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Thursday, August 24, 2017
Friday, January 13, 2017
Michener monostichs
Re the onslaught of the Tatars in the thirteenth century
against eastern Europe:
In a clatter of lances and a swirl of dust,
they were off to the far adventure.
The result was:
Cities, because of their walls,
escaped
these horsemen; no village did.
As for the heroic but outmatched defenders:
They were Christian in the great good sense of this word.
(Citations from the historical novel by James Michener, Poland
(1983). Connoisseurs of
history might detect a parallel in present events.)
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
“Entre bleus”
Something potentially quite important happened in Paris last
night, which so far as I can tell has not been reported by any
American source (though it appears in a couple of English-language Russian
ones). A sort of “Blue Lives Matter” demonstration, held by saying
they have had it with the increasing tempo of extremely violent (and often
unpunished) attacks against les forces de
l’ordre. The demonstators began at the hospital where one of their number,
badly burned from a Molotov cocktail launched by a mob of djeunes in the banlieue, was hanging entre la vie et la mort. They then circled the Arc de Triomphe
in their squad cars, sirens blaring -- and (thanks to a new counter-terror law
that allows officers to retain their weapons while off-duty) fully armed.
The demo was set up by officers without the backing of
their own (housebroken) union, beginning with this message on social media:
Face à une hiérarchie carriériste,
des élites syndicales enlisées dans leurs conflits, et une justice complètement
désintéressée par notre sort, nous devons nous souder. Entre bleus.
This all might subside or (goaded by increasingly brazen attacks on them in the banlieues) it could develop rapidly, in a way that might catch the bien-pensant press with their pants down, reduced to a headline “French Government Falls in Coup”, which Americans will not have seen coming. Check these out:
Trump and his supporters are late to the parade. For some years now, Europe has been the
crucible in which the Clash of Civilizations has been fought.
[Update 19 October 2016] Ça continue:
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[Update 20 October 2016] Ça continue encore:
Plusieurs centaines de policiers se
sont réunis au Trocadero, en face de la tour Eiffel . Ils se sont dirigés ensuite
vers les Champs-Elysées, en appelant les passants ou les habitants à venir les
rejoindre.
«Cazeneuve t'es foutu, la police la
police est dans la rue», scandaient les manifestants à l'adresse du ministre de
l'Intérieur, ainsi que «Falcone démission» à l'adresse de Jean-Marc Falcone, le
directeur de la police nationale.
En civil, certains portant un
brassard ou un foulard masquant en partie leur visage, certains brandissaient
des pancartes sur lesquelles on pouvait notamment lire: «Marre d'en prendre
plein la gueule», «Ras le bol» ou encore «Soutien à nos collègues blessés».
Un petit nombre de personnes, munis
d'affiches réclamant «la vérité» pour des proches victimes selon eux de
violences policières, a rapidement été écarté par les forces de l'ordre.
[Update 23 October 2016] The nightly demonstrations by fed-up police continue, in
Paris and in provincial cities.
These have been peaceful -- unlike the anti-cop counterdemonstrators:
La manifestation, interdite par le
préfet de la Loire, a pourtant bien eu lieu. Et a laissé des traces dans la
ville. Samedi après-midi, le défilé d’un collectif pour « le désarmement de
la police et la démilitarisation des conflits » s’est soldé par de
nombreuses dégradations à Saint Etienne.
Des abribus, des distributeurs de
banque, la vitrine d’une agence bancaire et le local de la fédération
départementale du Parti socialiste ont notamment été saccagés. Devant la Bourse
du travail, plusieurs prises de parole ont d’abord eu lieu pour « dénoncer
les répressions policières sous toutes leurs formes et la guerre coloniale
menée par la France au Moyen-Orient ».
[Update 4 November 2016] Now a few firemen are joining in:
Quelque 500 policiers et personnes
les soutenant se sont rassemblés vendredi soir devant le commissariat de
Béziers et la sous-préfecture, environ 200 devant la mairie d'Avignon, une
centaine au Mans, et 700 à Lyon.
A Béziers, les policiers municipaux
ont été rejoints par des policiers nationaux des commissariats de Béziers et
d'Agde, par des pompiers, des habitants de Béziers, par deux magistrats et par
une dizaine d'avocats. Ils ont scandé "Policiers en colère" et
"La racaille en prison", et portaient des pancartes "J'aime ma
police".
A Avignon, les manifestants ont
entonné La Marseillaise devant l'hôtel de ville, sur la place de l'Horloge, et
les agents, qui étaient deux fois plus nombreux que vendredi dernier, ont été
applaudis par une dizaine de pompiers qui avaient pris part au rassemblement.
Notably, just as with the Manif pour tous, Marine Le Pen is among the abonnés absents,
providing neither leadership nor even support. She arrived at her present position by an accident of
family ties (which she later severed);
perhaps she is not up to the task.
[Update 13 Nov 2016] German police, cowed into masochism by their politically-correct masters, also have cause for complaint. Here, in North Rhine-Westphalia, an attempt to write a parking ticket caused an attack by a clan of Turks, that injured ten cops, sending one to the hospital. They felt no qualms about attacking police, including the backups, knowing that the police would not defend themselves with force. Most German news sources don't mention the ethnicity of the attackers; here, in a radical break with its past P.C. practice, Die Welt does:
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article159455674/Gewaltexzess-nach-Streit-ueber-falsch-geparktes-Auto.html
This sort of anti-police (anti-everyone, actually) "clan" attack, has become commoner in Germany, typically involving Turks or Lebanese.
[Update 13 Nov 2016] German police, cowed into masochism by their politically-correct masters, also have cause for complaint. Here, in North Rhine-Westphalia, an attempt to write a parking ticket caused an attack by a clan of Turks, that injured ten cops, sending one to the hospital. They felt no qualms about attacking police, including the backups, knowing that the police would not defend themselves with force. Most German news sources don't mention the ethnicity of the attackers; here, in a radical break with its past P.C. practice, Die Welt does:
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article159455674/Gewaltexzess-nach-Streit-ueber-falsch-geparktes-Auto.html
This sort of anti-police (anti-everyone, actually) "clan" attack, has become commoner in Germany, typically involving Turks or Lebanese.
[Update 22 February 2017] Here is a sample of the things French cops have to put up
with:
L’embuscade se met en place aux
alentours de 19 heures. En patrouille à bord de leur véhicule de service, les
policiers municipaux circulent dans la Grande rue, qui, malgré son nom, est en
fait une étroite voie sinueuse qui débouche en face du marché couvert.
Subitement, un piéton assène des coups de pied sur la portière de leur voiture.
Le policier au volant descend pour demander des comptes. Dès qu’il a posé le
pied par terre, une bande d’une quinzaine de personnes surgit d’une ruelle
adjacente.
Les agents expérimentés, l’un d’eux
étant notamment un ancien militaire, se défendent pendant huit minutes, avant
l’arrivée de renforts. «Je salue leur maîtrise. Ils n’ont même pas sorti leurs tonfas face à des agresseurs à mains
nues, assure Eric Mehlhorn. La légitime défense, c’est répondre à la hauteur de
l’attaque. Ils ont fait preuve de courage.»
http://www.leparisien.fr/savigny-sur-orge-91600/deux-policiers-municipaux-lynches-dans-un-guet-apens-a-savigny-sur-orge-22-02-2017-6701223.php
You might wonder why the two beaten policemen did not fire
on their attackers. Well, they
couldn’t: they’re not allowed to
bear arms. All they had were
little tonfas -- and these they didn’t even use. Their role, under the Socialos, is to lie there
quietly and get stomped on. And
stomped on. And stomped on.
[Update, May Day 2017] This is what policemen in Paris have to put up with:
Their response? Nothing harsher than tear-gas.
[Update 14 juillet 2017]
[Update, May Day 2017] This is what policemen in Paris have to put up with:
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Flic rôti à la mode de Taubira
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Their response? Nothing harsher than tear-gas.
[Update 14 juillet 2017]
Even as Bastille-day festivities
bathed the Champs-Elysées, the racaille of the banlieue were setting
items on fire, hoarding projectiles, and laying an ambush for the police who
responded to the provocations.
But this time, one policement, being beaten by multiple assailants, actually dared to fire back:
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Lifeboat ethics
One saw, the other day, the drama in Mare nostrum: Cross and crescent, cheek by jowl, the
latter dispatching the former to Davy Jones’ locker. This is more than a fait-divers,
a police-blotter incident among innumerable others: It is a parable, and a foretoken, a metonymy.
For Italia too is a lifeboat; and she has latterly been importing that which someday may
capsize her.
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| Plenty more where these came from |
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Puis on se demande: Si ces gens-là
haïssent à tel point les
croisés (pour nous servir de leur baragouin particulier), pourquoi diable se diriger justement vers les pays de la Croix? Pourquoi pas vers n’importe quel
pays de l’Ummah? Ils seraient les
bienvenus à Raqqa, c’est sûr!
On a
récemment
posé la questions à des immigrés
subsahariennes : pourquoi s’injecter
dans des milieux où l’on ne se sent pas à l’aise, où l’on se plaint de tout, où
l’on se trouve minoritaires?
Voici leur réplique: Eh
bien, ce statut minoritaire, ce n’est guère pour toujours; patientez.
On est en train de visualiser l’auto-da-fé de la
civilisation boréale …
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Weiteres zum Thema:
Cruore spumantem
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[Update 19 April 2015]
Au moins ils ne sont pas
racistes, ces islamistes : ils égorgent
les chrétiens sans égard à la couleur de la peau. Les associations devraient s’en féliciter.
http://www.lematin.ch/monde/ei-publie-video-montrant-lexecution-chretiens/story/14655398
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/19/isis-video-purports-to-show-massacre-of-two-groups-of-ethiopian-christians
With video:
http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-video-shows-mass-beheading-of-ethiopian-christians-in-libya/?PageSpeed=noscript
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An ISIL militant smashes a
cross on an altar
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/19/isis-video-purports-to-show-massacre-of-two-groups-of-ethiopian-christians
With video:
http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-video-shows-mass-beheading-of-ethiopian-christians-in-libya/?PageSpeed=noscript
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Entretemps, l’accueil
des subsahariens est bien moins tendre en … Afrique du Sud, qu’en l’Europe
bisounours:
In the message, signed by several
groups, including the Patriotic Movement, Pan Local Forum, Unemployed Workers
Forum and Anti-Crime Movement, Nigerians and other African foreigners were
warned to leave the country.
It read partly:
“Dear
neighbour from Africa and other parts of the world, we have travelled the world
and have not found one country that allows the floods of humans across its
borders as South Africa is experiencing. Even in war-torn parts like Syria,
Ukraine, Yemen and Somali.
We
were seven million people in Johannesburg city in 2011. Today, we have an
estimated 13 million. In Johannesburg alone, you have taken over entire
suburbs: Yeoville, Berea, Bez Valley, Turfontein, among many. You have even
moved into rural parts of our country that have 80-per-cent unemployment, and
there are no visible signs that you have jobs either.
We
want to be proudly part of the geographic construct called Africa, but we are
as different from one another as Kenyans are from Nigerians; Ivorians from
Chadians, etc.
We
are pleading with you to return to your home countries. Go and build up those
countries so that we can all live in economic, social and political prosperity
and peace as neighbours. The genocide in this corner of Africa will be far
worse than what happened in Rwanda in 1994. Then the entire continent will be
condemned to ashes. Is that what you want?
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Residents of Wolhuter Men's Hostel in Jeppestown,
Johannesburg massed outside the hostel with intent to drive foreign nationals
from the area.
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Remarkably, discussion of what is really going on is far franker in the African media,
than in the “humaniste de salon” press of the West.
The above article is from Nigeria; here’s one from Zambia:
TV footage it appears these brutal
acts of violence against foreigners have been carried out exclusively by black
South Africans.
And when the xenophobic violence
bursts forth again, it is remarkable how extreme it is. These are not incidents
of people being turned away from restaurants, or bigoted words on Twitter, or
the makeup of a sports team.
One reason is that such an impetus
runs against the grand, orthodox narrative so well entrenched in South Africa:
that racism is a problem particular to white South Africans and, to counter it,
white South Africans should be the focus of attention.
We can no longer afford to exclude
culture from national debate. From initiation deaths to witch killings, muti murders, patriarchy and mob killings,
there is a great deal about our culture we do not discuss - certainly which we
never criticise.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/ilive/2015/04/19/how-many-more-have-to-die-before-we-talk-about-why-ilive
“Muti murders”?
Now there’s a new one. Read
all about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_for_body_parts
“Muti” here is
not short for “mutilation”; the word is Zulu:
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Two surprising statistical statements appeared in this
morning’s press. No idea how much
truth there is in them, but worth following up.
* “More British Muslim men have
joined ISIS and the Nusra
Front than are serving in the
British armed forces.” (NYTimes)
* There are at present more Africans in Europe, than there
ever were Europeans in Africa, during colonialism.
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[Update, 20 April 2015] Well, no point belaboring. People mostly have their minds made up, or don’t want to
hear about all this; and when
minds do change, they will likely change in a rush, all at once, as the world
goes toppling over some tipping-point.
Emotion, not reason, will rule.
But purely as a point of logical interest -- we take note of
what is not being said -- what lies
even deeper than taboo, since people are unaware even of repressing it. Consider this map:
Notice anything?
Well of course, the floundering boats are nearly always
closer to Libya than to Europe;
but nobody ever suggests that Libya has any responsibility for saving
their co-religionists just
offshort (even though, additionally, Libya is responsible for launching these
assault-boats against European shores). Yet that is not what I mean -- everyone knows that
Libya is a failed state and always has been. No, I mean -- look at the map. That's Tunisia, just to the left.
Tunisia is a reasonably well-functioning country, and indeed
a tourist resort for Europeans.
Yet no-one suggests -- it never occurs to anyone to suggest it -- that
Tunisia might have any responsibility, equal to or greater than that of
Europeans, in rescuing their fellow-Muslims.
[Update 22 April 2015] Mais -- rappel à l’ordre. Ce n’est pas dans nos rayons, que de critiquer la politique comme telle. Si la culture d’Europe désire se
donner la mort, en s’africanisant -- c’est leur affaire. Nous, en tant qu’observateur de
la psychologie linguistique, on n’a que faire en la matière. Ainsi, ne commentons que la côté “rhétorique
publique”.
Donc: Il y a un
décalage entre le discours médiatique, et le vox populi.
Celui-là ne faisait guère mention de l’expérience
australienne, qui a réussi, à la fois, à juguler l’afflux tiers-mondiale, et à
réduite la mortalité en mer des impétrants à zéro. En revanche, les commentateurs grand-public la signalent à
haute voix.
Finally the European media had to pay attention, after
Aussie PM Abbott referred to his country’s success. The response of European politicians and talking-heads
(those gleichgeschaltet to The Narrative), was flustered, and resembled the
magician’s distractive patter.
A logical parable:
Elbownia is considering sending a vehicle to the Moon. The idea is shouted down: It would never work -- the ship would
have to escape our planet’s gravity, which is impossible; moreover the asteroids whizzing around
just above the Earth’s atmosphere
would quickly bash the ship to bits; plus the Moon has no atmosphere, so the ship would explode
were it ever to arrive.
Then someone says:
But, umm, … the United States already tried it; and it worked.
(Elbownian politicians clap hands over ears and chant LA LA
LA LA ….)
[Update 23 April 2015]
In this whole Mediterranean melodrama, there is one thing that every faction, of whatever shade of opinion,
unanimously agrees upon. And
that is, that the “smugglers” --
the “Human Traffickers” -- are the bad guys. They serve the convenient role of “Neo-Nazis” for Hollywood
studios that want to make an international thriller without offending any
group: Just make the bad guys
Neo-Nazis. (Or, in pinch -- just
German will do. The Germans
themselves will never object:
whipped curs.) The Italian
Prime Minister came up with a metaphor that has been enthusiastically embraced
by everyone: the “Traffickers” are
the contemporary equivalent of … Slave Traders! (All in unison:
Booooo, slave traders!
Kumbaya.)
That comparison is, however, nonsense. The négriers, after all, kidnapped their victims; whereas the would-be migrants
themselves come forward and solicit the traffickers’ services. As for the traffickers, you
can’t really even call them smugglers, since their SOP is the opposite of
clandestine: Send out a rafiot; then call the Italian sea-taxi service for free-of-charge
rescue and pizza (200 mushroom,
400 anchovies, 12 sausage -- no, cancel that last order, those were the
Christians, they just got thrown overboard). A closer historical parallel to the traffickers would would
be … the Underground Railroad. (Albeit one that charges for its
services.) Or, from another
standpoint: A sort of mirror-image
of Club Med.
Francois Hollande, for his part (less imaginative, that man)
calls the traffickers “terrorists”.
-- Umm… No. How are they
terrorists? They just want to make
a buck. -- True, some proportion
of their cruise passengers are likely terrorists -- ISIL has promised as much
-- but that no more makes the cruise operators terrorists, than the airlines
were, when they carried the 9/11 hijackers, or the shoe bomber, or the
underwear bomber, etc.
[Update 24 April 2015]
Another cockeyed but widely-repeated argument from the Ostrich Lobby (as
we might dub them) runs thus: By
defending your borders against the traffickers, you would actually be … helping the traffickers, see, because,
see, you’d be raising the price of
passage. (High-fives among the
bisounours for having thought up this one.)
Now, that is true in the same sense that, by making heroin
illegal, scarce, and hard to come by, we force up its price: If the authorities were simply to hand
out heroin free to every schoolchild beginning with kindergarten, the dealers
would be out of business. An
analog of this latter policy is, in fact, the program of those who say that
borders are inherently a bad thing.
To which we respond, with the poet: “Good fences make good neighbors.”
[Update 3 May 2015]
The flood continues, unabated -- nay encouraged, by stepped-up European ramassage -- 4000 and counting, in a
single day.
Different publications spin the story differently. Thus, Le Figaro (centre-right) tops its
article with a brooding busful of all black adult males:
while CBC (Care Bears Canada), reporting the same incidents, offers a jolly portrait of a
manageable handful of only women and children, smiling, flashing peace-signs, as though enjoying a picnic at sea:
Oddly, though, the readers are not fooled by this
prepackaging. Read the
comments. Taceo.
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