this threat is weak! It has lost it's will to fight, not helped by the univeral hatred directed at it by the rest of the world.
The West has lost it's faith in God, it's belief in itself, and it's hope for the future. We no longer breed, we take solice in the futile pleasures of promiscuous sex, drugs and inane celebrity gossip. We care no more for the great things in life, we disdain that which is noble, that which is holy and that which is pure.
Perhaps we deserve conquest?
Perhaps this is just the natural order of things, the way things have always been and will always be?
Maybe now is the time to learn Arabic and Mandarin, to ready ourselves for the future, for the furure realities that will face us!
For we no longer have the will to order this world, and if we don't have that will, the Islamic world and China have it in abundance.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
The crossroads of civilisation
I recently spent some time traveling around the straits of Gibraltar, taking in Gibraltar itself, Spain and most interestingly Morocco, I spent a few days in the Islamic Kingdom and an interesting few days it was as well! I actually enjoyed myself, some people seemed quite nice, the food was great, the markets or Bazaars were very cool and the coffee was excellent (unfortunately no beer!)
(Above, a public square, note, the white arch is the way into the Bazaar)
The most striking thing about the two sides of the straits it how very different they are culturally, on the European side there is a culture of honesty and decency (not implying that every European is honest or decent, I am talking about a trend!) and the Moroccan side where there is a culture of dishonesty and deceit (again I'm not saying every Moor is dishonest or dishonourable, I am talking about the general culture)
I was very probably ripped off in every financial transaction I was involved in, however due to the tiny amounts involved (from my perspective) it matters little to me. However one can't walk five feet without someone else wanting some of your money, they accost you trying to get you to stay in another hotel, you say no, they don't stop, you walk away and they follow you! Then after a few minutes of saying NO, they give up and go off to find some other dim westerner to con, then another guy comes up to you wanting to sell you some substandard tourist tat, and it takes you another five minutes to get rid of him, then someone else tries to sell you hash, and another tries to get you to come into his restaurant, then another begs, and another asks if you want a taxi, etc, etc...
(The local Mosque, the one where that creepy 'call to prayer' eminated from)
There is also a noticeable absence of women in the streets, a few old ones shopping, but no young ones that I can recall, having said that there were also no burqas to see, some hijabs and veils, but no Afghan style burqas, some women even had their hair on show!! (most of them were however Spanish tourists!)
The call to prayer in the morning scarred the shit out of me, it sounded more like an air raid siren then a call to prayer, it was a menacing sound, I decided to remain in bed till the whole call was well and truly over!!
Interestingly, later on the next day, I was in a internet cafe (I thought it wise not to post in Morocco, I didn't even look at any blogs, just in case) when another call to prayer rang out, I wondered whether the cafe would be closed, but no, everyone continued to look at their porn (Everyone except me was pawing through internet porn!)
So, obviously not everyone in Morocco was into the whole prayer thing, they preferred to watch porn!!!
Also, something that stunned me was the way that Moroccan men would come up to me and ask to have sex with me! I have lived in London for years and have regularly passed through Soho or gone to socialise there, and no one, ever has propositioned me, but in Morocco, an Islamic Kingdom, where Al Qaida is organising, I am approached in the street and asked to have sex by complete strangers! How weird is that!!
On the day I left Morocco, I reaad that 11 'suspected Moroccan terrorists' including 1 former Guantanamo Bay detainee were arrested in Ceuta (not 20 miles from where I was) a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast after crossing the border!
(Above: Gibraltar; very cool place)
In some ways I think Morocco is about as religious as western Europe, in some ways not, it is a culture with a split personality, and one I intend to investigate further!
(Above, a public square, note, the white arch is the way into the Bazaar)
The most striking thing about the two sides of the straits it how very different they are culturally, on the European side there is a culture of honesty and decency (not implying that every European is honest or decent, I am talking about a trend!) and the Moroccan side where there is a culture of dishonesty and deceit (again I'm not saying every Moor is dishonest or dishonourable, I am talking about the general culture)
I was very probably ripped off in every financial transaction I was involved in, however due to the tiny amounts involved (from my perspective) it matters little to me. However one can't walk five feet without someone else wanting some of your money, they accost you trying to get you to stay in another hotel, you say no, they don't stop, you walk away and they follow you! Then after a few minutes of saying NO, they give up and go off to find some other dim westerner to con, then another guy comes up to you wanting to sell you some substandard tourist tat, and it takes you another five minutes to get rid of him, then someone else tries to sell you hash, and another tries to get you to come into his restaurant, then another begs, and another asks if you want a taxi, etc, etc...
(The local Mosque, the one where that creepy 'call to prayer' eminated from)
There is also a noticeable absence of women in the streets, a few old ones shopping, but no young ones that I can recall, having said that there were also no burqas to see, some hijabs and veils, but no Afghan style burqas, some women even had their hair on show!! (most of them were however Spanish tourists!)
The call to prayer in the morning scarred the shit out of me, it sounded more like an air raid siren then a call to prayer, it was a menacing sound, I decided to remain in bed till the whole call was well and truly over!!
Interestingly, later on the next day, I was in a internet cafe (I thought it wise not to post in Morocco, I didn't even look at any blogs, just in case) when another call to prayer rang out, I wondered whether the cafe would be closed, but no, everyone continued to look at their porn (Everyone except me was pawing through internet porn!)
So, obviously not everyone in Morocco was into the whole prayer thing, they preferred to watch porn!!!
Also, something that stunned me was the way that Moroccan men would come up to me and ask to have sex with me! I have lived in London for years and have regularly passed through Soho or gone to socialise there, and no one, ever has propositioned me, but in Morocco, an Islamic Kingdom, where Al Qaida is organising, I am approached in the street and asked to have sex by complete strangers! How weird is that!!
On the day I left Morocco, I reaad that 11 'suspected Moroccan terrorists' including 1 former Guantanamo Bay detainee were arrested in Ceuta (not 20 miles from where I was) a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast after crossing the border!
(Above: Gibraltar; very cool place)
In some ways I think Morocco is about as religious as western Europe, in some ways not, it is a culture with a split personality, and one I intend to investigate further!
Monday, December 04, 2006
Is the fight lost already?
There is an intersting new post over at Galliawatch, it is quite disturbing!
"I must admit I was shocked when I received the e-mail from Via-Resistancia announcing that they were dissolving their group.
For those of you who may not know what it was, Via-Resistancia was a Google group consisting of anonymous individuals who were attempting through their steady stream of e-mails to inform the French-language public about the situation in France.
From the start they were pessimistic, but I didn't expect them to end their resistance movement. I have never known exactly who they were, but the group's founder, José Melchor Gonzalez, saw his original website shut down by the French government.
Early on he took a stand against neo-conservatism and perceived the fatal errors Bush was making in Iraq.
He reported constantly on signs of dhimmitude in France and elsewhere and sent out more links than anyone could ever browse through let alone read. In a long e-mail, which I am condensing, he states the reasons for their decision: We consider henceforth that the war against Islam is lost and that it is now up to each of us to provide for his own survival."
This scares the shit out of me, I must admit, I too feel at times that is is like banging one´s head against a brick wall, but is it truly lost? Sometimes despair takes hold, but at other times I´m hopeful, is my hope misplaced?
"Some will leave to go "elsewhere" (assuming there is some place that has escaped the world-wide Muslim metastasis that even allowed a Muslim of the American Democratic Party to be elected to Congress.) Others will try perhaps to "resist" here, assuming one can still hope for a resistance."
I may mock the French, but I really do not want to see it replaced by an Islamic emirate!
"Our perception is as clear as it is pessimistic. The recent signing of an accord on "diversity", a hypocritical word that hides the reality of Islamization on all levels of our society, between the unions and management, with the blessing of the political elite, is the sad reflection of the Muslim century that is opening.
It reflects the surrender of principle by everyone in the elevation of a new world caliphate that will reign in less than 30 years over a large part of the world where it will impose its views, its threats, and its fears, and subject it to a passive dhimmitude (that has already been) agreed upon.
Some of those who claim to be "resisting" call themselves free-enterprise advocates, but big capital, as much as the Left, is already dancing with the Devil in response to the call of the night that is upon the Western world. A night that will soon crucify a Christianity that has become too cowardly to put up any form of resistance."
Well, in this he speaks truth!
"Perhaps at least the last Christians will be able to save their soul and ask forgiveness for having abandoned their lands to Islam."
Perhaps.
"At this point he cites the spread of hallal, the voluntary ban on Christmas trees and all things that remind us of the true nature of the Christmas holiday; he reminds us that when the first veils appeared in the French schools in 1989 it was a Pandora's box that is now wide open; and he bemoans the absence of a leader of stature such as Churchill or Roosevelt: Instead, George Walker Bush consecrated Islam as a "religion of peace and love" and placed a copy of the Koran in the White House library next to the Bible...We can measure the debacle in Iraq by the chaos that reigns there, a probable future Siamese twin of Iran, soon to be in possession of the atomic bomb...As for Tony Blair, isolated, trying to accuse Islam but without sufficient room to maneuver because he, too, still believes that a pacified Islam can coexist with the West."
Well, this is also sadly true, our leaders already appease Islam, they talk of wanting to live in peace with Muslims, something no Islamic society can do, their religion is build on violence, hate and lies.
"But the cartoons and the remarks made by Ratzinger that were definitively censured by Benedict XVI, show how much fear is reigning, and how it permits Islam to impose its totalitarian vision on the world. Politicians, movie makers, simple philosophy teachers, can at any moment be killed for criticizing Islam. Countries like France, Italy, Germany or the Netherlands are even ready to totally renounce their model of society, a model that was erected centuries ago, in favor of the Muslim imperialism that is imposing itself from deep within their borders: hospitals reserved for Muslims in the large Dutch cities, Muslim beaches in Italy, classes on Islam in German schools, renunciation of the 1905 law on "laïcité"(secularism) in France so that, all over the country, mosques can be built whose minarets will be taller than the church steeples...You have to be realistic. For years we've rehashed the same things, we've denounced, we've sent warnings, but nothing changes...And it's not just in Europe, it's everywhere, even in South Korea where a giant mosque for 1500 Muslims has been built. In Cincinnati and in Panama there are now more Muslims than Christians(not sure if this is true). South America is becoming a new land for massive Muslim immigration(Again, no figures to back this up); even in the Antilles they are almost 5% of the population and more than 10% in Quebec!(no references here either) The metastasis is generalized...what can you do about it?Nothing, since nobody in the West has the will to oppose it."
This last comment is what I´ve been banging on about for so long, I hear people moan about immigrants and foreigners, yet, that anger lasts only as long as it takes the next episode of Eastenders or Big Bruva to appear on our screens, the people are fickle, lazy and ignorant, unwilling to concentrate on one thing at a time.
"Even the great Le Pen now boasts regularly of having been the first to have a Muslim deputy elected. At any rate, Le Pen is more anti-Semitic than anything else, hence his coziness with Dieudonné...Islam, untouchable, uncriticizable, will impose itself without any real resistance, except maybe for a few good souls on the fringes who will wear themselves out trying."
Sound familiar?
"You have to be realistic, even in the land of the dead, we know enough to stop a fight when the war is lost. We have children, families, and friends to care for while there is still some time, before the shadow completely covers the world. The twilight is underway and we do not all have the spirit of a Jean Moulin (French WWII resitance fighter who was killed in action)"
"He closes with these words:The 21st century will probably be religious, yes, but Muslim pure and simple. Maybe in a few centuries, in America or somewhere, a new world will be born that will defeat Islam as in the Middle Ages...but until then, Europe...inch Allah."
It seems too familiar, I always hope people will wake up, first after 9/11, but people went back to sleep, then they opposed the Iraq invasion, then the Spanish abandoned the ´War on Terror´after the Madrid attacks, then one hopes the London attacks will stifen peoples spines, but no, just more calls for an afirmation of multiculturalism. Then plots begin to unravel in the public eye, but no, this is not blamed on Muslims or Islam, just on those ever present ´extremists´or ´International Terrorísts´.
I actually dont know if people are capable anymore of offering resitance to an enemy, 3000 dead soldiers and the Americans are about ready to give up and retire back to their cozy MTV lives of celebrity and PSP games. What is that? That is despicable, as Mark Steyn writes in his latest article ''The key issue is no longer WMD or even the role of the U.N. The central issue is America's credibility and will to prevail.'' Apparently enough Americans dont seem to mind that they will be shown to be a paper tiger, they dont mind if the Axis of Evil goes on about it´s business undisturbed! In fact it would have been better for the Americans not to even get involved in Afghanistan or Iraq in the first place if this is what is going to happen, because our enemies will be stronger now then ever before.
What ally will willingly go to war with the Americans in the future? I would´nt, I would be thinking, well I might agree that this guy is a bastard, or that this or that regime needs to be bombed into the stone age, but do I trust the Americans to go the whole hog? Truthfully no, perhaps they will go 2 or 3 years but, well once a midterm comes up, one can´t know how it will go!
That pisses me off, because the Americans are the only ones who can realistically carry this war to the enemy, if our greatest hope is this moody, or emotionally fragile then God help us all!
As you can see above the French seem fucked, I know from experience that Britain is dying, most of Europe is in trouble, the only solid country in this seems to be Australia, but as I´ve said before, they can´t do this by themselves!
Thats why America´s mood swing is so dangerous, not only for us who face imminent Islamisation, but to Americans as well, Vietnam hurt you big time, you had pretty much won a war against the commies, then you gave up and allowed them to take the South after 50,000 of your bravest dead. Now you risk forsaking forever the respect due a great power if you run from Iraq (No matter how you say it the world will call it just that) after only 3000 dead! You lost that many men on one beach on D Day alone, how can you expect the world to trmble when you can´t take this?
Grow up you are supposed to be a Super Power or as the French say a Hyper Power! Act like it, lead us!
"I must admit I was shocked when I received the e-mail from Via-Resistancia announcing that they were dissolving their group.
For those of you who may not know what it was, Via-Resistancia was a Google group consisting of anonymous individuals who were attempting through their steady stream of e-mails to inform the French-language public about the situation in France.
From the start they were pessimistic, but I didn't expect them to end their resistance movement. I have never known exactly who they were, but the group's founder, José Melchor Gonzalez, saw his original website shut down by the French government.
Early on he took a stand against neo-conservatism and perceived the fatal errors Bush was making in Iraq.
He reported constantly on signs of dhimmitude in France and elsewhere and sent out more links than anyone could ever browse through let alone read. In a long e-mail, which I am condensing, he states the reasons for their decision: We consider henceforth that the war against Islam is lost and that it is now up to each of us to provide for his own survival."
This scares the shit out of me, I must admit, I too feel at times that is is like banging one´s head against a brick wall, but is it truly lost? Sometimes despair takes hold, but at other times I´m hopeful, is my hope misplaced?
"Some will leave to go "elsewhere" (assuming there is some place that has escaped the world-wide Muslim metastasis that even allowed a Muslim of the American Democratic Party to be elected to Congress.) Others will try perhaps to "resist" here, assuming one can still hope for a resistance."
I may mock the French, but I really do not want to see it replaced by an Islamic emirate!
"Our perception is as clear as it is pessimistic. The recent signing of an accord on "diversity", a hypocritical word that hides the reality of Islamization on all levels of our society, between the unions and management, with the blessing of the political elite, is the sad reflection of the Muslim century that is opening.
It reflects the surrender of principle by everyone in the elevation of a new world caliphate that will reign in less than 30 years over a large part of the world where it will impose its views, its threats, and its fears, and subject it to a passive dhimmitude (that has already been) agreed upon.
Some of those who claim to be "resisting" call themselves free-enterprise advocates, but big capital, as much as the Left, is already dancing with the Devil in response to the call of the night that is upon the Western world. A night that will soon crucify a Christianity that has become too cowardly to put up any form of resistance."
Well, in this he speaks truth!
"Perhaps at least the last Christians will be able to save their soul and ask forgiveness for having abandoned their lands to Islam."
Perhaps.
"At this point he cites the spread of hallal, the voluntary ban on Christmas trees and all things that remind us of the true nature of the Christmas holiday; he reminds us that when the first veils appeared in the French schools in 1989 it was a Pandora's box that is now wide open; and he bemoans the absence of a leader of stature such as Churchill or Roosevelt: Instead, George Walker Bush consecrated Islam as a "religion of peace and love" and placed a copy of the Koran in the White House library next to the Bible...We can measure the debacle in Iraq by the chaos that reigns there, a probable future Siamese twin of Iran, soon to be in possession of the atomic bomb...As for Tony Blair, isolated, trying to accuse Islam but without sufficient room to maneuver because he, too, still believes that a pacified Islam can coexist with the West."
Well, this is also sadly true, our leaders already appease Islam, they talk of wanting to live in peace with Muslims, something no Islamic society can do, their religion is build on violence, hate and lies.
"But the cartoons and the remarks made by Ratzinger that were definitively censured by Benedict XVI, show how much fear is reigning, and how it permits Islam to impose its totalitarian vision on the world. Politicians, movie makers, simple philosophy teachers, can at any moment be killed for criticizing Islam. Countries like France, Italy, Germany or the Netherlands are even ready to totally renounce their model of society, a model that was erected centuries ago, in favor of the Muslim imperialism that is imposing itself from deep within their borders: hospitals reserved for Muslims in the large Dutch cities, Muslim beaches in Italy, classes on Islam in German schools, renunciation of the 1905 law on "laïcité"(secularism) in France so that, all over the country, mosques can be built whose minarets will be taller than the church steeples...You have to be realistic. For years we've rehashed the same things, we've denounced, we've sent warnings, but nothing changes...And it's not just in Europe, it's everywhere, even in South Korea where a giant mosque for 1500 Muslims has been built. In Cincinnati and in Panama there are now more Muslims than Christians(not sure if this is true). South America is becoming a new land for massive Muslim immigration(Again, no figures to back this up); even in the Antilles they are almost 5% of the population and more than 10% in Quebec!(no references here either) The metastasis is generalized...what can you do about it?Nothing, since nobody in the West has the will to oppose it."
This last comment is what I´ve been banging on about for so long, I hear people moan about immigrants and foreigners, yet, that anger lasts only as long as it takes the next episode of Eastenders or Big Bruva to appear on our screens, the people are fickle, lazy and ignorant, unwilling to concentrate on one thing at a time.
"Even the great Le Pen now boasts regularly of having been the first to have a Muslim deputy elected. At any rate, Le Pen is more anti-Semitic than anything else, hence his coziness with Dieudonné...Islam, untouchable, uncriticizable, will impose itself without any real resistance, except maybe for a few good souls on the fringes who will wear themselves out trying."
Sound familiar?
"You have to be realistic, even in the land of the dead, we know enough to stop a fight when the war is lost. We have children, families, and friends to care for while there is still some time, before the shadow completely covers the world. The twilight is underway and we do not all have the spirit of a Jean Moulin (French WWII resitance fighter who was killed in action)"
"He closes with these words:The 21st century will probably be religious, yes, but Muslim pure and simple. Maybe in a few centuries, in America or somewhere, a new world will be born that will defeat Islam as in the Middle Ages...but until then, Europe...inch Allah."
It seems too familiar, I always hope people will wake up, first after 9/11, but people went back to sleep, then they opposed the Iraq invasion, then the Spanish abandoned the ´War on Terror´after the Madrid attacks, then one hopes the London attacks will stifen peoples spines, but no, just more calls for an afirmation of multiculturalism. Then plots begin to unravel in the public eye, but no, this is not blamed on Muslims or Islam, just on those ever present ´extremists´or ´International Terrorísts´.
I actually dont know if people are capable anymore of offering resitance to an enemy, 3000 dead soldiers and the Americans are about ready to give up and retire back to their cozy MTV lives of celebrity and PSP games. What is that? That is despicable, as Mark Steyn writes in his latest article ''The key issue is no longer WMD or even the role of the U.N. The central issue is America's credibility and will to prevail.'' Apparently enough Americans dont seem to mind that they will be shown to be a paper tiger, they dont mind if the Axis of Evil goes on about it´s business undisturbed! In fact it would have been better for the Americans not to even get involved in Afghanistan or Iraq in the first place if this is what is going to happen, because our enemies will be stronger now then ever before.
What ally will willingly go to war with the Americans in the future? I would´nt, I would be thinking, well I might agree that this guy is a bastard, or that this or that regime needs to be bombed into the stone age, but do I trust the Americans to go the whole hog? Truthfully no, perhaps they will go 2 or 3 years but, well once a midterm comes up, one can´t know how it will go!
That pisses me off, because the Americans are the only ones who can realistically carry this war to the enemy, if our greatest hope is this moody, or emotionally fragile then God help us all!
As you can see above the French seem fucked, I know from experience that Britain is dying, most of Europe is in trouble, the only solid country in this seems to be Australia, but as I´ve said before, they can´t do this by themselves!
Thats why America´s mood swing is so dangerous, not only for us who face imminent Islamisation, but to Americans as well, Vietnam hurt you big time, you had pretty much won a war against the commies, then you gave up and allowed them to take the South after 50,000 of your bravest dead. Now you risk forsaking forever the respect due a great power if you run from Iraq (No matter how you say it the world will call it just that) after only 3000 dead! You lost that many men on one beach on D Day alone, how can you expect the world to trmble when you can´t take this?
Grow up you are supposed to be a Super Power or as the French say a Hyper Power! Act like it, lead us!
Saturday, December 02, 2006
This is really sad!
I am a Moslem woman. I have no face. I have no identity. At age 9, based on lunar year (a lunar year is ten days shorter) I am considered an adult. Being an adult means that I have to adhere with Islamic laws
I have to pray five times a day, fast one month out of the year and cover myself from head to toe in yards of black fabric. I am eligible to be married and can be punished for any wrong doing. I can be incarcerated and, if needed, executed for my crimes, even political ones.
Islam believes and promotes only one relationship between male and female and that is the relation of lust.
I am not allowed to swim, ski, ride a bike, dance, learn to play musical instruments, practice gymnastics, or any other sport. I am not even permitted to watch men play sports, either in the stadium and/or on television.
My worth is based on the Islamic Laws of Retribution, 24th edition, December 1982, as half of a man. It doesn't matter who I am, how educated I am, and what earning potential I may have in my life. My worth is half of a man, any man.
The clause number 6 regarding the dieh (cash value of the fine) states that the cash fine for murdering a woman intentionally or unintentionally is half as much as for a man.
I cannot get custody of my children. Even if their father dies. In the case of divorce or death I have to surrender my children to their father and/or his family.
I will get arrested, beaten, and sometimes even executed if I wear make-up, nylons, bright colors and specifically the color of red.
According to Khomeini, the Iranian Islamic Imam, "The most suitable time for a girl to get married is the time when the girl can have her first menstrual period in her husband's house rather than her father's".
I have to meet all my husband's desires including the sexual ones. And if I refuse he has the right to deny me food, shelter, and all of life's necessities. I have to say yes every time he wants to have sex.
My husband can have four permanent wives and if he is from Shi'i sect, he can have as many temporary wives as he wants.
Koran says that "Men your wives are your tillage. Go into your tillage anyway you want". This means that a man is allowed to sodomise his wife and she cannot complain.
According to the Islamic Laws, I am supposed to be seen outside of my home three times in my life. When I am born, when I get married and when I die.
In Islam, the age of majority for a girl is 9 years and for a boy is 15 years. This means that a 9 year old girl and a 15 year old boy are considered to have the same level of maturity. Now, if girls reach maturity six years earlier than boys, then why did God place men in charge of women? Was there something wrong with God's Judgment?
In Islam, if a 6 or 7 year old girl is raped by an adult man, she will be the one that gets punished. It is her fault because she provoked it. The parents then will burn or kill her because she has dishonored the family.
"Marry such women as seem good to you, two, three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own; so it is likelier you will not be partial". The Koran 4:3
"Most Europeans have mistresses. Why should we suppress human instincts? A rooster satisfies several hens, an stallion several mares. A woman is unavailable during certain periods where as a man is always active....", Ayatollah Ghomi, LE MONDE, January 20, 1979.
I have no explanation on why God denied me everything and made men in charge of me, if there is a God. I don't believe there ever was one.
Parvin Darabi
I have to pray five times a day, fast one month out of the year and cover myself from head to toe in yards of black fabric. I am eligible to be married and can be punished for any wrong doing. I can be incarcerated and, if needed, executed for my crimes, even political ones.
Islam believes and promotes only one relationship between male and female and that is the relation of lust.
I am not allowed to swim, ski, ride a bike, dance, learn to play musical instruments, practice gymnastics, or any other sport. I am not even permitted to watch men play sports, either in the stadium and/or on television.
My worth is based on the Islamic Laws of Retribution, 24th edition, December 1982, as half of a man. It doesn't matter who I am, how educated I am, and what earning potential I may have in my life. My worth is half of a man, any man.
The clause number 6 regarding the dieh (cash value of the fine) states that the cash fine for murdering a woman intentionally or unintentionally is half as much as for a man.
I cannot get custody of my children. Even if their father dies. In the case of divorce or death I have to surrender my children to their father and/or his family.
I will get arrested, beaten, and sometimes even executed if I wear make-up, nylons, bright colors and specifically the color of red.
According to Khomeini, the Iranian Islamic Imam, "The most suitable time for a girl to get married is the time when the girl can have her first menstrual period in her husband's house rather than her father's".
I have to meet all my husband's desires including the sexual ones. And if I refuse he has the right to deny me food, shelter, and all of life's necessities. I have to say yes every time he wants to have sex.
My husband can have four permanent wives and if he is from Shi'i sect, he can have as many temporary wives as he wants.
Koran says that "Men your wives are your tillage. Go into your tillage anyway you want". This means that a man is allowed to sodomise his wife and she cannot complain.
According to the Islamic Laws, I am supposed to be seen outside of my home three times in my life. When I am born, when I get married and when I die.
In Islam, the age of majority for a girl is 9 years and for a boy is 15 years. This means that a 9 year old girl and a 15 year old boy are considered to have the same level of maturity. Now, if girls reach maturity six years earlier than boys, then why did God place men in charge of women? Was there something wrong with God's Judgment?
In Islam, if a 6 or 7 year old girl is raped by an adult man, she will be the one that gets punished. It is her fault because she provoked it. The parents then will burn or kill her because she has dishonored the family.
"Marry such women as seem good to you, two, three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own; so it is likelier you will not be partial". The Koran 4:3
"Most Europeans have mistresses. Why should we suppress human instincts? A rooster satisfies several hens, an stallion several mares. A woman is unavailable during certain periods where as a man is always active....", Ayatollah Ghomi, LE MONDE, January 20, 1979.
I have no explanation on why God denied me everything and made men in charge of me, if there is a God. I don't believe there ever was one.
Parvin Darabi
Friday, December 01, 2006
Hog Time
This is soooo funny, I love this guy! Perhaps we should all get some pet pigs?
"K.I.A., that's the Katy Islamic Association, plan to build a mosque here.
"It's not an appropriate place to have a mosque or church," said resident Barbara Simpson.
It isn't going over real well.
"As a house of worship, they shouldn't be disturbing the peace and tranquility of 15 homes," said resident John Wetmore.
Neighbors tell us they're concerned about traffic and drainage and a little fear of the unknown. Some of the homeowners even offered to buy the land back for more than a million dollars. The K.I.A. doesn't seem very interested in the offers.
"We're not going anywhere," said Katy Islamic Association member Alvi Muzfar.
So it seems the community at the end of Baker Road has a pretty good fight. But this fight has gone much farther than many between two neighbors. You see in these fights, sometimes neighbors throw mud at one another. In this instance, they're wallowing in it.
Craig Baker owns pigs. He's the guy behind the second big yellow sign on Baker Road. That's the one announcing Friday night pig races.
"What does it matter, I can do whatever I want with my land right," asked landowner Craig Baker.
Sure can. But aren't pigs on the property line racing on a Friday night a little offensive to a Muslim neighbor?
"The meat of a pig is prohibited in the religion of Islam," said Katy Islamic Association member Youssof Allam. "It's looked upon as a dirty creature."
Yeah, there's that and also that Friday night is a Muslim holy day.
"That is definitely a slap in the face," said Allam..
Now before you go thinking Craig Baker is unfair, or full of hate, or somehow racist, hear him out.
Baker has long roots here. His family named the road and when the new neighbors moved in, he tells us, they asked him to move out.
"Basically that I should package up my family and my business and find a place elsewhere," said Baker. "That's ridiculous, they just bought the place one week prior and he's telling me I should think about leaving."
That new owners deny they ever said anything like that, but Baker isn't budging.
Baker admits the pigs are a message he is not leaving.
The 11-acre property is sandwiched between a pricey subdivision and Craig Baker's business.
K.I.A. eventually plans to build a mosque, a gym and a school there. There's no date for the groundbreaking ceremonies, or the first pig race."
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Democracy: A red herring
By Andrew C. McCarthy, from the National Review
This is a war of will.
Very true, and we don't seem to have that will!
If we lose it, the historians will marvel at how mulishly we resisted understanding the one thing we needed to understand in order to win. The enemy.
Yes, someone who understands!
In Iraq, we've tried to fight the most civilized light footprint war of all time. We made sure everyone knew our beef was only with Saddam Hussein, as if he were a one-man militia no Sunni Baathists supporting him, no Arab terrorists colluding, and no Shiite jihadists hating us just on principle. No, our war was only with the regime. No need to fight the Iraqis. They, after all, were noble. They would flock to democracy if only they had the chance. And, once they hailed us as conquering heroes, their oil wealth would pay for the whole thing just 400 billion American dollars ago.
Well, lets stop kidding ourselves! Either we throw this away, or we fight it properly, but Ibelieveleive, there is no longer any way for us to win this, not because we can't, but because I can't see that we can stomach the fight ahead! Churchill gassed rebellious Iraqis, would you accept that? Could you?
For (Mohammedans), the president's euphonious rhetoric about democratic empowerment is offensive. They believe, sincerely, that authority to rule comes not from the people but from Allah; that there is no separation of religion and politics; that free people do not have authority to legislate contrary to Islamic law; that Muslims are superior to non-Muslims, and men to women; and that violent jihad is a duty whenever Muslims deem themselves under attack no matter how speciously. These people are not morons.
I think this is something we should all accept, these people attacking us are not dumb, not Arab versions of 'hicks' or 'country bumpkins', they are for the most part educated men, men with a strong faith in Allah and Mohammeds commanoffensivefensive as that religion may be, this is whabelievebeleive and many prbelievebeleive quite sincerely!
Democratizing such cultures in anything we would recognize as democracy is the work of generations. It is a cultural phenomenon. It is not accomplished by elections and facile constitution writing especially, constitutions that shun Madisonian democracy for the State Department's preferred establishment of Islam and its adhesive sharia law as the state religion. Elections, in fact, play to the strengths of Islamic terrorists. Jihadists are confident, intimidating, and rigorously disciplined. They are thus certain to thrive in the chaos of nascent democracies. Consequently, it should be unsurprising to anyone with a shred of common sense that terrorist organizations are ascendant in the new governments of Iraq, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories.
This is the truth, Islam and Islamic culture is incompatable with freedom or democracy, the only relatively stable Islamic nations are authoritarian monarchies, Morocco, Jordan, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. They should not see democracy, for when this happens, Islamists gain traction, this is true in Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc, etc...
Time to face the truth, Democracy is unpaletable even here in the West, its dead in the water in the Islamic world!
This is a war of will.
Very true, and we don't seem to have that will!
If we lose it, the historians will marvel at how mulishly we resisted understanding the one thing we needed to understand in order to win. The enemy.
Yes, someone who understands!
In Iraq, we've tried to fight the most civilized light footprint war of all time. We made sure everyone knew our beef was only with Saddam Hussein, as if he were a one-man militia no Sunni Baathists supporting him, no Arab terrorists colluding, and no Shiite jihadists hating us just on principle. No, our war was only with the regime. No need to fight the Iraqis. They, after all, were noble. They would flock to democracy if only they had the chance. And, once they hailed us as conquering heroes, their oil wealth would pay for the whole thing just 400 billion American dollars ago.
Well, lets stop kidding ourselves! Either we throw this away, or we fight it properly, but Ibelieveleive, there is no longer any way for us to win this, not because we can't, but because I can't see that we can stomach the fight ahead! Churchill gassed rebellious Iraqis, would you accept that? Could you?
For (Mohammedans), the president's euphonious rhetoric about democratic empowerment is offensive. They believe, sincerely, that authority to rule comes not from the people but from Allah; that there is no separation of religion and politics; that free people do not have authority to legislate contrary to Islamic law; that Muslims are superior to non-Muslims, and men to women; and that violent jihad is a duty whenever Muslims deem themselves under attack no matter how speciously. These people are not morons.
I think this is something we should all accept, these people attacking us are not dumb, not Arab versions of 'hicks' or 'country bumpkins', they are for the most part educated men, men with a strong faith in Allah and Mohammeds commanoffensivefensive as that religion may be, this is whabelievebeleive and many prbelievebeleive quite sincerely!
Democratizing such cultures in anything we would recognize as democracy is the work of generations. It is a cultural phenomenon. It is not accomplished by elections and facile constitution writing especially, constitutions that shun Madisonian democracy for the State Department's preferred establishment of Islam and its adhesive sharia law as the state religion. Elections, in fact, play to the strengths of Islamic terrorists. Jihadists are confident, intimidating, and rigorously disciplined. They are thus certain to thrive in the chaos of nascent democracies. Consequently, it should be unsurprising to anyone with a shred of common sense that terrorist organizations are ascendant in the new governments of Iraq, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories.
This is the truth, Islam and Islamic culture is incompatable with freedom or democracy, the only relatively stable Islamic nations are authoritarian monarchies, Morocco, Jordan, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. They should not see democracy, for when this happens, Islamists gain traction, this is true in Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc, etc...
Time to face the truth, Democracy is unpaletable even here in the West, its dead in the water in the Islamic world!
Shariah in Britain!
From the Telegraph:
"Islamic sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in parts of Britain, a report claims.
(T)he BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action produced evidence yesterday that it was being used by some Muslims as an alternative to English criminal law. Aydarus Yusuf, 29, a youth worker from Somalia, recalled a stabbing case that was decided by an unofficial Somali "court" sitting in Woolwich, south-east London."
What the fuck Somalians are doing in this country I don't know, all they are is trouble!
"Mr Yusuf said a group of Somali youths were arrested on suspicion of stabbing another Somali teenager. The victim's family told the police it would be settled out of court and the suspects were released on bail."
Typical really, the police capitulate once again to an 'efnik community innit' what prats!!
"Although Scotland Yard had no information about that case yesterday, a spokesman said it was common for the police not to proceed with assault cases if the victims decided not to press charges."
Unless the 'victim' is alleging RACISM (gasps of horror, screaming in the distance) then the police spend millions of pounds and hundreds of hours investigating!
"However, the spokesman said cases of domestic violence, including rape, might go to trial regardless of the victim's wishes."
Yeah, like that will happen!
"Mr Yusuf told the programme he felt more bound by the traditional law of his birth than by the laws of his adopted country."
Tell you what Mr Yusuf, if that is how you feel, fuck off back to that shit hole you crawled out of!
"Sharia's great strength was the effectiveness of its penalties, he said."
I have got to give him that, our law sees punishment as torture, so you can rape and murder and at worst get 5 years inside, rob, burgle or thieve and you get off scott free!
"Some lawyers welcomed the advance of what has become known as "legal pluralism"."
Yeah, I bet they do!
"Islamic sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in parts of Britain, a report claims.
(T)he BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action produced evidence yesterday that it was being used by some Muslims as an alternative to English criminal law. Aydarus Yusuf, 29, a youth worker from Somalia, recalled a stabbing case that was decided by an unofficial Somali "court" sitting in Woolwich, south-east London."
What the fuck Somalians are doing in this country I don't know, all they are is trouble!
"Mr Yusuf said a group of Somali youths were arrested on suspicion of stabbing another Somali teenager. The victim's family told the police it would be settled out of court and the suspects were released on bail."
Typical really, the police capitulate once again to an 'efnik community innit' what prats!!
"Although Scotland Yard had no information about that case yesterday, a spokesman said it was common for the police not to proceed with assault cases if the victims decided not to press charges."
Unless the 'victim' is alleging RACISM (gasps of horror, screaming in the distance) then the police spend millions of pounds and hundreds of hours investigating!
"However, the spokesman said cases of domestic violence, including rape, might go to trial regardless of the victim's wishes."
Yeah, like that will happen!
"Mr Yusuf told the programme he felt more bound by the traditional law of his birth than by the laws of his adopted country."
Tell you what Mr Yusuf, if that is how you feel, fuck off back to that shit hole you crawled out of!
"Sharia's great strength was the effectiveness of its penalties, he said."
I have got to give him that, our law sees punishment as torture, so you can rape and murder and at worst get 5 years inside, rob, burgle or thieve and you get off scott free!
"Some lawyers welcomed the advance of what has become known as "legal pluralism"."
Yeah, I bet they do!
Monday, November 27, 2006
Blue Labour
This post is so good as to be posted in full:
From Melanie Phillips
Daily Mail, 27 November 2006
The sheer cynicism of it simply leaves you open-mouthed. Last week, the Conservative leader David Cameron committed his party to tackling relative poverty, which he defined as not having the things that better-off people take for granted.
His strategy, by now so familiar, couldn’t have been more brazen —or insulting to his party’s past. Getting rid of the Tories’ image as the ‘nasty party’ meant repositioning it as the party of compassion for the poor. To do so, he and his warm-up man, Greg Clarke, knocked Winston Churchill off his plinth as party hero and installed instead the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee as the Tories’ new icon.
As the nation variously split its sides, went into shock or simply scratched its head, the Cameroons did high fives over their brilliantly counter-intuitive coup. But in their obsession with image, they have failed to grasp that such opportunism does indeed suggest that they have hearts of stone.
For what Ms Toynbee stands for is not compassionate at all. On the contrary, what she embodies is the politics of hatred. Hatred of the middle class, hatred of men and marriage, hatred of private enterprise and profit, hatred of ordinary people whom she regularly berates as stupid, pig-headed and ungrateful —especially when they dare to hold views which differ from hers.
Of course the hypocrisy, on the part of a person who uses private education and enjoys a holiday home in Italy, is stupendous. But the really shocking thing is that Pollyism hurts most the people it purports to help — those at the bottom of the heap.
Its obsession with comprehensive education has meant that the poor, who rely absolutely on school to escape from disadvantage, have been abandoned to illiteracy and ignorance.
Its sustained attack on married parenthood has abandoned millions of children to fatherlessness and every possible disadvantage in life. The main reason why so many British children are so poor is that they are being brought up by struggling lone parents — whose explosion in numbers, according to the doctrine of Pollygamy, is a triumph of women’s liberation.
It has trapped ever more millions of people into debilitating dependency upon the state, infantilising them by robbing them of responsibility for their own lives and families. Wrapping itself in the sanctimonious mantle of progressive politics, it actually betrays the progressive ideal of social justice. Instead of encouraging the good in people and minimising the bad, it rewards the bad and punishes the good.
Indeed it is deeply reactionary, deriving from the core belief that people are fundamentally contemptible and cannot be trusted with independence, needing the superior wisdom and beneficence of the state to run their lives instead.
All this in the name of the sacred agenda of equality, which is nothing other than the politics of envy and spite. The concept of relative poverty was invented to serve that agenda. By setting the poverty benchmark as a proportion of average wealth, ‘relative poverty’ magics up increasing numbers of people deemed to be poor as the society becomes ever richer.
It is therefore the engine behind a vast and self-perpetuating poverty industry, which is in business to penalise the better-off by robbing them for money with which to control the lives of increasing numbers of people through welfare dependency.
Those who work hard are penalised for doing so; rewards go to those whose own behaviour may have accounted for their disadvantaged circumstances. The results are all around us in households which have not merely been left behind as the caravan of prosperity moves on, but which have become disastrously disengaged altogether from the basic tenets of a civilised society.
These shattered wastelands of squalor, hopelessness, misery and despair are the true legacy of the Polly Toynbee vision.
Yet it is to this social injustice — astoundingly — that the Tories have now committed themselves, with Mr Cameron’s ringing declaration that relative poverty is in his sights.
But no sooner had he said this than he veered off in a contradictory direction. Fighting relative poverty, he said, was about tackling the root causes such as family breakdown, drug and alcohol addiction, unemployment or poor education.
This is simply incoherent. Relative poverty can only tackled by income redistribution because it’s all about the gap between rich and poor. Yes, he is absolutely right that the root causes of disadvantage lie in family breakdown and other non-financial factors.
But these can only be tackled by a totally different approach: one that recognises that the welfare state is not the solution but the problem. This is because permanent poverty arises principally from the impoverishment and demoralisation of the human spirit, and the way to remedy it is thus to help change behaviour and give people control over their own destiny.
Mr Cameron pays lip service to re-introducing personal responsibility. Yet he has set his face against recasting state welfare. He is committed to the same spending on health — thus ensuring that the sick poor, who suffer most from the collapse of NHS standards, will remain trapped.
He has dismissed selection in schools, thus opposing the single most important route for poor children out of disadvantage and rejecting the meritocracy which is the very basis of a socially just society.
He will keep the Sure Start childcare programme and the tax credits system, even though Sure Start has been shown to hurt the poor and tax credits have vastly expanded the net of state dependency. Indeed, he appears to be prepared even to undermine the work ethic and weaken the economy by embracing the European 35-hour working week in his Pollyanna-ish pursuit of ‘general wellbeing’.
He is for state controlled public services but also for using the voluntary sector, which would be effectively nationalised; for tax cuts but also for public spending increases; for stable family life but also for lone parents; for a tough approach to crime but also for hugging hoodies and loving louts.
Such radical incoherence enables him to pose as a compassionate Conservative, while leaving us all in a fog about what he would actually do in office.
It is also part of his strategy to enrage traditionalists and newspapers like this one. The louder such protests, the more the Cameroons rub their hands over their ‘Clause Four’ moment in defeating their ‘dinosaurs’.
But when Tony Blair junked Labour’s Clause Four on state control and redistribution of wealth, he was binning a doctrine which ran totally against the interests of the public. Those who supported it were indeed the dinosaurs of the left, and their defeat was essential to persuade the public that never again would Labour engage in class war and frustrate people’s desire to better themselves.
In fact, Labour has indeed conducted an income redistribution by stealth and a sustained onslaught upon the middle class and its values. Yet instead of attacking this, as millions want them to do, the Tories have decided to embrace such an onslaught themselves.
Now an opinion poll suggests that Mr Cameron’s progress may be stalling. If so, this is undoubtedly because people can see through the spin. They don’t want Blue Labour; and they will never trust politicians speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
Throwing Cameroon stardust in people’s eyes may work for a while. But the British are not likely to buy a Polly in a poke. If they can vote for the organ-grinder, after all, why elect the monkey? It’s enough to make a dinosaur laugh.
From Melanie Phillips
Daily Mail, 27 November 2006
The sheer cynicism of it simply leaves you open-mouthed. Last week, the Conservative leader David Cameron committed his party to tackling relative poverty, which he defined as not having the things that better-off people take for granted.
His strategy, by now so familiar, couldn’t have been more brazen —or insulting to his party’s past. Getting rid of the Tories’ image as the ‘nasty party’ meant repositioning it as the party of compassion for the poor. To do so, he and his warm-up man, Greg Clarke, knocked Winston Churchill off his plinth as party hero and installed instead the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee as the Tories’ new icon.
As the nation variously split its sides, went into shock or simply scratched its head, the Cameroons did high fives over their brilliantly counter-intuitive coup. But in their obsession with image, they have failed to grasp that such opportunism does indeed suggest that they have hearts of stone.
For what Ms Toynbee stands for is not compassionate at all. On the contrary, what she embodies is the politics of hatred. Hatred of the middle class, hatred of men and marriage, hatred of private enterprise and profit, hatred of ordinary people whom she regularly berates as stupid, pig-headed and ungrateful —especially when they dare to hold views which differ from hers.
Of course the hypocrisy, on the part of a person who uses private education and enjoys a holiday home in Italy, is stupendous. But the really shocking thing is that Pollyism hurts most the people it purports to help — those at the bottom of the heap.
Its obsession with comprehensive education has meant that the poor, who rely absolutely on school to escape from disadvantage, have been abandoned to illiteracy and ignorance.
Its sustained attack on married parenthood has abandoned millions of children to fatherlessness and every possible disadvantage in life. The main reason why so many British children are so poor is that they are being brought up by struggling lone parents — whose explosion in numbers, according to the doctrine of Pollygamy, is a triumph of women’s liberation.
It has trapped ever more millions of people into debilitating dependency upon the state, infantilising them by robbing them of responsibility for their own lives and families. Wrapping itself in the sanctimonious mantle of progressive politics, it actually betrays the progressive ideal of social justice. Instead of encouraging the good in people and minimising the bad, it rewards the bad and punishes the good.
Indeed it is deeply reactionary, deriving from the core belief that people are fundamentally contemptible and cannot be trusted with independence, needing the superior wisdom and beneficence of the state to run their lives instead.
All this in the name of the sacred agenda of equality, which is nothing other than the politics of envy and spite. The concept of relative poverty was invented to serve that agenda. By setting the poverty benchmark as a proportion of average wealth, ‘relative poverty’ magics up increasing numbers of people deemed to be poor as the society becomes ever richer.
It is therefore the engine behind a vast and self-perpetuating poverty industry, which is in business to penalise the better-off by robbing them for money with which to control the lives of increasing numbers of people through welfare dependency.
Those who work hard are penalised for doing so; rewards go to those whose own behaviour may have accounted for their disadvantaged circumstances. The results are all around us in households which have not merely been left behind as the caravan of prosperity moves on, but which have become disastrously disengaged altogether from the basic tenets of a civilised society.
These shattered wastelands of squalor, hopelessness, misery and despair are the true legacy of the Polly Toynbee vision.
Yet it is to this social injustice — astoundingly — that the Tories have now committed themselves, with Mr Cameron’s ringing declaration that relative poverty is in his sights.
But no sooner had he said this than he veered off in a contradictory direction. Fighting relative poverty, he said, was about tackling the root causes such as family breakdown, drug and alcohol addiction, unemployment or poor education.
This is simply incoherent. Relative poverty can only tackled by income redistribution because it’s all about the gap between rich and poor. Yes, he is absolutely right that the root causes of disadvantage lie in family breakdown and other non-financial factors.
But these can only be tackled by a totally different approach: one that recognises that the welfare state is not the solution but the problem. This is because permanent poverty arises principally from the impoverishment and demoralisation of the human spirit, and the way to remedy it is thus to help change behaviour and give people control over their own destiny.
Mr Cameron pays lip service to re-introducing personal responsibility. Yet he has set his face against recasting state welfare. He is committed to the same spending on health — thus ensuring that the sick poor, who suffer most from the collapse of NHS standards, will remain trapped.
He has dismissed selection in schools, thus opposing the single most important route for poor children out of disadvantage and rejecting the meritocracy which is the very basis of a socially just society.
He will keep the Sure Start childcare programme and the tax credits system, even though Sure Start has been shown to hurt the poor and tax credits have vastly expanded the net of state dependency. Indeed, he appears to be prepared even to undermine the work ethic and weaken the economy by embracing the European 35-hour working week in his Pollyanna-ish pursuit of ‘general wellbeing’.
He is for state controlled public services but also for using the voluntary sector, which would be effectively nationalised; for tax cuts but also for public spending increases; for stable family life but also for lone parents; for a tough approach to crime but also for hugging hoodies and loving louts.
Such radical incoherence enables him to pose as a compassionate Conservative, while leaving us all in a fog about what he would actually do in office.
It is also part of his strategy to enrage traditionalists and newspapers like this one. The louder such protests, the more the Cameroons rub their hands over their ‘Clause Four’ moment in defeating their ‘dinosaurs’.
But when Tony Blair junked Labour’s Clause Four on state control and redistribution of wealth, he was binning a doctrine which ran totally against the interests of the public. Those who supported it were indeed the dinosaurs of the left, and their defeat was essential to persuade the public that never again would Labour engage in class war and frustrate people’s desire to better themselves.
In fact, Labour has indeed conducted an income redistribution by stealth and a sustained onslaught upon the middle class and its values. Yet instead of attacking this, as millions want them to do, the Tories have decided to embrace such an onslaught themselves.
Now an opinion poll suggests that Mr Cameron’s progress may be stalling. If so, this is undoubtedly because people can see through the spin. They don’t want Blue Labour; and they will never trust politicians speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
Throwing Cameroon stardust in people’s eyes may work for a while. But the British are not likely to buy a Polly in a poke. If they can vote for the organ-grinder, after all, why elect the monkey? It’s enough to make a dinosaur laugh.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Some points to make
Robert Spencer over at Jihad Watch has published a list of points in answer to some of his critics, I thought that I would do the same! But unlike Spencer I've decided not to bullshit(Why is it all these learned men, criticise Islam, lay out sensible arguments, then fail to make logical conclusions based on the facts?)
1. Islam is not a race. One does not become a racist by opposing Islam.
2. I actually do wish to drive all Muslims out of the West.
3. I beleive that good Muslims are by definition wicked followers of Satan, some Muslims may be good people, but by definition are bad Muslims. The best Muslims are recovering Muslims!
4. I have said that Muslims want to kill Jews and Christians, but they would get a bigger kick out of enslaving us and taxing us.
5. Islam is inconpatable with mankind, civilisation and basic decency! FACT!
Spain is cool by the way, quite civilised, not to many Moors where I am, although the ones that are here stand out like sewage in a bed of roses!
1. Islam is not a race. One does not become a racist by opposing Islam.
2. I actually do wish to drive all Muslims out of the West.
3. I beleive that good Muslims are by definition wicked followers of Satan, some Muslims may be good people, but by definition are bad Muslims. The best Muslims are recovering Muslims!
4. I have said that Muslims want to kill Jews and Christians, but they would get a bigger kick out of enslaving us and taxing us.
5. Islam is inconpatable with mankind, civilisation and basic decency! FACT!
Spain is cool by the way, quite civilised, not to many Moors where I am, although the ones that are here stand out like sewage in a bed of roses!
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