To the Slaughter - British lions come up lambs in Woolwich. (Mark Steyn)

National Review Online ^ | May 24, 2013 | Mark Steyn

[neverdem]

On Wednesday, Drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, a man who had served Queen and country honorably in the hell of Helmand Province in Afghanistan, emerged from his barracks on Wellington Street, named after the Duke thereof, in southeast London. Minutes later, he was hacked to death in broad daylight and in full view of onlookers by two men with machetes who crowed “Allahu akbar!” as they dumped his carcass in the middle of the street like so much road kill.

As grotesque as this act of savagery was, the aftermath...

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Consider how that will play when these guys’ jihadist snuff video is being hawked around the bazaars of the Muslim world. Behold the infidels, content to be bystanders in their own fate.

This passivity set the tone for what followed. In London as in Boston, the politico-media class immediately lapsed into the pneumatic multiculti Tourette’s that seems to be a chronic side effect of excess diversity-celebrating: No Islam to see here, nothing to do with Islam, all these body parts in the street are a deplorable misinterpretation of Islam. The BBC’s Nick Robinson accidentally described the men as being “of Muslim appearance,” but quickly walked it back lest impressionable types get the idea that there’s anything “of Muslim appearance” about a guy waving a machete and saying “Allahu akbar.” A man is on TV dripping blood in front of a dead British soldier and swearing “by Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you,” yet it’s the BBC reporter who’s apologizing for “causing offence.” To David Cameron, Drummer Rigby’s horrific end was “not just an attack on Britain and on the British way of life, it was also a betrayal of Islam. . . . There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act.”...

[Repeat Offender]

And Kitty Genovese was British was she?

www.thepsychologist.org.uk/publications/thepsychologist/extras/pages$/2007/bystander-apathy-case--urban-myth.cfm

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/March-April-08/On-this-Day--NYC-Woman-Killed-as-Neighbors-Look-On.html

The Kitty Genovese story is a myth.

And the people of Boston all got together in a big posse and went Muzzie-huntin’ did they?

Point taken.

The macho posturing from my fellow Americans is rather tiring. We (and by that "I" and assuming others) look across the pond to see what will eventually be reality here. The U.S. border is porous allowing millions of illegal undocumented invaders immigrants to stream across carrying drugs and other contraband, to include muzzloid extremists. Then they can live the American dream of rampant drunk driving, crime without fear of reprisal, [multiple] ineligible voting, fraud, and cradle to grave welfare.

Long time socially conservative institutions that were looked upon with respect now embrace PC faggotry - see the Bugger Scouts of America and the U.S. military for examples. Wars are fought to capture hearts and minds, to build nations, and to prostrate and submit politically after winning militarily - see Vietnam, Iraq (x2), and Afghanistan for examples.

Cultural and religious institutions, such as marriage, that have been the basic building blocks of societies for millenniums are now undermined and infiltrated by perverts and used to demoralize and corrupt society.

There are now more people riding in the wagon than those pulling it; unConstitutional safety nets have turned into unConstitutional hammocks for grifters and no-accounts to lounge in....pointing out this fact is racist.

Defending oneself from a brutal attack is also racist - see George Zimmerman for example.

The reasons we went to war and separated ourselves from Britain in the days of yore? We have voted for ourselves. Freedom of the press? The mainstream media is the mouthpiece of the government. Oppressive taxes? Handing over 1/3 of your income is just "your fair share." Disarmament? Even many staunch 2A supporters have no problem banning "military weapons" such as grenades, machine guns, etc; and thus the slippery slope.

Now, don't get me wrong, I love my country. Well, I love the ideal of my country - the perversion it has become; not so much.

But, you can make the macho posturing akin to third graders picking on one another......you do it to feel better about yourself, to ignore/conceal your own shortcomings, and because you can.

[the scotsman]

We have been through the Martin case 1000 times on this site and I have explained why he was convicted. I have also stated every time that I opposed then and now his trial and conviction.

That case is the exception to the rule: British people have the right to self defence, always have despite the myth. In fact, the law is now stronger FOR the attacked/burglarised.
Even the useless PC Labour govt strengthened it.

By that argument, I could take black Britons and Muslims out as well. And ours would drop. Mind you, still plenty of white thugs.

[the scotsman]

Handguns: most illegal on UK mainland, some allowed. Legal in NI. Concealed carry in NI, CC with permit on mainland.

Most British guns historically have been rifles and shotguns. Handgun buying really only started in the 80’s due to mail order and influenced by Hollywood ie Dirty Harry films.

[Liz]

.....as we know from the sob-sister Tsarnaev profiles, most of these excitable lads are perfectly affable, or at least no more than mildly alienated....

Allah be praised---he was a devout Muslim: Bomber Tamarlan played, prayed, sold/smoked a few joints, slit a few throats, blew up a kid, chewed up a few Bostonians' legs, beat up his girlfriend, high-fived his friends, had money to burn, drove a luxury US car, rode the US gravy train under several identities (see Tam's reading list on Amazon WRT his interest in establishing multiple identities).

.......and after the bombings, a flurry of US govt phone calls following the explosions were NOT about the unfolding investigation.

Representatives from the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security called to offer support to Muslim communities......just in case THEY suffered backlash or threats.

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REFERENCE Federal outreach to Muslim American communities is a pillar of Obama counter-terrorism strategy
Washington post | 5/25/2013 | ap / FR Posted by tobyhill Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Muslims in Boston called each other to offer assistance. These calls were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15....Representatives from the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security called to offer support to Muslim communities......just in case THEY suffered backlash or threats. (more on FR).

[Liz]

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION APPROVES 50 MILLION DOLLARS IN AID TO KENYA. O'S HALF BRO READY TO CASH IN---RUNS THE TAX- EXEMPT "DO-GOOD" OBAMA FOUNDATION

NAMED FOR DEAR OLD DAD The tax-exempt “charity” named in honor of their Dad, is run by President Barack Obama’s half-brother Malik.

The tax-exempt Obama foundation, fast-tracked by Lerner for IRS tax-exempt status, is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.

As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the self-same IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status. The IRS thoughtfully gave Obama Foundation retroactive fund-raising status.......which it stupidly never applied for.

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The tax-exempt Barack H. Obama Foundation is run by Abon’go “Roy” Malik Obama, the half-brother of Barack Obama. The foundation’s mission statement is “to provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards in memory of dad---Barack H. Obama: in the region of his birth, Kenya, and beyond.” Its guiding principle is “the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers....."We seek to elevate the human condition so that everyone can live in dignity and truly enjoy having one another as neighbors.”

(same old, same old sap-happy do-goodniks)

Despite raising more than $250,000, the alleged charity doesn’t seem to have done much. Its website claims the organization has built a madrassa and was building an imam’s house as well as some “proposed latrines,” but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was working to “mitigate social-shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and lack of community infrastructure in such basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance,” as the site says.

Alton Ray Baysden, a former Dept of State employee, allegedly a registered Republican, who helped start the Barack H Obama foundation, declined to comment before seeing copies of a reporter’s passport and govt ID, along with a description of the article’s “motivation” and “slant.”

Repeated reporters' phone calls went to the organization’s voicemail and were not returned.

Obama's half- brother Malik holds up photo of Obama in Muslim
dress taken on a trip to Kenya when Ohaha was about 23-24 yo.

[TADSLOS]

“He was such a good boy who went astray....”

[Liz]

The smirking, self-satisfied smug, arrogance on the
faces of the Tsarnaev brothers looks awfully familiar.

It's b/c we've seen the defiant, unflinching
gaze, and those phony smiles, many times. Pasted
on the faces of illegals blotting our landscape.

Boston was a prelude to the destruction the latter are hatching.

[ltc8k6]

It’s my opinion. I would not be allowed to defend myself in the UK. My opinion is not a myth.

I know how and under what circumstances I would defend myself from a criminal at home, and I know that I cannot do so in the UK.

[Peet]

“...So you cant say all British people are wimps....”

Well, Scotsmen are not really British, are they......

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Aren’t the Scots the people that scared Hadrian off?

[the scotsman]

I am telling you the facts.

Self defence, despite the myth in America, is perfectly legal and allowed in the UK. This idea that it is illegal in the UK to defend yourself is complete rubbish. It has never been illegal, the right has never been taken away. In fact, the laws of UK self-defence have been strengthened.
I am a gun owner and its also legal for me to use my gun if necessary to defend myself.

I am British. I live here. I was in 2008 the victim of crime and had to use self defence. So I know what I am talking about, and I am TELLING you the facts and I am telling you you are wrong.

[the scotsman]

Yep, well the Picts and Britons.

[Deo volente]

What hath Western Civilization wrought? Left wing nonsense is suicidal...

Charles Martel knew how to deal with these people. Too bad there is nobody like him around anymore.

[okie01]

Most people are ill-equipped to suppress a cleaver-wielding maniac. But it shouldn’t be the case for an armed society.

If this event had happened in America -- and there was a CCW permit in the audience -- I would've expected there to be two quite dead jihadi and, hopefully, a live Drummer.

How can the good people of the UK accept this???

[Victor]

Well, as I understand it, William Wallace certainly didn’t view Scotsmen as being British.....

[Persevero]

” As a sidenote, Scotland joined the UK/British state, it wasnt conquered into it by England.”

. . . as if anyone could conquer the Scots!! :)

[MarMema]

They deny Christ and call Christians polygamists.

[ltc8k6]

You are telling me the facts from your own point of view. I think you believe what you say. I think you believe you can shoot someone burglarizing your home and not be put on trial for it. I think you believe you could have legally shot the men attacking the soldier and not have been put through a trial.

I think you will be in for a rude awakening the moment you try.

Our police would probably have fired 72 rounds and hit everything but the perps...

I’ll stick with my own research and interpretations over anonymous internet board posters. Thanks, anyway.

[the scotsman]

Not my POV, but the actual facts of UK law. I am British and unlike most here actually know the laws (as of 2008, first hand).

A Manchester man recently stabbed to death a burglar. Result?. Nothing. Justifiable death due to self-defence.

In 2008, I was confronted by a junkie with a knife and a screwdriver. I punched him, disabled him and held him until police arrived. For that I got stabbed in the hand. Result?. Commended by the police and court, and the junkie got 44 months. 6 weeks out of jail last year, he attempted to murder someone and is now back in prison for the next decade.

If you dont believe me about the UK, ask other British freepers like Vanders or Winniesboy, perhaps when you see we all say the same thing, perhaps you’ll grasp I am correct. Not because I am infalliable, but because what I am saying is the actual truth. We ARE British, we live here, so we know whats the law and whats the myth.

[ltc8k6]

You have to risk hand to hand combat when confronted by a burglar?

[Regulator]

You know, I don’t know much about the real character of Boston.

I suppose that it depends where you are. If some jerk started chopping on someone in the older Irish Catholic ‘hoods, they would probably have taken them down.

Not near the colleges.

I can tell you that out West here, I’ve been shot at by and shot back at illegal aliens on ranches near the border.

Once had an ex- Marine neighbor stop two Mexican toughs trying to knife a guy with his carbine. He had a bayonet on it, one of the idiots walked into it. Arrested at the hospital.

What was hilarious was another neighbor was upset that he did that - called it “macho” - couldn’t even pronounce it right. I laughed at him, said the guy prevented a murder.

His wife later left him. She couldn’t stand living with wet rag like that. Didn’t feel safe.

You’re comment sounds like the simpering liberal’s complaint.

It isn’t “macho” to find your courage and stop a crime. It’s normal.

What England is now is...abnormal.

And perhaps gone.