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Monday, November 09, 2009

Gunpowder, treason and plot


I invoked Guy Fawkes in that Fort Hood post. Andrea Harris has called me on it. (Not me exactly, but someone else who independently drew the same parallel. Mutatis mutandis.)

My point about 5 November was never that Muslims cared; it was that violent religious anarchists cared. Before “V for Vendetta” I was hard put to it to find anyone here who had even heard of the Gunpowder Plot, outside Tudor / Stewart history buffs and the odd Alan Moore fanatic.

Times are different now. For instance, I saw a protest of Scientology of whose members more than one was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. (Disclosure: It wasn’t me. The Starbucks was next to their outlet. I just wanted to finish my coffee. I think the Scientologists moved away soon after.)

Plus, the movie "V" (and not the novel) had its title character give props to the Qur'an, presumably because of its hate for the West. Hasan could have picked up the date from popular culture.

Maybe we should blame /b/?

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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Anarchist madrassas


Muslims aren't the only Will To Power automatons engaged in war against America. Left-wing anarchists get into the act too. But where Nidal Hassan aimed to thwart the West's existential war against Islam overseas, Monfort aimed to destroy the rule of law in one of our more liberal cities.

For Monfort himself, I have described the secret agent profile three years ago. Ace's commenters are covering the same ground. We have nothing more to learn from what Monfort thinks.

We have more to learn from Monfort's social network. Every terrorist dwells in an ideological community. Monfort belongs to the Alinskyites. Their progeny, ACORN and the various "coalitions against hunger", never target Conservative towns. Alinskyites target towns which have already set up a welfare net. They know that liberal towns are run by weak and/or like-minded hacks. Their aim is to max out the liberals' credit card: where the liberals aren't as liberal as they like, they support more liberal laws; where the laws are already liberal, they advocate among the city's poor to exploit those laws beyond the point of legality. Alinsky's ultimate aim is to force Menshevik cities into chaos, whereupon these Bolsheviks can step in as the group with the best record for getting things done.

Monfort learnt his lessons from the University of Washington. The nature of university coursework is such that it establishes a current of student flow, from the most g-loaded subjects (Math, Physics) to the least. In the old days, at the downstream end of this current, were the vocational fields, and management.

Not so much now. The genius of the 1968 student-radical takeover is that the activists created fields even further down this current. There it is the Alinskyites in the university set up their nets.

The university Alinskyites' aim is to create an army of community-organisers. These are their agents abroad, who agitate for State support of Alinskyites generally but especially in the university ("Diversity Office" "Community Outreach", "Center for Peace and Tolerance", etc).

Not every graduate with an Activism degree proves good even at community-organising. Deep down the graduates know that this was the best degree they could get. Time goes on and they are still stuck in loserdom, while their peers go on to live productive lives. All they have is their Marcuse and, nowadays, Zizek. Some will go barmy.

But Alinskyites have a use for the violence too. The more violence the radicals inflict, the worse for the community, and the more need for those Community Leaders who can Appeal For Calm.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

CAIR package


Someone shot a couple of Jews in a parking lot. The cops don't know why; but given LA, the suspicion is Sudden Jihad Syndrome. The 24 Hour Rule would apply here.

Just in case, though, CAIR have a press release. That much is fair game.

This reminds me of what I was saying earlier about criminal enterprises. You get a group which is inherently criminal, like the Crips. But not all the crimes the criminals do in Crips are what that gang actually wants. Here, CAIR doesn't want the headache of addled Muslims puttin' a jihad on bystanders.

CAIR used to get on TV and say "ofcoursewecondemnthisattack BUT! Palestine, Zionists, al-Aqsa, Jerusalem blah blah". That but-headedness turned off the American people. They're not doing that anymore, which means they've learnt something.

They are still a terrorist organisation though.

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Click it or ticket!


Another signboard: On the left hand, a chalkboard with repeated lines, "I will fasten my seatbelt". On the right hand, a plain message: "OR GET A TICKET!"

It's the same mentality as the commercial featuring a flock of tickets, flying toward a car wherein is some hapless middle-aged white man who has not done his Civic Duty.

Or: the commercial wherein a longer-haired white man is stopped at a light, and slowly surrounded by cop cars. He tries quietly to put on his belt. At that point all five, or more, of the cops turn on their lights. He is caught!

This isn't even a public-safety message. This is just the State saying, do what I say or I will punish you. It's the message of the lord to his serfs.

Under Mayor Bill White, Houston doesn't care about fighting real crime. Houston cares only about fighting that perception.

Under White, Houston is all about criminalising the violation of ordinances. They want the cash from "violators". They want the appearance of being strict. Most of all they want to run up the stats for Group A so it doesn't look so bad when, or I should say if, they should arrest a member of Group B who is committing (say) a mugging.

I've already dealt with this. But it's getting worse.

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