Posted on 11/07/2005 2:42:16 PM PST by B Knotts
The Romans conquered the barbarians—and the barbarians conquered Rome.
So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the history of the empires of the West.
This is the larger meaning of the ritual murder of Theo Van Gogh in Holland, the subway bombings in London, the train bombings in Madrid, the Paris riots spreading across France. The perpetrators of these crimes in the capitals of Europe are the children of immigrants who were once the colonial subjects of the European empires.
At this writing, the riots are entering their 12th night and have spread to Rouen, Lille, Marseille, Toulouse, Dijon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Cannes, Nice. Thousands of cars and buses have been torched and several nursery schools fire-bombed. One fleeing and terrified woman was doused with gasoline and set ablaze.
The rioters are of Arab and African descent, and Muslim. While almost all are French citizens, they are not part of the French people. For never have they been assimilated into French culture or society. And some wish to remain who and what they are. They live in France but are not French.
The rampage began October 27 when two Arab youths, fleeing what they mistakenly thought was a police pursuit, leapt onto power lines and were electrocuted. The two deaths ignited the riots.
(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...
I did not know that posting an article was "taking out after" you. I thought I was politely addressing this point of yours:
"but really, Buchanan's quarrel with Israel has to do with Israel's policies and the US policy toward Israel, not with Jews per se. Yes, of course, he believes that leading Jews in the United States have had undue influence and that's why we have a bad Israel policy--but again, is that truly anti-semitic?"
My answer, given by Mr Auster in the article I posted, was yes.
I am saddened by this because on some level I like Buchanan and admire his intellect.
You can find the origins of this campaign in a Commentary magazine article by Joshua Muravchik, the one time chairman of the Young Peoples Socialist League. Old habits die hard.
Amazing how far off track we got due to the Left, PC, etc..
Here's Teddy Roosevelt (1907):
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Google their two names, and you'll find a lot of hits on articles describing parallels between the two. Buchanan isn't stupid, he wouldn't ruin his career by directly saying that he likes a guy like that. He apparently has hinted in that direction in the past, though. For example:
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/pb_archive/pb_demjanjuk_1993.pdf
I gave you a hard time because you just called Peyton names instead of pointing out that it is difficult to make that link. If it was so obvious, then why not say so instead of being loud and insulting?
Personally, I don't blame him for not responding. Who wants to talk with folks who respond like this?
Hey i-p, they just let go of Algeria about 40 years ago. Read some history.
Wasn't there a book predicting this for France about thirty years ago? Camp of the Saints or City of the Saints I believe, I'll have to check my shelves.
Oh.. anybody over 56 who liked likes Rock & Roll :-)
Careful, you just outed a SECRET AGENT!
Just what I have been thinking RoseofTexas. And guns are precisely the reason why the violence in New Orleans after the hurricane did not happen in Texas, Missouri or the parts of LA where the citizens are well armed.
Perhaps I was being too sardonic- accusations, namecalling, and quotes out of context have long been the argument-of-choice for the Buchanan haters. It's entertaining to turn the tables on them. It gives me a chance to channel their mental state, and like sniffing glue it has an exhilirating effect.
Buchanan can take care of himself, but the broader question is whether we want to accept the tactics of the hard left- character assassination, charges of racism, nazism, the usual attacks that the left has used against conservatives for decades.
As for your link, the ADL isn't exactly a neutral source. Ultimately that hotbed of Nazi sympathizers, the Israeli Supreme Court, found Demjanjuk was not Ivan the Terrible. Maybe we can get the Buchanan haters to do double duty and clean out that nest of black-robed anti-semites as well.
The you should go to the next school board meeting and make your thoughts known. Teachers and administrators are imbued with this crap--all in the name of the kids. They are trying to wean the kids away from troglodytes like me and you.
Women and children buddy. That's crossing the line.
And don't tell me about Danfur.
I reckon so. They do have an axe to grind. :)
"Perhaps I was being too sardonic..."
That's one of the problems of the internet, I guess. It's easy to think people are being rude when they're trying to be funny.
That's evidently the case, according to those #s. But the question is, why?
"Women and children buddy. That's crossing the line."
So where are the bodies? There was evidence on Monica's dress to prove that Bill Clinton lied about "not having sex with that woman." Six years and counting and I've yet to see the 100,000 corpses that would prove he was truthful about that.
BTTT
Sometimes Pat does hit a home run, and many more times he strikes out. But he goes yard here.
You've never been to a USA-Mexico soccer match in Los Angeles.
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