Posts Tagged ‘reality’

One of the reasons why I haven’t posted this stuff every day is because it is so common that its just not news. Kevin Libin at the National Post elaborates further:

On Saturday in Montreal a thousand or more protestors marched downtown chanting ‘The Jews are our dogs,’ and cheering not one, but two, banned Islamist terrorist groups — Hamas and Hezbollah — in the company of labour leaders and politicians. It didn’t make front-page news. Save one or two exceptions, it didn’t make back-page news. In Canada, this is, it seems, not news.

He points of the compromise of the media that this is and asks why?

For whatever reason, we are seeing rallies in major cities calling for genocide, celebrating terrorism and spouting hatred against a minority group — but the media is missing the story. Maybe calling out certain groups makes Canada’s media uncomfortable, or maybe they have become inured to the extreme radicalization of Palestinian supporters here.

I think Mr. Goldman might say the reason is they agree with them, or perhaps they are afraid of having their throats cut. After all its the same silence of the left that followed Theo Van Gogh’s murder.

Theo van Gogh was murdered for making a film about the abuse suffered by a Muslim woman at the hands of her husband. Yet liberal opinion has largely kept silent about this outrage. Bestselling author Douglas Murray argues that this is symptomatic of a wider refusal by opinion leaders – and European governments – to face up to growing threat of radical Islam.

Ezra Levant talks about the double standard

Imagine if hundreds of Canadians marched, some in KKK white sheets, calling blacks “our dogs”. You can make your own example — if it were any other group besides Jews being demonized.

Or, frankly, any other group other than radical Muslims doing the demonizing. If a thousand skinheads had marched, burning Stars of David, calling Jews “dogs”, and swearing a bloody death to Jews, you can imagine the response — starting with the SWAT team.

And how it will end:

Marches like this one, in the streets of Canada, are the bigger problem. Waving the terrorist flag of Hezbollah; singing praise for Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah; calling for the destruction of the Jewish state.

They didn’t have YouTube back in Germany in the 1930s, but I bet the S.A. marches looked a lot like this.

If this goes unchecked — if the Prime Minister, the Premier, the Mayor of Montreal don’t sharply rebuke this Lord of the Flies anti-Semitic flourish, this domestic recreation of the Durban hate-fest — then, as sure as night follows day, we’ll have our own Kristalnacht.

Because, really: how many steps is it from masked men waving terrorist flags, calling Jews dogs and burning the Star of David, to breaking some windows and torching some shops?

Montreal Jews can ask Parisian Jews how long it took. Not long.

This is why the Jews in Gaza are ignoring the UN and why they should.

Update: Tweaked the title.

That was funny

Posted: January 14, 2009 by datechguy in gaming, opinion/news, war
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Slept late today due to gamenight (Played the new version of Britannia game) from Fantasy Flight Games. Pretty solid game.) so I’ve come late to Morning Joe today.

I thought that Mikia’s, Pat & Tom’s Brokaw’s heads were going to blow up when Tom Freedman stated and Mike Barnicle agreed that its a war and the notion of proportionate response was nonsense. Mika then complained that so many more Palestinians have been killed than Israeli no difference given between civilian and military.

She quickly changed the subject to “torture”. I haven’t seen the article in question but the methods described don’t sound like torture to me.

Returns?

Posted: January 13, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Via Hotair, David Schwammenthal’s article on the hatred of Jews is pretty much spot on with one exception. The word Returns.

The irrational hatred of Jews is very old, it never left Europe particularly among the chattering classes that now thrive within the structure of the European Union.

And lets go one step farther, the west and Europe didn’t give a damn about the extermination of Jews in Europe. One can make the argument that as a military matter it was secondary to winning the war, but does anyone seriously believe that any European Power would have gone to war over the death camps alone?

The Holocaust’s confirmation by the average US soldier and the outrage they felt is what became the elite’s “never again” mantra. It dressed an already just war with an incredible moral cloak that will never be lost. Europe’s used their memorializing of the Holocaust to wash away their own mistrust of the Jews in the same way that, in my opinion many people have used the last US election as an act of contrition for their own racism.

The difference as has been said on many blogs in the last few weeks is as follows: When Europe said “never again” they meant that never would they be at fault for the extermination of millions. This statement however hasn’t prevented them from ignoring and or enabling slaughter in the former Yugoslavia or Rwanda Darfur or anywhere else.

When European and other Jews said never again they meant that never again would they be so weak and so vulnerable that they would allow themselves to be slaughtered. Israel has kept that promise despite the best efforts of Arabs and the indifference and or opposition of Europeans for over 50 years.

They will continue to do so.

Cause and effect

Posted: January 13, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Effect:

San Francisco’s surveillance cameras in high-crime areas do not prevent violent crime, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California.

This would see counter intuitive but lets not forget this is San Francisco.

Cause:

Mayor Newsom began the program four years ago, but out of concern for people’s privacy, police are not allowed to monitor cameras in real time. Investigators must wait until a crime is reported before looking at footage.

Hey they voted for him, via Glenn.