[mojito]

This startlingly prescient article explains, better than any news report could, what is happening in Paris this week. A long read, but for anyone interested in this most important story very worthwhile.

[Disambiguator]

I see your Dalrymple, and raise you one Churchill.

Prescient, indeed.

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property; either as a child, a wife, or a concubine; must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."

Sir Winston Churchill, from The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248 50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

[Tucson_AZ]

THE ZONE:

In this place, and in the very near future, everyone is tracked everywhere by the State for their own good. Dreams and ambitions are given compulsory treatment. Spy cameras are everywhere and people are monitored, tracked and told everything they can and can’t do. Privacy is a thing of the past.

Even more frightening, the technology for this new Orwellian world is here today and being put in place now...

[excerpt:]

“Jeremy, do you need your meds adjusted?” his teacher asked, with a threat like a rattlesnake lying under the official concern in her voice. She looked down at an old-fashioned flat screen set into the desk beside her. “You haven't been to the Homeland Serenity Center for evaluation in three months.”

“I was checked by the HPG patrols last week,” he lied, looking straight at Phelps and ignoring the snickering stares of the other students.“They said my med levels are okay.”

HPG stood for “Health, Productivity, and Growth,” the slogan printed on the side of the Department of Homeland Serenity roving mental-health vans.

“I don’t show that check here.” Phelps made a show of consulting the screen again. Jeremy shrugged, using all his talent to paint innocence on his face. “They stopped me at Main last Tuesday. Did a chem-scan.” He was glad he had actually seen the patrol set up its checkpoint; on her screen she could verify that they’d done med checks when and where he claimed.

What he hoped she didn’t know was that he had dodged the check point. The HPGs were usually pretty easy to sneak away from. Just a few techs, some pharmcorp employees, maybe a draftee, maybe a couple of Golden Years Volunteer guards with pistols. No machine guns. No plasarmored troopers like Drug Enforcement, Firearms Elimination, Homeland Security, National Service, or the Forest Service mobile check-vans had.

The HPGs could do scary things to you if their scans indicated you’d gone total un-med. Or if you tried to run from them. But most people were glad for med-checks. Med-checks kept everybody peaceful and happy. So the HPG's weren’t alert for dodgers.

Phelps glared at Jeremy for a moment, then at the screen again. “I’ll assume a database glitch. For the moment.”

There were – everybody knew it – a lot of glitches in all the gigs of data. Sometimes the glitches could sink you...

http://www.rebelfirerock.com/RFChp1.pdf

[GOP_1900AD]

I predict that Europe will have another 1930s. But it will be even worse than last time. When the SHTF, the knee jerk reaction will be sort of a hyper fascism. And into the resulting melee, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will surge.

[perfect stranger]

bump for later

[bondserv]

Of particular interest:

I first saw l’insécurité for myself about eight months ago. It was just off the Boulevard Saint-Germain, in a neighborhood where a tolerably spacious apartment would cost $1 million. Three youths—Rumanians—were attempting quite openly to break into a parking meter with large screwdrivers to steal the coins. It was four o’clock in the afternoon; the sidewalks were crowded, and the nearby cafés were full. The youths behaved as if they were simply pursuing a normal and legitimate activity, with nothing to fear.

Eventually, two women in their sixties told them to stop. The youths, laughing until then, turned murderously angry, insulted the women, and brandished their screwdrivers. The women retreated, and the youths resumed their “work.”

A man of about 70 then told them to stop. They berated him still more threateningly, one of them holding a screwdriver as if to stab him in the stomach. I moved forward to help the man, but the youths, still shouting abuse and genuinely outraged at being interrupted in the pursuit of their livelihood, decided to run off. But it all could have ended very differently.

Several things struck me about the incident: the youths’ sense of invulnerability in broad daylight; the indifference to their behavior of large numbers of people who would never dream of behaving in the same way; that only the elderly tried to do anything about the situation, though physically least suited to do so. Could it be that only they had a view of right and wrong clear enough to wish to intervene? That everyone younger than they thought something like: “Refugees . . . hard life . . . very poor . . . too young to know right from wrong and anyway never taught . . . no choice for them . . . punishment cruel and useless”? The real criminals, indeed, were the drivers whose coins filled the parking meters: were they not polluting the world with their cars?

[wideminded]

Very excellent article.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Le Bump

[Sam Cree]

I am kind of shocked by this article.

I've never read Kafka, but it reminds me of what I imagine his stuff to be.

[Pajamajan]

This is a long article but, it is an absolute MUST READ.

Every single politician should be required to read it line for line. There are numerous warnings here for our own society. What's happened in Paris could easily happen here, if we keep going down the socialist road.

Excellent post.

[syriacus]

Very informative article. Thanks for posting it.

[Paved Paradise]

This article reminded me of my visit to Paris in 2001. We hired an english-speaking cabbie to drive us from Orley airport to Paris. He was intelligent and articulate, having spent two years in the US playing soccer. He told us then how frustrated he and many others were at the "ghettos" of immigrants surrounding Paris. We drove by one of these areas and at the time, being quite uninformed, I was truly surprised at the large numbers of African immmigrants... and I had no idea they were Muslims.

The recent violence in France is very upsetting to me. While I can understand all of the smaller elements that have gone into making this volatile and potentially catastrophic situation, I still hurt for the people, such as our cab driver, that are trying to have things changed but, much like here, are faced with the elitists among the media, government, and academia that promulgate these utopian and ridiculously-impossible set-ups. Frankly, I think our own welfare system is similar to what the French have done, just not on their level. Thank God for good old fashioned American pragmatism and our wonderful work ethic.

Anyway, thanks for the post. People need to wake up and see that as France and other European countries become islamicized, it is going to bode very poorly for us. Eventually, it almost seems like it'll be the US and Israel against everyone else.

[Carry_Okie]

Ping to the kids.

Understanding this is why you are learning history.

[dr wahnfried von braun]

well, to me this is just great news, and i will immediately open a nice bottle of french champagne when i return tonight.

i have been ploting the destruction of france for decades, nut i decided a few months ago to rather watch the french destroy their country themselves :)))

so, dear friend, pls keep these stories coming!