A Coward’s World

It is very bizarre how the world is viewing the Israel-Hamas War. You have to think about what was done and then realize that Western men and women are looking at it and considering it either not a problem, or not sufficiently bad to warrant a vigorous response.

Let us look at a different world. It is similar to ours, but very different. This is the world of 1876.

In that year, pressed by ages of Turkish brutality and corruption, the peasants of Bulgaria rose in rebellion against their overlords. They fought bravely but they were at last overmatched. After the rebellion was pretty much defeated, the Turkish government unleashed Bashi-bazouks upon the Bulgarian populace. These were part of the Turkish army but they were irregular and unpaid; their pay was what they could extract from a subject population. The Turks turned them loose into what became an orgy or rape, murder and looting. Nobody to this day knows how many died; probably tens of thousands. It was quite horrific and when word of it got out the whole of the West arose in anger. There were demands for punishment and reform; it touched off a war between Russia and Turkey and, in the end, lead to an independent Bulgaria because nobody in the West could allow a Turk to rule a Bulgar after that. You know: they had proved themselves inhuman savages.

This shows us that events like 10/7 are, sadly, not all that uncommon. Men, being what they are, can at times descend into the worst savagery. Nobody can really know what makes a man decide it is a good idea to rape, murder and pillage, but it does happen. The difference between then and now is the supine cowardice of the West in the face of it. What the Palestinians did on 10/7 was a horror beyond horror. If it had just been killing, that would have been bad enough – but it was torture, it was rape, it was humiliation (with some kids forced to watch while their mother was raped and/or their father murdered). The perpetrators of such acts are not covered under law – and this regardless of whatever paper says. They are to be killed by whatever means come to hand. Nothing is to be allowed to spare such beasts. Caught; killed. That’s it. That is how you treat such people – to teach them a lesson…and a lesson to the next batch that the hours of rape and pillage come with a price, so better think again.

This just illustrates how very messed up our world is right now. Solzhenitsyn pointed out that the problem of the 20th century was that it had forgot about God…well, we’re now a century into forgetting about God and we’ve now lost sight of the last shreds of human decency. We excuse. We explain away. We try to find something, anything that gets us off the hook from being human. And do keep in mind that the Israelis are not asking anyone to do it for them; they just want to get it done. There is no effort here. No sacrifice. Just let men do what men have to do.

But that, too, can’t be allowed. If the men of the IDF are allowed to chastise the wrongdoers of Hamas, that would be an indictment of every Western person – every person who allows unvetted savages into his country. Every person who turns a blind eye to the level of crime in some areas of the USA. Every abused child and dishonored woman would then rise up, in a sense, and damn us all for not acting. For not killing those who do that sort of thing. It isn’t that we care about the accused, it is that we’re afraid to do what is necessary. Getting our hands dirty, even if second hand.

I do not think that courage is dead in the USA or the larger West. I think it is hidden. I think it is almost ashamed to step forth. But it will step forth. It will have to. And it will have to kill when it does; in order to provide justice for the oppressed, it can do no other.

11 thoughts on “A Coward’s World

  1. Cluster's avatar Cluster May 29, 2024 / 9:35 am

    Courage is not dead in America … it is just strongly discouraged by a society that has been feminized. We are no longer a nation of men. We are largely a nation of weak, emasculated men, and overbearing, bitchy women. And this is a direct result of the destruction of the nuclear family and the abandonment of God. Like it or not, what Harrison Butker spoke of in his commencement address is exactly how strong, moral countries are built … through God and the nuclear family. That is when governance is most effective and most constructive, when it starts in the family. And a sad fact of this reality is that women and men actually do desire to find love and nurture a family, it’s just that our society and culture discourage it … you know because “anyone can be a woman”, and bullshit like that. We are a morally confused country.

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook May 29, 2024 / 10:37 am

      If that’s NOT Casper, I’ll bet he’s related.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 29, 2024 / 11:23 am

        Aside from being 50 years younger and 150 pounds lighter, he could be casper.

        I just saw an article about the profanity-laced screamfest put on by DeNiro, and when someone questioned the sanity of having such a rabid Trump hater doing what was essentially a press conference the reply, which reeked of casperism, was “Name an actor more famous than DeNiro”.

        That pretty much sums up the TMZ mentality that some people apply to politics. He’s famous, so he has credibility.

  2. Amazona's avatar Amazona May 29, 2024 / 11:49 am

    The closing arguments and judge’s instructions in the Trump “trial” are about what we expected. No crime has been identified, but the jury has been told of three different crimes they can imagine might have been committed and furthermore the jury doesn’t have to pick just one of these speculations and vote on it. No, they can split their decisions and still be considered “unanimous”.

    No doubt casper will find nothing wrong with a trial that never identified a single crime but offered a menu of different possible crimes which were never actually alleged and telling the jury to choose one. But the jurors can choose different possible scenarios and vote on their choices, no matter how the other jurors decide what THEY think sounds best.

    an insane, “choose your own adventure” jury instruction, under which the jurors don’t even need to agree on what supposed crime occurred in order to convict

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    …Merchan just delivered the coup de grace instruction. He said that there is no need to agree on what occurred. They can disagree on what the crime was among the three choices.  Thus, this means that they could split 4-4-4 and he will still treat them as unanimous…

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster May 29, 2024 / 12:41 pm

      And Democrats like Casper have no concern that the lead prosecutor was the #3 guy in Biden’s DOJ, that the Judge is donator to the Biden campaign, and that the Judge’s daughter is a Democrat activist making millions off of the trial. None of that seems to matter when you’re protecting democracy

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 29, 2024 / 1:34 pm

        AND the prosecutor ran on the promise that he would “get Trump” AND the question of election interference had already been dismissed by the Federal Election Commission, AND in any case such a claim was out due to the statute of limitations, AND the alleged crime depended not on what happened but on the crystal ball readings of what Trump was THINKING when it happened, AND then the biggest of all—-the payment that was alleged to be planned in an effort to influence the election ook place after the election was over.

        But they don’t need no steenking facts.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan May 29, 2024 / 8:23 pm

      I’m surprised we didn’t get a verdict today. Even after all that, still a hung jury? I can only assume the judge’s absurd, unconstitutional instructions were designed to prevent a hung jury…but it is all so grossly unfair, maybe this has backfired?

      I guess we’ll find out.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 29, 2024 / 8:44 pm

        Maybe the jurors are catching onto the scam—-the lawyers won’t come right out and say something is a crime, because they know it isn’t. The judge won’t come right out and say something is a crime, because he knows it isn’t. So they just flood the jury with so much innuendo that they hope the jury will be influenced enough to do their dirty work for them and say “we think THIS is a crime and he is guilty”. That way the jurors will be the dupes, the dunces, and the so-called legal minds can say “Hey, I never said that was illegal!”

        to try someone for a crime that they are not informed of is as serious a breach of due process rights as we can possibly imagine. See, e.g., the Stalin show trials—Darkness at Noon. The timing of the trial and the blatant denial of fundamental rights can only be explained by an effort to interfere with the fair conduct of a presidential election, thereby, in effect, denying the American people the right to a Republican Government.

  3. Amazona's avatar Amazona May 30, 2024 / 11:25 am

    Just a quick recap of the Juan Merchan/Alvin Bragg show trial in NYC: –

    The Soros funded DA elevated a misdemeanor to a felony despite lowering 60% of all felonies for actual criminals in his jurisdiction –

    The lead prosecutor resigned his position as the 3rd highest ranking member of Biden’s DOJ to join Alvin Bragg’s team going after Trump. –

    The judge donated to Joe Biden and has a daughter who raised millions of dollars for Democrats off the Trump prosecutions –

    The other lead prosecutor also donated to Joe Biden –

    The lead witness that the whole case relies on is a convicted perjurer and serial liar who admitted during the trial to stealing money from the Trump organization –

    The judge put a gag order on Donald Trump for pointing out the political conflicts of interest of the people prosecuting him –

    The “crime” relies on the idea that Trump paid off Stormy Daniels to conceal another crime, which is not mentioned in the indictment. –

    The judge barred Trump’s defense from explaining to jury that no campaign finance violation occurred but allowed prosecutors to assert as fact in their closing that there was.

    The judge cleared out the court room when Michael Cohen’s former attorney was exonerating Trump but allowed the prosecution to bring in Stormy Daniels to talk about whether or not Trump used a condom. –

    The judge barred a former FEC commissioner from testifying that Donald Trump did nothing wrong.

    The judge is allowing the jury to not have to reach a unanimous verdict on the underlying, unnamed crime Trump committed.

  4. Amazona's avatar Amazona May 30, 2024 / 3:14 pm

    Hooray for Sonia! She finally got something right! This is from her commentary on the unanimous SCOTUS ruling in the NRA case, but it is such a good comment on the restrictions on official power that it can be applied across the board, and certainly relates to the recent examples of State intimidation, oppression and prosecution to advance political agendas:

    “A government official can share her views freely and criticize particular beliefs, and she can do so forcefully in the hopes of persuading others to follow her lead,” Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the majority opinion on May 30.

    “In doing so, she can rely on the merits and force of her ideas, the strength of her convictions, and her ability to inspire others. What she cannot do, however, is use the power of the State to punish or suppress disfavored expression,

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