Posted on 08/25/2025 6:35:09 AM PDT by Twotone
Last year I cited Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford and youngest son of the chap generally regarded as Britain's first prime minister:
No country was ever saved by good men because good men will not go to the length that may be necessary.
To which I added:
The length is lengthening, and is very necessary.
To be sure, Lord Orford's characterisation of "good men" does not really apply in our own time. There is nothing "good" about turning a blind eye to rape gangs, or stringing along with the idea that child rape is a mere "cultural difference", or, in the alternative, that there are no cultural differences at all and that a fellow called Mohamed Mohamed who rapes a woman to death outside a Nashville church is, per the "mainstream" media, just another cookie-cutter "Tennessee man", born on a mountain top in Tennessee, kilt him a b'ar when he was only three, sodomised him an infidel whore when he was only four. There is nothing "good" about pretending, as the aequally repulsive Dutch press is currently doing, that migrant murders of little girls are something to do with white men of "the patriarchy". From my friends Raisa Blommestijn and Eva Vlaardingerbroek:
A 17 y/o Dutch girl was brutally murdered by an asylum seeker last Tuesday night.
In response the entire Dutch establishment is screaming bloody murder about "the patriarchy" and "femicide".
All to deflect from the real issue here: anti-white violence committed by migrants. pic.twitter.com/nZRSRZhDR4 — Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) August 24, 2025
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar (Aug 24, 2025)
https://x.com/EvaVlaar/status/1959661533211807990
A 17 y/o Dutch girl was brutally murdered by an asylum seeker last Tuesday night.
In response the entire Dutch establishment is screaming bloody murder about “the patriarchy” and “femicide”.
All to deflect from the real issue here: anti-white violence committed by migrants.
And later in the article...
“...and Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whom Wikipedia counts as a “domestic terrorist”.”
The left is really good at propaganda.
He has yet to be tried or convicted, but a petition launched by Manisha Kaushal of "Collective Punjabi Youth" urges the Governor to commute any eventual sentence.
Yes. They must lie to hold office, if they told the Truth, no one would vote for them.
“the idea that child rape is a mere “cultural difference”,”
The liberal traitors who pushed that one should be beaten and dumped into a landfill.
Along with him the people that should get an even longer sentence are those that gave him the license.
A very sobering read from Mark Steyn.
Correct
” . . .“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” Is this something Churchill said? I see it frequently credited to him. Another version reads: “We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” —L.K., Dallas”.
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” . . .Quote Investigator offers a page of explanation tracking the Rough Men quote to a 1993 Washington Times column by film critic and essayist Richard Grenier: “As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”1 Of course, Orwell no more than Churchill ever said precisely that.
But Quote Investigator digs deeper, coming up with a parallel sentiment by Rudyard Kipling, in his 1890 poem “Tommy”:
I went into a public- ’ouse to get a pint o’beer,
The publican ’e up an’ sez, “We serve no red-coats here.”
The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,
…
O makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap;
An’ hustlin’ drunken sodgers when they’re goin’ large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.2
Orwell, Quote Investigator tells us, referred to that poem in 1943:
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite, and Kipling’s understanding of this is perhaps the central secret of his power to create telling phrases. It would be difficult to hit off the one-eyed pacifism of the English in fewer words than in the phrase, “making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep.”3
Quote Investigator provides a vast subtext to the various appearances and credits of “Rough men stand ready” over the years, to which we refer readers. They reliably conclude that this precise phrase was not uttered by anyone. But it was inspired by Kipling, paraphrased by Orwell, and, we think, in the Churchill spirit.”
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The above quotes can be read, with more, at:
https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/rough-men-stand-ready/
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