31Oct06

From a friend in a dying France:

"'Incidents,'largely unreported (our news media, lik e yours, never met an Islamic extremist, or a Communist, they didn't like), have been common all year, including a whole train (not subway, but cross-country train, traveli ng between Marseilles and Lyon) that was invaded by thirty, young Muslims. Passengers were robbed, beaten, and nearly all women were sexually abused. The gang departed before any police arrived. Not a word of this was reported by the major media.

French police subsequently arrested 'the usual suspects,' wh o were not involved but are easily taken into custody (because they don't resist violen tly) and waited for the outrage to die down, all the while dangling carrots in front of Islamic organizations. These are little more than bribes, indeed

extortion.

Meanwhile, our police dare not enter those ever-growing areas controlled by

Islamics, where all the real perpetrators can be found. These places are now, for all intents and purposes, separate nations, with their own laws and government, Moslem beachheads in Western Europe. There is no political will here to do anything about it. Our politicians are sluttish cowards, just like yours.

Radical Islamics account for only a minority of the Moslem population, but perpetually unemployed men, unceasingly on the dole, are easy to incite. Bombings and assassinations keep reticent ones in line. Bad guys are ever more organized and extensively networked across Europe. Nothing, beyond lip service, will be done to oppose or even contain them, at least by the curre nt gaggle of elected gasbags.

We Europeans, currently in mass denial, are moving headlong toward major, armed conflict."

Comment: The end of the Nineteenth Century saw the last of the "Litt le Wars," the (1) Boxer Rebellion in China, the (2) Russo/Japanese War in Manchuria,

the (3) Second Anglo/Boer War in South Africa, and the (4) Spanish/American

War in Cuba and the Philippines. These conflicts gave the world a depressi ng hint of what was coming. World War I stunned the civilized world with its stupefying level of destruction, and a death toll that went off the scale.

When it finally played itself out, many delusionally believed it was the la st " World War." They were foolish and naive! World War II started tw enty-one years later, almost to the day!

After thus hosting two, murderous, world configurations, the Twentieth Century gave way to the Twenty-First, and future historians will likely fin d the Twentieth was positively enlightened by comparison!

Western Civilization, born among, and so carefully nurtured by, selfless heroes from the Ancient Greeks to Marines in Iraq today, is, as we dither, crumbling under our feet! Its demise will usher in a Great New Dark Age, j ust as the world witnessed fifteen hundred years ago.

"It did not come with the mountain. It was not one with the deep. Men, no t gods, devised it, and men, not gods, must keep!"

/John