President Obama (and his administration) is facing establishment backlash for not attending Paris’s solidarity rally.
As leader of the free world (whatever the hell that means today), I suppose he should have attended the march of hugs and kisses, or at the least sent Secretary of State John Kerry or Vice President Joe Biden. When one Western democracy marches, the rest often have to follow suit. But for reasons unknown, President Obama decided not to attend, nor did he send anyone in his stead. Nevertheless, the world took notice.
I have to agree with President Obama for not attending, though I’m sure our reasons differ greatly.
As an outside observer, the solidarity march about as useless as it is pathetic. It’s unclear what it’s supposed to signal to groups like ISIS or al-Qaeda–it’s at least possible that the organizers believed that the sheer PR force and pot-banging from the rally would be enough to ward off the ghosts of Islam.
So, we’re left with one conclusion: the march is little more than an orchestrated and calculated ploy to reinforce the Narrative: “Move along, turn your eyes away from your slain brethren, and remember not. We really can live together. Multiculturalism and third world Islamic immigration will work. Trust us.” As German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the press on Monday, Islam “belongs to Germany.”
We are supposed to show solidarity in this insanity?
What of the free speech part of the rally? Europe routinely (Great Britain, especially so) throws in jail any native who even whispers insensitivity against homosexuality or Islam.
Instead, the rally likely serves as a sort of distraction. After the mayhem, the press snapped back, rebounding in an effort to smother disagreement or a realization that Islam is not of Europe, by Europe, or for Europe. The excuse-makers took the airways along with Western leaders to obfuscate and misdirect, and to dwell on the consequences of the killings. What were those consequences? The consequences revolved around how Marine Le Pen’s National Front party, as well as other right-wing movements in Europe, would benefit. It’s in the Emphasis. Not outright denial of the events. Emphasis. Rotherham. The press employed the same tactics during the Rotherham scandal: “Keep calm, carry on. Fight the bigots. This isn’t even Islam. It has nothing to do with race. It has nothing to do with religion. No-go zones are not the problem.”
Never mind the fact that Le Pen was already ahead of her challengers in France before the attacks. In fact, her party’s ideas are increasingly becoming mainstream in France. The media is dragging its heels, and as a result, losing legitimacy on the daily as the press’ narrative sharply diverges from public opinion. Nevertheless, they persist in labeling her and her party “extremist” and “far right.” You can expect the rhetoric to reach fever pitch as panic sets in.
And so, Le Pen was not invited to the solidarity march. After all, she is extreme. In spite of her popularity, in spite of her willingness to speak out against the very thing that had all these silly hearts marching in the first place, namely imported Islamic terrorism, she and her party were given no role to play. Solidarity as Sham.
This scenario is repeatable. The elites act quickly, smearing the blood of the victims on their faces, holding hands, walking shoulder to shoulder, and promising solidarity. Meanwhile, the manufactured outburst and compassion clouds the mind of the people and retards any good judgment as the social/media frenzy floods over them.
The solidarity themes, the constant appeals and blathering about egalitarianism acts as a spell. It turns righteous anger, a rather sane reaction, into misery and confusion. The elite averts disaster by channeling that anger away, while channeling in the misery and confusion and give it a name like solidarity.
As a result, people become reluctant or scared to identify the real source of danger. The Western mind is captured, fooled by misdirection, and wracked by imposed feelings of guilt.
The enforcers of the Narrative are the progressive sociopaths in constant need for attention and gratification. They desire the same sympathy as the victims (best illustrated in the #illridewithyou lie).
The state organs supply the feel good ointment of diversity. The repeated tropes of so-called Western ideals convince them to rally in defense of that which is killing them.
Whatever is left of Western Civilization is all that we have. It’s time to Strong Horse the good parts and cull the bad. Islam may be a Strong Horse, but it’s not our horse. In this sort of environment, the only acceptable response to Islam is no quarter.
The whole thing strikes me as a giant “COEXIST” rally. When I see one of those “COEXIST” bumper stickers, I know the driver is irreligious and cowardly. Being irreligious, he doesn’t understand what it means to take your religion seriously. Being a coward he is shocked and terrified when someone does, it’s insane and evil and scary! No one should be willing to die for any reason! The “COEXIST” coward doesn’t just die inside every day, he kills himself inside first thing every morning.
Rachael Jacobs
“Tears sprang to my eyes and I was struck by feelings of anger, sadness and bitterness. It was in this mindset that I punched the first status update into my phone, hoping my friends would take a moment to think about the victims of the siege who were not in the cafe.”
Your and mine sentiment captured perfectly. Coexist on full display: remember the victims not in the cafe. It’s insanity. The artificial emotional struggles of dangerously unstable and defective individuals drive the discourse of the day. The #illridewithyou was one of the greatest examples of that. The wish to commemorate the end of a life with a hashtag that has nothing to do with those killed. The real victims are the Muslims living in an insidious racist White country.
I just keep asking progressives, “how many more of us will have to die before you recognize that Islam has no place in the West?”
I press them on a number. Will 1,000 more deaths of innocent Westerners do it? Or would it take another 9/11 with 3,000 dead? How about if an entire major Western city is destroyed by a Muslim nuclear weapon? Then would the progressive recognize that Islam is not compatible with us?
Or is there no limit to the number of deaths we have to accept, so that progressives can keep up their fiction that all peoples and all cultures are equal?
I have yet to have a progressive answer the question. It just stops them cold because they recognize that they can’t accept unlimited deaths, but they can’t accept agreeing that there are a group of “others” who truly do not belong in our countries.
A robot-like voice says: “Don’t look down on the tracks. Move along”
Winston Smith moves along. Everything will be OK. Big Brother will take care of everything. Big Brother will do his thinking for him, he doesn’t need to bother. He takes a look at his watch, and rushes through the station, making his way through the proles, in order not to be late at the Two Minutes Hate against the Big Bigot.
We have to abash journalists and people working in the mainstream media wherever they go, wherever they try to reinforce the Narrative.