Politics ad absurdam

[DanaC]

From the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6897656.stm

Police spent £111,000 last year on a crackdown on an anti-war protest outside Westminster.
Brian Haw, 57, has held vigil in Parliament Square for six years, using a megaphone to attack the government policy on Iraq.

Up to 428 officer shifts were devoted to the overnight raid to scale back Mr Haw's encampment on 23 May 2006, according to Scotland Yard figures.

Mr Haw, of Redditch, Worcs, has blocked several attempts to have him removed.

The figure is more than four times greater than the £27,000 previously estimated.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Let's see, just on the basis of this exerpt, we see a man fighting against the fight against Islamofascism.

He'd've gotten along real fine with Oswald Mosely.

[Griff]

[neo] Please, just bomb Iran.[/con]

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Let's see, just on the basis of this exerpt, we see a man fighting against the fight against Islamofascism.

Ah, if only the UK had National Review Cruises, the solution would be as simple as all the others they offer.

I am getting used to these moments – when gentle holiday geniality bleeds into... what? I lie on the beach with Hillary-Ann, a chatty, scatty 35-year-old Californian designer. As she explains the perils of Republican dating, my mind drifts, watching the gentle tide. When I hear her say, " Of course, we need to execute some of these people," I wake up. Who do we need to execute? She runs her fingers through the sand lazily. "A few of these prominent liberals who are trying to demoralise the country," she says. "Just take a couple of these anti-war people off to the gas chamber for treason to show, if you try to bring down America at a time of war, that's what you'll get." She squints at the sun and smiles. " Then things'll change."

After all, if they don't listen, there's going to be hell in a short number of years.

"Is he your only child?" I ask. "Yes," she says. "Do you have a child back in England?" she asks. No, I say. Her face darkens. "You'd better start," she says. "The Muslims are breeding. Soon, they'll have the whole of Europe."

...

Steyn's thesis in his new book, America Alone, is simple: The "European races" i.e., white people – "are too self-absorbed to breed," but the Muslims are multiplying quickly. The inevitable result will be " large-scale evacuation operations circa 2015" as Europe is ceded to al Qaeda and "Greater France remorselessly evolve[s] into Greater Bosnia."

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

Steyn's thesis in his new book, America Alone, is simple: The "European races" i.e., white people – "are too self-absorbed to breed," but the Muslims are multiplying quickly. The inevitable result will be " large-scale evacuation operations circa 2015" as Europe is ceded to al Qaeda and "Greater France remorselessly evolve[s] into Greater Bosnia."

I'd buy that, but soon they will have to fight the spanish speaking illegal immigrants in the US.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I'd buy that, but soon they will have to fight the spanish speaking illegal immigrants in the US.

We may be on the verge of a super-threat, here: what if some of those spanish speaking illegal immigrants happen to be spanish speaking muslim illegal immigrants? I can't even imagine what threat level DHS would put us to if any of them were homosexuals, too.

Better get to breeding, whitey. Your rac-, err, way of life is dying!

[DanaC]

lol. I love it. Urbane, you are a tonic, you really are.

Do you not also see a government and police force which disallows public protest? Not to mention how ludicrous to spend £110,000 trying to stop a one man protest.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

It is of course very sad, but too, I have no sympathy for the man either.

[DanaC]

Interesting that what struck you first was his anti-war sentiment, and not the infringement of basic rights of expression.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

As you know, I am so very, unbelievably, utterly, so fucking tired of the ones so myopic as to oppose the demolition of the undemocratic paradigm of sociopolitical order.

In shorter words, of the dummies who think killing fascists is a bad thing.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

In shorter words, of the dummies who think killing fascists is a bad thing.

Threatening your President is not wise since everything changed. You have time to edit.

[DanaC]

As opposed to the dummies who think that we should voluntarily dismantle our democratic freedoms rather than give houseroom to this man's anti-war philosphy?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Griff, I can't imagine where you got that: personally, I'm threatening the Democratic Party. George Bush's actions all show, and from day one, that he thinks killing fascists is quite a good thing. I heartily agree.

The Libertarian-activist habit of speaking of all the non-Libertarians (big L, I suppose) as "fascists" in the manner that astronomers and astrophysicists speak of all elements other than hydrogen and helium as the "metals" -- well, this seems to me only about that precise. As a libertarian, I doubt if I shall ever indulge in it.

DanaC, and somehow we should oppose only some dummies and not all dummies?? Avoid conning yourself with false dichotomies -- you certainly could not lead me thus astray.

[DanaC]

DanaC, and somehow we should oppose only some dummies and not all dummies?? Avoid conning yourself with false dichotomies -- you certainly could not lead me thus astray.

For some reason I have an image of you wearing biblical robes somewhere in a desert.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

For some reason I have an image of you wearing biblical robes somewhere in a desert.

While having sex with his camel.