The Clash Of Civilizations Is Here

Yet another Islamic terror attack in France, this one even more offensive because it occurred within the sacred confines of a church and saw a vicious attack on an elderly priest. By now it should be clear that multi-culturalists are fifth-columnists. The "tolerance" they preach is seen by Islam as abject weakness, and Islam is right.

All the fruits of Western civilization are wasted on its heirs, who are degenerate, spoiled, smug, and utterly incapable of the virtues and sacrifices that went into building it. Much like Spain in the 700s, a large amount of chaff will be blown away before the core of wheat is left to fight back and restore civilization.

A Trip To Church

It's rare that I attend church these days, but I had the opportunity recently to attend a local Lutheran service and witness a baptism. The sermon was better than I expected -- among other things, it challenged everyone to confront his inability to treat others equally, asking whether he would just as readily punish a thief who steals from the rich as he would a thief who steals from the poor (since the former is now entrenched public policy, I'm sure this example made some people squirm, which is good).

What turned my stomach was the attendees' attire. T-shirts. Jeans. Shorts. Even flip-flops. The reason for going to church is to demonstrate your devotion to something higher than yourself; if you insist on dressing for your own comfort, you're defeating the whole purpose and advertising that you are slovenly, both inside and out.

This reminded me of why I don't attend church or participate in any number of other rituals that have degraded. It's not that I don't care. It's that I care too damn much.

Prospect Of Trump Presidency Finally Motivates People To Think Outside The Box -- Including Me

A journalist -- in other words, a middlebrow socialist scold -- has penned a column in the Los Angeles Times recommending a military coup against Donald Trump should he ascend to the presidency.

At first this annoyed me because after everything that government already has done to harm America, only now does this person and many others like him call for defiance, and simply because the government might start enforcing the border, clamping down on illegal aliens, and putting America's economic and military interests first (i.e., things the government should be doing anyway).

But I thought about it a little further and realized something: regardless of who wins this election -- whether it's reptilian Hillary Clinton or bombastic Donald Trump -- large numbers of people will be so upset that they will seriously consider disobedience to what they view as illegitimate power. This is the drum I've been beating practically alone for ten years, so I'm happy that a chorus will soon be joining me no matter what! I'm even considering voting this time, not because I want either of these candidates possessing the obscene, illicit power concentrated in Washington DC, but to do my part to encourage people to turn their backs on it.

Funny. "Thinking outside the box" for most people means not voting; for me, it means voting.

Sobering Statistics On Marriage

Upon reviewing these numbers on modern "marriage," anyone choosing to participate in this travesty should have his head examined.

Another Terror Attack

France has been hit hard by Islamic terrorism yet again. As with the recent massacre in Orlando, the West is confronted with a simple question: is the will to survive stronger than the neurosis of political correctness? I'm not sure what's more stunning, a terrorist who commits suicide to achieve tangible results, or an entire civilization that commits suicide for no apparent reason at all.

Nations have the right to shut the border and expel everyone of an incompatible creed. A nation is not a welcoming mat for the itinerants of the world, but a common people with a shared experience, a shared outlook on life, and a shared purpose. The very word "nation" is derived from the Latin root meaning to be born, which is to say that a nation has a shared origin. Muslims are not part of the French or American nations. This should be no more controversial than stating that Christians are not part of the Saudi Arabian nation, but for some reason political correctness runs in only one direction: against the West.

Enough guilt. Enough "tolerance." Enough national suicide. Let Muslims have their nations, and let Christians have our nations. Every brain-dead hipster with a "Coexist" sticker on his car can fellate himself.

UPDATE:

The open-borders apologists are vigorously pushing the "no true Scotsman" fallacy, painting the terrorist as not a true Muslim. If you shut the border to all Muslims, you protect yourself from devout and lapsed Muslims alike. It remains to be seen whether France has enough of a soul to preserve itself; Charles Martel may very well be proved to have lost, but at least he gave the West over a thousand years of civilization to enjoy.

Government Lawlessness Produces Street Lawlessness

I declined to comment on the recent news that Hillary Clinton has been allowed to get away with crimes that would land anyone else in jail, since it's merely a small sample of the rampant lawlessness in American government that I've been discussing for years.

The recent explosion of what appears to be a private war against police officers, though, demonstrates that the other shoe is now dropping. As I've quipped on several prior occasions, if government doesn't obey the law, why should people obey the government? I emphasize that I do not celebrate the violence unfolding in the streets; instead, I view it as a natural and foreseeable consequence of discarding the rule of law, which is meant to restrain both the government and the governed alike.

You cannot let the genie of lawlessness halfway out of the bottle. The moment American government decided it would make its own rules and unleash violence on the people at its own discretion, was the moment that a private campaign of violence against government became inevitable. There are of course many other issues in play here, such as the degeneration of race relations, the militarization of police, and unremedied incidents of police brutality, but they all boil down to the same thing -- America is now a Third World Country where power is for the taking and might makes right.

This dovetails with the problem of unrestricted immigration, namely that importing the rest of the world into America has made America become like the rest of the world, but that's for another post.

What Would They Think Of America Today?

The fourth of July commemorates one of the most stunning achievements in human history, when a people declared themselves free and independent from the world's mightiest empire on the basis of God-given rights that no earthly power may revoke. As announced in the Declaration of Independence, "to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . ."

The brave members of the founding generation grabbed their muskets because they knew it is better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees, and any red-blooded American is proud of the sacrifices they made and what they ultimately accomplished.

I wonder, though, how the founding generation would feel about the country that now exists? A country where federal, state, and local governments consume almost 50% of a productive citizen's income through taxation, and even more through the cost of complying with Byzantine rules and regulations? Where bureaucracies have the power to enact those rules and regulations without any legislative process? Where government employees enjoy a lavish lifestyle at public expense rather than engage in anything resembling public service? Where government re-distributes wealth among private citizens based on political favors and ideological fads? Where we have large standing armies that patrol American spaces as well as the rest of the world? Where government regularly spies on citizens? Where federal courts dictate how states and localities may govern themselves by granting a veto to every misfit and malcontent? Where we have a "living Constitution" that can be amended by cabals of elitists rather than by the people through the amendment process? Where schoolchildren may learn about witchcraft or wear a swasitka, but may not learn about the Bible or wear a cross? Where a man's family and life may be destroyed on a whim with government assistance? Where citizens are forced to subsidize foreigners who come here uninvited? Where the federal government refuses to enforce the national border and actively prevents states from doing so, even though it proclaims we are in the midst of a desperate "war on terror"? Where women have a unilateral "right" to preserve or end human life for their own convenience, yet also have the power to compel others to bear responsibility for her choice? Where government controls the education of children? Where such "education" often consists of maligning the nation's founders? Where states are forced not only to refrain from discouraging deviant behavior, but are compelled to endorse it? And where any criticism of this putrid state of affairs is considered "extremist" or treasonous?

I could go on, but it's making me ill. My guess is that the founding generation would feel much the same way, so much so that they might very well have opted to enjoy their own lives rather than lay them down for the sake of ours.

Yes, I still celebrate the fourth of July. Not for the country that is, but for the country that was and, God willing, could be again.