The host of Defend The West has embarked on a new project. It is hoped that this new project expands rapidly in its intended effect and therefore dedication of time to this blog may be minimal. When the time is right, a link to the new project will be provided here.
It is interesting occasionally keeping track of the activism of Netherlander Gert Wilders. He has announced that he will travel to the UK, at the request of a member of Parliament, despite the UK government’s label on him as persona-non-grata. Wilders, of course, is the producer of the film Fitna. It is this film that has caused him to be looked upon with infamy. A film that merely puts Islam on display using the words of Islam, and the contemporary deeds that have been attributed to Islam by the various perpetrators.
If a murderer is democratically elected to a position of power, is he not still a murderer?
Nine/Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) is a new discovery here. The NEFA web site contains a huge collection of information about Jihadi violence and the funding and training that supports it.
I currently display the following bumper sticker on my primary vehicle:
I picked this up over at LibertyStickers. I do agree with the tongue-in-cheek sentiment of this slogan but I realize that I must be careful so as to not be painted into the complete sentiment of LibertyStickers collection of offerings.
After all, the depth of political discourse these days rarely goes beyond superficial. Here is another of their current, and accurate offerings:
Frequently, many of us in the United States may think that the “Terror” threat to us began on a clear autumn day in the year 2001. The ideological dimension of the threat has been persistent for 14 centuries. The contemporary threat has been growing in parallel with increases in global travel and the growing wealth of the Muslim world.
The current version of the threat can be described to have begun in the 1970’s. We did not really notice it much then due to our preoccupation with the raging Cold War. Nevertheless, the bad guys were already among us, plying their craft. Way back in 1973, one of these bad guys attempted acts of mass murder on US soil. We caught him in 1991 and put him in jail. Now, having “paid his debt to society,” he will soon be released and deported.
There is a very thorough account of the story over at Fox News. Read the whole thing to get an appreciation for the persistence and nature of the treat. Like many of the bad guys that have been released from Gitmo, this fellow is sure to similarly return to his life-ling sworn mission of existence.
I belive that civil law, and our strategy (more accurately our lack of strategy) are characteristically inadequate to counter the threat over the long term. In many cases, success will really depend on the front-line folks, like agent Mike Finnegan to do the right thing while the beauracacy above and behind them wallows in political self-interest and tidal motions of indecision.
Here is an interesting note that should not be missed: Al-Jawary used airline flight training as his cover purpose for being in the United States in the 1970’s.
It has kinda’ been an extra-long weekend here in the DC Metro area, with MLK day and then the Gov all shut down today. So, there was a lot of surfing going on.
I came upon a whole bunch of locales that I will categorize as 2nd Amendment blogs. Before linking or highlighting those, I need to do a review to find the ones than most align with the purpose here, and not get things bogged down on the ones that are more hardware oriented.
Through other surfing, I came upon Middle Class Moral Compass. This one I have linked to. Time to accelerate the building of the network that will be critical to saving the world.
“The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government.”
This post at SDA provides an excellent view into what the internet can do for us - It builds connections among communities such that truly eclectic thinking and discussion can take place. This will allow real people to make real decisions that can have a real and positive effect on the community at large. The internet gives us an opportunity to escape the darkness of the control of elitist entities - like the know-it-all “press” that thinks its role is to tell us how to think exactly like they think. No more.
The internet didn’t just connect politically like-minded people whose views are under-served. It connected the highly trained and knowledgeable across geographic regions and fields of expertise, enabling them to compare notes and realize “it’s not just us”. That by and large, journalism is perhaps the only profession where the utterly unqualified are given the privilege of writing to a mass audience on topics that they really not ought to.
At one time, the error in basic chemistry or math might only be spotted by a few trained individuals in the field. A messed up report on the Canadian Wheat Board would raise the ire of ag producers but not much more. Misidentifying a weapons system would pass unnoticed by all but the military.
Today the chemists, ag producers and military talk to each other, and the conclusion they’re coming to is that an uncomfortably large percentage of journalists are not merely tainted by political assumptions - they’re lazy, stupid, or both.