by J. R. Nyquist
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SHOOT RIOTERS ON SIGHT
http://www.newswithviews.com/Duke/selwyn23.htm
by Selwyn Duke
November 10, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
As riots spread throughout France like wildfires left
unattended by those afraid to use water, a sane person has to be struck by the
impotence of modern Western governments. Whether it's Moslem enclaves in France,
New Orleans in the wake of Katrina, or South Central Los Angeles after the
Rodney King verdict, it seems that the new paradigm involves letting wicked
flames burn themselves out, only doused at times by the innocent blood of
victims who, in a most shameful abdication of governmental duty, are left to
twist in the wind by the Neros who masquerade as statesmen.
As to the unrest in France, I have read headlines stating
that the authorities "can't" stop the violence. "Can't" is an interesting choice
of a word. A better one would be "won't." Because, I assure you, I could have
stopped the riots on the first day.
The solution: shoot rioters on sight.
Uncompassionate, say you? Okay, let's talk about compassion.
Some contemptible rioters in France doused a woman, who was
in her fifties and on crutches, with some kind of liquid and set her alight.
She's now hospitalized with severe burns.
Sixty-one-year-old Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec died after being
beaten into a coma by an attacker.
There have now been scores of casualties amidst the violence,
and non-Moslem people cannot enter the areas of unrest (I wonder, will this
targeting of non-Moslems be labeled hate-crime?).
More than five-thousand cars and dozens of buildings -
including schools and churches - have been burned. By the way, could you imagine
the hue and cry if a Christian mob had torched mosques?
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, some people were raped
and/or murdered, and roving bands of thugs fired on emergency services vehicles
and aircraft, hampering rescue efforts and decreasing the chances that those in
dire straits would receive life-saving aid. In France, too, there were reports
of an attack on a hospital and an ambulance whose transit was impeded.
During the Rodney King riots, Reginald Denny halted his
tractor-trailer truck upon encountering a group of rioters so as to avoid
running them over. The thanks he got was to be beaten to within an inch of his
life, receiving blows that broke more than ninety bones in his face.
Incidentally, the criminal, Rodney King, was awarded 3.8 million dollars of the
taxpayers' money for his lumps and bumps. Denny came away with a broken body.
Do you see a pattern here? What do you think accounts for
this ubiquitous governmental failure to act swiftly and proportionately in the
face of mayhem? What is to blame for this tolerance of evil? I can encapsulate
it in one word: liberalism. Yes, liberalism. There was a time when riots would
have been quelled with a firm hand, nipping the problem in the bud. But that was
in bygone days, before decades of liberalism elevated the villainous to victim
status and cast true victims as unavoidable collateral damage.
Now there's an excuse for every riot, often attended by a
term adopted to describe the justification. In Los Angeles it was "black rage,"
and now in France it's "disaffected youth." Yes, people may not be held
accountable because they're victims of their "socialization" or of
discrimination or the system or ethnocentrism, or, whatever other
rationalization du jour is conjured up by those who live in a liberal
fantasy-world built on self-delusion. And never do they ask, perhaps during a
rare, lucid moment, the obvious question. If everyone is a victim, who is the
victimizer?
It should surprise no one that I segued right from compassion
into liberalism, since the latter is the direct cause of our current paralysis
by misanalysis. It is why we embrace the bad chess player,
never-seeing-more-than-one-move-ahead strategy that precludes us from
extinguishing a fire before it grows into a raging inferno. The fact of the
matter is that when those bent on doing evil find no opposition, they become
emboldened and others of their ilk join the fray. This is why riots that started
in suburbs of Paris have now, like a metastasizing cancer, spread to other parts
of the country.
Of course, they could have been ended at the get-go with a
few well-placed salvos and a credible threat that continued violence would be
met with of more of the same. Not that I'm proposing a bloodbath, mind you. Yes,
a few miscreants would have been shot, but the rest of the vermin would have
gone scurrying back into their holes and lived to complain another day.
Instead, because of gross governmental negligence during all
the tragedies I mentioned, those few criminals emerged unscathed and innocent
people were hurt and killed. And don't forget the women violated, the property
destroyed, and the intensifying of the atmosphere that tolerates this barbarity,
which increases the chances we'll see more of it. Oh, but I forgot, we have to
be compassionate.
Or, to be precise, liberal, counterfeit compassion is what's
expected of us. Liberals observe social breakdown from a distance, safely
ensconced in their ivory towers, and would have us believe that they feel sorry
for the poor, tormented souls who rage against "oppressors." But as these
pseudo-sophisticates pontificate about the plight of criminals, blind to the
fact that their mistakes of comission created the powder keg as much as their
mistakes of omission lit the fuse, where is their compassion for the ravagers'
innocent victims? Compassion, my foot. Liberals are simply detached,
cold-hearted menaces to society.
Of course, liberals will tell us that we just have to
understand the hand that life has dealt to these downtrodden wretches, who, in
the case of the Moslems in France, are sometimes coordinating their attacks via
cellphone or email. It really gives new meaning to Thoreau's line, "Give me the
poverty that enjoys true wealth."
Understand them? No, liberals, you have to understand them
and they have to understand us. You have to understand that in every society
there are people who are bent on doing evil. Such ne'er do wells will seize upon
any opportunity to enrich or benefit themselves or wreak havoc, and you can no
more mollify them than Chamberlain could appease Hitler. Perhaps you should
study Erikson's stages of psychosocial development or just read Lord of the
Flies, and then, maybe, just possibly, a little light bulb will go off in your
cranium.
As for the rioting swine, they have to understand that if
they dare raise a menacing fist to their fellow man, they'll promptly be struck
by a Draconian hand. That's the language they understand.
Of course, this is all just part of a systemic problem. It's
just the same as when liberal school administrators tell a bullied child that
they can't bring his tormentors to heel, so he should stay home and be relegated
to homebound tutelage. Yes, place the onus on the innocent and let the wicked
hold sway.
And so it was during Hurricane Katrina. What was the response
of our feckless government to the pillaging miscreants who preyed on the
vulnerable? New Orleans seized the guns of law-abiding citizens!
So, let's get this straight: first the government abdicated
its responsibility to protect its people, being too cowed by
political-correctness to take necessary action. Then, outrageously,
unconscionably, it declawed the good people, leaving them defenseless and at the
mercy of predators who roamed about with relative impunity. Ah, the fruits of
liberalism: authoritarianism for the good and anarchy for the bad. It's a deadly
combination.
It's much the same in France, with her NATO (No action - talk
only) government. But talk is cheap, as proven by President Jacques Chirac who
warned,
"An escalation of disrespectful behavior would lead to a
dangerous situation . . . there can be no area existing outside the law [in
France]."
Here's a clue, Chirac, it is a dangerous situation, and these
areas are existing outside the law at this time. But Chirac is the
quintessential, effete, irresponsible liberal leader, as lacking in intestinal
fortitude as he is in integrity. His tough talk rings hollow. He has done little
of substance to protect his people as of this writing and, since he and his
fellow statists have largely disarmed the French, they're easy prey.
Then there is the talk that isn't merely cheap, but stupid.
In the face of violence of insurrection proportions, some are propounding
politically-correct theories and engaging in self-flagellation, instead of
demanding that the government lock and load. Chirac took the cowardly lead as he
obsequiously opined,
"[France] has not done everything possible for these youths,
supported them so they feel understood, heard and respected."
Not to be outdone, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin
advocated a 35.5 billion-dollar handout and said,
"We must offer them hope and a future."
Yeah, the "disaffected youth" need a few more cellphones and
computers so they all can become high-tech Jihadists.
Listen, the time for Akhmed to be transformed into a moral
being was when he was a wee lad at his mother's knee. But when he's grown and
gruesome and charging you with an axe, it's time to shoot. Liberals always
prescribe an ounce of prevention when it's time for a pound of cure. It's all
quite pathetic.
So, I have as message. Pusillanimity, thy name is liberal
politician. Liberal politician, you are weak. You are entropy in action. Your
ranks are filled with feminized capons and masculinized, clucking hens, leaving
you only to ponder which sorry set makes for better men. And if you knew what
masculinity was, what femininity was - if you even believed that such qualities
were a reflection of the divine and not merely social constructs - you would
have a prayer of reclaiming your manhood and resurrecting virtue in yourself at
this, the eleventh hour. Alas, though, lost in a sea of confusion and androgyny
you've become a pathetic creature, possessing neither Christian fortitude nor
even pagan ferocity. Yet, you indulge the delusion that you're fit to perpetuate
civilization? You fancy yourself capable to run a nation? The only thing you can
run is your mouth.
I also know that when you lose a loved one to the fangs of a
viper whose base instincts were loosed upon the world by the permissive
environment you cultivated, even this pain won't inspire you to look inwards.
Nay, you will blame some infernal bugaboo. It will be privation caused by
trickle-down economics, a paucity of gun-control laws, the destruction of
cultural identity, unequal education or disparities in caste and station, the
pangs of teenage or black rage, oppressive summer heat or the persecuted Moslem
street. All those "truths" that relativists learn in sociology class and embrace
as self-evident will crystallize in your mind, causing you to cry out to the
heavens for more of the disease and the smiting of those who, unbeknownst to
you, hold the cure.
Sadly, the Western world is replete with governments that do
a lot of what they shouldn't and precious little of what they should. Government
isn't supposed to be dispensing condoms and teaching children about sex,
offering free tattoo-removal programs, coercively extracting money from citizens
for charitable endeavors, building 250 million dollar bridges to nowhere, or
mandating that you must hire cross-dressers. A legitimate role of government,
though, is to secure domestic tranquility. If the nanny state regimes in
existence can't even do that, they should go the way of the Dodo. And I say
goodbye and good riddance.
There was a woman on crutches who, because of liberal
compassion, now has another great cross to bear. And the family of Jean-Jacques
Le Chenadec will see him no more. Compassion means protecting the good, not
tolerating the iniquitous. Liberals, you have been found wanting and are
enablers of evil. The blood of innocents is on your hands.
© 2005 Selwyn Duke - All Rights Reserved
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Selwyn Duke lives in Westchester County, New York. He's a
tennis professional, internet entrepreneur and writer whose works have appeared
on various sites on the Internet, including Intellectual Conservative,
nenewamerica.us (Alan Keyes) and Mensnet. Selwyn has traveled extensively in his
life, visiting exotic locales such as India, Morocco and Algeria and quite a
number of other countries while playing the international tennis circuit.
