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Whatever You Do, Don't Fight Back


Posted: 16 May 2009 08:43 PM PDT



Out of Dallas comes a story about a 60 year old woman who wrestled
away a gun from a 19 year old teenager trying to steal her car and shot
him. The story's closing paragraph contains the cautionary note that has
become obligatory for postmodern America.

"We don't recommend it," Sgt. McFarlin said of the woman's decision to
confront her attacker. "Always the safe thing to do, unless you're in fear
of imminent bodily injury, is to comply."

Complying is indeed the recommended option these days, whether it's with
criminals or terrorists. Follow orders and hope you don't get hurt. How
many women have been forced into cars at the threat of a knife or a
gun, only to be taken away and raped and murdered. When people are
taught to comply, imminent injury ceases to be a risk but a consequence.

Complying was the standard recommendation for airplane hijackings.
This cultural programming was only broken on Flight 93, when the
consequences of compliance had become clear. It is not in Afghanistan or
Iraq, where the only truly decisive victory against terrorism occurred,
but on that plane, when the passengers chose to resist their attackers and
foil their plans.

The common denominator between crime and terrorism is that both are
cultural threats to our society. They originate from cultures existing
abroad and in the fringes of our own society. A criminal culture and a
terrorist culture. They cannot be defeated purely through military
means, they must be defeated at the cultural level, and that will only
happen when a society of committed individuals resist them, rather
than comply with them.

But we have been assiduously taught not to do this. We are taught to
vest out faith and rights into the hands of government bodies who will
handle our security for us. Our approach to terrorism is only an extension
of our approach to crime, which is to slide back and forth between
aggressive rhetoric and overbearing action to appeasement and
downright romanticistisation of the criminal and the terrorist.

This romanticisation of murderers and criminals who challenge
authority, itself stems from the loss of liberty inherent in a state which
preaches government power as the ultimate good and the ultimate
solution.

Once we transferred responsibility for our security from ourselves to a
designated professional force and made it all but illegal, for
people to defend others or themselves using force, we created the kind
of society that could stand by as Kitty Genovese was attacked
repeatedly over a half and allowed to die without any help.
We created a society perpetually afraid of crime and dependent on
police brutality and ruthless policing to keep it at bay. By taking away
the ability of ordinary citizens to protect themselves, we were left with
the false choice of either weak policing and anarchy or ruthless policing
and obscene erosion's of individual freedoms.

All attempts to transfer individual responsibilities to the government
however, are doomed to failure. A government educational system can
never replace parents. Government policing can never take the place
of individual deterrence and self-defense. Governments can defeat
armed forces, but they cannot defeat a culture. Only one culture can
defeat another culture and only one civilization can defeat another
civilization.

The War on Terror was marked by a government that rushed to pass
laws that were promptly never taken advantage of, or misused for
ordinary criminal prosecutions. While everyone from the President on
down rushed to insure the public that everything was under control,
attempts to give the American people a role in the War on Terror were
either squashed or squandered. The government insisted on doing it
on its own and worked hard to convince the public that this was a
conventional threat that could be defeated by conventional means,
because government always seeks to rhetorically recreate a situation
along the parameters that place it within its sphere of control.

In the War on Terror, domestic terrorists have been barely touched,
and the successes in Afghanistan and Iraq, ignored the fact that the
real threat lay not from Osama Bin Laden, but from the growing
Muslim immigration and accompanying legitimization of terrorism
and delegitimization of self-defense, that has turned Europe's former
great empires into supine chambers of appeasement before the
spawn of Mohammedanism. Unable to admit the average American
understands, the government's attempt to fight terrorism can only
stop state sponsors of terrorism, but not the disease vector of
terrorism itself, which is Islam.

The dream of Islamic supremacy cannot be blown up with a bomb.
It can be defeated only by a superior culture. A culture that is
unafraid of the truth and whose superiority rests in individual liberty
and self-reliance, rather than on grand government programs
that hunt mosquitoes with howitzer cannons.

Individual liberty is a free society's immunity mechanism that
prevents it from being overcome by malignant ideologies. A socialist
state which seeks to subdue the native energies, spirits and vigor of
its people, turns a Democratic society into little more than an inferior
version of the dictatorships and totalitarian ideologies it resists.

Inferior because true totalitarian regimes are far more thorough,
both in crushing their own people and in maintaining a police state over
them.

A government cannot subdue the Islamic threat. Military force is an
important component over defeating Islamic terrorism abroad, but we
can score military victories over Islamic terrorism across the world,
and yet see it spring up in new places every week. Because all that
Islamists require is a weak government and a crumbling social structure
to move in and begin taking over. Africa alone offers dozens of such
places. So does Southeast Asia. So does Europe.

A government cannot subdue an ideology. Bombing another training
camp in Pakistan does only a limited amount of good, when mosques are
preaching Jihad recruiting terrorists in our own cities. Fighting Islamic
terrorism abroad does little good, when our own schools and colleges
are proselytizing students with classes on the glories of the Religion of
Peace.
Terrorism is only the poison the snake spits. The snake itself is the rise
of Islam as a force in the modern world.
That snake stretches out from the sand pits of the Middle East, its
coils draping across Asia and Europe and its fangs reaching across
the ocean to America. The snake's body is composed of the numbers
of its worshipers, of their mosques and charities and schools and
institutions.

Since 9/11 Muslims boast that conversions to Islam have gone up.
The murder of over 3000 Americans served as a kind of publicity
stunt to launch the promotion of the religion responsible for it.
The average American today is fed a dozen lies about Islam before
breakfast, all of them sickeningly sweet. The empty debate rages
about whether to pull in and out of Iraq, when the real battle for the
West is being fought in Paris and Brussels and Rome and for that
matter Detroit.

As the death toll in the unofficial war being fought in Europe rises, the
media trumpets each dead American soldier. In Sweden women are told
not to dress provocatively or meet the eyes of Muslim men. In Australia
rhetoric against Muslims is punished with jail time. In England
republication of cartoons offensive to Muslims is set to trigger a criminal
prosecution. In America rumors of a supposed Koran in the toilet trigger
police investigations.

All of it falls under a single banner,
whatever you do, don't fight back.

And that is all Islam needs to win.
















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