1. While muslims are murdering infidels wholesale everywhere they can and planning to murder non-muslims everywhere they can, far left wing violent extremists are busy trying to destroy the presidency of one of the few classical liberals left on the third planet from the Sun.
2. More Barcelona footage.
3. Interesting brief history of confiscation of guns and following tyranny in Switzerland.
Stick with this one. It starts a little dry but its worth it.
It has been a confused and imploding news week. there is, seemingly, a full frontal assault on classical liberals, using the usual techniques of straw man, putting words in your adversary’s mouth and then arguing not with what he said or meant, but with what you claim he does, and ad-hominem, the discrediting of the opponent by calling into question their personal character.
That would run something like this in the absurd extreme: “I say the sun rises in the East and sets in the West.”
“Well sir! You are known to take a shot of brandy with lunch every day and twice on Saturday! So I will not take your advice on astronomical observations!”.
The interesting thing is, both methods can be used simultaneously just by calling someone a Nazi or “far ring wing” and now even “alt-right”.
You are making claims about what they say and believe and simultaneously calling them names which discredit them, even unto their basic rights. The right even, to be.
The common enemy of both the Nazi and the postmodernist/communist/socialist or leftist is the classical liberal. The Jefferson liberal. The person who believes in the rights of the individual, the concept of free will, rule of law and reason as defined by Greek thought. And so the postmodernist calls the classical-liberal, a Nazi, and the Nazi calls the classical-liberal a communist.
To be a liberal is not in the middle. It is at one end of a polemic and Nazis and postmodernists are together at the other end. It is pretty much like Sunnis and Shias. There is no worthy distinction between them to a non muslim. And to someone who believes in individual rights, the distinction between Nazis and communists is nil. Except communists killed more people to try and create a working communist state, and are more authoritarian even than even Nazis.
The well planned and well thought out assault, both by those conscious of the postmodern revolution now underway, and the useful idiots who assist it without understanding it, is now underway.
In places, it looks like the Maoist Cultural Revolution. In others it will be as Jordan Peterson explained. The revenge of the pub and cafe dweller that can use the ‘authority’ he suddenly has to get revenge on those he knows who live better than s/he because they worked all their lives. They can rat them out for ideological reasons and feel morally superior to those who produced wealth and value for the first time, while having done nothing at all.
And here we are.
Eeyore for Vlad.
This about sums it all up neatly:
Here’s the article:
I’ve Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe’s Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Boggling.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/ive-worked-refugees-decades-europes-afghan-crime-wave-mind-21506?page=show
Thanks for posting this!
This article (in German) explains how the number asylum seekers from Afghanistan has increased in Germany 5 times from around 51,500 in 2010 to 252.590 in 2016. Even though many have their application for asylum rejected and should be deported, the government seems incapable of seeing to it that they are returned to their country of origin.
At this moment in German, 3 out of 4 Afghans that have applied for asylum have had their application denied and should be deported, but they receive a status of “tolerated”.
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article167704869/Zahl-der-Afghanen-hat-sich-verfuenffacht.html
Nolon Lage
The Swiss surrender their arms when they are dead
You can have my guns when you pry them from my cold grey hands.
Armed men are free men, unarmed men are slaves waiting for the chains to be slapped on. History is full of times when people surrendered their weapons and were massacared.
The Oldest of Soldier Wisdom: You can always take at least one with you.
One of my Sergeants when I was a soldier: They can kill me but I am going to be the most expesive piece of meat they ever buy.
Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition – Kay Kyser
Lyrics:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-ammunition-lyrics-kay-kyser.html
HT/Richard (of course!)
Good essay, Vlad. You mirrored the thoughts I carried all day.
BREAKING: ‘Four suspects dead’ as police foil ANOTHER terror plot miles from Barcelona
FOUR suspected terrorists have been killed in a shootout with Spanish police in Cambrils, southwest of Barcelona after witnesses reported hearing gunfire
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/842707/barcelona-attack-terror-police-raid-isis-Cambrils-gunfire-explosives-van
Ah, I’m just heartsick.
I’ve been in touch with many friends in Spain and, thank G-d, they’re okay.
My closest friends spend August in Cadaques and elsewhere in Girona. One, a top Barcelona surgeon, already drove back to the city.
They’re wicked understaffed in August (as everywhere). He studied here: he got the message that he’s got trauma docs on standby here. He gives the word, they’re on the next plane.
I think most of the victims are tourists. So sad, they just throng Las Ramblas on days like this. Poor souls, may G-d avenge their blood.
3. “The Cristeros: Viva Christo Rey!”
Sensus Fidelium – June 2, 2015
A Message from a Priest: It’s Not just for Catholics.
Priest gives warning beginning @ 24:56…27:33 – Counterrevolutionaries…32:26 – As a final note, of all these counterrevolutionary movements they all came within an inch of victory…. if they had not agreed to lay down their arms and negotiate….33:07 – in all these cases, once the tide had turned back in favor of the revolutionary forces, the policy was the extermination of all traditionalists….**37:03** – But when the counterrevolution begins to succeed, which it will, more and more….But when this happens DO NOT, DO NOT MAKE ANY PEACE OR NEGOTIATIONS with the revolution, but carry on the work of tradition…
“Communist Plan to Corrupt Catholicism”
Knights La Salette – September 21, 2012
Maybe this can be forwarded to the Pope?
I don’t think that will help yucki. I think he is Gramsci’s Pope.
“Why Pope Francis Is Keeping His Hammer-and-Sickle Crucifix” by Dennis Prager – July 14, 2015
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421133/why-pope-francis-keeping-his-hammer-and-sickle-crucifix-dennis-prager
Yucki, in the above video, “Communist Plan to Corrupt Catholicism,” the Priest talks about John Quincy Adams.
@17:41 – In the year 1840…John Quincy Adams…
”Who we are is who we were.”
– John Quincy Adams
Ah yes, EB, you know how pleased We are whenever J.Q. is mentioned. Mother Abigail – the Daughter a great Puritan – deserves full credit for the Boy’s grounded Faith. He held up well, didn’t he? Despite the
decadentrefined Continental influences to which he was exposed in my company.For anybody who isn’t familiar with John Quincy Adams – “the President most knowledgeable about Islam” – see the tribute at Jihad Watch. Taste a quote:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/today-is-250th-birthday-of-the-president-most-knowledgeable-about-islam-john-quincy-adams
Yucki, Thank You for the article link.
Al Gore Calls Out Donald Trump And Climate Change Deniers
The antidote to Al Gore and his stupid climate change brainwash movie:
VICE news – Trump’s “moral authority is compromised” says Sen. Tim Scott
AP- Corker: Trump Hasn’t Shown Stability, Competence
BBC – Is Donald Trump racist? Or just trying to appeal to his base?
The New York Times -Morals of a President: From Reagan to Trump
Missouri Democrat State Senator Refuses To Apologize For ‘Hope’ That Trump Is Assassinated
http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2017/08/charlottesville-two-videos-which.html
… to someone who believes in individual rights, the distinction between Nazis and communists is nil.
For a Jew there’s a difference.
An Israeli put it this way today:
You can be a violent thug without being a Nazi or a Fascist. You can be a Nazi or a Fascist without being a violent thug. What brands you a Nazi, a racist or a Fascist is what ideology you subscribe to, not your behavior on the streets of Ferguson or Paris.
Jews around the world have more to fear from Nazis than from leftists. Nazis wants to KILL Jews, where ever they are, leftists only dream of “returning” Israel to its “rightful owners”.
So, the worst case for a leftist threat is that Jews must leave Israel and “go back” to Europe.
The worst case for a rightist threat is gas chambers.
…….
Communists deny the human soul. That’s bad enough for people of faith, but what’s worse is the Left is bringing in Islam. And Islam is just as much of an existential threat to Jews as Nazism.
For Muslims Jews are uniquely evil, subhuman “sons of apes and pigs”. The Koran has genocidal passages more compelling than Mein Kampf, where the very rocks and trees conspire to rid the earth of our contamination.
Right now as you say, Eeyore, it’s not an ideological contest. It’s violent thugs set upon us to destroy our liberal Western society. It’s a threat to all of us. Let’s be careful to unite around the values we share.