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The Manchester Massacre: More Fuel for Nationalism
American Thinker.com ^ | May 27, 2017 | J. Robert Smith

Posted on 05/27/2017 9:08:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

In the immediate aftermath of the massacre of kids at Manchester Arena, when did British PM Theresa May utter the words, “Islamic terrorism?” If those two words came from May’s lips together, they came incidentally. We heard the word “terror” plenty from the prime minister, as if there’s a generic menace stalking the globe. An all-purpose Hollywood terror, it is.

Will May pick up the epithet, “losers,” that President Trump attached to Islamic terrorists? Not likely. She’s very deep establishment. But an election is pending in Great Britain, so May, who leads the Conservative Party, may somehow recalibrate -- temporarily.

Over half of Brits voted to Brexit. In Manchester’s wake, May’s advisors should be cautioning her to tread lightly with “Britain First” constituencies. Alienating a big bloc of voters with nationalist impulses won’t help Conservatives, who covet a big majority in the House of Commons.

What should really worry May and her compatriots throughout the West isn’t the impact of a one-off terror event, however tragic. What needs to concern the jihad-denying establishment is that Manchester is more affirmation -- in a recent series of affirmations -- that reality is dangerously at odds with establishment interpretation. It’s that increasing dissonance that could swell nationalist ranks in the ensuing months and near-years.

Manchester is another vividly bloody attack in a string of vivid, bloody attacks occurring in a compacted timeframe that are building a penetrating counternarrative.

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1 posted on 05/27/2017 9:08:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 05/27/2017 9:16:24 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Dear British allies, your establishment leaders lie through their teeth from when they wake up to when they go to sleep.

They will continue to get your children killed.


3 posted on 05/27/2017 10:03:43 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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...reality is dangerously at odds with establishment interpretation.

Well, yes. And when there are no consequences for that misinterpretation, it will continue. Many of the establishment figures currently in power in both Europe and the United States care far more for their narrative and their power than they do for any victims, past, present, or future.

I do take issue with the premise that "nationalism" is something dangerous and to be avoided. That seems to be a fundamental premise of the globalist approach to governance but in fact, it is neither proven nor particularly convincing. Nationalism as the source of wars? 100 million people slaughtered by internationalist Communism would differ with that premise if they could.

That aside, there is a more immediate concern in my view: people who murder little girls with nail bombs are evil and must be fought no matter whose the political advantage in it. Dead children and internationalist dreams are not equally important.

4 posted on 05/27/2017 10:12:59 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Sir Oswald Mosley wasn’t that far off the mark.


5 posted on 05/27/2017 10:16:26 AM PDT by PAR35
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Moseley made the mistake of siding with Hitler. Tough to walk that one back.


6 posted on 05/27/2017 10:20:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Moseley made the mistake of siding with Hitler. Tough to walk that one back.

Yes, his relationship with his sister-in-law's boyfriend did cause him some long-term problems.

As a negative, he was an early post war advocate of what became the EU, but he did oppose immigration.

7 posted on 05/27/2017 11:02:12 AM PDT by PAR35
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“It’s that increasing dissonance that could swell nationalist ranks in the ensuing months and near-years.”

Let’s hope so. The muzzie lovers must be overcome, and the free world saved from this horrible attacker.


8 posted on 05/27/2017 11:28:22 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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“It’s that increasing dissonance that could swell nationalist ranks in the ensuing months and near-years.”

Let’s hope so. The muzzie lovers must be overcome, and the free world saved from this horrible attacker.


9 posted on 05/27/2017 11:28:37 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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And of course there was the Muzzie Gang rape of this woman and the Brits are getting pissed off!

MUST WATCH VIDEO by Tommy Robinson: 1,000 people march in Sunderland for Justice for Chelsey Wright (Muzzie gang rape victim):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=360-I-icASE

Tommy Robinson is an HEROIC journalist & fighter against Islamism. He was arrested at 4am by the Brit Police, no less:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1pLP0Yaag

I pity the Brits and Euros that have to put up with this $hit as they slowly commit cultural suicide. Sheer demographics tell us the writing is on the wall.


10 posted on 05/27/2017 11:29:35 AM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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