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This describes why I’m such a short term pessimist. If Obama’s gets elected it clearly indicates that over the 50% of Americans won’t be responsible. And if Romney’s elected, he still needs to prove that he has the leadership ability to get Americans to face up to our real problems.
God help us. We’re doomed. Robert Stephens (with a PH), is emblematic of many in our culture’s incredible sense of entitlement.
Go to the post on Legal Insurrection, and find out that what Robert, with a PH said, isn’t true. So it turns out that he’s more pathetic than I thought.
I’m a third through Mark’s new book – After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. Once again, Mark explains the predicament we’re in better than most conservatives.
Blogger Brian Micklethwait writing at Samizdata.net:
One of the more depressing things about these [London] riots is the way that the only thing that the Police can think of to say to us non-looters and non-arsonists is: “Don’t join in” and “Let us handle it.” If the bad guys start to torch your house, let them get on with it. If they attack your next door neighbour, don’t join in on his side. Run away. Let the barbarians occupy and trash whatever territory they pick on and steal or destroy whatever property they want to.
There was a fascinating impromptu TV interview with some young citizens of Clapham last night, not “experts,” just regular citizens, one of whom stated the opposite policy. Law abiding persons should get out of their houses, he said, en masse, and be ready to defend them.
The trouble with “letting the Police do their job” is that in the precise spot in which you happen to live, or used to live, their job probably won’t start, if it ever does start, for about a week. In the meantime, letting the Police do their job means letting the damn looters and arsonists do their job, without anyone laying a finger on them, laying a finger on them being illegal. This is a doomed policy. If most people are compelled by law to be only neutral bystanders in a war between themselves and barbarism, barbarism wins. The right to, at the very least, forceful self defense must now be insisted upon.
I’m so pleased. The NYS Conservative Party has booked Mark Steyn to be the speaker at their annual luncheon this coming Monday, January 31. If you live in the Capital District, and want to attend, click here to make a reservation.
Steyn wrote another informative piece on the decline of the “English-speaking” nations, and the erosion of personal liberty.
If I am pessimistic about the future of liberty, it is because I am pessimistic about the strength of the English-speaking nations, which have, in profound ways, surrendered to forces at odds with their inheritance. “Declinism” is in the air, but some of us apocalyptic types are way beyond that. The United States is facing nothing so amiable and genteel as Continental-style “decline,” but something more like sliding off a cliff.