terrorism

What Do We Do With Evil People?

Mark Noonan20 Comments

I noticed that Thunberg and her merry band of morons were picked up by the IDF and ordered deported by Israel. But as I rolled around in my head the whole situation, I realized that it is people like her who keep the killing going. Those who pull the trigger are not even primarily guilty. It is people like Thunberg.

Political terrorism has no definite start date – that is, we can’t say “on such a such date, the first act of political terrorism occurred”. This is because there can’t be a 100% definition of it and arguments about what it is can spin out endlessly. But I was thinking recently of the Carbonari – a shadowy Italian organization which grew out of Napoleonic-era Freemasonry. The group was dedicated to the creation of a unified and Liberal Italy (they loathed the Catholic Church and traditional Italy) – the country at the time being divided into a series of small States, most of which were directly ruled or deeply under the influence of the Hapsburg Monarchy. They managed to start a few unsuccessful rebellions (Italian unification eventually being accomplished by Cavour who used a combination of military force and diplomatic skullduggery to achieve his aim), but they also turned to terrorism to try to obtain their goals – including the unsuccessful assassination of French Emperor Napoleon III (who, in his youthful days of exile, was rumored to have been a member of the Carbonari). And that attempt done in order to push Napoleon into assisting in Italian unification. Whether or not Napoleon made his decision based on this is unknown…but in the event, he provided the decisive support for Italian unification. It is possible to say, “this is where it began: this is where the world started to fall under the influence of terror”.

We are told in history books that the Carbonari were the good guys. As we’re also informed that Garibaldi (another key person in the unification of Italy) was the hero. So, too, those who tried to strike at the Czar’s government in Russia. And the Hapsburg government in Vienna. And the British government in the UK. If you read the books you won’t find absolute condemnation of either Czolgosz (who murdered McKinley) nor of Lucheni (who murdered the Empress Elizabeth of Austria). We’re somehow supposed to feel a bit sorry for the murderers, with an unspoken subtext of “their victims got what was coming to them”. But let us circle back to Garibaldi for a moment – what did he want? A semi-socialist, anti-Catholic Republic governing Italy but with a mind towards “liberating” the whole world…that is, his fight for Italian independence and unity was a means, not an end…a stepping stone. And while he could rouse a rabble very effectively, nothing he ever said or did was aimed at helping Italians be Italian.

You know, like Lenin’s efforts in Russia.

Good to point out here that I think it was Kerensky – overthrown by Lenin’s Bolsheviks – who noted that the only way Lenin could have done what he did to Russia was via a total hatred for Russians. A complete desire to destroy everything the Russian’s were. And that, I think, is a very important point. What is Thunberg up to? The ostensible purpose of her trip was to bring aid to Gaza (totally unneeded as Gaza has more food and other supplies than it knows what to do with)…but always remember that “globalize the Intifada”. That gives the game away – it isn’t about Gaza. Just as Thunberg’s earlier efforts on “global warming” weren’t about saving the world from a hot day…it is always about something else, and that something is always the total destruction of what is…the memory and traditions of the varied peoples of the world and their replacement by a universal ideology.

It must be kept in mind that to be a political terrorist doesn’t require you kill anyone. Of course, those who set the bombs have their own guilt, but the worst actor is the person who justifies it (some times these are one in the same person – but mostly they are very distinct people). And who is the most guilty? Sure, a evil person who does the deed…but why does he do it? Because he’s a weak minded person who has been told that it is both necessary and good. You think about the men who did 10/7 – they are men like any others. They were born like all the rest of us and they are prey to all the same weaknesses…and are called to the same morality. But they went into defenseless towns and raped and murdered completely helpless human beings. To get from the innocent babe to the savage murderer is a lengthy process. Takes a lot of steps…and the most important step is those who keep telling the perpetrator that he is good and honorable in what he does.

And Thunberg is one of those saying, “it is honorable to murder”. She will never utter those exact words. She will claim endlessly she’s against violence. But she will also say in various ways that those who did 10/7 are the good guys…just as one miserable, hate filled son of a b*tch after another has been saying it about all the hideous political murderers of the past two centuries. It is very pervasive. As I said, even we normal people fall for it…in our unwillingness, most of the time, to vigorously condemn it. But, still, the guilt still lies most heavily upon those who find ways to justify it all…to some how excuse and explain it all way and lay all blame on the victims. You know, like the Left has been trying to lay the blame for Charlie Kirk’s death on Charlie Kirk…which efforts, of course, encourage even more people to kill.

We have a choice to make in our society – and while most of us won’t want to make it, we will – very likely – be forced to make it. That choice will be: just how much of this are we going to put up with? How long will we let these people foment violence, justify it and use it as an excuse to go after us? Eventually we have to call a stop to it – because if we don’t, we end up jailed or killed. So, the time is coming – and perhaps quite soon.

In my view, we are under no obligation to be gentle with people who justify murder – no matter what words they use to try to mask it, no matter how well they spin a tale…killing someone who isn’t directly threatening your life is wrong. It is murder. There is never even the slightest justification for it…and while we must take care to punish the actual perpetrators, we’re going to have to start punishing those who say its ok to kill. We’re going to have to stop treating someone like Thunberg as a mere idiot – she is incredibly stupid – and start treating her like as accessories after the fact.

Tired of the Game

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A few days ago three ethnic Palestinians – two of whom I understand are American citizens – were shot in Vermont. It appears the shooter, while being yet another “known wolf” lunatic, did target them because they identified themselves as Palestinian by wearing a copy of the dishrag Arafat used to wear over his bloated head. Immediately upon news of this breaking, there was universal condemnation of the action. Well, nearly universal. There was at least one person I know who simply couldn’t work up a condemnation.

That person was me.

Don’t get me wrong. I oppose shooting random people even if they self-identify as wicked. I expect the perpetrator to be punished according to law and I won’t shed a tear for him when he gets his due. But what I can’t do is work up anything like sympathy for the victims. I did try; it wasn’t there.

Now, why is that? Well, as I pondered it I realized that myself, my fellow Americans, Christians worldwide, white people in general and, of course and most especially, Jews have spent the last 50-60 years under the threat that at some point some Muslim will decide to kill us just to make a point. Doesn’t matter who you are or your beliefs – if you are white, American, Christian, Jewish or any combination of these things, Muslims have declared open season on you. They do have their reasons for this. Their reasons are drivel – because regardless of what Israel, the USA, Europe has done or is doing, random me – random Jew, random Christian, random white guy – walking down the street is not directly, immediately responsible for it. Furthermore, we randoms are not at the time engaged in a military or political action against Muslims. Almost invariably those who are killed by Muslims are people who are quite literally defenseless and not doing anything to anyone.

And we’ve just accepted it, haven’t we? Muslims attack and one or a thousand of us are killed and then we pick up the bodies (or pieces of bodies), wipe up the blood…and maybe bomb something but we also say we’re willing to talk. We provide aid. We promise that we’ll help them set up a government entirely outside our control. And, of course, if any one of us even looks crossways at a Muslim, we apologize. And this is after they killed some of us – and with the full promise that as soon as they’re ready, they’ll kill even more of us. We’re supposed to put up with this? Forever? And feel sad that some of them were randomly cut down?

I’m afraid I’m quite done with this. And once I realized I had no sympathy for the victims it immediately came into my mind that it really for the same reason I never have had – and never will have – any sympathy for what the WWII generation of Germans and Japanese went through. Any time I hear them whine about Dresden or Hiroshima you always find me saying words to the effect of, “gee, isn’t that just too danged bad”. Why? Because those sons of bitches spent WWII lording it over everyone they got control over. They were the Master Race…and anyone outside their Race was a slave…someone to be beaten, humiliated, raped, murdered. After the Germans and Japanese spent years doing that – and it was common Germans and Japanese who actually did the deeds – I look upon their ruined cities in 1945 and go, “well, you got what you wanted: now, how does it taste?”. The Muslims have that same Master Race disease the Germans and Japanese had – they do think they are superior to all and that God has ordained them to rule over slaves. What angers them about Israel is that there is a corner of the world that someone else runs. That’s what they hate about it. They know very well they could be rich and free under Israeli rule…but the very thought of having someone other than themselves in charge…of having a system where they can’t abuse subhumans, makes them furious.

So, yeah: I’m kinda done playing this charade where I pretend there are two parts of Islam – the good part and the part that blows my people up. No; there is one Islam. It is all the same. That we might find individual Muslims who reject it is fine…but the general run are all of one mind and heart. That is, they are masters and all of us are their slaves, actual or potential. Remember: they do celebrate when we’re killed. After the rape/death squads withdrew from Israel the people of Gaza went wild with joy. They knew their men had just gone in to rape, torture and murder Israelis and they were proud of their men for doing it. They can’t wait for it to happen again. They are enduring the Israeli response in the hope that one day they’ll be able to rape, torture and murder every Israeli.

So, spare me this “we’re better than that” stuff. Sure we are – we don’t send in rape/death squads. And if anyone on our side did send in rape/death squads, we’d kill them, ourselves. I am under no obligation to shed a tear when someone treats them as they’ve been treated. When Islam wakes up from its fever and admits that I as a Christian, white American am their equal, then will be the time when I can express sympathy. Until then, nothing doing.

14 Years Post 9/11

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This post is timed to appear on the blog at the same time the first plane struck the World Trade Center on that day.

It is hard to think of the day any longer – it is like it happened in a different nation. A different era.

But I still can recall my first knowledge of it – getting the phone call from the east coast, turning on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit. I can still see in my mind’s eye the buildings collapsing.

A lot of time has passed. The national unity we had is long gone. We’re not even really fighting the sort of people who commit acts like that – and who will commit them against us, again, just as soon as they are able.

I suggested back in the aftermath of 9/11 that the sort of war we got was a Thirty Years War…a multi-decade effort which would have all sorts of twists and turns. It certainly has had that. How it all ends remains to be seen – but I don’t suspect it’ll end within the next ten years.

Pray for the repose of the souls who have died – those who died on 9/11 and those who had died since. Pray for those who stand up to defend us under arms. Pray for the conversion of the terrorists, that they may discover that peace and mercy are best.

IDF General: War Clouds Gathering

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From Y Net:

Recent revolutions in the Arab world and the deteriorating ties with Turkey are raising the likelihood of a regional war in the Middle East, IDF Home Front Command Chief, Major General Eyal Eisenberg warned Monday.

“It looks like the Arab Spring, but it can also be a radical Islamic winter,” he said in a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv…

The “Islamic Winter” is pretty much what I expect.  We are about to reap an ill harvest…sown since 9/11 by our political inability to carry on the fight with sufficient determination.  As it turns out, our campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq have proven strategic dead-ends – because we did not follow up with the next, logical steps.

Not being privy to strategy sessions of the Bush White House  – and none of us will be for at least 50 years – I don’t know if there was a plan for follow-up to Iraq…but I perceive that there was, at least, a desire to leverage the fall of Baghdad in to a general offensive against all the Islamists of  the middle east.  Syria likely the best post-Iraq target, but it could have been Iran, as well…but we didn’t do it.  There was that moment in the summer of 2003 when Islamism was tottering and ready to fall…but we allowed ourselves to get hamstrung in Iraq, giving the Islamists a breather where they could regain their confidence and bog us down in a  counter-insurgency campaign…a campaign which never would have been possible for the enemy to conduct in Baghdad if we were threatening Damascus and Tehran.

What hamstrung us immediately was not the Islamists, themselves, but the American left…fearful that a continuing series of American victories would cement American supremacy and worse (for the left) relegate the left to political irrelevancy, the left decided that procuring American defeat in the war was necessary…so they began to fire up the anti-war movement, nit-pick every military error and slander the men and women who were fighting the battle.  The rest, as they say, is history…President Bush, whatever his desires might have been, was capable in the end of only holding on…refusing to fold as Johnson did in Vietnam, but being unable to resume the offensive and bring the war to a victorious end.

And now the Islamists are on the march – certain that in President Obama we have a leader who will not strike at the heart of the problem, the Islamists have stepped up their terrorism and their subversion.  Countering our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Islamists are poised to gain control of Egypt; Turkey is slipping in to the Islamist camp, Libya’s Islamists are making a bid for power…and Iran continues to build towards a nuclear force.  As this virulent form of Islam strides from victory to victory, the number and confidence of the adherents grows…they are feeling their oats and thinking they only need keep fighting a bit longer and harder for total victory to be theirs.  This, I think, is where General Eisenberg’s fear comes from…these nuts might start to think they can beat Israel and/or the United States in a stand-up fight.

They misjudge – Israel is still immensely powerful and even President Obama, if forced by circumstances, will fight.  But it must be remembered that aggressive powers routinely miscalculate the balance of forces.  Time and time again they discount the reserves of strength in their opponents…especially if they are tyrants and their opponents are free people.  Always keep in mind that it was sheer impertinence for Imperial Japan to attack the United States…the total balance of forces between the two nations was such that for Japan it worked out to national suicide…as anyone thinking clearly in Japan would have figured out in an instant…but no one thought about it; they counted on our weakness and their supposed spiritual superiority to carry the day.  Our Islamist enemies are thinking like that…give them control of a couple more nations, and they might think that it is time for war…full scale, conventional war.

We might be heading or a bloody mess in the middle east – literal  millions of lives are at stake.  It is to be hoped that things will work out differently.  But their working out differently is mostly dependent upon people of the Moslem world deciding against Islamism…a cool, rational understanding that war cannot achieve Islamist ends, and so should not be tried.  I doubt there is that sort of sense building in the Moslem world.

Let this be yet another lesson for us – and one I pray we finally learn:  if we’re going to go to war, at all, go all the way to war.  Identify all the enemies and destroy all of them as swiftly as possible.  Leave no sanctuary…no place where the enemy can retreat to regain strength and strike us again.  American war can only be war to the knife…to the utter destruction and unconditional surrender of the enemy.  If we aren’t willing to do that, we’d better not fight, at all.  If another war comes, let it be the last war we have to fight against Islam…just as the war against Japan was fought to the point where it was clearly the last war we’d ever have to fight with that nation.