Like approximately 100% of my countrymen, when I heard about those terrorist attacks in Paris yesterday I immediately jumped to the conclusion “Moslems*.” And of course, reading this morning’s hysterical post-mortems, I was completely right.
I don’t know about you, but when things like this happen I find that, even though I consider collectivism the worst of human failings, I do have a collectivist gene: A guilty little secret I keep in a file marked “Kill them all and let god sort them out.”
Of course that’s what the collectivist jihadis would like to accomplish, in their dysfunctional way. But we’re ‘Murkins, and we’ve got bigger bombs. I hear the voice of Homer Simpson shouting, “We’ve eradicated entire species before, and we can do it again!” To paraphrase something somebody said more recently, Don’t piss off the white people. When they get their riot on, they don’t burn down their own neighborhoods.
I do not like thinking this way, and probably neither does Francois Hollande. But if I were him at this moment, I’d be slouched in my deep leather chair and brooding over the fact that Joseph Stalin did not have problems like this.
Then the more sensible voice speaks up, the one lefties would call ‘blaming the victims.’ “Why were all those people so completely helpless? Why was the gunfire entirely one-way? Who forced all these people to live like defenseless sheep, and who agreed to it?”
How could eight guys cause this much panic and bloodshed?
It’s because they came prepared for violence and were willing – indeed they intended – to die, and their targeted victims were…victims.
Seems to me that’s the thing I’d concentrate on changing, if I were king of the world. Genocide is out of the question (and it wouldn’t work anyway, says my inner Stalin). But we need to wake up and remember that we are not herd beasts. Mightn’t it be possible to make terrorism a less attractive tactic by removing the willingness to stampede?
ETA: I see Claire is brooding over the very same topic.
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*The really bad voice in my head wishes to admit publicly that its first thought was “Wonder how Obama will turn this into a case for gun confiscation?”
Heh… My first thought was pretty much the same… why they all think being unarmed is such a wonderful thing. Second, that such an attack would not have the same results here – thank goodness – even in New Jersey or NYC… simply because there are so many people who are armed, even “under the table.” Even the criminal element would hardly stand by and be shot at. Third… wonder how soon Israel or France will fulfill the prophesy of turning at least large portions of the Mideast into seas of glass. Probably not France. Europe is so toast.
Of course nuking the Mideast is not a good thing, since there are millions of innocent people among the dreck there, but it is just as possible as the two nukes turned loose on Japan so long ago. And if the ISIS gets hold of one… it’s going to get really bad.
Having gone this far, I don’t think there is a good answer, let alone an easy one.
And Obummer can propose anything he likes, obviously. I don’t happen to think it’s going to get him anywhere.
In spite of the realistic outlook of a few of us, the realization that this can come here and likely will, I fear it will take a few outbursts along the line of what we see in Paris to truly awaken the general population of the USA to the threat.
The sheep remain oblivious.
I just don’t understand how this could’ve happened! Didn’t the One just tell us that things like this, mass shootings, simply don’t *happen* in Europe? He can’t have been *mistaken*, could he?
Must’ve been Tea Partiers. That’s the ticket…
It was climate change wut done it!
Allen, it was. Damned Syrian terrorist wouldn’t have been forced to France if we hadn’t baked the Middle East with our exhaust fumes.
Unless it was a false flag operation to divert attention from Mizzou terrorist attack.
Here’s something interesting.
“Claim of responsibility: The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for the attacks in an online statement.”
USA Today report, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/11/14/paris-terror-attacks-what-we-know-now/75770922/
“Islamic State has released a statement claiming responsibility for Friday night’s attacks and has threatened further attacks against France… The group says the killings were in response to airstrikes against its militants in Syria, adding France would remain a key target’.”
The Guardian report, http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/14/paris-terror-attacks-attackers-dead-mass-killing-live-updates
So the US media, like the Brit, mentions who takes responsibility, but conveniently leaves out the “why?”
Ron Paul noted the CIA calls this “blowback”. Maybe the French should stop bombing other countries…
Maybe they should. Still don’t see how killing a bunch of people in a theater, none of whom has bombed Syria lately, balances any karmic scales.
Josef Stalin didn’t have problems like this?
No, Josef Stalin had the Germans declare a holy war on him and his despotic regime to rid the continent of Bolshevism, and volunteers from all over Europe marched East under the German flag. The Germans would likely have succeeded, had it not been for the Roosevelt Administration’s illegal machinations to bring America into yet another unnecessary and illegal foreign war, in which millions of Americans were illegally conscripted and four hundred thousand Americans were sent to their deaths in order to prop up Roosevelt’s good friend and personal role model Josef Stalin and install in power Mao T’se-Tung, Josip Broz Tito, Ho Chi Minh, and many other civilized and democratic folks who remained such good friends to us after the shooting stopped.
Should you care to take a trip down the rabbit hole, consider this as to the “why”:
http://themindunleashed.org/2015/11/the-paris-attacks-what-you-really-need-to-know.html
Good link rudy. I too wondered if it was a false flag.
“Still don’t see how killing a bunch of people in a theater, none of whom has bombed Syria lately, balances any karmic scales.”
Even if you don’t buy the false flag idea, there is a reason. Ron Paul says 3 million Muslims have been killed in the last couple decades. What do those people do in response? Go toe to toe with the US army and slug it out? That won’t work, clearly. They don’t have the resources. So the next thing is to do what the Irish did to the Brits, if I’m not mistaken. Generate the political pressure in the homeland to get them to pull their army out.
It’s nothing to do with karma. It has to do with what options they have available to them, to drive the invaders out.
Here’s a Lew Rockwell article:
https://lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/long-history-french-military-intervention-middle-east-africa/
My first thought was “false flag”/Reichstag fire too.
Damned frogs didn’t contribute sufficient lives or shekels towards the united state corporate cronies being handed Iraq
They’ll be a bit keener on socialising the costly part this time, so the cronies can have more of the rewards.
That’s what vassals are for.
Has everyone seen the old BBC documentaries about operation gladio? They’re up on YouTube, or were!
They’re a strange thing. The BBC factually presenting well proven false flags, including the kidnap and murder of a former prime minister, and bombings of railway stations. Stuff that we would be dismissed as conspiracy nutz if we came out with them now.
The author of the documentaries, Alan Frankovitch, didn’t get fed polonium, but his death was almost as suspicious as litvinienko’s.