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| The Fear at the Heart of Europe |
| 2006-08-26 |
| Earlier today, a dog who's visiting me found herself in a frightening position, on a wobbly table twice her height above the ground. She's a timid and defensive creature, growls while eating even though none of the other dogs threatens her or her food. Give her a little extra attention, though, and she tries to be Queen of the Pack, only to find she can't back up the claims with tooth or nail. At which point it's back to cringing. So here she found herself, in a scary place. She could easily have jumped down without much danger, but she froze in place trembling. Snarled at the other dogs below, but couldn't bring herself to move. Struggled with me as I went to lift her off the table. Ironically, it's her defensiveness that triggers the other dogs to dominate her. She's caught in a loop of her own making. If she were staying here I'd name her Europe. For her behavior is just like that of many of the EU countries during the last 5 years and more. Insecure, unable to defend themselves, making claims to power they cannot back up, pushing aside -- and deeply resenting -- the stronger dogs in the pack. And in the face of the obvious evidence of growing Islamofascist threat, they have frozen. What strength they have, they will not use. Instead they divert themselves from feeling their own inner terror and sense of doom by snarling at those who are protecting them -- the US, UK, Australia. For much of the last 5 years I have been furious with Europe. Now I see those countries differently. I know from my work with dogs that no amount of coaxing or anger will make their behavior go away. *IF* it is possible to modify their behavior a little, it will be through absolutely refusing to give them attention and status when they are ill-behaved, and rewarding them only to the degree that their behavior improves. In dogs, temperament is about 75% genetic and the rest due to experiences in the environment. It is possible to change learned behaviors, but a dog that is shy and defensive at 12 weeks of age, after the basic pack socialization has occurred and the main brain connections are in place, can at best be mitigated by placing it in a home which has the fewest triggers for those feelings. They seldom can deal in the rumble-tumble busy-ness of a pack. They can thrive only within an environment of artificial peace and tranquility. Which is exactly what the EU is trying desperately to create for itself -- a world in which they have legislated away all threats, all challenges, all competition, all aggression. I no longer look for Europe to change at all, although I am glad to support voices of sanity and strength in those countries. We had better get used to going it alone except for cooperation from many of the security forces there, who both know the threat and are trained and temperamentally inclined to meet that threat with something other than impotent snarling and pathetic cringing. |
| Posted by:runs with wolves |
| #16 I've a hunch that 5089 owns a Ferrari. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-08-26 16:29 |
| #15 Memo to self: when disarming lotp, first the Sig P229, then the mascara ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-08-26 15:53 |
| #14 More seriously, this is from a blog more rightwing than most RBers, but the writer have a compelling point; to me, if this ggoes all to the end, and this might easily, this won't end with a bang, but with a whisper; not WWII redux, but conquest of Spain II (same causes, same effects) : Western liberalsÂ’ ultimate embrace of Islam |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-08-26 14:32 |
| #13 All I can say is, they'll take my mascara away from me when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. Ditto for my Sig P229. ;-) |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-08-26 14:16 |
| #12 And did I mention I already have a beard? Big plus. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-08-26 14:16 |
| #11 harem collection Mental note. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-08-26 14:15 |
| #10 I would make an excellent muslim, though, I'm bitter, I seethe easily, I nurture grudges, I'm an unproductive under-achiever, sexually repressed, and I can be violent when there's no risk for me. If I convert, I could be all that, AND be part of the Master Religion. As for the european vs the arab/african (who don't always love each others, and that's an understatement), the typical case of the european minority in muslim 'hoods holds a precious lesson : if you play the dhimmi card well IIUC (denigrate what's to be denigrated, fast on ramadan, speak with a proper accent, loath pork, always say what you're supposed to say,...), you can assimilate pretty well to your new majority, even if you're not a true muslim; trick is to be more "arab" than the arabs or what-have-you. Of course, you're right about the historical status of converts, especially low class ones. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-08-26 14:15 |
| #9 Our anon could always go on jihad and take a couple dozen captive. It's never to late to start a harem collection. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-08-26 14:12 |
| #8 No way open immigration from Europe. First as charger said, why import socialists to foul our nest as they have already done in Europe. Second, the ruling elites may take the opportunity to export their muslim population as Castro did with Cuba's prison population in 1980 (Thank you again James Earl Carter, you sanctimonious SOB). The only way to allow increased immigration from Europe is to be highly discriminatory wrt religion, politics, and job skills. Supermodels exempt. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-08-26 14:10 |
| #7 As a European convert you'd probably have low social standing... probably even lower than average if you're not of much material resources now. Who says you'd be one of the ones allowed ownership of a woman? |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2006-08-26 13:59 |
| #6 Uh huh. ;-) |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-08-26 13:41 |
| #5 The only people left would be the government employees and the jihadis. Or a vast mass of inept people like me, too scared to change. Oh, well, I'll just convert, then. Besides, it will enable me to get my long-awaited revenge on uppity wimmen. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-08-26 13:40 |
| #4 I'd change our immigration laws to grant any European who wants to come here an immigrant visa I think we'd want to be somewhat selective, though. The EU has a higher proportion of moonbats than we do, and we shouldn't just let any of them come here and screw the US up even more than it is. That would be rewarding Euro fecklessness. On the contrary, we might be better served telling them that since they won't have easy refuge here, maybe they should focus on cleaning up the mess in their own lands. |
| Posted by: charger 2006-08-26 13:27 |
| #3 There is no question that the most damaging act we could take against the security of the EU would be to open our borders. The only people left would be the government employees and the jihadis. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-08-26 13:22 |
| #2 Yup. They're going to Canada and Australia, mostly. I'd change our immigration laws to grant any European who wants to come here an immigrant visa (1:1 with visas for legal immigrants south of our border, how's that?). |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-08-26 12:16 |
| #1 I have read stories of white-flight from the Netherlands. That will escalate. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-26 12:04 |