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Mark Steyn: Wake up, folks — it’s war!
The Spectator (U.K.) ^
| 07/30/05
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 07/28/2005 6:38:08 AM PDT by Pokey78
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posted on
07/28/2005 6:38:08 AM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...
Steyn ping!
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posted on
07/28/2005 6:39:40 AM PDT
by
Pokey78
(‘FREE [INSERT YOUR FETID TOTALITARIAN BASKET-CASE HERE]’)
To: Pokey78
Outstanding article.
"If youre looking for 'root causes' for terrorism, European-sized welfare programmes are a good place to start. Maybe if they had to go out to work, theyd join the Daily Mirror and become the next John Pilger. Or maybe theyd open a drive-thru Halal Burger chain and make a fortune. Instead, Tony Blair pays Islamic fundamentalists in London to stay at home, fester and plot."
How idiotic is it for a country to fight a stupid "war on terror" while at the same time helping to promote it and finance it through its own welfare system?
The most destructive aspect of a nanny-state welfare system is that it cultivates large numbers of useless malcontents. It's becoming more clear to me that the London terrorists probably have far more in common with a career criminal in Detroit than with their so-called Islamic "brethren" in the Middle East.
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posted on
07/28/2005 6:47:09 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
To: Pokey78
Absolutely on target, as usual!
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posted on
07/28/2005 6:49:32 AM PDT
by
Dark Skies
("The sleeper must awaken!")
To: Pokey78
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posted on
07/28/2005 6:49:42 AM PDT
by
91B
(God made man, Sam Colt made men equal.)
To: Victoria Delsoul
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posted on
07/28/2005 6:50:26 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
To: Pokey78
To: Pokey78
Another Mark Steyn Home Run! Treat the war on terror like a criminal prosecution and we get years of chalk lines around bodies and filling out insurance forms. Not realizing Jihad is here will someday find us dead or on our knees praying to Mecca.
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posted on
07/28/2005 6:57:07 AM PDT
by
RicocheT
To: Alberta's Child
Can I just add that Mullah Krekar, the infamous Ansar al Islam founder, has now lived on welfare in Norway for over a decade and even at some point received public funds to start a mosque. This to a fellow who brags that he cut of his first head at the tender age of twelve.
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posted on
07/28/2005 6:58:57 AM PDT
by
Eurotwit
(WI)
To: Pokey78
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posted on
07/28/2005 6:59:14 AM PDT
by
BayouCoyote
(The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
To: Pokey78
***But if youre a Somali and you want to live in public housing at public expense for six years while you fine-tune your plot to blow up Warren Street Tube station, pas de problème!***
Tinfoil hat time...
Why are the Western nations acting like they want this conflict to bring them down?
Is it just multiculturalism gone haywire?
Or is is a "Phoenix" scenario they're looking for?
To: Pokey78
But honestly, what a pathetic example of pointless gesture politics: if youre a fancypants North American business traveller in town for less than 24 hours and splashing a ton of hard currency around the West End, the Home Office goes through a big hoop-de-doo about saying youve no entitlement to welfare. But if youre a Somali and you want to live in public housing at public expense for six years while you fine-tune your plot to blow up Warren Street Tube station, pas de problème!
Steyn on target.
What would be odd is that he would be off target.
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posted on
07/28/2005 7:07:08 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
To: Pokey78
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posted on
07/28/2005 7:17:36 AM PDT
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: Pokey78
"...and, in one of fates better jests, in this scenario youre the Jews."
Appeasement is feeding others to a crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.
This crocodile has eaten our way right up to our necks thanks to Leftist appeasers.
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posted on
07/28/2005 7:26:31 AM PDT
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: xzins
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posted on
07/28/2005 7:26:44 AM PDT
by
maica
(Do not believe the garbage the media is feeding you back home. ---Allegra (in Iraq))
To: Pokey78
To: Pokey78
Treating these murderers as criminals and their activities as crime in the ordinary sense is the 'Clinton- litigation is the answer to everything' pattern or problem resolution. Nothing gets resolved and things go from bad to worse. We know this already.
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posted on
07/28/2005 7:32:53 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: Pokey78
To: Pokey78
If youre not shy about taking on the Israelis and Russians, why wouldnt you fancy your chances against the Belgians and Spaniards?
......
These "welcoming" countries have stood silent and fully aware of the evil acted upon the Jews. They thought they were immune. Take down the hard targets first and the rest will fall at your feet.
However, we must never underestimate this enemy. They are among the oldest and longest lived.
Please note the tagline and add me to the ping!
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posted on
07/28/2005 7:34:18 AM PDT
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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