Modernity's Enemies

There have been few successful dramatic attacks on the West by committed jihadis in the past few years because the Western intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies are competent and professional and able to thwart the jihadis' grand gestures. Conversely, the jihadis are mostly idiots. Where the latter succeed is in small and unorganized attacks on random individuals, so-called "sudden jihad syndrome" attacks in which a lone jihadi attacks unarmed and unprepared civilians out of the blue, as it were. Because such attacks are frequent, the number of victims of this form of jihadi terror will soon enough rival any of the more spectacular attacks of the recent past. More, the low intensity of the attacks and the frequency keeps the jihadis and their programme in the public eye, even though nearly none of the "sjs" attacks are publicly and officially attributed to jihad itself. The jihadis win by acting out, and the few who are captured are instantly replaced by more who are emboldened to imitate them. The average Modernist citizen is terrorized not mere by jihadi attacks but also by the intelligentsia who will not allow the public to acknowledge the attacks for what they are: Islamic terrorism. And so the attacks continue and the terror continues, and the people live in fear of both the jihadis and the state's denial of jihadis in our midsts. Speaking out in public, or even among friends against the jihadis, is a daring proposition, a daring act of freedom. The jihadis continue. One here, one there, relentlessly.

"One- man cell, the new face of Al Qaeda terror."


15 Aug 2008 (ANI): The creation of one-man cell seems to be the new strategy of Al Qaeda terrorists.

According to the Fox News, intelligence officials have discovered an online Al Qaeda manual that prescribes that group leaders should training new recruits to operate as smaller cells around the globe.

The manual, called "Method for Building the Personality of a Terrorist Mujahid" and written by an Islamist forum contributor nicknamed "Shamil al-Baghdadi," encourages militant followers to stop focusing on pulling off attacks on the scale of 9-11 and to start executing numerous smaller attacks.

If for some reason the mission fails, the Jihadi must not abort, but instead carry on alone, as a one-man cell, the paper quotes New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly as saying while quoting from the manual.

It advocates assassinations by shooting, poisoning and booby-trapping cell phones and computers.

Further, targets are to be prioritised by ranking them into categories such as "high profile," which represent presidents and prime ministers.

Recruits are also told to organize credit card scams and to rob police stations in order to get hold of weapons.

However, the most shocking revelation are the lessons on kidnapping, with orders to slaughter hostages in a way that will terrify the public.

Dr. Matthew Levitt, director of The Washington Institute''s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, said that the structure has shifted from a centralized operation toward smaller cells at a global scale.

"You know, it used to be that the face of Al Qaeda was bin Laden and the core. That is still the case, but now we are reminded about Al Qaeda on a regular basis more because of the activities of the local cells," added Levitt.

Referring to the manual as being specifically tailored to its audience Levitt said, "What this does more than anything else is provides people who are inclined to carry out such attacks with the sense that they now have some information and pushes them to actually go through with it." (ANI)
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/one-man-cell-the-new-face-of-al-qaeda-terror_10084517.html

We have legitimate law and a legitimate government in America, and we are obligated to obey our state as citizens, not resorting to our own private interpretations of laws, obeying those we like and disregarding the rest. It's an all or nothing proposition. The following might shed some light on what the government thinks of us, regardless of our obeyance.

An interview with Ralph Peters, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who served in infantry and intelligence units before becoming a Foreign Area Officer and a global strategic scout for the Pentagon, shows the following:

FP: Tell us about the military officers who had vital knowledge who were dismissed by Washington during the Clinton years. What were the consequences?

Peters: It was heartbreaking. My close circle of comrades and I--all Russian speakers and adventurers by nature--would dive into the guts of the Soviet Union (often at our own expense, by the way--there was always money to buy new billion-dollar satellites, but no money for officers like us to crawl over the Soviet sickbed and discover things no satellite can see). We'd come back with first-hand accounts of the developing ethnic strife, of the corruption, of the KGB/FSB's machinations, even with battlefield reports we risked our lives to gather--and back in Washington we were just blown off (not by the Army, but by the CIA, the other intel agencies and the administration).

If the intelligence didn't benefit Boeing or Lockheed Martin and cost billions, it was written off as worthless. There was zero value placed on human intelligence--it was surreal. I'd come back from Country X with an eyewitness account and some twenty-something Clintonista who'd never been farther from the USA than Cancun would tell me that I didn't know what I was talking about. And the State Department, with its pathetic apparatchiks, was the worst of all--as the book recounts, I once returned to our embassy in Armenia with a first-hand account of fighting where there wasn't supposed to be any--and our diplomat on duty, who was cowering in the embassy, terrified of leaving the Yerevan city limits, essentially called me a liar. My views just didn't match the Clinton administration's, and State actually trusted the reports from the Armenian government over the word of a U.S. Army officer.

[T]he State Department--the most dysfunctional agency in our government--just wanted to maintain smooth relations with Russia. In trying to uncover the truth, we faced two enemies: The Russian security services (the old KGB in new suits) and our own diplomats. Again, it was heartbreaking.... But, thanks to State, we'll never really know. (Our diplomats just hated military officers--it seemed downright Freudian--and, frankly, it hasn't changed all that much.)

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Peters: I saw the Saudis doing damage while I was in uniform, and I keep seeing it now. They are our enemies. They cozy up to our "elite," then fund extremism all around the Muslim world (personally, I wish I could apply Sharia law against any American university or think-tank that accepts Saudi Funding). Again and again, from Central Asia to Kenya to northern Virginia, and from Indonesia to Senegal, I've seen how the Saudis use their oil profits to prevent Muslims from integrating into host societies and to foster ferocious anti-American hatred. If I could do one single thing to make this a better world, I'd make the entire Saudi royal family disappear. And by the way--they're also the worst enemy Muslims have, too. The key to understanding the Saudis is to realize that they don't give a damn about individual Muslims--they only care about their perverted Wahhabi vision of Islam. Human suffering doesn't bother them at all--as long as those bloated pigs in nightgowns don't suffer themselves.

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FP: What is Washington in denial about?

Peters: You name it. Reality. Islamist extremism. Putin. China. Immigration. Washington is clinging passionately to the pathetically failed 20th-century theories of international relations its creatures learned at Harvard or Princeton. Washingtonians, Democrat and Republican alike, are as out of touch with global down-and-dirty reality as Osama bin Laden in his cave--if not moreso. Washington is a city that indulges itself in pleasant foreign-policy fantasies--at our expense....

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=EF162FA1-7B3F-4A4C-848A-8A722B662293

There's little mystery here: our government is staffed and stuffed with careerist hippies. Nevertheless, it is our government. We are obligated to obey our own laws. We don't have to like it.

Uzbek Muslims Attacked in Sweden.

The two stories below concern attacks on a mosque in Sweden. There are some genuine problems with this. First, what is a mosque? Who frequents the mosque? Why on earth would Swedes attack it? What benefit arises in the struggle against Islam in attacking a mosque?

A mosque is an Islamic fortress, a place meant not just for ceremonial prayers and Islamic rituals but for the storage and distribution of Islamic propaganda and weapons. Mosques, other than those temporary places rented out till a fortress can be built, are usually private property belonging to non-Muslims. A real mosque won't bun: it's made of re-enforced concrete. Things inside might burn but not the mosque. Burning someone else's place is easy. Burning a mosque is near impossible. The mosque itself isn't important. It's just a building. What happens inside the mosque is the problem, if it is a problem. Someone else's building is not a good target to begin ones struggle against jihadis.

Not all people who frequent a mosque are jihadis. Most are simply peasant immigrants, in the case below from Uzbekistan. Yes, Muslims. Not, not necessarily jihadis. Enemies of Swedish culture, probably, but not necessarily jihadis. It makes a difference. Peasants are peasants. They aren't worth anyone's trouble. Why bother with them when there are serious problems one might deal with?

Why would Swedes attack Uzbekis? They are primitive people, and they pose little threat to Sweden or even to the government of Uzbekistan itself. What benefit is there in attacking sheep and goats, acting like mad fools, like Ajax, whom the gods destroyed by first making him mad? A fool's victory. Someone is not thinking clearly.

But even were this mosque a flammable Sunni or Shi'ite mosque financed by Saudi Arabia or Iran, what is the gain? What is the profit in a pile of ashes? In a combat zone one looks for positive effect. Drama is not on the programme. But there is some benefit here, which we can look at below.

Sweden: Mosque attacked

A fire was set to a mosque in Strömsund (Jämtland) Thursday night. The mosque, which is located in the basement of an apartment block, serves the local Muslims, mostly immigrants and refugees from Uzbekistan.

The fire burned along the wall under the window. The police found burned cartons inside and did not find any natural causes for the fire, says Per Hanspik, police forensic investigator.

Police are taking the case very seriously and have given it top priority. Thomas Gutke, heading the investigation, doesn't rule out hate crime, but says that it's currently classified as attempted arson. It might be that the people who've done this can't even spell hate, according to Gutke.

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Anders Fabricius, the municipality refugee coordinator, says that the mosque has a great symbolic value and that the incident causes fear of being subjected to persecution after fleeing it in their homeland.

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In a separate story on the same subject we read the following:

On Friday evening several people tried breaking into the temporary mosque, set up after the fire. Several mosque members were inside at the time.

At 23:10pm police received a report that several people were involved in a fight in central Strömsund. When they arrived at the scene they found about 50 people outside the temporary mosque.

Anders Fabricius was called up and says that when he arrived there were many youth outside on the street and a gang of intoxicated youth tried to force the doors to the mosque.

According to police officer Magnus Hamstig the police had received reports of assault, illegal threats, vandalism and illegal entry. One 25 year old reported he was beaten, two windows were broken and two people had entered the mosque. They have identified four people as suspects. The fight had moved from another part of town to the mosque and it was there that the vandalism and illegal entry occurred.

Hamstig says that there is no connection between the fire in the mosque and the fight, and there is no indication that the same people are responsible for both. He says he thinks these are two separate incidents.

http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2008/08/sweden-mosque-attacked.html

"[T]the mosque has a great symbolic value and that the incident causes fear of being subjected to persecution ...."

It's a real stretch to see this as anything interesting. Scaring a bunch of illiterate peasants isn't anything one should brag about. In no way does this attack on a privately owned building rival the efforts of the jihadis on any significant level. One can be sure the mosque does not have any symbolic importance to the Muslims who used it. To them it's just a building. Causing fear among the peasants? Not significant. Who cares if some goat herders are nervous? The question is will such activities drive any of them into the arms of serious jihadis? If so, then one might claim some small success. To tighten the tensions between those who are jihadis and those who are passive but supportive is the key. Will this action move potential jihadis into radical arms? If so, then one knows. If not, then to the good, they are not a threat.

"[A]t the scene they found about 50 people outside the temporary mosque."

There are now about 50 people who have a direct and conscious opinion about Islam in Sweden. Some of those are Muslims. Regardless, about 50 people have entered the Combat Zone.

What is not to be done

The following piece comes from a Trotskyite site. It shows one more example, and even more, of where people go wrong in the struggle against Left dhimmi fascism in the real world. What is the gain in shooting some nobody political hack in Arkansas? Lenin covers this completely in What is to be Done? If Timothy Dale Johnson wanted to express his displeasure against the Left, in what way did he succeed?

He is not merely a fool, he is dead.

Patrick Martin,"Gunman murders Arkansas Democratic Party chairman." World Socialist Web. 15 August 2008

The Arkansas state chairman of the Democratic Party was shot to death Wednesday by a gunman who was himself killed in a later exchange of gunfire with police. Bill Gwatney, 48, was murdered in his office in Little Rock. ...

The gunman, Timothy Dale Johnson, entered the premises pretending to be interested in volunteering, then pushed past several staff members to reach the chairman's office. He introduced himself to Gwatney and they shook hands, whereupon he pulled out a handgun and opened fire, hitting the Democratic Party official four times, including once in the head. Gwatney died four hours later.

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The Little Rock murder is the fourth recent incident in the South of violence or threatened violence against groups or individuals demonized by the ultra-right.

On July 27, Jim Adkisson, 58, walked into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church near Knoxville, Tennessee and opened fire with a semiautomatic shotgun on the audience attending a children's play, killing two members of the church, Greg McKendry, age 60, and Linda Kraeger, age 61, and wounding six others. He subsequently killed himself, leaving a suicide note in which he stated "his hatred for the liberal movement," particularly the church's openness to gays.

On August 2, 22-year-old Raymond Hunter Geisel was arrested in Miami and charged with making death threats against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Police found weapons, body armor and other military gear in his car and hotel room. Geisel made the threats against Obama, including a reference to the candidate with a racial epithet, during a training session he was undertaking to become a bail bondsman. Others in the class reported him to the police. He faces federal charges.

On August 8, 48-year-old Jerry M. Blanchard was arrested in North Carolina for making similar threats to kill Obama. A Secret Service agent claimed that Blanchard may have mental health issues due to a recent head injury, and Blanchard has denied threatening the Democratic presidential candidate.

Johnson fits the social profile of these cases. He was white, middle-aged and under considerable economic stress. He was socially isolated, living alone in the home he had shared with his parents until his father's death in 2006. He owned a small arsenal of weapons—14 guns in the house, two more in the truck in which he died—and took regular practice at a local shooting club.

He was undoubtedly conservative in his political views, and had voted in Republican primaries for most of the past decade, except in 2006 when he voted in a Democratic primary. He voted in the Republican presidential primary February 5, which was won by the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/arka-a15.shtml

Trotskyites are here gloating over fools. Good for them. Maybe the ridicule they spew will wake up some people enough that they will realize the Communists have sometimes a better approach to revolution that some idiot with a gun in his pocket.

As the slogan above reads: A successful revolutionary is a statesman. Perhaps I could change it to: "An unsuccessful one is dead." One dead fool.

We should struggle to win, not to be idiot jihadi homicide-bombers and fools. To win requires intelligence and planning. Even that can lead to death, but at least one won't die a total fool.

Small, Small, Small. Small enough to put in Pocket.

"When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a list of potential targets that included the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the subway system and the animal disease center on Plum Island, detailed chemical, biological and radiological weapon information that has been seen only in a handful of terrorist cases, as well as a thumb drive packed with emails, ABC News has learned."

What can we learn from this story? We can learn that if we have an agent with a Ph. D. in useful technologies for warmaking, and if we have hundreds of thousands of active supporters contributing arms, money, manpower, and dedicated expertise, as well as nations willing to dedicate their hearts and souls and materiel to our efforts, then we might find someone who can be-- captured by a couple of illiterate uniform- wearing peasants toting shotguns!

Or we can learn to live and work effectively by using our wits and developed skills, our actions smaller than small. What is this?:

That haul of information has led multiple government sources to describe Siddique, a 36 year-old MIT graduate, as a potential "treasure trove" of information on terrorist supporters, sympathizers or 'sleepers' in the United States and overseas.

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Only a "handful" of captured alleged Al Qaeda associates have had the kind of detailed information on weapons of mass destruction that Siddique, who attended MIT as an undergraduate and earned her PhD in neuroscience at Brandeis, had in her handbag, multiple current and former US intelligence and law enforcement officials told ABC News. [...]

"Her education troubled us. We know that she's extremely bright. She's radicalized. We knew that she had been planning, or at least involved in the planning, of a wide variety of different operations, whether they involved weapons of mass destruction or research into chemical or biological weapons, whether it was a possible attempt on the life of the President," said Kiriakou.

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When nabbed by a team of Afghanistan National Police officers on July 17th, she also had in her possession a one gigabyte digital media storage device - a thumb drive - whose contents included a large trail of emails that authorities are now poring over, sources said. Those e-mails, a source involved in the investigation said, are between "what she described as 'units' and what we would call 'cells'."

In her papers she had maps and information concerning potential targets in New York City that sources say included the subway, Times Square and the Statute of Liberty, ABC News has learned. She also carried excerpts from "The Anarchist's Arsenal" and "documents detailing United States military assets", according to the federal complaint against her filed July 31st in Manhattan. [...]

ABC News sources said that she also had information indicating the possibility of "an attack" on Plum Island Disease Center, a secure US government facility off the tip of Long Island, New York where research into foot and mouth disease, swine fever and other animal pathogens is conducted by the Department of Agriculture and security is provided by the Department of Homeland Security. [...]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022181.php

If ever you wondered where you would find an example of how stupid smart people can be, this above should do you well. Think small. There is no winning in tiny tactical victories; but strategic smallness is winning. Compare, for example, a homicide bombing in a crowded marketplace. Try to recall one you have not been involved in directly. They are a dime a dozen. Even the murder of Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan has lead the jihadis to nothing successful at all. A big an flashy target, a well-executed operation, and to no effect. Pakistan's enemy is India, not a local politician. No gain. That's a loss for their team.

We cannot stand losses on our side, especially at this point. Later, as the tide turns in our favor, we might be more daring and less concerned to protect our assets, but at this time we must think in terms of the maximum gain at no human cost on our part. We are at a point at which we can only smile in envy at the Viet Cong member who claimed: "In all these years we have not lost a single plane, a single tank, or a single ship: because we do not have those things." We have, as our only and as our great assets, Will and intelligence. We must think small.

In what way does any expenditure bring us profit, both monetary and publicly? How do we further our goal of ridding the world of Islam as a political and social power? What does Islam and its jihadis have that we do not have but that we could use if we could take from them? In what way does taking from them further our goals? What is small enough to take from those small enough to take it from? Advice, I might venture, from single people well considered; people well known to us; people who have advice we have tracked and plotted and planned to take and use for benefit later to further our goals. Advice, written down, put in wallet, perhaps banked for later. Small. Individual. Small. Small.

Dead Man Stalking

Some acts are stupid even if the motive is right. But this is the work of morons for little good reason. Thus, we can forget about the Israelis being involved and turn immediately to the more likely suspects, the ones caught, i.e., the Muslims captured at the scene. But there's far more to this idiot story than inept Palestinians trying to settle scores among themselves and being too stupid to get it right.

Palestinians: Mossad tried to assassinate West Bank exile

Sources in Ireland claim Israeli agents attempted to shoot Jihad Jaara, one of most wanted men sent to exile following siege on Church of Nativity in 2002

Ali Waked

Published:

08.07.08, 07:22 / Israel News

Palestinian sources have accused Israel of trying to assassinate Jihad Jaara, one of the Palestinians sent to exile following the siege on the Church of the Nativity in 2002, who now resides in Ireland.

According to the sources, Jaara escaped an assassination attempt and the Irish police arrested two suspects – a Palestinian from Gaza who has a European citizenship and a Moroccan with a French citizenship.

A Palestinian source in Ireland told Ynet that while Jaara was making his way on Wednesday to the PLO embassy building, shots were fired at him from a passing car, but he escaped unharmed. Immediately afterwards, another vehicle crashed into Jaara's car, dropping it into a nearby valley. Jaara was lightly injured, and police officers who were in the area chased the other car and detained the two suspects travelling in it.

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Palestinian sources in Ireland told Ynet that "this is beyond any doubt an assassination attempt by the Israeli Mossad."

According to the sources, the car the suspects were travelling in contained the photos of three of three of the Palestinians sent to exile following the siege on the Church of the Nativity – a picture of Jaaara, a picture of Ibrahim Abayat who was expelled to Spain, and a photo of Mahmoud Said who was sent to Italy.

Some 40 Palestinians, most of them Fatah members, were expelled from the West Bank in May 2002, following a siege on the Church of the Nativity after Operation Defensive Shield. Twenty-six men were sent to the Gaza Strip and 13 others to European countries, where they reside to this day.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3578991,00.html

Some readers will follow the party line regardless.Those very people will end up somewhere at the bottom of history's garbage heap. The rest of us will continue on and succeed in our limited aims. I mean limited. I mean SMALL.

We can look at this story as one showing that nearly every stupid thing that could be done was done.People so stupid as those above don't deserve to continue. What, at root, did they do wrong? They thought too big. They thought in term of daydreams and glory. They assumed that a spray of gunfire would have to hit the target. Why? Who is the actor in charge of making the rightness of things happen? That something should happen is no reason to assume it will happen. It is that, the expectation that should equals will, that we see the primitive mind of a Muslim at work.Muslims fail. They get captured. They get killed or kill themselves in the process of failing. On those rare occasions that the Muslim does succeed in his task, he is later caught and punished and is a failure. To blame this kind of idiocy on Israelis is stupider than blaming the theft of cookies on your sister. Why would one do that? How could a grown man with a family and a job expect other adults to believe ones sister stole the cookies? Even children don't pull such stupid antics. We witness in this story the utter failure of the mind to do more than operate at the reptile level and the automatic. These people will end up in the garbage heap of history because they are garbage people.

The man in question is still alive, and someone still wants him otherwise. How is it he still walks? If someone wishes he were otherwise than he is, then a thinking man would consider that such is worth money. Who would consider paying? How would one find and approach those who would offer a settlement for such a proposition? And like any business deal, how does one provide the service and get the payment? Anything other than the means to reinvest in ones business is a stupidity based on wage-slavery and lack of clear thought. To think small, to think clearly, to think of the future, that is the greatness of SMALL.

Social Revolution in Germany

Is this the Germany we used to hate and fear? Not at all. This is a new and equally disturbing Germany. Things change but they seldom improve in the world of European politics. The question is whether the people will act as responsible citizens or if they'll continue acting like farm animals, roused and riled into frenzies, or stupefied into states of zombie-like obedience to the ruling cliques as per usual.

The German intelligentsia has consistently betrayed the telos of Humanity since at least the time of Fichte, and nothing better seems to be on the horizon of Germanic thought. More and more German Revolution, and not a spark of that which makes man a free and independent creature, that which his nature demands of Right. Betrayal of the Human is the consistent theme of the German Revolution. Will it turn? Or will the German people once again follow their rulers into destruction and perhaps this time utter oblivion?

Germany's Intifada

By Stephen Brown
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, August 01, 2008

First it was France, and now Germany.

German authorities are reporting that, within their cities, areas now exist where police fear to tread. In many German urban areas drug dealing, theft, brawls, and assaults on police officers are the order of the day. The problem is becoming so severe police scarcely dare enter some quarters except in strength, while in others they concentrate on their own safety first.

But this is old news to French law enforcement officials. The 2005 riots woke France up to the fact that an anti-civilization had arisen in the "banlieues" (housing projects), which surround major French cities. Populated mainly by immigrants from North and West Africa, many with a Muslim background, they are known as places of anger and aggression towards anyone who represents "official" France.

French police are sometimes attacked with Molotov cocktails when they enter such areas. Firemen and ambulance attendants are not treated much better. Police even had difficulty protecting a French president, Jacques Chirac, and his interior minister when they went campaigning in a banlieue. The two high-ranking politicians were also met with Molotovs and had to retreat.

In all, the French housing projects have the look of scarred battlefields with burnt out cars littering the landscape. The extent of France's lawlessness problem manifested itself last month when 592 cars were torched in France in the two nights surrounding Bastille Day, July 14 and 15, 150 in the Paris region alone. To make matters worse, Islamic fundamentalists have attracted many of the banlieus' unemployed, uneducated and frustrated young men to their cause. These fundamentalists, it is suspected, were the ones directing the 2005 disturbances and their recurrence in 2007.

In Germany, the problem neighbourhoods are often located within the city and not on the outskirts. Like in France, though, urban anti-societies have arisen, but in Germany they consist mainly of Turkish and Arab immigrants, many from Lebanon. In their districts, German laws and values now have little, if any, validity, while their culture of lawlessness does.

Police complain that when they conduct routine checks in these neighbourhoods, they are met with angry crowds and often risk assault. Even when a policeman is carrying out a simple duty, like inspecting someone's identification, out of nowhere suddenly appear 20 to 30 men, yelling wildly, who push and shove him. They assemble quickly after having been contacted by cell phone.

While confrontations occur over nothing, violence can occur when the stakes are higher. When Berlin police arrested three drug-dealing Arabs in Kreuzberg, for example, a district where Turks and Arabs form the majority, they were immediately swarmed by two dozen men who tried to free the suspected criminals by force. Only the quick arrival of reinforcements saved the day. It is also in Kreuzberg that the first car burnings in Germany took place.

For the last ten years Berlin has been the leading German city for such "resistance-to-police" incidents. Overall, Germany's police union records an average of 26,000 such occurrences a year, an increase of 60 per cent from the 1980s. Berlin accounts for about 3,000 of this total. In Germany's capital, a union official said, there exists "an alarm level red" concerning violence against police.

"We have been registering for years a loss of police authority and a rapid sinking of a lack of restraint," said Eberhard Schonberg, the police union's head.

But what is even more disturbing to law enforcement officials is the increase in violent crime among minors, especially those with a foreign background. Germany was shocked this year when two youths, one Turkish and the other Greek, nearly beat a 76-year-old retired school principal to death in Munich last December. The pensioner had admonished them for smoking on a commuter train. The two criminals kicked and yelled "s**t German" at the man's prostrate form after having knocked him down.

There is also an overrepresentation of immigrant youth in crime statistics. A survey of schools in western German cities showed that ten per cent of the Turkish students were repeat offenders, who had committed more than five violent offences. The same survey showed 8.3 per cent of students from the former Yugoslavia were in the same category along with 5.9 per cent from the former Soviet Union. Native-born Germans, who also included those from migrant backgrounds with German citizenship, made up only 2.9 per cent of such delinquents.

And while German teenagers are more often the victims of youth crime, immigrant youth brutality very often occurs between different ethnic groups. Violence between Turks and Arabs at one high school in Berlin, for example, became so bad the principal asked the city to close her school. This incident then led other principals across Germany to request the same for their schools.

But even immigrant children as young as eight are committing illegal acts. Police report of an Arab neighborhood in Duisburg, a city in the Rhineland, where such youthful miscreants "kick old ladies, demand sexual intercourse from women, throw water-filled balloons against business windows and deliberately cross streets at red lights to create traffic jams." Their aim, police say, is to generate fear among outsiders.

The overall purpose of such disturbing behavior and anti-police incidents is to turn these immigrant neighbourhoods into lawless mini-states, where their tribal and religious customs and rules predominate, and criminals can act freely. In scuffles and confrontations German police are often told, in threat[ening] and obscenity-filled language, to go away and that these streets belong to the ethnic group that lives there.

As everyone knows, a competent and effective police force is necessary to protect the law-abiding citizen, guarantee his rights and carry out one of the main functions of the state: law and order. But increasingly in some European urban areas, a police uniform has come to mean nothing. And countries like Germany do not act now to reverse this, their cities will become as burnt out and eviscerated as the carcasses of cars France knows only too well.

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7E34D79C-D2A7-4709-B7BE-1CDD528A9B1F

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The problem is not of German cowardice but of German collectivism.

In most nations the people are concerned with the daily privacies of life, of feeding themselves and their families, of finding the necessary stuff of living, and such leads to a normal apathy regarding the greater polity, leaving the masses to pursue their private needs and interests solely. Nothing in that sense is different in Germany or Ghana or Guyana. But in Germany, swarmed by an invasion of primitivism from outside, undermined by a swarm of destructive nativist Romanticism, the problem is acute and inflamed.

What is to be done, as Lenin asked so forthrightly?

Germany, more than most nations, is the one European nation that is culturally committed to collectivism. The people act in turn with the whole rather than as individuals, to a greater extent than many other Modernist nations. Still, there will be those few who act as the initiators of social change, leading the masses into some indescribable future. That would be you, dear reader.

One must not expect much activity from those who suffer the result of invasion, not from the invaders themselves nor from those invaded, daily life taking immediate precedence at all times for nearly all people, leaving only a tiny vanguard of intellectuals and activists to pursue the coming agenda, whatever it might be. But something must be done because it is in the nature of Man to do, even if it is from the tiniest minority of Man. There is no sitting back and living daily routines forever for the placid, simply because Man is not forever content with any status quo, regardless of the conditions. Some will act, regardless of the action. Some will move and shake. One must assume here that our readers are such movers and shakers.

What is to be done? In fairness, it matters not at all what is done. Some will do and some will be done.

On Idiots and Useful Idiots

Jim David Adkisson of Knoxville, entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, headquartered in Boston, with a shotgun and killed two, wounded others.

A news report from Boston:

There was one previous shooting at a Unitarian Universalist congregation. In 2001, police in Brattleboro killed a man wielding a knife in a church there, and there have been several recent shootings at churches of other denominations.

"The first reaction is, 'Why a Unitarian Universalist church, and why go in there when there are children there and try to kill people because of liberalism?' " said the Rev. Kristen Harper, minister of the Unitarian Church of Barnstable on Cape Cod.

"Even though he's crazy, you still wonder, why a liberal church, and how does shooting up liberals make sense?" she said. "For people to use violence against us, it's really sad."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/07/30/unitarians_are_rattled_by_attack_on_church/

OK, call me a heartless reactionary, but I think it's a bit more than "sad" to have people shot down in a church like dogs. If one is a brain-dead flake, then maybe "sad" is as deep as one gets. Still, in the real world where the living die and where the living live on if they survive, what good did the man do in furthering his own cause? I think it's fair to say he did nothing in his own cause, either case above. Failure. There is no welcome of failures here. It is more than sad to see people killed for no reason at all other than to satisfy ones own rage against ones own failure in life. No place here for those.

The Washington Post and Newsweek come up with this, quoting people Jim David Adkisson would likely have delighted in shooting. He didn't shoot them. They speak to the press:

The Unitarian Universalist Association might be the most liberal denomination in the country. Most members consider themselves part of a post-Christian religion that draws wisdom from all religions and philosophies. There is no central creed, but the denomination promotes a set of principles that includes a belief in "the inherent worth and dignity of every person."

David Gushee and Rachel Laser used a similar phrase earlier this month when they called on Barack Obama and John McCain "to bring a just end" to the culture wars.

"Gay and lesbian issues, like abortion, have also been tearing the nation apart," Gushee, an evangelical and professor at Mercer University, and Laser, a program director for the progressive think tank called Third Way, wrote in a guest column for On Faith.

"But on these issues too we can find a shared common value and shared path forward. That shared value is human dignity. We can all agree that all human beings are created in God's image and have and deserve an innate human dignity - even those with whom one differs or disagrees. We can all agree that honoring this human dignity is a high moral and religious calling."

"Senators McCain and Obama," they concluded, "each of you has great potential to model a new type of leadership. Each of you has the power to heal the country and carve a new path forward through our shared common values. We humbly submit our joint prayer that you, Senators McCain and Obama, help bring a just end to the culture wars."

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2008/07/a_whole_lotta_ugly_in_church_s.html

V.I. Lenin would have referred to Adkisson as a "useful idiot." But Adkisson was not useful. He was merely an idiot. A homicidal idiot, but an idiot nonetheless.