Mark Steyn: Too Soft to Survive (Europeans, Canadians and the like)

The Western Standard ^ | October 11, 2004 | Mark Steyn

[albertabound]

I held similar feelings about America when Clinton was President. Canada/America relations would further deteriorate under a Kerry Administration. I pray for GWB every night after I put my jammies on.

[Fred Nerks]

Mark Steyn on muslim crime:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0802/steyn1.asp

And in Australia: Tim Priest writes

http://www.hvk.org/articles/0104/64.html

[maikeru]

Re:
" Why have a military when you know the USA will save your butts for free? "

What the hell you tawkin' about...free ??

Canada sent Mark Steyn down to New Hampshire to help keep America from falling into the same morass that befell the Great White North after absorbing 40000 Yankee draft dodgers !!

That was the biggest slug of so-called 'educated' immigrants ever to enter Canada at one go, and Mark is down there to make sure it doesn't happen again .

Geez...ya do some people a favour, and they bite yer ass !

[FierceDraka]

Yeah, and when the soft countries go belly up, we will have to bail them out!

Oh, please, not again! When Europe once again degenerates into a pest-hole (as they invevitably do), I hope and pray that our future leaders have the good sense to stay the hell out of it, and leave the Euros to their fate in dhimmitude.

If Canada goes belly-up, the country will disintegrate, with some provinces petitioning the US for statehood, and others deciding to go it alone.

[jordan8]

Try that in Texas, and the guy will reach into his glove box and blow your head off. In Vermont, too

This is a gross exaggeration. Study the history of the Mardi Gras Riot of 2001 in Seattle. There rampaging thugs beat and robbed dozens of individuals, beating one to death, and sexually molested many others, all while their big tough American neighbors stood by and did nothing. You could probably find similar examples in every state in the union. All the West if infected with the same sickness including the U.S.

[quidnunc]

jordan8 wrote: (Try that in Texas, and the guy will reach into his glove box and blow your head off. In Vermont, too) This is a gross exaggeration. Study the history of the Mardi Gras Riot of 2001 in Seattle. There rampaging thugs beat and robbed dozens of individuals, beating one to death, and sexually molested many others, all while their big tough American neighbors stood by and did nothing. You could probably find similar examples in every state in the union. All the West if infected with the same sickness including the U.S.

The problem was that roving bands of blacks randomly attacked individuals and small groups, and some whites did fight back.

The one man that died was injured intervening to help a woman who was being assaulted.

The peoblem was that though the police were in the area, they were under orders not to intervene, so people who might reasonably have expected to be protected were victimized before they knew they were on their own.

[Dog Gone]

Thanks for posting the full article. Quidnunc takes some perverse pleasure in excerpting Steyn articles. Few of us appreciate his efforts.

[maikeru]

re:
" Quidnunc takes some perverse pleasure in excerpting Steyn articles. Few of us appreciate his efforts. "

C'mon pal...a Steyn excerpt is better than a whole lotta Fisk anyday.

Steyn articles are found in a number of papers which have different access priveleges. In most cases registration is no big deal. You get good value from a few mouse clicks and some hunt 'n peck.

Asking politely lets a poster know that it's not imposing on bandwidth here to post the entire article.

[Dog Gone]

Many of us have tried asking politely. And I don't mind giving some clicks or even buying books. I've done all three.

I don't like needless excerpts especially when they're done precisely to irritate people here. I have offered quidnunc to ping me when he finds a Steyn article that he morally won't post in its entirety. Nope. Won't do it. Oh, he'll make exceptions for posts that he thinks are "important", but not Steyn articles. He's determined to find them first and excerpt them just to be a pain in the ass.

[maikeru]

re:
"Oh, he'll make exceptions for posts that he thinks are "important", but not Steyn articles. "

That IS goddamn irritating !!

[goldstategop]

Canada cannot even manage to provide a safe sub for its sailors. No wonder Canadian think so little of their military that the saga of H.C.R.S Chicoutimi has become an apt symbol of an impotent Canada.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Thanks for the FULL posting, friend! :-)

[youngtory]

Mark Steyn is right on. This type of attitude will never change as long as they continue to re-elect socialist governments.

[NonValueAdded]

Mark Steyn does have a home in New Hampshire but he is a Canadian citizen. He commutes between NH and Canada and has mentioned it often. That's appropriate for this article as it shows he's had the opportunity to experience both health care systems.

[truth_seeker]

California is more important in the world today, than Canada.

Bigger population, bigger economy.

Exeptions lie ahead, perhaps. For instance, Alberta contains GREATER hydrocarbon reserves, than Saudi Arabia. Oil Shale and Tar Sands.

Being our next door neighbor, good to stay fairly close.

[okie01]

Whenever I read Mark Steyn, I become convinced that he is the only sane man left in Canada.

Actually, he lives in New Hampshire.

Leaving exactly zero sane men in Canada. Save the Canadian FReepers, of course...