Whatever You Do, Don't Fight Back
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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
romanticisation 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 erosions 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 prosyletising
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.
For the poison to seep
in, they might prefer a Liberal Democrat President, but they would
settle for a Republican one whose administration will counsel people
not to worry, teach them to tape the windows shut and do nothing,
especially not blame Islam or Muslims for terrorism. Especially not to
fight back.
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. The same banner liberals and conservatives both,
have spent too much time waving since the 70's. Whatever you do, don't
fight back.
About the Author
Sultan Knish ( Sultanknish.blogspot.com )is a blogger, journalist and freelance photographer born in Israel and currently living in New York City. If you want to use one of my pieces or have any questions you can email me and I'll get back to you shortly.
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