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Time for Stoic Brits to Come Out Swinging (Mark Steyn Absolute MUST-READ!!!)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 7/10/2005 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 07/10/2005 2:48:10 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

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1 posted on 07/10/2005 2:48:11 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

UK has made their country a launching pad for all terrorists. It is time for the people of the UK to tell their government that the Political Correctness is going to kill them all. It is pure foolishness.


2 posted on 07/10/2005 3:01:33 AM PDT by tessalu
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
This article is Steyn at his best. He cuts right to the heart of the matter. This should be required reading for everybody at FreeRepublic.
3 posted on 07/10/2005 3:07:12 AM PDT by stripes1776
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I like how he weaved in the Live 8 garbage.


4 posted on 07/10/2005 3:09:04 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
This is the beginning of a long existential struggle. It's hard not to be moved by the sight of Londoners calmly going about their business as usual in the face of terrorism. But, if the political class goes about business as usual, that's not a stiff upper lip but a suicide cult. The question now is will the British return to the fantasy agenda of Bob Geldof or avenge their dead?

Steyn on target, as per usual.

5 posted on 07/10/2005 3:24:58 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: tessalu
It is time for the people of the UK to tell their government that the Political Correctness is going to kill them all.

Hitchens has a better take on this. He says there's nobody to negotiate with or even surrender to to stop this crap. The only thing that would stop the terrorists is for the West to become Wahhabi, which is obviously just not going to happen.

So, in the long run, the terrorists will destroy themselves by eventually convincing even the most insane leftists, even the French and Spanish, that there is no alternative but to destroy the terrorists. The sad thing is that this point will probably not be reached until after a nuke goes off in DC, London or Paris.

I'm sure the ankle-biters would love to atone for the sins of our culture by surrendering, but they can't.

6 posted on 07/10/2005 3:25:46 AM PDT by Restorer (Liberalism: the auto-immune disease of societies.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Great article. Reversing the trend, i.e. getting these troublesome groups to go back to the Middle East, is going to be a whole lot more painful than letting them in was. The British government took the path of least resistance, and now they're paying for it.

How many of these are illegals? If they are, could that be used as a reason to ship large groups of people back out? Are many of them on the public dole? I have a hard time believing that most of these people are productive, hard-working British citizens.

I have to wonder if the U.S. will actually make note and learn from the British plight, and try to ensure that we severely limit and monitor immigration, legal and illegal, from the Middle East.


7 posted on 07/10/2005 3:27:21 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (Dick Durbin is like a cow pie, but lacks the same level of intellect.)
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To: tessalu
It is time for the people of the UK to tell their government that the Political Correctness is going to kill them all. It is pure foolishness.

Unfortunately, that train has left the station. If a white man stands up and says what he thinks about race relations or homosexuality in England, just as in every other European country and Canada, he will be locked up in prison by the multi-culti commissars for "inciting hatred." These are no longer societies with freedom of speech. (Of course, members of the Religion of Peace are allowed to say anything they like.)

-ccm

8 posted on 07/10/2005 3:28:56 AM PDT by ccmay (Question Diversity)
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To: stripes1776

BUMP!


9 posted on 07/10/2005 3:30:35 AM PDT by ARepublicanForAllReasons (A socialist is just a communist who happens to be outgunned!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
most democratic peoples and their political leaders prefer to regard bad news as a peripheral nuisance which can be negotiated away to the fringe of their concerns.

John Kerry anyone?

10 posted on 07/10/2005 3:34:19 AM PDT by Bahbah (Something wicked this way comes)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Kent great post!

I think for the Brits it is a case of too little too late. They have way too many fasists inside the gate, I hope I am wrong but the leftists aren't goin to change their position, only use the attacks to scream for peace.

They may get an idea of what is going on when they are bowing to Allah or risk being beheaded.


11 posted on 07/10/2005 3:44:13 AM PDT by stockpirate (We can fight them in Iraq! Or we can fight them outback! Which do you prefer?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Steyn bump


12 posted on 07/10/2005 3:45:23 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Iraq is the bug light for terrorists" (Mike McConnell 7/2/05))
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To: JustaCowgirl
Old saying: "Be careful who you let move into your home. You may not be able to get him to leave."

Anyone ever see Dirk Bogard's "The Servant"? Passivity can cost you all that you hold dear.

13 posted on 07/10/2005 3:46:09 AM PDT by steenkeenbadges
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I think it's too late. The brutal truth will not be acknowledged in our climate of political correctness. The President of the United States does not even have the stomach to control U.S. borders.

We are on a path of national suicide. In our insanity, we, and the Brits, would rather let our nations be blown up than act upon the obvious but politically INcorrect need to stop these barbarians from ever coming into our countries.

We cannot possibly stop Islamists from entering our countries even though it is they who kill us.

With that mindset, we deserve to die.

14 posted on 07/10/2005 3:46:14 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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It's the open borders globalism that greatly contributes to the notion that all are welcome no matter what... To promote globalism and then use a large portion of your law enforcement assets to police the anti-global crowd, and then blame the anti-globalist for luring away the terrorist preventing police is quite a stretch of the imagination, in my view...

Globalism and terrorism go hand in hand...Russia wouldn't have a massacre at a schoolyard or hundreds dead in a theater if they could have gotten rid of the muzlims...

Israel wouldn't have suicide bombers if they could keep out all muzlims... Britain wouldn't have bombed subways if they would have gotten ridden of the muzlims...

WE wouldn't have 9/11 if we could have kept the muzlims out...

And all of the 'free world' is expecting and anticipating more terrorist attacks, because we let the terrorists live among us...

Let's not blame the anti-globalists...
15 posted on 07/10/2005 3:47:40 AM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailer park!!!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; joan; Honorary Serb; jb6; Destro
Steyn is absolutely wrong about the Yugoslav civil war in Bosnia, and if he claims "250,000 corpses" radicalized the already-radical Muslims, he needs to study history better.

Of the real number of 60-80,000 (confirmed by unbiased UN personnel on the ground), half were Serb natives of the province of Bosnia and half were Slavic Muslim natives of Bosnia plus thousands of foreign Islamic terrorist forces. xxx-president Clinton is the man who made it possible for there to be a radical Islamic state in the heart of Europe, and I am proud of the Serbs for standing up no matter what lying propaganda he promoted.

To blame the Christians of Yugoslavia for what the Islamic fanatics have been intending to do for over a thousand years is ignorant.

16 posted on 07/10/2005 3:48:04 AM PDT by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: stripes1776

So you basically say you want to abolish our freedom to read or not to read??? Is that what you want? Tell me! I´m curious to learn your ideas of freedom. ;-)


17 posted on 07/10/2005 3:53:15 AM PDT by Michael81Dus (Deutschland kommt wieder!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Excellent piece. What drove me crazy, watching reporters go on about 'standing tough', 'we've taken worse than this', 'remember the Blitz!', etc., is that much more than standing tough is needed, and I'm not sure British people understand this. They have to clean house, and it's not just a British problem. Europe is a breeding ground for Muslim terrorism, and posturing, merely talking tough and doing nothing will only beget bigger explosions and greater loss of life.


18 posted on 07/10/2005 3:54:45 AM PDT by hershey
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The trojan horse is in every major city world wide. We will see who has the political will to turn them out.For Londoners I don't believe that Red Ken has the right stuff.


19 posted on 07/10/2005 3:59:05 AM PDT by magua
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To: beaversmom

Me, too! That G-8 summit was as usual, irrelevant. Posturing, and a recycling of old ideas that won't work. As Jesus said, 'The poor will always be with you.' The trick is to help them help themselves. Education, getting them to think beyond tribalism. As for PC ridden Britain and the EU, God help us all.


20 posted on 07/10/2005 4:00:01 AM PDT by hershey
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